Alshanov (2009) has reported that Higher schools of the Republic which do not have their own libraries are
connected to the Republican Inter-University E-Library (RIEL), and also they offer access to other electronic
libraries presented in the Internet. Republican Inter-University E-Library (RIEL) is set up by the Association
KazRENA together with the Association of Universities of RK in 2009. Over 50 universities are using its services.
RIEL is a repository uniting the electronic educational resources of higher schools of Kazakhstan in common
information system to provide the faculty, bachelor, master and PhD students with modern informational and
educational resources, interactive multi-media resources of teaching (Alshanov, R. (2009 ).