The Moscow Business Library is created according to the governmental order of Moscow in
1994.
The founder of the library became Committee on culture.
The Moscow Business Library had grants from TACIS, Institute “ The Open society ”
of fund Soros and other funds, and organizations.
The main purposes of activity MBL are:
- Increase of a professional, general educational and cultural level of the population;
- Contributing to development of business, production, science, cultures, intrusion of
economical knowledge in practice of economic activities, most to effective utilization of
a manufacturing and technological potential;
- Satisfaction of the inquiries of the readers on the domestic and foreign books and other
materials.
- Acquisition, processing and storage of library fund as conventional (book, log-book,
newspaper etc.) and non-conventional (diskette, video cassette, compact disc etc.)
information carriers;
The library executes following main kinds of activity:
- Completes fund by issuing on conventional and non-conventional information carriers;
fills up the funds by a subscription to periodicals, obtaining in gift of the books from
individual caucus; completes by foreign issuing of general-purpose subjects; makes
purchasing issuing in countries of CIS, abroad, by inside Russia and international
book-exchange;
- Executes scientific processing of funds and uncovers them with the help of a system of
the catalogues on different carriers;
- Rational storage, transfer on electronic carriers, implementation of sanitary-hygienic
measures, binding and restoration activities;
- Carries out the analysis of usage of funds; in time cleans them from obsolete under the
contents unused and the not profile literature and shabby issuing;
- Organizes service of the readers with a consideration for the interests, requirements,
age, physical, social, psychological and other features;
- Affords the readers access to funds of the Library in a reading room and subscription,
through a system of the interlibrary subscription both bibliographic and reference service
of all users of the Library;
- Will use the most effective forms of work with the readers: reader's conferences,
lecture “ behind round desktop ”, workshop, premiere and presentation of the books,
art exhibitions, business exhibitions, amateur associations, clubs on concerns,
universities of culture.
- Translates the bibliographic information on electronic carriers; participates in
creation of the summary bibliographic information; conducts the catalogues and file
cabinets of the Library; executes bibliographic helps; makes and issues independently and
together with other organizations bibliographic indexes and information publications, and
also commodity on electronic carriers;
- Lets out the accumulator cells of transactions and other issuing reflecting research
and scientific - methodical activity of the Library.
- Carries out scientific and educational conferences, seminars, courses; participates in
improvement of professional skill of the library workers and system of a continuous
vocational education;
- Participates in methodical and research activity in the field of library business;
implants outcomes library studies and bibliographic researches in practice of activity of
libraries;
- Executes co-operation with the Russian and foreign libraries, library and information
organizations, participates in mining and implementation of intergovernmental, federal,
inter-regional, regional (Moscow) and diverse scientific and cultural programs;
- Organizes the programs of training and training of businessman, public and charitable
organizations in our country and abroad;
- Renders information, consulting and legal services for the users of the library;
- Provides access to computer information bases, to an international computer network;
- Organizes a method (reception and acceptance) of an international satellite television
and tutors;
- Creates library fund on public organizations and
To philanthropic funds of different countries;
- Executes a method (reception and acceptance) and registration significant
Ideas and projects for creation of computer base of the business proposals of the users
of the library.