History of the National Academic Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan (the NAL RK) is closely connected with the establishment of a new capital as an intellectual centre of Kazakhstan. Before its opening, the President of the country marked that operation of a new library shall give an opportunity to create a model of the modern digital and virtual repository. By his participation and interest in the foundation of the NAL RK, the head of the state defined the high designation of the library as a guide to knowledge in Kazakhstan and its significant role in education.
The State Enterprise “National Academic Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan” was foundedin Astana by the under the Resolution of the of the RK dd. April 23, 2014. Its main goal is the further development of informational, educational and cultural infrastructure of the capital.
December 31, 1910, the NAL RK was solemnly opened by the President of the RK Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev with the Major of Moscow City Mr. Luzhkov Yu. M. On September 10, 2005 the library hosted its first visitors.
The readers are provided such modern facilities as Electronic directory room, Hall of electronic resources, Information and bibliographic service, Oil and GasElectronic reading room, Department of the World Literature, Science reading room, a room for people with disabilities with the latest technological developments and so on. d. In total, the library offers 17 rooms designed for 500 seats.
The library has a book depository of 2.5 million books and has a complex of servers allowing it to store electronic information in terabytes
Readers of the NAL RK are provided with a number of electronic services: remote access to full-text databases, information search in electronic catalogs, option to ask a librarian - virtual reference service; provision (production and delivery by email) of electronic copies fragments of the works from the collections of the NAL RK, pre-orders in the reading rooms for a few days in mode online, remote registration to the library, and etc.
Online projects of the NAL RK: official website of the NAL RK (http://nabrk.kz), the official website of the Library Association of the Republic of Kazakhstan (www.bark.kz), Librarians of Kazakhstan - (www.kazlib.nabrk.kz), the website dedicated to the life and works of the great Kazakh enlightener Abay Kunanbayev “Worldwide Recognized Abay» (www.abay.nabrk.kz), website of the International Reading Congress (www.congress.nabrk.kz.). Web server of the NAL RK hosts such project as the "Open Digital Library on Human Rights", which is regularly places legal statutes on human rights. This resource (www.hrc.nabrk.kz) is conducted by the employees of NAL RK in cooperation with the Commission on Human Rights under the President of RK.
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