On 31 May, a ceremonial meeting dedicated to the centenary of VSU library took place in the Book Museum.
On 18 May 1918, Major State Commission of the Council of People's Commissars adopted a regulation about creating a new university in Voronezh. Professors, lecturers, equipment, the library (with 500,000 titles), and the largest library of dissertations, which consisted of 250,000 titles, were moved to the new university from Derpt (Yuriev) university together with the traditions regarding the organisation of the library and its collections. Today, VSU's library is the largest research, information, and methodological centre in the Black Earth region.
The logo of the library is "100 years leading the enlightenment!" The library has almost all the books that we might need in our life. The air in the library is impregnated with the smell of books, the shelves are loaded with instruments which help students to develop. The size of the library collection is impressive. Today, it has over 3,200,000 items. The library takes part in various book-exchange programmes with 59 institutions in 23 countries all over the world. Among its partners are: the U.S. Library of Congress, the National Diet Library (Japan), the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the German National Library, the Slavonic Library in Prague, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Tartu Library.
VSU Rector, Dmitry Endovitsky, the rector's councillor, Vladimir Listengarten, the editor in chief of the newspaper "Voronezh University", Yury Lebedev, and the director of VSU library, Arkady Minakov, congratulated the library staff with the anniversary and awarded them with certificates.
