Intellectualization of library and information work evolves in aggressive information technology environment. The components of this environment are forcing libraries to live by the rules of this environment, focusing on those rules. Local solution of this problem will not bring effective results. A complete solution is possible in an integrated environment (e.g., cluster), its effective formation, build-up, ensuring a unified approach.

Models of academic libraries are reviewed. The first type is to support completeness of library collection development, the second one is oriented toward acquiring only those publications that are currently demanded by library users. This approach is positioned as “the targeted acquisitions”. The authors focus on this model and emphasize that it does not meet the tasks of academic libraries collection development and rather is to support research projects and programs which is important. This model is examined as a case study of the RAS Library for Natural Sciences.

The history of the low-level library of organization is discussed. The main stages of creation and development are given. The library must to correspond to challenges of the time. The changes in library’s work are showed. Specific characteristics of library service of readers, information resources and modern vectors of activities are examined.

Several libraries and Wikipedia agreed on developing cooperation. This initiative has been translated into two Public Projects presented at Session 112. Library engagement and Wikipedia during IFLA General Conference (August 13-19, Columbus, USA). Wikipedia supplements library resources with timely, useful information; acts as a tool for librarians answering reference questions; provides a pathway to primary and secondary sources and citations. Wikipedia helps library clients perform research; and provides a vital platform for recording local knowledge. Public libraries can expose both their staff and patrons to more complex and sophisticated strategies for dealing with the changing digital landscape. Wikipedia has the potential to point clients to libraries, where resources in their areas of interest can be found. Wikipedia-library engagement connects Wikipedia with the important role libraries play in bridging inequalities in access to information. Active collaborations between Wikipedia editors and academic and research libraries to advance the free flow of information which supporting sustainable development around the world. These collaborative opportunities offer a range of outcomes that could benefit academic and research libraries including crowdsourcing, community engagement, rapid models for online publishing, student writing assignments, etc. For the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology both projects are equally of interest.

This paper will outline some of the key aspects of the FRBR family of conceptual models that support resource discovery especially for persons who are blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled. The FRBR family of models have had a significant influence on the ways in which communities around the globe perceive and understand the bibliographic universe. This paper will focus on two areas where the conceptual models have had an important impact: bibliographic information as data and the precise delineation between content and carrier. The paper focuses on these two areas because they are of particular interest for a user with a print disability who approaches the task of discovering an appropriate resource. FRBR modeling, as expressed in the original models or in the new consolidated model, FRBR-LRM, offers a roadmap for structuring metadata in ways that allow more options for resource discovery in an increasingly global context.

Article on the problems of training of cataloguers of high qualification - experts in the field of modern cataloging. Author believes that they need to be prepared for library applications, specifically selecting candidates and concluding agreements with them. Work requires special responsibility. It is told about the selection and preparation of cataloguers of high qualification in the USA. The volume of knowledge and skills of catalogers of this level in Russia will be great, as it will include both international and national requirements.

The author continues on the role of RSDLP (Вolsheviks) libraries in preparing the revolution in Russia (see Scientific and Technical Libraries. - 2017. - Issue 6. - P. 100-110) and examines V. Lenin’s view of the libraries’ role in the revolutionary struggle. The author refers to historical sources to suggest that libraries played important organizational and propagandist role in preparing Bolshevist revolution, and were the real strongholds of the Party.

The article contains characteristic of the notion as a scientific category and considers the notions of Information resources, Documents resources, Non-documents resources, Secondary information resources, Bibliography resources, Metadata. The author offers essential definition of the Information resources notion and names its generic (essential) function and the most important features. The article also includes comparison of the author’s positions with those of Yu. Stolyarov’s.

The paper presents the overview of work of the annual scientific-methodical conference «Continuing LIS education» which held at the Faculty of Library and Information Science to Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture (March 16-17, 2017). In the conference participated representatives of the leading universities of Moscow, Kemerovo, Samara and Chelyabinsk and other educational organizations, as well as heads and specialists of libraries of all types and kinds from different regions of Russia and experts in the field of library and information education abroad. In the conference reports, participants discussed the topical issues of higher library education and additional professional education. For example, the problems associated with the normative provision of various levels of vocational education, the development of professional and educational standards and the formation of new professional competencies were outlined. Special attention was paid to the problems of professional training of librarians who do not have a vocational education, as well as the development of network interaction of all participants of educational process.