The Bibliographer of the RND was fired for criticism of the merger with the RGB

The chief bibliographer of the information and bibliographic department Tatyana Shumilova, who made a public criticism of the RST association with the Russian State Library (RSL) in Moscow, was dismissed from the Russian National Library (RND) in St. Petersburg.

This was written on Facebook by journalist Julia Galkina. She reports that Tatyana Shumilova has already received a calculation and today, February 7, she went to work for the last time.

They are offered to unite the RSN and the RSL by their leaders Vladimir Gnezdilov and Alexander Visly , the initiative was supported by the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky.

Representatives of the library community opposed her, sending an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation, as well as philologists and historians . Categorically against the merger of the libraries, the presidential adviserVladimir Tolstoy spoke out.

Last week, in an interview with Rosbalt, Tatyana Shumilova, in particular, said that the unification of the RND and the RSB "means the death of our St. Petersburg library." She also suggested that such "decisions are made by people who do not read and do not go to libraries."