Strengthening system of digital transformation (DT) strategic management in the regional aspect, ensuring integrated and even development of the regions, and the balanced responsibilities of regional and municipal authorities and their financial resources, facilitate the balanced digital transformation of the libraries.
The Eighth World Professional Forum «The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations» («Gelendzhik-2024») was held on June 9–15, 2024. The forum subject scope comprised the issues of developing and using artificial intelligence in library services, staffing and practical training of library professionals, scientometrics and bibliometrics, patent information, e-libraries, electronic archives and online resources, library educational projects in Russia, developing digital environment and other vital problems of the library, information, scientific, educational and cultural communities.
Today, the government pays special attention to science and science popularization. This includes legal regulation, in particular, and makes the focus of the humanities scholars. However, the issues of the origins of science education of the community, including via the librarianship, are understudied. The goal of this study is to reveal and analyze the legislative acts on non-formal education regulations adopted in 1725–1917. The study focused on the documents comprising definitions related to the science popularization in its modern sense.
Today, the government pays special attention to science and science popularization. This includes legal regulation, in particular, and makes the focus of the humanities scholars. However, the issues of the origins of science education of the community, including via the librarianship, are understudied. The goal of this s tudy i s t o r eveal a nd a nalyze t he l egislative a cts o n n on-formal education regulation adopted in 1725–1917. The study focused on the documents comprising definitions related to the science popularization in its modern sense.
The article considers the issues of preserving and updating the ethnocultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation within the framework of the activities of museums, houses of folk art, higher educational institutions, academic research institutes. Institutions for which the preservation of cultural heritage is not the main essential activity, but has recently been actively developing, are characterized. These are federal and national universities and research institutes of the Russian academy of sciences.
Open science is becoming one of the modern trends and a permanent object of study, including awareness and attitude of scientists from different countries, involvement of subject areas and individual scientific institutions. The purpose of the study is to investigate the attitude of users engaged in research activities in institutions of higher professional education, research organizations and manufacturing enterprises, united in the world-class West Siberian Interregional Scientific and Educational Center, to open science.
The dynamic academic and educational environment needs the specialists capable to work in the intensively developing open science information infrastructure, to retrieve, analyze and synthesize heterogeneous information, to process structured and unstructured research data; to document research findings, to represent them in the open access; to be engaged in social media, and to be aware of many aspects of the open science concept.
The development of information technology has contributed to the rapid process of informatization of all spheres of modern society, including library and information activities – the methods of collecting information, its visual display and providing access to it have changed; the processes of acquisition, processing of documents, preservation of collections have been transformed. The forms of information and library services have become different.
The purpose of the article is to show the results of a study of selected bibliographic resources in Russian libraries for the popularization of science, the promotion of scientific knowledge, the formation of a scientific worldview and the development of scientific literacy. Selected bibliographic resources on 87 library sites were considered. 750 selected bibliographic resources were identified, of which 280 (27 %) are aimed at disseminating modern scientific knowledge. Most of these are non-renewable resources.
The article presents a generalized vision of the place and role of the Siberian Scientific Agricultural Library (SIBSAL), libraries and information units of scientific organizations of agricultural profile of Siberia in the scientific communications system. The dynamics of SIBSAL interaction with the libraries of regional scientific research institutions (SRI) in connection with changes in the political and economic life of the country in the 1990-s are considered.