The new National Strategy for Artificial Intellect up to the Year 2030 approved by the RF Presidential Decree in 2019, obligates the libraries to define their position. The author insists that their participation in the Strategy implementation would be beneficial in many aspects. Firstly, the libraries would build user awareness of the Strategy to make the users active stakeholders; secondly, the libraries could become educators teaching the population on artificial intellect principles and methods; thirdly, the large libraries are able to join in building Artificial Intellect Open Library. Fourthly, implementation of artificial intellect technology in libraries would enable to transform the quality of professional education of librarians-to-be who are to create smart libraries. The author makes the suggestions on how to implement artificial intellect technology based on Nikolas Rubakin’s bibliopsychological theory.

The author discusses the findings of the study accomplished within “The Library. Librarians. Information” topic cluster of Elsevier’s SciVal online platform and assesses international research activities in bibliometric studies in 2011–2020. She analyzes the dynamics of research activities in library studies and contributions made by individual players; characterizes the most relevant topics in the modern library studies. The methodologies is determined by SciVal metrics applicability and bibliometrics on the whole. The author concludes on the trends of publication activity slow decrease and the U. S.’ dominating in research output contributions in the given domain; she characterizes 10-top actors in research output in the aspects of countries and individual organizations; identifies journals providing the core of articles with the citation rate above the worldwide average. Based on the prominence term, the author identifies 14 top topics of library studies and research. For the first time in the national publications, the functionality of SciVal online platform is revealed to get acquainted with the research trends in library studies.

The author attempts to define the term of “mediaculture” within the context of bibliosphere. The polyscientific nature of the “media culture” concept in its interaction with general personal culture, information and book culture is explored. The concept of information culture as the generic one as relative to media culture is characterized as the product of new stage of social evolution. The media culture genesis in foreign and domestic research, including the recent ones, is discussed. The author identifies the essential elements of the media culture concept and provides her own definition. The dynamics of book status at the current stage of information society is analyzed. The capacities and limitations of the libraries’educating media culture in their users with the focus on information and specifically, media literacy are identified. The author emphasizes the modern user need for personal media culture. The role of modern libraries as curators of digital education in the era of media communications is to promote media culture products among its users with account taken of their demands.

The analysis of websites/web-pages of content of SB RAS research institutions is based on the content assessment checklist developed specifically for this study. The checklist comprised 50 questions divided in 5 sections: website information, web-page design and functions, content and web-services. The websites of Novosibirsk, Buryat, Irkutsks, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Yakutsk and Tyumen research centers were selected for the study, 44 library websites altogether. The online survey was conducted within the study comprising two questions: Who manage and maintain the website/web-page of your library? Is this library website management strategy efficient? The respondents were also asked to propose on how to improve mangement of the institutional website. The web-content assessment enables to reveal problems and trends which would be useful for re-designing the library websites of research institutions. The author offers recommendations based on the study findings.

In the tables of Russian Library Bibliographic Classification (LBC), the literature on group populations is separated. Based on the LBC Medium Tables, the recommendations are given on how to analyze documents by content with indexing to follow (for teaching systematization). Diverse resources on population may hamper separating publications. Document analysis enables to present its content as a classification number to be used in catalog and/or in systematic collection arrangement. The comprehensive resource coverage expands catalog retrieval capability and saves user’s time. The LBC tables are used in collection arrangement, catalogs and lists. The content makes the key factor of fixing document position in the tables. The potentiality of systematizing literature by examination aspect is revealed as exemplified by the publications on group populations.

The current trends in information infrastructure and its component information library infrastructure (ILI) are analyzed. The specific characteristics of Uzbekistan ILI are: building libraries for modern technological applications and developing existing infrastructure. The main problems the ministries and library community face are revealed. The ILI organizational model based on hierarchy is discussed. The author considers the three-level system to be the most efficient for the libraries’ interdepartmental interaction. This would provide for information cooperation in building union resources (e-catalogs, databases), and library management. Taking into account the specific character of library management in the Republic of Uzbekistan, the ILI based on the corporate library networks of various departments would enable: to computerize information acquisition, accumulation and transfer at all levels for efficient management; to provide open access to union e-catalog for all libraries and users; to build libraries’ local digital resources; to increase efficiency of interaction and cooperation between the National Library and the libraries of various departments; to save money and human assets through excluded work duplication and intensive information exchange.

The history of the first military library from 1908 (after its innovation after 1900 fire), and up to its relocation to the Main Headquarters’ Academy in 1919, is explored. The study is based on the archival documents being introduced into scientific discourse. The focus is made on: the Library development in 1908– 1911; interaction with Imperial Russian Military Historical Society; Library during the WWI; relocation to the RSFSR’s new capital and its settlement in Moscow. Periodicals and unpublished materials in the Russian State Military Archive made the main sources of the article. The main directions of the Library activities within the mentioned period, considerations and problems of Petrograd-to-Moscow relocation, are discussed. The whole way of the book collection relocation in 1918– 1919 is revealed and explored. The state of the library collection remaining in Petrograd is characterized. The article contributes to the knowledge of the history of the General Staff and Main HQ Library in the 1920s.

Review of the book: Leonov V. P. Selected works / V. P. Leonov ; RAS Library. Saint Petersburg : LAS, 2021. 564 p.

The concepts examined in Leonov’s book are reviewed. The articles, lectures, interviews included in the book illustrate the evolution of knowledge on bibliography, books, library science being influenced by information technologies. The book also reflects the author’s intellectual evolution as well as the evolution of bibliography as the discipline to integrate the methodology of the human and natural sciences. This approach enables to explore these problems in many aspects. The book structure and contents of the sections are discussed, e. g. The book studies; New aspects of theory, The library studies and a fundamental disciplines, Bibliographic information and problems of its compression, Library and bibliographic processes as a social phenomenon, Bibliography: In search of new paradigm, The concept of exact bibliography, The Academy of Sciences Library: Attempting the biography, Association Internationale de Bibliophilie and the Library of Russian Academy of Sciences, The third era of reminiscences. The contents is grouped in accordance with the complex problems of modern bibliology, which enables to explore individual problems within the context of the changing general scientific knowledge substance and form. With the cognitive sciences metholdology, V. Leonov finds the ways to apply them to the humanities. The book author introduces into the wide range of problems and applies new methods to library science, bibliology and bibliography. The relevancy of Leonov’s book is emphasized.

For over twenty years, the libraries’ contribution to ecological education has been being reflected in the professional program of Crimea World Forum within the section “Ecological information and ecological culture”. In 2018, the section transformed into the conference on ecological education though kept its original name. The Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology (RNPLS&T) and V. I. Vernadsky Non-governmental Ecological Foundation permanently co-organize the Conference. The author reviews the conference events, as well as problems and tasks discussed at the Conference; includes the abstracts of papers delivered (the full texts are accessible via the RNPLS&T’s website). The participants in the Conference agreed that the libraries had to adopt the integrated approach toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to see themselves participating in the global movement for stable and sustainable future. For this purpose the libraries possess every resource: the books embrace the best experience of the humankind; the professionals who are able to retrieve these books and to offer them to their patrons, and to orient themselves in information flows. The true goal of the Conference is to promote the SDGs more so as the Russian libraries are traditionally serious about ecological education.