> In December 2001, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation based in New York, approved the funding of a new project in the Russian State Library (RSL) in Moscow. The project will have a life time of 18 months, and a budget of $ 1,2 million. It will build on the results of the TACIS project ‘Creation of an Information System of the Russian State Library’ (1998-2000), and will consist of 5 closely interrelated components:

1. Creation of the electronic bibliographic records of the RSL  collection of books 1980 –1998
2. Retroconversion of the RSL collection of musical scores
3. Pilot project for the automation of circulation
4. Capacity building 
5. Dissemination

The team leader of the project will be Monika Segbert, and it will be managed by the British Council in Russia.

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