The purpose of the article is to present methods and results of the pilot study of forming professional values of student librarians.
The purpose of the article is to analyze data on advanced training of employees of municipal libraries in the Novosibirsk region. The article substantiates the relevance of continuous professional development for library specialists in connection with implementation of the professional standard «Specialist in library and information activity». Continuous professional development is considered as a complex of formal, informal and non-formal training.
The comprehensive studies on the history of military research libraries are scarce. The authors discuss the history of the library of Imperial Engineering Academy and School; analyze the development of library collection of this institution. The authors chronologize t he h istory o f t he A cademy a nd i ts l ibrary. The relevant regulatory and legal documents that defined the library operation and development, as well as the Academy’s and School’s annual reports, made the basis of the study.
The author describes in detail the first years of the main scientific library in Smolensk Guberniya in the early 20-th century, namely Smolensk State University Library. The author was motivated by the absence of the complete picture of academic librarianship in the region; the issue is also insufficiently covered in the literature. The author applies the methods of comparative analysis and synthesis. The research is based on published and unpublished materials: documents in the State Archive of Smolensk Region; Rare Collection of Smolensk University Library; and scholarly papers.
The paper examines relationships of the quality estimation of the reference-information service for readers by librarians with professional motivation. Study results are based on the questionnaire survey of 199 employees of the public libraries network in Saint Petersburg. The study has been done in frames of research project «Staff development of public libraries of the corporate network of public libraries in Saint Petersburg executing the information-bibliographic service» in 2013-2014.