Library & publishing centre
The Scientific and Technical Library of Gorno-Altaisk State University was founded in 1949, concurrently with the foundation of Gorno-Altaisk Teacher Training Institute. It was created to house the collection of Moscow State Teacher Training Institute named after K.Libkneht, which was evacuated during the Great Patriotic War. It donated almost 8 thousand various editions to the new institute. This fund contained unique historical, scientific, and reference books as well as textbooks. Thanks to this gift, GASU library is the owner of a collection of rare books, dating from the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, which is actively used by undergraduate and post-graduate students, teachers, and researchers.
Today the GASU library is a modern automated division providing access to Russian and foreign printed and electronic publications. The library actively creates its own electronic resources: the electronic catalogue, bibliographic databases, and full-text electronic collections on various subjects. The book fund of the library grows every year. Today it consists of over 500,000 units.
GASU has its own printing house to publish educational, teaching, and scientific materials.
Updated 07.10.2019 by N. Yurkova