AILS "FOLIANT" AS THE BASIS FOR CREATING OF CORPORATIVE LIBRARY CATALOGUE OF KARELIA.
Ruzanova N.S., Nasadkina O.J., Guryev D.B.,Leontyev A.A.
Petrozavodsk State University
Petrozavodsk, Lenin Av., 33
ruzanova@mainpgu.larelia.ru
The most effective information- library ensuring of education is achieved by creating of electronic libraries. They may consist of electronic documents collections and also may represent the system which realizes unified approach to production, storage and organizing of different information with the aim of search, analysis and access to it by the employment of global computer nets.
One of the main problems of electronic library creating is the reflection of the existing variety of electronic collections into their homogeneous representation and how to ensure the access to the integrated collection of heterogeneous information. It's not correct to fully identify the process of automatization of traditional library processes with elaboration of methods and technologies of creating and employment of electronic collections within the frames of electronic libraries. However most of the general approaches to the automatization of documents bibliographical processing can be used also in creating of documents electronic collections.
The report is devoted to the AILS "Foliant". AILS allows the users the great opportunity of corporative work and has got the following functional characteristics: 
·	Collecting functions, including distribution of literature between library departments, carrying-out of inventory and total registration of comings;
·	Processing functions, including support of different types of documents under processing , editing of the ready or imported descriptions , printing of issued forms , giving indexes to documents by different classification means ;
·	Search functions of documents and data, library and information services;
·	Functions of export/import into formats USMARC and RUSMARC;
·	Distant access functions, including electronic catalogue search by the protocol http and access by the protocol Z39.50.
AILS has been built in architecture "client-server". Oracle 8 has been used as the server platform. The client application has been worked-out in the space of Delphi. Unlike of the most of Russian AILS the code Utf8 (UNICODE) is used for creating, storage and search of documents. It makes it possible to create and keep documents descriptions using more than one national code. In AILS the support of libraries corporative work has been fulfilled. 
The use of AILS for storage and providing of consolidated corporative catalogue (CCC) supposes the automated replication of unique bibliographical descriptions from catalogues of the libraries-CCC-members. The principle of minimization of the staff and equipment loading is the basis of the elaborated technology of bibliographical description replication.
Besides information accumulating it is in plans to use CCC for planning of new bibliographical description creating. A library will get an access not only to the ready bibliographical descriptions but also can get the information about the partners' elaborating descriptions. CCC can be also used for the optimization of the exchange between libraries with binary files (digitizing pictures, audio video information and etc .). It makes it possible to take CCC as the means for electronic library creation.