If these amendments go through, national libraries will be invested with the functions of gathering, keeping and placing publications on CD-ROM at users' disposal. They will select scientifically important electronic publications for their holdings and pass over those not in accord with the acquisition policy to other libraries. Russian digital cartography is developing in disregard of financial and departmental problems. A series of state and commercial institutions making geo-information systems and electronic maps have arisen. Setting up the central stock of digital cartographic data within the purview of the Roskartografiya has marked a significant step in gathering digital cartographic information.
Materials transmitted by regional geo-information hubs come together there.
The necessary topographic maps are to be had both in the central and regional stocks. The Russian national libraries carry no digital topographic maps since they are kept by the central stock of the Gosgistsentr and require a huge machine memory that is beyond the powers of the libraries. Private firms are manufacturing interesting products. In the main they are making computer city maps, complete with enormous reference and information material. They are digitizing subject maps too.