Legal Deposit System in Russia: Stages of Development and Contemporary State

Legal deposit system (LD), effective in Russia for more than two centuries, continues to be the source of library collections formation, preservation and enhancement of intellectual wealth and cultural values of our country. The aim of this article is to consider in generalized form the main stages of the LD system, to identify the features of the new stage associated with the entry into force of the Federal Law “On the Legal Deposit Copy of Documents”. For the first time, the author analyses the amendments to the basic Federal Law. The author proves the primary role of the Federal LD of printed publication, including the electronic form. The article presents the updated list of library and information organizations — the recipients of LD and reveals the certain priority order of receiving, formed by the Russian Book Chamber. Basing on the normative document of the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation the author describes the contemporary structure of the Federal LD of printed publications and considers the receiving by the number of libraries of such significant and voluminous segments of the Federal LD as newspapers and dissertation abstracts. The author conducted the study to assess the relevance of receipt of the Federal LD by the largest libraries of the country in June-July, 2018. The main method is the survey of the heads of the largest library and information organizations of the Russian Federation — the recipients of the Federal LD of printed publications. The article presents in the table form the data on the proportion of the received Federal LD publications in the total volume of acquisitions in the library and information organizations. The results of the study and the professional discussion clearly confirm that the receipt of the Federal LD publications has the decisive impact, direct or indirect, on the completeness of the collection acquisition of practically all the leading libraries of our country.

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