The author analyzes various definitions of the concept of "culture" in Russia’s federal cultural projects with the focus on building cultural environment, educating cultural creators and implementing digital technologies. The digital culture is a subculture within the national Russian culture; it competes with the book culture, a traditional subculture that ensures semantic intergenerational continuity and preserves the national cultural and historical heritage. In the mo-dern period, the emergence of the book market, machine printing, spread of bib-liophilia, professionalization of librarianship, legal regulations, etc., resulted in the formation of the bibliosphere in industrial civilizations, a supersystem (system of systems) that ensures production, preservation, use and further development of national book cultures. The mature bibliosphere of the early twentieth century was formed by socio-cultural institutions (systems, or branches of the book busi-ness), namely: publishing, printing industry, book trade, librarianship, and biblio-graphy. The concept of "book mind" (Bibliologos) was introduced to denote the book subculture of the humanitarian intelligentsia. As the book subculture, bibliologos makes a strategic resource of the industrial risk society. The general conclusion of the study is that the current national project "The Culture" is incomplete, since the federal project does not comprise the book subculture federal project. The author suggests that the new edition of the national project has to be developed to include, along with the digital culture, the book subculture repre-sented in the idea of Bibliologos.

The author reviews the typographer textbooks published in St. Petersburg on the cusp of the 19^th–20^th centuries. She substantiates the need for integrated study of the problem of bibliographic references in textbooks and learning aids. The publications were examined through the method of detailed retrospective analysis of technical and learning literature in print trade. The list of publications reveals the character of gradual increasing book size and improving quality of the textbooks; the methods of production and design, as well as the content characteristics are specified. Not only the titles but also the authors’ names are introduced into scientific use. The study is based on observation, com-parison and measurement methods, as well as the proprietary methodology of content analysis. The author emphasizes that the textbooks demonstrated the experience of their authors as the qualified typographers and were intended for vocational schools. The requirements for apprentices are cited, e. g. age, literacy level, aptitude for learning. The need for professional library comprising textbooks and learning literature on book publishing is substantiated.

The Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology has been developing the single network of links between the classifications of various types of scientific subjects with the core GRNTI (State Rubricator of Sci-tech In-formation, The Rubricator) as the backbone classifier of the State System of Sci-tech Information (GSNTI). The key universal approaches toward science data rep-resentation to support compatibility and integration of information resources classified within different systems are defined. The procedure for building the network of matching headings and subjects in sci-tech classifications is described. Based on intellectual analysis method and the principle of classification synonymy through semantic comparison of hierarchy branches and conceptual comparison of subject numbers of individual thematic headings, the tables of interreflections of the Rubricator headings and codes in other classifications are generated. The UDC and Rubricator are matched on the first level of the Rubricator classes. Totally, 144 semantic matches for the Rubricator thematic classes are found. Matching the Rubricator to HAC classifier (Higher Attestation Commission), OECD international classifier, WoS subject domains and categories is accomplished for all three Rubricator levels. Through matching the Rubricator and HAC classifier, approx. 7,000 matches are identified; the Rubricator and OECD classifier – about 11,500 matches, and the Rubricator and WoS classification – over 18,000 match-es identified.

The author discusses acquiring and developing the database “Internet resources in culture and arts” at the Russian State Art Library. The networked online resources are highly demanded by the users in science, academic and professional sphere, as well as by expert librarians. The stages of database design are specified; defining the subject scope, selection principles and search strategies are defined. The role of recommendations included into European MINERVA project “European MINERVA project «Cultural web-User Interaction” (2008). The criteria for selecting Internet-resources for cataloguing are analyzed; the description formats are evaluated, i. e. the Dublin Core and Russian communication format of machine-readable bibliographic records RUSMARC, with the preference given to the later. The difficulties in describing resources and filling in RUSMARC fields are identified. The general and specific problems of cataloging Internet resources were solved; the principles of constructing bibliographic record of online digital resource “Internet resources in culture and arts” were developed. The significance of regular audit of the information resource, its relevancy and accessibility is emphasized. The examples of queries to the database are provided. The content of the resources included into the database “Internet resources in culture and arts” expands the study field through adding the wider range of document sources.

The Russian economic science is challenged by the issues of representation of national studies in foreign science journals and level of publications in Scopus Q1 periodicals. The author compares the eLibrary.ru keywords related to regional economies to corresponding Elsevier’s JournalFinder data. She attempts to identify unified keywords to be used by Russian researchers in their articles in regional economies. Based on ScienceDirect database search service, the subject pertinancy of the term “region” is specified; the author concludes that it differs from that accepted in the Russian economic science. This conclusion is to explain the existence of publication barriers the Russian authors encounter in the high-rate foreign journals. Several limitations for using keywords in scientometric analysis are also revealed. The problem of term unification is particularly acute in the humanities as the English-language words are often used in their Russified version. The value of the study lies in the suggested methodology of analyzing publications in eLibrary.ru Russian Science Citation Index and Elsevier’s JournalFinder by keywords. Regional terms and word combinations are interesting and valuable for Russian scientists with the wide scope of variations, which would be the subject of further studies in classification and systematization. The scientometric analysis is in its initial phase and is to develop and improve its study instruments.

The Twenty Fifth International Conference “LIBCOM–2021” – “Information technologies, computer systems and publications for libraries” (December 20–24, 2021, Suzdal, Vladimir Region) is reviewed. The key topics of the conference are presented: current state and prospects for new information, computer and Internet-based technologies in libraries, federal projects and programs by the RF Ministry of Science and Higher Education and Ministry of Culture, innovations in modern educational technologies, legal aspects in the work of libraries and information providers, e-libraries and digital information resources. The focus is made on the following events: scientific and practical conference of the National Library Association “Libraries of the Future” (NALF), the sixth industry conference “Book publishing and libraries: Vectors of interaction” dedicated to the memory of Boris V. Lensky, open session “Digital transformation of libraries: Building digital ecosystems, information archives and new services”, “School libraries under digiti-zation”, Cataloger’s Winter School “The news in the regulative and legal support of library collection development”; dissertation site--public academic board. The conclusions are made.

The author responds to the considerations expressed mainly by E. A. Plesh-kevich in his article “On documentology and its methodology”. The author praises Pleshkevich’s acknowledging the concept of “documentology”. Indeed, the term “document” differs pertaining to the subject (substantially) and object (functional-ly), and this representation makes the foundation for relativeness of this concept in practical applications. Meanwhile, the author points to the disruptiveness of other Pleshkevich’s arguments: alleged unscientific nature of differentiated ap-proach to the concept of “document”, validity of pure theorizing regardless of practice, and denial of Paul Otlet’s methodology. The latter thought that there was the overdue need to develop the general theory of document similar to that in biology, sociology, physics and the so-called big sciences. The author demonstrates the wrongfulness of abandoning of the wider definition of the document by the International Standardization Organization (ISO). According to ISO, the document is an object that may be regarded as an element of documented quality management system. The practical effectvenesss of the method of rising from the abstract to the concrete which enables to narrow the concept of document down to the needs of individual libraries, is substantiated.

The author's appeal to this issue is caused by ambiguous assessments of documentology in the scientific publications as the universal document developed by Yu. N. Stolyarov.

The scientific and methodological prerequisites for the development of documentology, its hypothesis, the theory of relativity of the document as its methodological basis, as well as the laws of documentology, are analyzed in detail. In his analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that the expressed hypothesis about the division of the concept of a document into the substantive and the functional is based on common ideas on using artificially created objects for the intended or unintended purposes. Therefore, this hypothesis is seen as ascientific. The theoretical ascent is based on the discussion of a number of incorrectly formulated examples taken, as they say, "out of the hat". The scientific argumentation is replaced by manipulative reasoning, starting with the justification of the relevance and practical significance of the study and ending with citing both individual authors and regulatory documents. Reasoning contradicts the rules of for-mal logic. There is a constant confusion of theoretical and empirical reasoning. The provisions on the relative, conditional and conventional status of the document are scientifically incorrect. The proposed laws are not scientific.

At the same time, the author believes that his comments reflect the results of following methodological guidelines introduced by Paul Otlet, far from indisputable, and thus the theoretical work done by Yu. N. Stolyarov is of great scientific importance.