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Today we come to the biggest IT-companies in Russia.
Library in the "Yandex" occupies a separate room called "7.Gnomov".
This is the seventh floor, and all negotiation immediately contain the digit 7 in the title: "7.Nebo", "7.40" and so on.
Open the door, and ...
Wow, how many books!
This book paradise is under the jurisdiction of training and development services. Anatoly Mikhailov, head of service, told us that was going to the library:
"People have always been well-read - the specificity of the area. Developers have read a lot, books piled on his desk. I wanted to make a place for people to store there books, engaged in self-development, not only to acquire new knowledge, but also share them discussed. That's how we got the library. "
The library is located on the same floor with the marketing department, so there stores important in marketing a corporate letter "I", almost my height.
"Rules of good volumes" :)
Sets orders and monitors the development of the library Alexander Rudakov wonderful girl.
Sasha tells how to cope with so many books: "First, we have divided the book into two categories: books for developers and everyone else. Then books become more and we have to divide them on specific topics. You see, the topics listed on the shelves. "
Here on these shelves - the publication of mobile platforms and operating systems.
But Sasha was not there as a grandmother-librarian. She cares about the library as a whole, and to choose and find the right edition makes electronic service. He also allows to control the return of books.
"We have done a service that shows exactly where the book - on a shelf, or someone from the staff. If you see that there is no book in the library, then you can appeal to those who have it in their arms, and ask to check out. "
All cabinets are numbered, so you can easily search for a specific book. Device between the shelves - part of the service.
This kiosk with card reader. In each book there is a RFID-tag. To take something to read, the employee applies to the card reader first label, then your badge. From this point on for two months the book assigned to them.
What happens after two months? Anatoly jokes that overdue books will explode like a car from James Bond. In fact, an employee working on the mail comes the letter with a reminder that return to the library or renew.
When we returned the young man Slide: ology Nancy DuarteWhich is considered the best tool on how to make persuasive presentations. By the way, all the library books noted here such Yandex. Stickers.
Intranet service allows you to keep track of what books are most in demand among yandeksoidov. We, of course, ask: "Well, what is the most popular?" - "Introduction to Information Retrieval». It is not surprising, is not it? :)
Yandex employees participated in the translation of publications in Russian, on the front page there is a foreword by Ilya Segalovich. All developers are starting to work in Yandex to read this book.
"When I first came to Yandex, I was given a" Introduction to Search "," - says Tatiana Bogdanova. She worked as an analyst for Yandex advertising technologies. And Tanya - one of the most avid readers of the Corporate Library.
According to history books taken Tanya can understand how she studied his field:
"After the" Introduction to Search, "I was given a book about advertising, so I studied the features of advertising language, which will need to handle. Now we went to Turkey, and I read the textbooks and reference books in the Turkish language. "
Sometimes Tatiana work required very rare books. Once she hunted Nature Language Processing for Python. Or take this book - about the natural treatment of the Turkish language. Too rare.
Tanya explains that works on this subject a little, although the Turkish language requires a special approach: "Turkish is not like any Russian or English. For example, the sentence "I think you're out of those whom we could not Turkishized" - one word. "
Here's what the word is. Read aloud risk.
Books on the Turkish language have been actively to appear in the library recently. But there are a lot of publications and other languages.
Search is closely connected with the study and analysis of language. Therefore, in the library Yandex many specialized books. How do you like "New methods and algorithms for automatic authorization of reference of pronouns third person Russian texts»?
Or this industry "The English-Russian Dictionary" for programmers. Much read - so popular.
As intersect human professional activity and the books he reads?
Sasha follows the literary interests of different departments and explains: "If it is about universal knowledge, such as personal effectiveness and time management, these books are in demand in all departments. "
On this shelf a book on project management and governance. Microsoft secrets - the story is clear which company (though most of the staff with whom we communicate, work on Macs), a textbook about breakthroughs in business and Tuned In "reframing organizations"- the cult book on how to build effective teams and companies.
Shelf below - a collection of the best sellers in the business literature. Crossing the Chasm ( "Crossing the Chasm") Geoffrey Moore - how to deduce the mass market of IT-products. The book is very popular in the IT-companies - remember, it is very respected in the Parallels. Right "manager career"By Lee Iacocca (he was one of the tops in the Ford and Crysler),«Psychology of lies"Paul Ekman.
As is known, Yandex started with the indexing of the Bible - it was her Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich tested unstructured information search technology based on the Russian language.
So the Bible here - quite a workbook. But the book does not work-related, are in a separate closet.
"We fundamentally library contains fiction, - Anatoly explains. - Keeping the focus on professional literature. For fiction made Bukkrossing closet. "
Learn the cabinet easily - it's green.
There is a separate closet for materials from conferences. Another source of knowledge in the department library - electronic materials.
Sasha said that the company buys access to electronic libraries and articles. But from paper books in the largest IT-corporations in Russia no one refuses.
For example, Valery Khromov developer draws information from electronic ACM materials and Stackoverflow.com service, but often take in the library and paper books:
"I order the book at those areas of knowledge that are not taught in our institutions. We need this knowledge every day. You can dig yourself and do experiments, and can be found in books. "
Valera - team leader of reliability and performance of the robot. This is an important but invisible outside of the search, which grinds indexed by "spider" page, and is based on them searchable database. Then from this database search form answers to users.
This bookshelf Valera. Books on the Unix, networks, testing.
"Most of these books from the category of" bibles ". Same TCP / IP Illustrated - published a long time ago, it's almost the 7th re-release. Subject to the networks it closes completely, "- says Valery. All in his hands 13 books, and many he uses on a daily basis. To not have to continuously run in "7.Gnomov" such board books are assigned to the employee.
Therefore, in the library quite a few books about design - most good books required designers constantly, and they carried away everything of value in your own closet. Here are some of the things that have not yet migrated to the designers.
And, of course, a whole wall of books of different languages and technologies.
Here Perl.
According to Sasha, often ordered books on language by O'Reilly.
And indeed, on the shelf Java with the same publisher.
Rails and Python.
And some antiques.
Of course, the library Yandex many benefits in mathematics, statistics, analytics.
But the regiment with industry and scientific journals.
There is, however, not quite industry. Although experts Yandex. Music is the profile!
We have long thought that to give hospitable yandeksoidam. It would seem that in this library "there is everything." So we brought books that are still hot after printing:
— «Blah blah blah"- on how to clearly express ideas;
— «Networking for introverts"- about the networking for those who by their very nature hates networking;
— «coup"- how to win in the market due to unexpected solutions;
— «presentation skill"Alexei Kaptereva.
Still have not guessed! Alexei Kaptereva book about presentations was found on the shelf of the library - in English only. However, the guys still pleased - it is popular, and all copies of the English is not enough.
Leaving the office of the company, we realized that we had to give. Obviously "Bible cyclist"I would go in Yandex with a bang =)