Vision & Mission
The Fundamental Scientific Library as a dynamic space of creativity, as a source of knowledge and a place for learning and research has welcomed and served researchers, students, and academicians from different subject areas since 1935.
- Three million physical documents in various media in all fields of Science
- A team of digital content consultants and subject librarians specialized in their disciplines • Numerous collections in Armenian, Russian, European and Eastern languages
- Unique collection of Armenian rare books dating back to the XVI century and collection of Armenian periodicals dating back to the XIX century
- Web portal providing access to various digital resources
- Involvement with the National Academy of Sciences institution libraries to disseminate knowledge and research results amongst academic communities
- More than 16000 users visit
Our Mission
- To preserve the scholarly and cultural heritage for the future generations
- To support digitization, access to and preservation of scientific and cultural heritage
- To provide for the library users better working conditions by implementing and introducing technologies of the 21st century
- To create and promote digital library systems based on open standards, open access models, and open source software solutions
- To facilitate collaboration between the academic libraries of NAS RA
- To foster LIS education and to implement life long learning models amongst Armenian librarians.
Our Vision
Our vision for the first quarter of the 21st century is to participate in the joint activities on building ‘Knowledge-based Society’ in Armenia. To decrease the digital divide and to develop integrated and interactive networked communities, we are planning to work actively for solving the problem of “the 3 C’s”.
- Connectivity: linking digital libraries and on-line educational resources to broadband research and academic networks – so that Armenians will have fast access to digital resources important to their learning, research, businesses and work.
- Content: developing activities for the benefits of users in the following key areas: scholarly communication; digital library services; services and facilities for academic institution libraries – so that over time information and knowledge accumulated in the Armenian libraries will be transformed to the digital form.
- Competency: supporting learning and teaching in LIS for the library community and students across Armenia, so that content creators and content users will have sufficient knowledge for creating, managing, preserving, accessing and retrieving Armenian’s digital assets.