Editorial
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 10/18/2023 - 19:08.
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The economic, social and political transformations that took place in the country in the 21st century, including the reforms at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in 2013, significantly affected the activities of its information and library system, which is the subject of discussion at various forums of professionals.
The objective of the article is to present the results of a study of scientists’ attitude to communication between science and society by means of libraries. The working method of the study was an online questionnaire of academic specialists of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) research institutes. Data collection took place in early 2023.
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The objective of the article is to give an overview of the materials of the Public Hearings on the problems of books and reading «The Reader: Global Challenges and Personal Stories» held on March 24, 2023 in Novosibirsk in the frames of the IV International Scientific and Practical Conference “Homo legens in the Past and Present”. They brought together about 30 representatives of the government and administration, book theorists and practitioners, heads of higher educational institutions, representatives of the library community, and public organizations.
The object of the article is to present the results of the analysis of the demand for information services provided by the Siberian Scientific Agricultural Library, the branch of the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SibSAL– the branch of SPSTL SB RAS), for scientists of agricultural research institutions (SRI) in the context of continuing organizational and structural reorganization.
Being a traditional institution of culture, knowledge preservation and transfer, a relatively stable form of organizing social life, ensuring strength of ties and relationships within a society, in the context of its systemic transformations, developing digitalization of resources and communications, the library has the potential, the implementation of which can determine new models of action. In this regard, it becomes important to develop a model for adapting the activities of libraries in the region to the modern system of communications.
The object of the article is to reveal on the materials from the archive of I.P. Ladyzhnikow Publishing House (1905–1932), found by the author, various aspects of publishing literature in foreign languages. The company was one of the largest Russian- language publishing houses in Berlin, which, in addition to the mass publication of books in Russian, published in large volumes in the first two decades of the 20th century books in foreign languages, mostly in German. They published Russian classical literature, works of contemporary authors. The main volume fell on the works by L.N.
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