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19, in oktyabrya2011 TSGDB them. AS Pushkin was opened the annual exhibition “New technologies in the library”, organized with the support of the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg. This year the organizers of the exhibition visitors have prepared two surprises – a robot R.BOT (avatar, which in the near future will become an assistant librarians and readers in TSGDB them. Pushkin) and the innovative globe. These technologies are on display in St. Petersburg for the first time. The exhibition was held with participation of leading IT companies, publishers: Microsoft, Project Harmony, R-Bot, Systematics, Polymedia, NCS, Neykon, Direct Media, Consultant +, the Guarantor, the Code, new drive, BHV-Petersburg.

Opened an exhibition, made a welcoming speech, LG Sekretareva, director TSGDB them. AS Pushkin, chairman of the St. Petersburg section of the International Council for Children’s Book (IBBY), honored worker of culture of Russia. Vela program, NE Khramtsova, Deputy. Director of Automation TSGDB them. AS Pushkin.

All the most important areas and forms of modern libraries is inextricably linked with the introduction of new technologies. So this year the organizers of the exhibition “New technologies in the library,” focused on the topic “Computer education projects for the social rehabilitation of the population metropolis.”

Work has demonstrated an interactive mobile robot R.BOT (the robot moved, talked), telling about effective use of information technology in modern children’s library, AA Shavykin, director of the Company Teledroid, the official dealer in Saint-Petersburg Company Rbot.

The “Robots learn librarian profession!” Offers a new approach to serving children who are unable to visit the library, using an interactive mobile device R-bot 100. The robot is able to deliver presentations and video conferences, festivals and concerts, to help disabled children in movement and in the selection of books, catalogs, and to work with the personal information of readers.

The participants of the exhibition was also presented an innovative multimedia globe. The presentation was conducted AP Leonov, sales manager of the Company Polymedia. Globe is a digital display with a spherical screen and special software, allowing to demonstrate not only static images of the Earth, but also dynamic presentations that reflect real-time weather changes in the world, the consequences of human activity on the globe, the migration of biological ecosystems, the temperature distribution in the various parts of the world.

Robot R.BOT and multimedia Globe will operate on the “round table”, which will be held December 8, 2011 in TSGDB them. AS Pushkin at the III All-Russian Forum of Public Libraries’ Public Library. Challenges of our time. “

Since 2010 TSGDB them. AS Pushkin appears as a training center of Microsoft and offers multimedia educational programs for people that are implemented on the basis of computer technology group training. On new learning opportunities program “Your Course” said Head. Department of Automation TSGDB them. AS Pushkin, Y. Gordeeva. “Your Course” – a Russian initiative to increase computer literacy, training, modern information technologies and improving the technical skills to promote employment and improve the quality of life for people in disadvantaged socio-economic status.

One of the most important challenges facing each of the library – security funds. This task is easy to handle RFID technology. In the message «RFID technology: examples and solutions, projects for libraries,” spoke IA Boenko, head of sales of the Company Systematics. The implementation of automation projects based on radio frequency identification (RFID) in library solves the most pressing issues in the accounting of funds, inventory, security funds, a system of non-contact reader services at the expense of independent operations, issuing books.

On the development and implementation of identification systems, maintenance of the readers in the Electronic Circulation IRBIS ALIS-based cards and the typical mistakes when ordering tickets told readers OS Bulls, CEO of NCS, Ph.D.

The exhibition, which runs until October 30, 2011, aroused great interest among visitors.

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