Over 600 thousand books weighing 180 tons will be transported over the summer to their home in the new NSU Scientific Library. The new building will have a reading room and a book depository with a capacity of up to 1 million books. It is located on the first floor of the new building and is part of a multifunctional space with a 2.4 thousand square meter area. Furniture, multimedia equipment, and shelves have been installed in the reading room so the library has begun to move the books.
Tatyana Markova, Head of the NSU Scientific Library, added,
We will have a modern library that will operate 24/7. Students will have the opportunity to use self-service stations to check out books that appear in the open collection. All literature in the reading room will also have open access. In addition, the library will have modern technical capabilities for employees. Publications with open access will be equipped with radio frequency tags, that will allow for an automated inventory of this part of the collection.
