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This paper describes the information that permits one to determine the origin of the legend that there were 6000 books in D.M. Golitsyn's library. Fragmentary information was found using the Internet directly on sites, in digitized book editions and the descriptions of archival file, as well as in printed publications, whose bibliographic descriptions were found on the Internet. An attempt was made to determine the possible size of D.M. Golitsyn's library. The article describes how the Internet was used to reveal little-known information from the history of Russian private libraries while subsequently gaining new information on them by complex data analysis.

This paper describes information on the libraries of A.P. Volynskii and his adherents, which was gained from interactive sources and some printed publications. It reveals the disagreement in the data from the chronicle of the LAS and other information sources, as well as that between different printed and electronic sources. Web sites, electronic copies of books by S.A. Belokurov, D.A. Korsakov, and V.S. Ikonnikov, the fourth volume of Materials on the History of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, electronic documents, and indices of stocks for the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts and the St. Petersburg Department of the Archive of the RAS were used as information sources from the Internet. A part of the cited data was obtained using the "Search for Books. Browsing a Fragment" Google DB subsystem.

Additional information obtained by means of the Rambler, Yandex, and Google web search engines is added to the data on the collection formation of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1714 to 1736, which was published in LRAS Chronicles, vol. 1. The significance of the private libraries that formed the basis for the formation of the collection of BAN until 1737 is characterized. Printed and electronic scientific publications, which may serve as information sources on this topic, are presented.