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The First Virtual Library has Opened in Sheremetyevo

21/07/2015 by Aviation Times

On July, 16, the opening of the first futuristic virtual library took place at Sheremetyevo International Airport, supported by the Russian Literary Union, the Publishing Group “Eksmo-AST” and the online shop of eBooks “LitRes”.

In a figurative literary salon in the departure lounge of Terminal D the participants of the event, passengers and visitors of the airport were able to get acquainted with the innovation, as well as to communicate with a famous writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of the bestseller “Metro 2035”.

“SVO Library” will help not only to spend time with pleasure while waiting for a flight, but also will arouse interest of passengers due to its nontriviality.

During the opening ceremony the Chief of the technical infrastructure of Sheremetyevo Kirill Kulikov noticed: “To provide passengers with a quality service is a priority of Sheremetyevo. Sheremetyevo is the first airport in Russia where the virtual library was opened. This project introduces to the passengers the masterpieces of the world literature in a nontrivial format and gives them a chance to have an original leisure”.

The leader of the team of “the Russian Literary Union” working on a Year of Literature Marina Abramova also said: “This year is announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a Year of Literature, and such projects are very suitable within the framework of such a large federal project. The personal task of our organization is to come up with a format of creative development of the trend of reading. We think that this project is a very successful synergy of publishers, authors, urban space and a large socially-oriented business, as is the airport Sheremetyevo”.

“During a Year of Literature special attention is paid to promoting reading among young, active audience, and the project ‘Virtual Library’ corresponds to this task, — noticed vice-president of the Russian Literary Union, CEO of the publishing group ‘AST Eksmo’ Oleg Novikov, — a Virtual Library in one of the largest airports in the world will daily provide thousands of visitors of the airport with additional intellectual leisure, especially young people. In dealing with young people, it is important to speak the same language with them, and the use of modern media tools allows to do it easily”

“The SVO Library project is an example of synergy of all parties. The passenger gets the possibility to download and to read the best books during the trip. The Sheremetyevo is the first airport in Russia which took such an active part in the social initiative to promote reading and proposed such intellectual and spiritual leisure. For “LitRes” it is important to give an opportunity to the readers to get acquainted with the best modern literature in a mobile usable format and also to remind them about classical creations. More than 100 books are free of charge to download and to read online thanks to special arrangements with publishers and authors, — stated Sergey Anuriev, CEO of “LitRes”.

“The SVO Library”, opened as one of events dedicated to A Year of Literature, was created to satisfy the needs of all the passengers with a variety of literary preferences. In the terminals D, E, F, C (after passport control) in figurative library rooms on the virtual shelves there are 108 books for passengers, 60 of which belong to the Russian and foreign classical literature, 48 — to the modern literature.

For the convenience of passengers the books will be not only available to read online, but also to download in two ways: by scanning the QR-code in a “virtual rooms” or through a specially created website svo.knigavdorogu.ru. Content will be free of charge until the end of 2015.

Source: Sheremetyevo Airport