RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO RESTORE NATIONAL INSTITUTE BOOKS DAMAGED BY FIRE
February 8th, 2015
The Russian government is considering restoring the fire-damaged library of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION), a major centre for research in social studies and humanities.The Russian Federal Agency of Scientific Organisations (FASO), a federal executive body, said the January 31 fire damaged about 5.42 million books, of which about 2.32 million were destroyed. The problem is especially severe, given only 7,000 of the institute’s 14 million books had been digitised, according to Michael ...
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