The case study of the RAS Pushchino Research Center institute’s scientific publications is accomplished. The author explores citation characteristics on the basis of bibliometric analysis. General patterns of the most intensive citation time periods are identified. Abnormal citation cases are characterized: stable or persistently high citation during the whole period from publication date; “deferred” citation - 15 years after publication; citation within the year of publication. Periodicals to increase the chances for high citation rate from the moment of publication are defined.

The history of the problem of bibliographic and archival record integration from the first attempts of the U.S. Library of Congress in applying MARC-format in archives is described. Modern approaches to combining bibliographic and archival records in library catalogs as the case studies of the Library and Archives Canada and Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library are discussed.

Technology plays an important role in the evolution of cataloging systems and its use is fundamental in disseminating information to the public. Libraries must find innovative ways of meeting their patrons’ informational needs in order to remain relevant. The challenge is that cataloging rules and formats and library systems are out of synchronization and slow to evolve to meet these informational needs. Catalogers from around the world struggle to find ways to create bibliographic records and access points to accommodate new electronic formats while information systems struggle to search and display the information that cataloging rules and formats seek to convey to patrons. Future cataloging systems are slowly evolving in synchronizing these two entities in order to create a global cataloging environment. They are slowly bridging the language barrier by properly displaying diacritics and special characters. They are making progress on creating a discovery layer that retrieves accurate holdings information for an entire library collection. They are also utilizing new cataloging formats that seek to replace MARC21 and are expandable to accommodate all formats. This evolution is creating an international partnership that will help maintain the relevance of libraries around the world. To write this paper, the author collects filed data as well as secondary source data through a comparative analysis of the progression of cataloging rules and formats and library systems. The first part of the paper will review the history of cataloging rules and formats and library systems to establish a progression timeline. The second part of the paper will focus on the current state of both and how it is impacting the ability to disseminate information to patrons. The third part of the paper will look to the requirements of the future of cataloging systems. This study concludes that cataloging and information technology will ultimately merge into the next generation library system in order to help libraries remain relevant.

The experience of the South Ural State University Scientific Library is discussed. The findings of the brain storm are reflected in two mindmaps: the first one embraces eight vectors of library promotion toward users; and the second one reveals the ideas for the Library’s services promotion. The incorporated brain storm ideas of five years are presented in tables which enables the author to make her conclusions.

The article is devoted to the goals and objectives of the national development of the concept of professional library education, reflecting the reform on the basic ideas of library and information education. It proposes priority solutions to support legal fields in libraries of the country. It highlights prospective directions to organize the system of professional training of library staff. From this analysis and international experience the author express the need for international norms and standardization of professional library and information education.

The author chose librarianship as a profession during his school years, and has worked in libraries before admission to Institute. After studying at the Moscow State Libray Institute author served in the army, he taught at the Krasnodar Institute of Culture, worked at the Lenin State Library of the USSR (Russian State Library), was head of department and deputy director, continues the chief editor of Library Bibliographical Classification. We talked about interesting trips abroad, about the activities of the Russian Library Association, in international organizations, on the pedagogical work for almost a lifetime. On the paper attached a list of the author's publications for the years 2012-2016.

This article presents a personal point of view about cooperation with Eduard Rubenovich Sukiasyan as a professional librarian, a scientist, and a human. Appropriate qualities for a professional in a scientific library considered. Several problems are discussed, which involve honesty in a research study, accent to intercultural relations, correspondence between humanistic and commercial aspects in librarian profession, cultural outlook and sensitivity to innovations, information culture of an individual.

The author presents the series of historical articles. The author refers to many sources to prove that the before-Revolution Bolsheviks’ propaganda was carried out via legal and illegal party libraries that served the strongholds for Bolsheviks. The author reviews Communist party and library scientific literature on the issue for the 100-year period. The first article is to demonstrate historical and theoretical significance of the reviewed issues. During the first Soviet years they were investigated by the prominent Communist party and Soviet political figures outstanding, attempted to characterize Lenin’s attitude towards library services.

The author writes about his acquaintance and communication with linguist Eugene Eli Garfield (1925-2017), classic of modern scientometrics, designer of Science Citation Index, head of the famous ISI. In the article written in remembrance of Eugene Eli Garfield (September 16, 1925 - February 26, 2017), the author characterized briefly the keystones of Garfield’s work and describes his interaction with the USSR Academy of Sciences.