The author offers a new paradigm of the library as a social institution in the period of the civilization transition from the information society to the knowledge society. The library functions and goals are defined, in particular encouraging and administering of free exchange of opinions and ideas between social strata and groups to solve their vital problems; providing space and tools (including acess to chargeable information content) to implement creative initiatives and to solve user everyday problems; designing training (educational) programs to adapt residents to continuously emerging innovations. Taking into account these new functions and tasks, the author defines the library as a social institution supporting cognitive and creative activities of the community being served through intellectual collaboration, educational and recreational programs, providing space, equipment hard- and software for public use and access to information sources.

The author specifies the measures that would facilitate the RF libraries’ transition. He emphasizes that, to ensure success, the transformations are needed to be made both at the local (libraries) and at the federal level.

The need for efficient support of innovative activities of research institutes and universities is substantiated. The author examines patent activities of science and academic Ubraries’ patent divisions providing the wide range of services - from offering access to specialized information resources and generating analytics to user training and methodological support. As a case study, the experience of Pushchino Central Library Patent Sector is discussed. The library is the branch of RAS Library for Natural Sciences. The Sector offers information and analytical data based on bibliometrical analysis and patent information analysis, as well as user consulting and methodological support. The author concludes that today libraries’ patent divisions are among the most demanded - they analyze prospective vectors in science and technology, develop strategies for patent research; consult researchers in patent activities and intellectual property protection issues. He also suggests, that through facilitating patent information support, the possible risks can be minimized for science-intensive researchers while science intensive research makes the foundation for the country’s economic prosperity.

The author discusses the most popular search services for science articles retrieval — which make the main information source for modem researchers. Based on the findings of the global sociological study of over 40,000 respondents, the services most popular with the users are compared. Among the most frequently used are: abstracted bibliographic databases, science retrieval services, global general search services, libraries’ www-sites, publishers’ www-sites, journals www-sites, and social networks. The author analyzes libraries’ potential for tuning popular services for the users to transit from brief article descriptions (bibliographic records) to their full texts available through subscriptions. To unify the exchange mode and formats, the requirements documents by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) regulate data exchange between content providers (publishers and aggregators), discovery services developers and the libraries. Integration of Russian journal resources into the global exchange infrastructure is hindered by incompleteness and inconsistency of the metadata being provided. Meanwhile such integration is vital for Russian science article visibility and citation. The author also emphasizes the importance of the standardized data exchange between Russian content providers, discovery services, and the libraries.

The technology of developing the Electronic Scientific Agricultural Library the E-library structure are discussed. The E-library comprises two databases: the Knowledge E-library and the Document Collections E-library (ELC) being developed in accordance with the general concept of the industry’s E-library. The ELC is an element of the Centralized Electronic Library System and is integrated into the minor cloud library and information system (MOBIS). MOBIS provides services for the participating libraries’ designing their own digital catalogs and electronic libraries. The document type composition, search options and several services are described. Inclusion of fulltext databases increases significantly its volume as well as the quality of user information services.

The authors conclude that the Electronic Scientific Agricultural Library should supplement the library collection of printed materials and valuable documents, to widen access to the Library’s collections, to increase the user number and to deliver documents to any place. The Electronic Scientific Agricultural Library has been being developing and appended with new documents from its own collection and external sources.

The experience of the E-library Department of the Far Eastern Federal University Scientific Library in digitizing the library collections is examined. The technological problems are discussed. The choice of TIFF graphic format for scanning and the PDF – for storing user copies is substantiated. Free license program IrfanView, a graph editor with a scanning embedded function which speeds up and smoothens the process, is suggested as an alternative scanner software. To ease and speed up the labor-intensive process of graphic images editing to supplement standard software, the author suggests to use FastStone Image Viewer, a free license program. The FastStone Image Viewer offers the useful function of edited graphic images batch processing, in particular conversion to PDF with simultaneous document compression which saves the digital depository storage volume. The suggested alternative programs, online resources, and methods to eliminate scanning defects, as described by the author, would significantly lighten the work of digitization specialist.

This is brief review of the 39-th IATUL conference in Norway, June 18-21 2018. Open access issues are analyzed for several countries - Norway, Germany, Australia, and Canada. According to the Google Scholar data up to 2/3 of research articles in Norway are open access. It is the highest global level. Nevertheless the oaDOI data gives pretty lower part of open access publications, ca 1/3. The difference is explained by determination of open access preconditions, for the oaDOI there are the most rigid ones. One of the important factors to proliferation of open access is negative attitude of some part of the academic community. Researchers prefer traditional formats of publications taking into account the prestige consideration and evaluations by peers. They believe that academic freedom gives them right to choose which kind of publication is appropriate to them. The national approach of German scientists to the licensing on the ground of Publish&Read principle has been implemented in the DEAL project. Australian librarians shared experience on the openness development for research communications. Methods of information literacy learning are described. There are outlined examples of the library makerspace activity. Director of the National library of Norway discusses some problems of the library development.

The purpose of the article is to inform and prepare libraries for the introduction from January 1, 2019 of the five State standards of the Russian Federation System of standards of information, librarianship and publishing: GOST R 7.0.64–2018 (ISO 8601: 2004) “Representation of dates and times. General requirements"; GOST R 7.0.102–2018 “Collection development profile for research libraries. Structure. Indicators of receipt of the documents"; GOST R 7.0.87–2018 “Book monuments. General requirements"; GOST R 7.100–2018 “Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description. General requirements and rules”; GOST R 7.0.103–2018 “Library and Information Services. Terms and Definitions". Given the general characteristics of their content. GOST R 7.0.64– 2018 (ISO 8601: 2004) should be known to all librarians. In GOST R 7.0.87– 2018 the definition of a “book monument” is given and the general requirements for the work of the staff of the relevant departments of scientific libraries are set out. GOST R 7.100–2018 will replace one of the most well-known standards 7.1–2003 and will require special attention from the library community. For the first time, GOST R 7.0.102–2018 regulates the requirements for the preparation of the most important document determining the acquisition policy of scientific libraries, the acquisition profile. GOST R 7.0.103–2018 complements the dictionary of library standardized terminology with hundreds of new terms. Most of them are constantly used in everyday practice.

The monograph by E. Deaner «The electronic book as a bibliological object» [«Elektronnaya kniga kak kategoriya knigovedeniya», 2017, in Russian] is analyzed. The monograph logically extends the previous book by the same author published in 2016, namely “Theoretical and methodological foundations of digital books as a bibliological category” [«Teoretikometodologicheskiye osnovy elektronnoy knigi kak kategorii knigovedeniya», in Russian].  The monograph is seen as a radical breakthrough in the modern Russian bibliology, as it tends to reconcile the traditional bibliology and new information technologies on which e-publishing and book distribution are based today. The author demonstrates that digital books completely matches the theoretical and practical provisions of bibliology and documentology being specific type of the document rather than a specific genre. The digital books can be blended seamlessly into the book culture phenomenon, to enrich it with a radically new and innovative object.  The high appraisal is given to the methodological approaches toward defining the concept of the digital book and its representation within the book communication system. The principle of the digital book ergonomics is examined in detail and is positively appraised, as well as the principle main factors, i.e.: the material, semantic, signatury, syntactic, pragmatic and temporal elements.

The monograph content would enable to liven up the academic courses in bibliology and documentology. The librarians in collection development and digital collection development and bibliographers will make the readership of the monograph.

The Fourth Museum Assembly held within the framework of the Fourth World Professional Forum “The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations” (June 18–22, 2018, Sudak, Republic of Crimea) is reviewed. The 2018 topic was “Regional museums: To preserve traditions, to implement innovations”. The Assembly was organized through the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Crimea. The reviewers discuss the topics and problems revealed in the plenary presentations and papers delivered at the section “Museums in the modern information and cultural space”. The thematic sessions were supplemented with master classes “Research with the museum collections” and “Exhibitional work”. When concluding the Fourth Museum Assembly, the participant suggested that in future, more attention should be given to museum libraries. The officers of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Crimea admitted that the Assembly should be held regularly as it served the site to share experiences and improve professional competences of museum specialists of Crimea and Russia, on the whole.

The author reviews the work of the international conference on the global ecological problems held on the occasion of the 155-th anniversary of Vladimir Vernadsky within the framework of the Fourth World Professional Forum “The book. Culture. Education. Innovations” (“Crimea”). About 40 papers dedicated to VladimirVernadsky, his contribution to the modern science, his ideas and their transformation in the modern world, as well as to the practical experience of the libraries, museums, universities, advanced training organizations, were presented. The contents of the key papers is discussed, the links to the full texts on the RNPLS&T’s www-site are given. Within the conference framework, special events oriented towards teenagers and young adults, the graduates’ session “Solutions for ecological problems”, interactive ecological game, and podium discussion “Do we have the ecological future?”, etc., were held.

The author emphasizes that the main conference result is the collaboration plans made between researchers, libraries, museums, universities, non-government organizations to spread Vernadsky’s ideas, as well as the establishment RNPLS&T — V. I. Vernadsky Foundation the joint site to promote new projects and to engage the interested parties.

The review of Andrey Zemskov’s research, library and information activities is dedicated to his 80-th anniversary. Andrey Zemskov, Candidate of Science (Physics and Mathematics), is a leading researcher of RNPLS&T. The reviewer comments on the celebrant’s several publications that reflect many vectors of his studies. The importance of his efforts in selecting and translating foreign science articles and in reviewing proceedings of international professional conferences is emphasized. The attached bibliography comprises the key A. Zemskov’s publications in the “Scientific and Technical Libraries” Journal within the topics: E-libraries, open access, and bibliometrics.