History of the library

The Republican Scientific Agricultural Library was founded in December 1929, on the basis of the General Cotton as a SoyuzNIXI library Association, which has 7,000 printed copies. In December 1959, Central Scientific Agricultural Library was renamed, after joining the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Uzbekistan, from January 1, 1960. In 1987, under the consent of the Central Scientific Library of Moscow was renamed as the Republican Agricultural Scientific Library (RASL). Nowadays this library working in the system of the Scientific and Production Center of Agriculture and Food Supply.

Since 1930, the Scientific Library provides the development in the field of agriculture and supports the young researchers on their scientific researchs. At the same time, the Republican Agricultural Scientific Library is one of the oldest libraries in the field of agricultural science, with over 4,000 valuable publications. This unique library consist of rarity publishing in the early XVIII-XIX and XX centuries from Tashkent, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Petrograd and other countries, covering the history and geography of agricultural science in Central Asia, the ancient Turkestan and Transcaucasia region, legislative fields of science include scientific publications on cotton science, cotton, agriculture, livestock, plant science, botany, biology, zoology, hydrotechnical, geology, statistics, mathematics, encyclopedic dictionaries, country studies. Many scholars, such as S.N.Usmanov, Z.Tursunkhodjayev, A.S.Samutali, A.A.Dadabayev, A.Akmalkhanov, A.K.Kashkarov, M.Tashboltaev, Sh.J.Teshayev, B.M.Xalikov, N.Hushmatov defended their PhD and DcS dissertation by the using these materials.

Since the establishment of the library there have been created more than 100 Central Asian bibliographic indicators on agricultural science. The scientific library has maintained its primary function during its nearly 100 years of activity. By the present time, the scientific library is one of the largest libraries in Central Asia.