Humanities & Social Sciences 7 (2016 9) 1690-1698 ~ ~ ~ УДК 378.147:004 Implementation of Project Approach to the Formation of Electronic Information Resources Ruslan A. Baryshev, Vladimir P. Maslovskij and Irina A. Tsvetochkina* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 26.02.2016, received in revised form 13.05.2016, accepted 18.06.2016 This paper discusses issues of the electronic library development in the higher school. <...> The paper presents project-oriented approach, which is becoming one of the quality criteria of library information activity and analyzes the process of archival documents digitization with the use of the project activities tools. <...> Keywords: project management, electronic information resources, project-oriented approach, information and library activity, e-library, digitization of documents. <...> By using modern technologies, these libraries create e-catalogues, private electronic resources and data bases (bibliographical and full-text data bases). <...> Electronic catalogues provide long-term scientific and cultural heritage © Siberian Federal University. <...> This allows not only development for the libraries due to digital collections and repositories (open records) formation, but also enables them to distribute information via the Internet, broadening the notion of freedom of information and access to knowledge. <...> Thus, the main task Ruslan A. Baryshev, Vladimir P. Maslovskij . <...> Implementation of Project Approach to the Formation of Electronic. is maximization of practice of the current financial, production and human resources, i.e. implementation of the measurement system for these resources and introduction of tools for the efficiency improvement. <...> Such goals can be put into action mainly by the project-based approach, and also by using relevant tools and technologies. <...> The project-based management includes organization, planning, coordination and control during the whole life-circle of a project, aimed at specific results that can be obtained by application of special control methods. <...> The project approach towards the formation of electronic resources is becoming one of the qualitative criteria for the information activity of libraries. <...> Implementation of the project-based management into the library administration is currently important since it allows solving certain problems and achieving certain results, that is quite important in the sphere of library activity in order to be sure-footed within the modern time and be demanded by the society (Bajmuhametova, 2013). <...> Main focus areas for the Library <...>