The historically folded concept "document" and "book" is confronted in scientific disciplines of archive, documentation, museum, bibliology. Divergences in understanding of document in the different structural constituents of documentosphere prevent their association in practice and scientific integration in theories. The urgency of the synthesis of archives, libraries, museums, as a social institution, is substantiated.

The author briefly characterizes the RF Ministry’s of Education and Science the Federal Target Program “Research and Development in Priority Fields of the Science and Technology Complex of Russia for the Years 2014-2020” and emphasizes the essential characteristic component of the Federal Target Program, i. e. information support of science and higher education. The projects under two contracts concluded between RNPLS&T and the RF Ministry of Science and Education, namely “Provision of licensed access to the international science citation indices” and “Provision of licensed access to the international full-text databases” are described. The project results and ways for further progress are discussed.

The service-oriented approach of the university academic library is highlighted: The social institution of services is to increase quality of living, to be a tool of socializing and adaptation. The authors conclude that in the context of the education new paradigm the services make the focus of Prioksky State University Library to foster efficient library operation and coordination within the university divisions.

The issues of meaningfulness and efficiency of libraries’ blogging and presence in social networks are explored. The need for law regulation of libraries’ activities in social media is justified. The author concludes that the libraries activities in social media have to be well-aimed and systematic to bring positive results.

The current Russian national and interstate standards on information, librarianship and publishing (SIBID), their connection with the previous standards are explored. The article opens with the deployed preamble to the List of standards, which gives information about the methodological decisions taken and determines the mandatory and optional elements to be used in records. The List of standards consists of two parts. The first part is devoted to the national standards of the Russian Federation, and the second part - to the interstate and other applicable SIBID standards. National standards provide an optimal set of description areas and elements to reflect national standards in catalogs and bibliographic publications, but interstate standards also allow for brief records. We also consider the impact of the Russian national and interstate standards on information, librarianship and publishing, their connection with the previous standards.

Professional development programs for bibliographers implemented in ST. Petersburg Stat Institute of Culture are examined. Solutions for the problems, firstly, of decreased funding of professional development in libraries and, secondly, the decreased offers in the market of education programs for analytical competences, are proposed. These solutions are to save and increase professional expertise of bibliographers and to use it not only in libraries but also by analytical centers.

The paper proposes a scheme of library personnel management from the perspective of personnel planning, staffing, evaluation and incentives based on content analysis and statistical work performance of employees. The functional model of library personnel management allows to generate information to support decision-making in human resources management on the basis of library and information system of the University. The model comprises interrelated functions performed in order to obtain complete and timely results of the process of personnel management. The author presents an automated information system, which purpose is to monitor functions of objective data about the various employees, departments and libraries in the whole wide range of indicators and to analyze the performance of library employees to ensure timely management decision-making.

The collection of selected presentations from the conference "Electronic Resources of Libraries, Museums and Archives" which since 2005 is hosted by V. V. Mayakovsky Central City Public Library (St. Petersburg) is reviewed. Forty five most interesting papers (approximately the one-sixth part) presented in 10 years are published in the book.

The Round Table and the Press Conference on the occasion of the National Library Association «Libraries of the Future» start of operation are discussed. Communications by NALF President and Vice Presidents, representatives of libraries and institutions - NALF founders are analyzed. NALF goals and objectives, major focus area and key programs speakers highlighted in their communications are presented.

This article is in memory of Tatyana Karatygina, Doctor of Science in Pedagogy, a great librarian, pedagogue, and researcher, who served library profession devotedly for over half century.