The preparedness and ability to accept, understand and create innovations is a factor of efficient development of modern society. The modern libraries have to be information centers to concentrate the world information resources within. The libraries’ main task is to generate, preserve and systematize resources and make them accessible to the users. The library is examined as a system being influenced by external and internal factors. The library as an independent element in its turn impacts the information and education environment of the universities. The e-libraries offer the wide scope of services to support universities’ education and research activities. Therefore, the university educational strategy should facilitate the transfer to an innovative model. The priority development of education system has to prepare individuals for competing in the society of dominating intellectual resources and innovations. The libraries have to be proactive in generating their own strategic programs and the university strategies, too.
The authors examine the university library as an integrated system comprising the elements of diverse characteristics and complexity influence of external and internal factors. The e-library services and possibilities being offered to users are analyzed. The concept of “active university library” is defined as the system of user information services provided in any format and with any media based on traditional and networked services as well as on query-leading basis. The e-library promotion through information selective dissemination is discussed. The principle of active e-library’s impact on the library’s proactivity is promoted.

The findings of two sociological surveys held in Arkhangelsk in 2017-2018 are discussed: expert interviews “The thoughts on the future of libraries” and the poll “What are the libraries needed for?”. The administrators and experienced librarians, professors in library sciences and other specialists of the library sphere in several Russian regions took on the role of experts. The author summarizes their views on the current status of libraries, and suggests forecasts and recommendations for the future to all interested players: i.e. librarians, library administration, the ministry, and users. Over 500 Arkhangelsk residents participated in the online poll. The respondents are over 18 year-old age, and the survey appears to be representative in terms of gender and age. The topics under discussion are: frequency of visits to the library, relevancy of library services, user pre­ferences. The Arkhangesk residents’ satisfaction with library services is evaluated; their attitude toward closing libraries is revealed, residents’ reviews are cited. Based on the survey findings, the collective portrait of opposite groups — frequent-goers and non-goers is described. The professional library community and the users contend that the libraries are highly demanded in the modern society.

The lexicographical information resources are being studied by many scientific disciplines: the library science, bibliography, bibliology, lexicography, etc. The author examines the polar-opposite opinions regarding the terms “typo­logy” and “classification”, i. e. their synonymity or absolute demarcation. As a result of scholarly discussions, the terms “bibliotypology” and “typological classification”, “typology of classification”, “typology of typologies”, etc., emerged. The major problems of classification/typology of lexicographical information resources are analyzed. These problems hinder the reference and bibliographic user services. The problems embrace comprehension of modern lexicographical processes, diversity of classifications/typologies, dictionary boom, rise in the number of dictionaries, their types and genres, typological and aspectual synonymity of dictionaries, etc. The solutions for these types of information resources are suggested (integrated studies by lexicographers, linguists, information and library scientists; identification of major groups of characteristics to be used in classification/typology of lexicographical information resources, etc.). The author’s alphabet explanatory synonymic glossary “The vectors of modern national lexicography” [in Russian] and the alphabet union synonymic bibliography “The modern dictionaries of the Russian language” comprise the terms essential for reference and bibliographic services when executing queries of lexicographical and socio-humanitarian character.

The paper is based on the revealed domestic publications and analysis of vast publications in the foreign professional periodicals. Internet-based resources, e. g. www-sites of diverse organizations were analyzed, and the data on efficient Russian corporate libraries was identified. The national library studies exclude corporate libraries from the traditional official library typology. The national classification system (Library Bibliographic Classification, LBC) as well, does not envisage typology for the corporate libraries. The author does not possess statistical data. Some experts relate the concept to “corporations”, others see the corporate libraries as former “technical” (sectoral, industrial) libraries. However, the analysis findings demonstrate that this term can be primarily related to the concept of “corporate culture”. The corporate libraries make part of corporations, financial and trade companies, banks, foundations, joint-stock companies, etc. The prerequisites of extensive uprise of these libraries in Russia emerged in 1990s. The few publications on the topic are discussed along with the information available from Internet resources. The author concludes that the corporate libraries belong to special libraries, and within the latter group, the corporate libraries should be separated. Both state-funded and non-government organizations have got the libraries within their structure. The author attempts to formulate the definition for the new type of libraries, examines their functions and characteristic features, staff and users. The examples of the place of these libraries within the organizational structure are provided.

The availability of an informational and educational space is considered as a necessary requirement to the functioning of a modern university. The importance of the university’s library in creating such informational and educational space is described. The qualitative shift in libraries activities is emphasized by a library’s ability to communicate with other objects in an informational and educational space of a university. The integrative function of the university library, which provides the informational and educational space organizational process, is pointed out to be understudied.
The objects of the informational and educational space in the State University of Management are defined. The brief information about the features of the university library collection is given. The activities of the scientific library of the State University of Management in organizing the informational and educational space of the university and providing it with informational and educational materials are characterized. The specificity of the library work is illustrated by different examples, such as interaction with e-library systems, the development of scientific and educational activities by using both traditional and e-learning resources, the creating of various bibliographic reference services, web indexing of publications of the professors and other university workers in scientometrical systems.
The integrity of the scientific library of the State University of Management into different stages of creating educational resources in the informational and educational space of the university. It is emphasized that the implementation of the library integrative function contributes to the development of the unified informational and educational space of the university. The article can be relevant to university libraries specialists and the researchers of this type of libraries.

Today the scientific research has become of increased significance for the library activities. This calls for implementing new research methods.
The Abstracts Journal “Informatics” was analyzed for the publications on “Research methods” for the 10-year period; the findings are discussed, i.e. the rise of interest methods in the library and information community toward applying research, positive dynamics of the document flow with the 10-year doubling period. Over 100 research methods are identified. Thematically, the stable part of the document flows make approximately one-fifth of the total volume. Twenty three methods are used most frequently. The subject headings for these methods demonstrate stability which means permanent interest toward these methods and stable vectors of research methods development. Metric methods are dominating, including those being used in the digital environment. The increase of subject headings efficiency evidences on their increasing relevancy. Mobile document flows characterize the newest research methods. These are the methods being borrowed from other fields and used occasionally in the library and information studies. “The research methods” topic appears to be a trending and a developing one. The core methods are defined. Nevertheless, the major part of the document flow remains decentralized and comprises many new vectors that, while being quite relevant, have not found their niche in the library science research.

The current foreign trends of library informatization based on mobile technologies, radical information personalization and diversification of user auditorium are examined. The study is novel in that the author investigates into the current trends in foreign librarianship like advance of mobile sites, services based on augmented reality interfaces and RFID method. The author emphasizes that optimization based on mobile technologies is being accomplished in scientific and public libraries – leaders of the digital revolution but also in the major libraries of the developing states. The modern library practice abroad is analyzed: the mobile versions of www-sites and catalogs and applications; resources for mobile devices are being designed and implemented; new services with mobile interfaces are offered. Mobile-based service features, like trans-border and instant access, time saving, absence of spatial constraints are discussed. The role of mobile technologies in transforming library services in the developing states as the chance to overcome the increasing digital gap is emphasized.

Review of the book: Stolyarov Yu. N. Rubakin regained / Yu. N. Stolyarov ; Association of Russian School Librarians ; Library Science Department of the International Informatization Academy ; Russian State Library ; Book Culture Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences ; National Library of Sakha Republic (Yakutia). – Moscow : RUSLA, 2019. – 416 p. [In Russian]

In his new book, Yury N. Stolyarov reconstructs the biography of Nikolay [Nikolas] Aleksandrovich Rubakin, the author of over 280 books and 300 articles. The monograph is based on the series of papers by Stolyarov published in professional periodicals. The author includes Rubakin’s biography beginning with his birth in the town of Oranienbaum (now (Lomonosov, Leningradskaya oblast, Russia) till his last days in Switzerland. Yu. Stolyarov portrays a person who had to emigrate, though his all life was wholeheartedly devoted to Russia. The author investigates into archival materials, publications by the scholar, his personal correspondence, which enabled Stolyarov to demonstrate political, social and cultural impacts on Rubakin’s life and vectors of his studies. In his book, Stolyarov emphasizes the scholar’s great contribution to the study of problems in library science and bibliology, i. e. the role of libraries in self-education, promotion of science knowledge among population groups, collection development, book selection for children, reading theory, etc. Yu. Stolyarov also focuses on bibliopsychology — an independent discipline, developed by N. Rubakin and won the support of the library community. The findings of bibliopsychology has been being still used globally.

During the pre-war and war [WWII] years, the libraries took part in accomplishing military and defense tasks: promoted knowledge on air and chemical defense, sanitation, etc. The libraries participated in universal military training of population. They cooperated closely with Osoaviakhim (Society for the Promotion of Aviation and Chemical Defense) that was publishing a number of specialized publications intensively used by the libraries in their popularization work. The libraries contributed to the country’s defensive power both theoretically and practically. They conformed to the decrees of the Council of People’s Commissars and The State Defense Committee (in the first war days). The author specifies the main vectors of the libraries’ interaction with the Red Army divisions, training of new recruitees, front support. The promotion of military defense knowledge by the libraries all over the country including the capital libraries and the libraries in Soviet republics is also discussed. The article is based on archival materials listed in the bibliography attached.