The Russian State Library is to take over the duties of the Russian Book Chamber

The merger of the two structures will lead to the emergence of the world’s largest national library and information fund, storing about 200 million documents. The merger of workflows, technologies, and best practices will eliminate duplication of efforts in such areas as cataloguing, accounting, and storage, streamline the digital transformation of the legal deposit system, reduce costs for publishers, and ultimately, improve compliance with the legal deposit regulations.