TOMSK, Jan 4 - RIA Tomsk. Research Library of Tomsk State University (TSU RL) plans to enter in 2017 the network project on books restoration together with the Russian and European libraries, the director of the Research Library Mikhail Shepel reported RIA Tomsk.
"The main task of 2017 – is to combine efforts in this direction with other centers in Russia and abroad. It is about attempt to create the big network project in the field of restoration", – Shepel told.
He specified that in the project is supposed the participation of the Austrian national library, a number of the restoration centers of Germany, centers of restoration of National Library of Russia and Library of foreign literature.
"It will be mutual exchange of experience as we have different approaches and methods caused by work with different types of materials", – the interlocutor of the agency noted.According to him, similar exchange of experience is necessary as in the world there is a set of technologies of restoration which are suitable for different types of the materials used for pages, cover and other elements of the book. Besides, there is a set of "not completely solved problems", for example, in the field of preservation of pencil records or use of laser technologies for elimination of leakage.
Shepel added that in TSU RL on researches in the field of book restoration works the whole group of experts – librarians, historians, philologists and even the microbiologist who helps to look for interesting methods in the field of preservation of documents. Also other scientific divisions of the university are involved in this process.