Archival collections in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Research Library of Tomsk State University: experience and prospects of work

The Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Research Library of Tomsk State University stores more than 30 archival collections related to public figures, scientists, writers, as well as certain parts of the archives of institutions that existed in Tomsk. The time and circumstances of their arrival are different. Personal collections predominate, mostly thematically, anyway connected with Siberia. For example, the personal archives of G. N. Potanin and N. M. Yadrintsev, N. I. Naumov, P. I. Makushin are stored in the library of Tomsk State University.To date, 1/3 of them have inventories, work with the rest of the collections continues.
The problem of availability of archival collections in libraries is frequent in specialized scientific literature. It is noted that the institutions of memory – libraries, archives and museums – can often have a variety of types of documents, which sets the task of ensuring safety of complex and diverse collections, choosing accounting systems and combining them, developing an acquisition policy, and establishing interaction with each other for working with scattered collections. The purpose of this paper is to present the current state of archive collections stored in the Research Library of TSU, their structure, the results of the work done and the main problems to be solved. Such collections are of great value for scientific research and educational, exhibition work. Meanwhile, not all archival collections have been systematized and described, since the vast stock of the department poses a number of other important tasks for the stuff.
It is noted that the task of cataloging all the collections stored in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books can be solved by staffing this area of work; developing an acquisition policy and instructions for processing the Library archival stocks; involving students and volunteers to the analysis and description of documents; and broadening inclusion of these collections in scientific research.

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