Digital Library of Technical University for Education, Science and Culture of the Tambov Region
V.Ye.Podolski, A.F.Pisetsky, N.V.Filatova, S.M.Brodovich, G.V.Punin
Tambov State Technical University
TambovCNIT of TSTU, 106, Sovetskaya St, Tambov, 392000, Russia
            postmast@tixmcnit.tambov.su
This paper considers the problem of Tambov State Technical University (TSTU) digital library (DL) creation, which would meet the informational requirements of different educational institutions in our region. The university is a multi-purpose educational center for science, education and culture development in the region. Its activities are aimed at the acquirement, accumulation, systematization, presentation and storage of knowledge and information and development of training courses for using this information in practice. Some components of DL have be already developed. The best place amonge them belongs to scientific library resources. At present server complex (http://www.lib.nnn.tstu.ru, www.tstu.ru, des.tstu.ru and others) contains the electronic catalogue of library fonds based on the automated informational library system AILS “MARK-SQL”. The digital informational library system includes 10 databases. ”TSTU Scientific Staff Transactions”, “Theses”, “Research Work Reports” are among them. The content of the digital library on the initial stage contains the  materials created by teachers, researchers, post-graduate students and students of the university. This does not excluded the use of electronic documents developed by other institutions. The digital library includes the following sections: 
- conferences and seminars (general information, list of papers according to sections and PDF files with the full complete texts of papers);
- computer training courses;
- reference database “Processes and Apparatus of Chemical Engineering” PACE. It has been developed by scientific and pedagogical personnel of the department “Processes and Apparatus of Chemical Engineering”, which havecollected bibliography on this subject. The database PACE is a unique one. It includes documents of the university scientific library and references on other native and foreign libraries and information centers as well. The database PACE contains references on books, articles, engineering specifications, proceedings of international conferences and symposiums in Russian and foreign languages with abstracts. The information about cultural and historical heritage of the Tambov region is available for interactive access on the site: (http://www.tstu.ru). It has the following sections: museums, literary men, musical garland of the Tambov region, arts and others. The information is presented in the form of text, graphical, audio materials and photographics. The successful development of this server became possible thanks due to help of museum experts, art critics, library, archives and pedagogical personnel. The DL users have an opportunity to use reference hypertext pages, which provide the rapid access to the DL resources. At present the information retrieval system providing the navigation and context logical search in DL resources and databases is being developed.