The ELibUkr project is being established in Ukraine with the support the Kyiv Mohyla Foundation of America and with the initial financial support of USAID.
The ELibUkr is a nation-wide linked Electronic Library/Knowledge Centers network that will provide academics, students and practitioners enhanced access to the world’s digitized network of academic and research information thus promoting the active use of local, regional, and global information.  The project will upgrade the intellectual holdings of Ukrainian libraries and include them into the worldwide digitized information system.  In addition to access to data bases, the project also includes critically important Knowledge Centers, which will be at the heart of the system’s effective use by providing training programs for librarians and users and will promote the evolution of a linked industry-academic-research community, a key element for economic progress and stability which is absent in Ukraine.
In spite of Ukraine’s highly developed expertise in computer technology, science and research, and some of the world’s finest universities and research centers, Ukrainian scholars and academics still do not have the same access to the world’s electronic information available in North America and Western Europe. This is a serious shortcoming which this project will overcome.
Support for the ELibUkr project is an investment in Ukraine’s future. It is enhance international standards and infrastructure. In its first stage it included National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, National University of Chernivtsi named after Y. Fedkovych and National University of Kharkiv named after V. Karazin. Donetsk National Technical University has been an ELibUkr project participant since 2009. Volyn National University and Sumy State University and Ukrainian Academy of banking has been an ELibUkr project participant since January, 2010. The project is prepared for strategic implementation and participation of the universities of Ukraine.
This initiative will impact the development of civil society and the democratic process by making available a wider amount of information resources to a maximum amount of users.  The Electronic Library/Knowledge Centers will increase the use of technology, strengthen the university system and build prospects for economic growth.  The purpose of the project is to raise the level of Ukrainian libraries to the highest international standards, bring the world’s electronically distributed materials to the universities of Ukraine, integrate the intellectual holdings of Ukrainian libraries into the world’s data bases and promote the formation of a linked industry-academic-research partnership and community.