Formation of a Document Fund in the Languages of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Far East

• Main Authors: Sargylana V. Maksimova, Саргылана Васильевна Максимова
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Russian State Library 2023
• Subjects: Дальний Восток; depository storage of documents; digital library; Knigakan; National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); small peoples; North; Siberia; Far East; депозитарное хранение документов; цифровая библиотека; Книгакан; Национальная библиотека Республики Саха (Якутия); малочисленные народы; Север; Сибирь; Evenki; Sakha; Yukagir; Chukchi; Evens; Republic of Sakha; Yakut; Yakutia; Саха; Якути*; Якутия
• Online Access: https://bibliotekovedenie.rsl.ru/jour/article/view/2417; https://doi.org/10.25281/0869-608X-2023-72-5-411-424

The main mission of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is the formation of the documentary heritage of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East. The document fund in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the North of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) was formed from publications in five languages: Even, Evenki, Yukagir, Chukchi and Dolgan. The main principle by which the library fund was completed was an exhaustive collection of all published documents. The history of the book fund in the languages of the peoples of the North is divided into five chronological periods. The first period (1812—1917) is associated with the activities of the Russian Orthodox mission. The second (1918—1960) includes the creation of the Committee of the North (1924), the opening of the library (1925) and the beginning of the introduction of universal primary education in Yakutia. At that time, the People’s Commissariat of Education of the Yakut ASSR published and distributed the first ABC books for adults. The third period (1961—1990) was marked by the problem of publishing literature in the languages of the Evens, Yukagirs and Chukchi. In total, 3—5 books were published in the Even language per year, literature in other languages of the peoples of the North was not published. Languages were on the verge of extinction, there were no necessary conditions for their preservation. The fourth period (1991—2020) is associated with the completely destroyed book supply system in the early 1990s, the beginning of the commercialization of publishing. In 1990, the library was returned to the national status, which played a positive role in the formation of national and local history documents. The modern stage of the development of the book fund in the languages of the peoples of the North began in 2021, when the “Strategy for the Development of Librarianship in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030” was adopted, which fixed the main tasks, directions and measures of ...