Bibliography and library studies in the information era: Possibilities and prospects. (Thoughts on the book: Leonov V. P. Selected works / V. P. Leonov ; RAS Library. Saint Petersburg : LAS, 2021. 564 p.)

Abstract

Review of the book: Leonov V. P. Selected works / V. P. Leonov ; RAS Library. Saint Petersburg : LAS, 2021. 564 p.

The concepts examined in Leonov’s book are reviewed. The articles, lectures, interviews included in the book illustrate the evolution of knowledge on bibliography, books, library science being influenced by information technologies. The book also reflects the author’s intellectual evolution as well as the evolution of bibliography as the discipline to integrate the methodology of the human and natural sciences. This approach enables to explore these problems in many aspects. The book structure and contents of the sections are discussed, e. g. The book studies; New aspects of theory, The library studies and a fundamental disciplines, Bibliographic information and problems of its compression, Library and bibliographic processes as a social phenomenon, Bibliography: In search of new paradigm, The concept of exact bibliography, The Academy of Sciences Library: Attempting the biography, Association Internationale de Bibliophilie and the Library of Russian Academy of Sciences, The third era of reminiscences. The contents is grouped in accordance with the complex problems of modern bibliology, which enables to explore individual problems within the context of the changing general scientific knowledge substance and form. With the cognitive sciences metholdology, V. Leonov finds the ways to apply them to the humanities. The book author introduces into the wide range of problems and applies new methods to library science, bibliology and bibliography. The relevancy of Leonov’s book is emphasized.