M. Gorky Regional Academic Library in Volgograd began to offer educational services when it joined the Internet Access and Training Program and launched its own Internet center, thus becoming a unique multimedia center providing local residents with free access to information. The IDEA Project took the library’s work to a new level, improving the quality of its services, maintaining its status of the cultural and information center of the entire region, and highlighting its social relevance through offering free computer training for underserved population groups.

The IDEA Center of M. Gorky Regional Academic Library seeks to provide any member of the local community with free and open Internet access, training in practical Internet skills and opportunities to use IT technologies in such ways as to improve their life quality and promote global interaction and goodwill.