First national e-library providing general education opened

Opening ceremony of the National electronic library providing general education was held at the National Library of Uzbekistan, the Agency for Information and Mass Communications informed.

The project “National electronic library providing general education” (UZNEL) was implemented jointly with the Foundation for Economic Development and Cooperation of the Republic of Korea.

At the first stage of the project, it is planned to organize the exchange of information between the National Library of Uzbekistan and 20 regional libraries. In the future, 200 libraries in Uzbekistan will be included in the unified data exchange system.

“The main objective of the project is to expand the use of e-information resources in society, as well as to connect information and library facilities to a single electronic library system, improve the intellectual potential and knowledge of the population. The National e-library, providing general education, consists of a material digitization center, a multimedia center and an integrated electronic library system. We believe that the library will contribute not only to development of the library-information sector in Uzbekistan, but also to information-communication technologies,” the chairman of the Eximbank Eun Sung-soo said.

According to the director of the National Library of Uzbekistan Umid Teshabayev, despite the fact that foundation of the electronic library was laid in 2018, the work on equipping information-library centers has begun much earlier.

At the opening ceremony, certificates were also presented to 20 information-library institutions. It is noted that these institutions will be provided with scanner equipment.