While librarians and bibliographers accept by default the understanding of Sibirica as “literature about Siberia”, book collectors developing a Siberian theme do not adhere to this approach and proceed from less strict ideas about the scope and content of the concept.
The article is a documentary essay on the last stage of activity of the State scientific library of the USSR Ministry of Higher Education in 1957– 1958 and the creation on its basis in 1958 of two largest modern scientific libraries in Russia. They are the State public scientific technological library of the Siberian branch of the Russian academy of sciences in Novosibirsk and the State public scientific technological library in Moscow.
One of the urgent problems of domestic librarianship is highlighted, namely, the composition and content of book monuments stored in regional centers. These include the Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of the Republic of Tyva, one of the subjects of the Siberian Federal District of the Russian Federation. In 2011 the rare book sector was created in the museum, which concentrates the book monuments. The purpose of the article is to analyze printed publications published in the Tuvan People’s Republic, and now are the part of the book monuments of the National Museum of the Republic.
The number of libraries around the world and in Russia continues to decline. The regularity of the situation is explained by the loss of real demand for traditional library services – the actual library attendance is rapidly declining. The founders, represented by local regional and municipal administrations, feeling the decline in the role of libraries, are gradually reducing their scale and number. The Moscow region became the Russian leader in 2021 in closing libraries: it liquidated 26 libraries. The closure was initiated by the local Ministry of culture.
The development of an open science information infrastructure requires the presence of highly qualified library staff. He should be capable of responding to and interested in changes in science and technology, able to create innovative information products and make them available to the public, organize new forms of interaction with scientists, implement educational programs, and advise on associated with the concept of open science.
Due to the multiple increase in internal and external challenges to national culture and values, the implementation of educational functions, especially among teen-agers and young people, becomes the key one in maintaining the stability of the moral potential of society. A special place in this issue is occupied by libraries that are not directly related to the education of students as schools and higher educational institutions, but are fully suitable for this through the implementation of their educational function.
The issue of reflecting the scientific achievements of individual scientists and the results of research activities of research teams in the information environment is of great importance for many branches of science and practice, including medicine, where open data can improve the provision of medical care and influence healthcare policy. The effectiveness of search queries and the further effective use of the data obtained in research and practice, especially during epidemics and the treatment of serious diseases, largely depend on accessibility of medical information.
A book is not only a carrier of information, but also the way of its aesthetic visualization. This actualizes the problem of understanding a book as an artistic artifact. The study of the book in this context implies the identification of several aspects: the art of the book; the existence of the book as an exhibit of museum and exhibition art space; the use of the book as a compositional and meaningful element of works of fine art, as a component of library design, living and working spaces; alterbooking and architectural structures in the form of a book.
The article objective is to show the bibliographic activity development on information research support in the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS). Namely, changes in the technology of creating information resources of own generation due to computers and software; to represent the product types created by employees during 1958–2021; to highlight topics of traditional bibliographic current and retrospective indexes, bibliographic and full-text databases.
Book collections of parish churches represent a special phenomenon of the Russian book culture. Despite of the fact that these collections were, as a rule, small and performed a purely liturgical function, their careful study expands our ideas about the culture and life of the Orthodox population, about the ways of distributing handwritten and printed books. This topic is of particular importance for the analysis of the ethno-confessional policy of the Russian state in the XVI–XVII centuries in the annexed territories of the Volga region, the Urals and Siberia.