The donated collections in the general fund of the Scientific Library
This work is devoted to the formation of the main fund of the Scientific Library of TSU, briefly describes the history of its formation. Endowment focuses on collections of Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Scientific Library TSU is very rich and diverse. In its structure there are private libraries, which have gone from a private person to permanent storage in a large library. Access, use and storage conditions determined by those skilled individually for each collection. Personal library - a kind of time document reflected the human personality of the owner. It is possible to imagine living features of the era in which he lived and worked for its owner, an example of assembly outstanding employees, scientists, Tomsk State University, you can perform various studies. Among these collections A.E. Abramovich-Chetuev, E.A. Kosminsky, P.I. Kramolnikov, V.V. Reverdatto, M.P. Kuvshinskaya, A.I. Danilov, V.A. Pegel, A.L. Remenson, V.V. Palagina, B.G. Ioganzen, A.I. Kim, F.Z. Kanunova, A.I. Pliguzov - scientists who have made the greatest contribution to the culture of Siberia. The article describes private library: name of the owner, the number of instances in which years was admitted to the main library fund, the literature on topics which prevails in the book collection, whether possessory inscription library is stored as a single meeting, or fragmented, its relevance to readers. Documents from the collections of gifts donated by the Soviet and the subsequent time significantly enrich the information potential of the book Scientific Library. Among them, textbooks and manuals, periodicals in Russia and abroad, and documents on the history of legal sciences, literature, psychology, medicine, encyclopedias as well as rare books. Documents of gifts revenues enable the students to acquire knowledge and to engage in research, they are an important source for the characteristics of the data on the history books, the owner's personality, the era of his time. Work is of interest to librarians, people who are interested in the history of library holdings (book monument), the history of the university and Siberia.