On October 8, 2015, the presentation of the digital library – “The Book Monuments of Turkic Peoples” was held in the Conference Hall of the Presidential Library. Library Director Mail Ahmedov provided information about the e-project. He noted that the library staff formulated electronic versions of the copies of the books, which were part of the cultural heritage of the Turkic peoples in the library’s collection, and having collected digital versions of some of them from the virtual space created the project.
The Director commented that the main goal of the project is to present book monuments of Turkic peoples, which are in disparate form, in a single portal.
Chairman of Milli Majlis Culture Committee, corresponding member of ANAS Nizami Jafarov, professors Maharram Gasimli, Buludkhan Khalilov and other speakers noted the importance of digital library. The speakers stated that the resource is a serious project first developed in Azerbaijan among Turkic peoples. The project is an digital version of common written monuments of Turkic peoples in the form of a unified system, which includes all common writings from the earliest times onwards. An important aspect of the project is that the resource includes studies by major turkologists on ancient Turkic written monuments.