# #Library > Blog posts tagged #Library - Canonical page: https://shorin.me/en/tags/Library/ - Page language: English - Russian version: https://shorin.me/tags/Library/index.md ### [The Library Brotherhood](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2025/03/bibliotechnaya-bratiya/index.md) - Published: 2025-03-31 I caught up with Andrey Guskov, a colleague and friend from the library world. I’m delighted by his latest achievements and return to Moscow. Now we’ll meet more often! ### [The Ostromir Gospel](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/ostromirovo-evangelie/index.md) - Published: 2024-07-31 The Ostromir Gospel is the oldest surviving precisely dated East Slavic manuscript (1056–1057), created for St Sophia's Cathedral in Novgorod and preserved intact. ### [Volunteering](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/volonterstvo/index.md) - Published: 2024-07-22 An idea born at the Russia–Africa Summit became a real project: books from Russia reached Don Bosco Primary School in Uganda to inspire children to learn. ### [Another Easter Egg](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/defview-pashalka/index.md) - Published: 2024-07-19 The hidden Easter egg in the DefView icon: years later, I enlarged the original and discovered the designer had put real text in the book, not mere lines. ### [Preserving Heritage](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/sohranenie-naslediya/index.md) - Published: 2024-07-15 How libraries preserve cultural heritage – from inventories and identifying books in need of repair to dozens of conservation and restoration processes. ### [Notes in the Margins](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/biblioteka-voltera/index.md) - Published: 2024-07-10 The story of Voltaire’s Library at the National Library of Russia: marginalia, aphorisms, letters to Catherine II and a remarkable mystical tale. ### [The Gutenberg Bible](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/07/gutenberg-bible/index.md) - Published: 2024-07-01 The story of the Gutenberg Bible – the first printed book, which transformed the world of knowledge. From the printing press to the rare copies, two of which I have seen myself. ### [Author Inscriptions](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/avtorskie-nadpisi/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-28 Dedications can turn ordinary copies into rarities. My collection includes dozens of signed books – among them one that went to space and an LNS RAS anniversary edition. ### [Watermarks](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/watermark/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-26 Continuing my series on digitising ancient manuscripts. Today: watermarks, how they reveal where paper came from, and why beta radiography is the best way to detect them. ### [Piql Storage](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/piql-storage/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-19 Continuing the story of Piql technology. Data recorded on film is stored in the Arctic World Archive on Svalbard – underground in the permafrost, protected for centuries. ### [The Prayer Book of Mary, Queen of Scots](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/chasovnik/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-17 Mary, Queen of Scots’ prayer book went from childhood gift to witness to her execution. Marked by the queen’s fate, it is now held by the National Library of Russia. ### [Piql Technology](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/piql/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-10 Continuing my series on the 500x500xBAV project. The Vatican Library chose Piql: data is stored on 35 mm film in alternating digital and analogue formats. ### [The Laurentian Codex](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/lavr-letopis/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-05 The story of the Laurentian Codex, the oldest surviving dated Russian chronicle. In 2012, I oversaw its digitisation, translation and transliteration. ### [Iron Gall Ink](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/06/chernila/index.md) - Published: 2024-06-03 Continuing my series on digitising Vatican manuscripts: how iron gall ink corrodes paper from within and threatens texts by Leonardo da Vinci and Bach. ### [Book Deacidification](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/book-neutralization/index.md) - Published: 2024-05-29 The destructive truth about paper: lignin makes books yellow and crumble. The National Library of Russia uses deacidification – but can treat only kilograms each week. ### [Happy Birthday, NLR!](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/nlr-birthday/index.md) - Published: 2024-05-27 27 May is the National Library of Russia’s birthday. Sharing a video presentation created for IGeLU 2016: the city, its history, and inspiration in a single film. ### [Lighting for Digitisation](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/lightning/index.md) - Published: 2024-05-20 Continuing my Vatican Library series: how uneven and embossed manuscript pages are digitised using multiple photographs, careful camera angles, and precisely controlled lighting. ### [Endless Recopying](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/endless-copying/index.md) - Published: 2024-05-17 Reflecting on the fragility of digital data: the National Library of Russia introduced continuous data migration, while a new study explores long-term knowledge preservation. ### [Information Resources of Russia](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/05/publication/index.md) - Published: 2024-05-08 The journal "Information Resources of Russia" has published my article on the creation of a modern Internet portal for a network library, using LNS RAS as a case study. ### [Vivaldi](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/04/vivaldi/index.md) - Published: 2024-04-22 The Vivaldi system I created manages access to e-books in Russias largest libraries, ensuring copyright protection and round-the-clock access to knowledge. ### [LNS RAS Anniversary](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/04/benran-anniversary/index.md) - Published: 2024-04-05 The 50th anniversary of the LNS RAS is a significant milestone, marked by an international conference at the House of Scientists. I’d like to share the atmosphere of that day. ### [22 of March is memorable date](https://shorin.me/en/blog/2024/03/benran-birthday/index.md) - Published: 2024-03-22 Celebrating the 51st anniversary of the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. I have been part of its digital transformation.