At the moment, two library employees, including the director Natalia Kireeva, are members of the Russian Geographical Society.
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Before the Dictation, the library staff quizzed the participants on geography as well as history of geographical discoveries to warm them up a little and tune in to work.
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The director read the questions out loud, and volunteers helped the blind readers fill out forms. The highlight of the event was the exhibition "Boundless North” that presented tactile and multi-format publications about the Arctic, flat-printed and ”talking" books about the discoverers and travelers.
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Last November, the Murmansk Regional Branch of the Russian Geographical Society and the Murmansk State Regional Special Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired presented a joint project "Touching the historical memory of the Great Victory in the Arctic: a project designed for blind and visually impaired people”. The project received the support of the Presidential Grants Foundation. Within the framework of the project, 6 models of monuments dedicated to events of the Great Patriotic War were created by three-dimensional modeling. The project opened up new opportunities for people with vision problems to study the history of their native land. They were able to touch the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War along with everyone else.