Social Aspects of an Academic Digital Library: New Initiative of Siberian Federal University
The article introduces the project of Siberian Federal University which explores the potential of the university digital library as a strategy for human resource development. The latter is planned to be achieved by constructing a scheme of information and communication services that will meet social, educational, and developmental needs of the youth in the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The article explores a possible connection between digital libraries and social-educational issues of the region, presents research results of the needs and expectations of the main target groups (schoolchildren, teachers, school administrations), and summarizes Russian and international experience of digital libraries.