The Reading Region: the Government and Management Bodies’ Role in the Development of Infrastructure for Reading in Siberia and the Far East
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Tue, 05/12/2026 - 11:38The purpose of this article is to study initiatives to promote books and reading in Siberia and the Far East, identify trends and prospects. The article presents strategic government initiatives that prioritize books and reading. Based on the materials of the “Cultural Map of Russia. Literature.
Organization of Advanced Training at the Center for Library Education and Innovation of the National Library of Tajikistan
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Tue, 05/12/2026 - 11:38A brief description of the activities of the Center for Library Education and Innovation in the field of bibliographic and librarianship training of the National Library of Tajikistan is given.
Scientific Library in the System of Popularizing Scientific Knowledge
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Tue, 05/12/2026 - 11:38Libraries have traditionally been included in the system of popularization of scientific and popular science knowledge and carry out this activity along with other social institutions of science, culture and education. Coordinated work of scientific libraries with direct suppliers of scientific knowledge – scientists and scientific organizations – will make it possible to achieve more effectively the goals of popularization activities by combining information, personnel, material and other resources, as well as the channels of disseminating information.
Analysis of Russian science citation systems as an instrument of evaluation of research organization performance
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2026 - 15:38The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the functionality of the Russian scientific citation systems – RSCI and CoLab.ws in the context of changes in Russia’s state scientific and publication policy. The relevance of the work is that it discusses new regulatory instruments, i. e.
Recognition of printed and handwritten texts based on the neural networks
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2026 - 15:38The authors examine the issues of text machine readability in the age of digital technologies. The optical character recognition (OCR) of printed texts and manuscripts offer solutions. The main tasks of the proposed method is to analyze existing recognition systems and algorithms, own code design and testing for various fonts The authors examine the computer vision function for handwritten and printed text processing. Besides, recognition can be improved by dividing images into the black and white, and highlighting symbol parts.
The quality of publishing performance of university researchers in the regions in the context of citation locality
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2026 - 15:38The author discusses the findings of the comparative study of RSCI metrics associated with the Hirsch index, and the data on the citations locality for the authors affiliated with leading Ryazan region universities. The purpose of the study is to assess the quality of publication performance of the regional academic community. The methods of comparative analysis, systematization, bibliometric analysis and mathematical processing of data in MS Excel spreadsheets were applied. The RSCI served as the study empirical base.
Online is all we need?! (Today and tomorrow of the library as a cyberphysical system). Part 2. Functional analysis
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2026 - 15:38This article is Part 2 of the problem-setting dilogy, which offers an analysis of the library as a cyberphysical system. In Part 1, the terminological analysis of “librarian's digital twin” (hereinafter: LDT) concept was carried out. The Part 2 purpose is to analyze LDT as related to the Professional Standard “Specialist in library and information activities”.
Artificial intelligence in EPUB digital publications: Developing new standards for e-books and textbooks
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2026 - 15:38The author examines the trends in the EPUB regulations on the level of international standardization in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies explosion. He demonstrates the advantages of EPUB as a digital publication format, and reviews the key innovative trends in EPUB standardization aimed at the better user experience with digital publications in academic libraries. The higher learning efficiency can be achieved through implementing AI tools into e-textbooks content, while the regulations in this area are needed both on the national and international levels.
Application of artificial intelligence technologies in cataloging: The experience of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2026 - 15:38The experience of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into cataloging processes at the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is discussed. The authors focus on two pilot projects: Yakutia.Online – the system of intellectual web archiving of regional Internet resources, – and the project of AI cataloging of one-part editions. The architecture of systems, stages of automation, mechanisms of semantic processing and bibliographic records verification are described.