The paper covers key aspects of educational and library technologies and information market in the digitalizing world. The author emphasizes the AI growing role, advantages and drawbacks of its application in education and publishing. He assesses the behavioral models of libraries in the context of emerging digital rights and digital transformations, including the legislative ones, and analyzes important aspects of law cases related to AI-generated products in the light of copyright and intellectual property protection.

The author explores Russia’s import substitution policy in information technologies embraced with the aims: to ensure independence from foreign software, databases and hardware providers; to ensure national information safety, including that of the country’s critical infrastructure; to support and develop national IT industry; to support country’s economy; professional education and training in IT. The author offers his recommendations for software substitution in libraries based on the Russian Federation national standard GOST R 59793-2021 “Information technologies. Automated systems. Standard complex for automated systems. Design stages”. The recommendations divide the processes into eight stages: analysis of library’s information system software; search for analogues of the software in use; purchase from a provider; software testing and preinstalling; saving and output of software to be replaced, and further data recovery within new software; employees training; pilot trial of library’s information system; library’s information system operation (final implementation). The author concludes that the recommendations are to assist libraries in solving the challenges that slow down or block the transition to domestic software, and emphasizes that the recommendations are based on the RF standards and laws, and allow for specific features of Russian libraries.

Building robust system of scientific (scientific and technical) expertise is vital in the context of growing science-driven and high-tech sectors of economy and against complicated geopolitical situation and sanctions imposed by foreign states. In this paper, the authors analyze the regulatory management of scientific (sci-tech) expertise in the Russian Federation and the CIS countries to identify common approaches and features of legal regulation in this sphere. The research findings enable to draw the overall picture and may be used to upgrade the system of legal regulation of scientific (sci-tech) expertise in the Russian Federation.

Russian researchers have changed their perception of open science concept comprising open access to current knowledge, studies transparency and open information sharing. The paper is based on the 2021 and 2024 surveys “Open Data Status”, and 2023 and 2025 surveys of the scientists and researchers at the Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch. The purpose of the study is to reveal changes in researchers’ attitude toward open science, to get answers to the new questions regarding open science practices, to explore into new aspects of open research support system on the platform “The Library for Open Science”. Despite of low implementation of open science policy in Russia, some positive dynamics is observed in the practice of open access to research data and preprints, as well as of open peer review. Unawareness of research community of open science principles and tools remains the largest obstacle, which calls for system solutions, i. e. introduction of educational programs, efficient repositories, and well-developed data policy. The libraries are able to become an important resource to overcome these barriers and to provide information support to the researchers.

Today, the challenged Russian rural regions have to revise the role of key sociocultural institutions, and in particular libraries with their traditional central place. Despite the downtrend of the number of rural libraries and librarians, these institutions are extremely important in the life of local community as cultural centers, educational sites and as unique links between traditional values and advanced technologies. In this situation, training administrative staff has to be aimed at preservation and modernization of the rural library network of Russia.

The author examines the innovative approach toward educating library administrators-to-be as the case study of Vernadsky University. She analyzes the model of integrated education connecting traditional values with modern technologies aimed at educating new generation of efficient administrators of institutions of culture in the context of digital transformation of rural areas.

The authors discuss the results of the project of updating and upgrading the State Rubricator of Sci-tech Information (SRSTI, GSNTI) in part of the Social Sciences section. The new master version of 2025 SRSTI is to be implemented in January, 2026. The analytical study of the following information objects is based on: 2022 SRSTI classification tables as amended and updated in 2023; The Program for Basic Research for 2021–2030; the verified version of VAK (State Commission for Academic Degrees) Nomenclature of scientific specialities; the list of priority science-driven technologies approved by the Presidential Decree No. 529 of June 18, 2024; the RNPLS&T’s inflow of sci-tech literature classified by SRSTI classes. As the result of the study, the changes are formulated to be incorporated into the subject classes of Social Sciences section of the SRSTI valid version to ensure relevance of new SRSTI classification tables in the context of the status and trends in social sciences and humanities. The changes to the SRSTI subject scope and structure can be grouped in three types: introduction of new subject headings, exclusion of irrelevant subject headings and transfer of their subject scope under relevant class, changing class description, including updates to scientific terminology and terms unification. The authors cite the following statistics: 361 new subject headings, 101 headings excluded, 361 descriptions updated.

In her analytical review of V. P. Leonov’s monograph “The time for libraries : Essays”, RASL, 2024, the reviewer reveals the key idea of the work – the world outlook is influenced by librarians’ and bibliographers’ professional activity. She emphasizes the study theoretical background, i. e. findings of modern natural sciences and Leonov’s personal experience. He regards the library as an integral part of human life and catalyst of temporal modes. Leonov concludes that time can not be interpreted as a physical phenomenon alone; it rather gets the character of consciousness inner structure formed by individual memories and thinking. Understanding this, time is characterized by cycling of events and loss of strict dividing lines between the past, present and future states. The reviewer argues that Leonov’s book contributes new prospects for studies of the library in the context of time perception and suggests new promising concepts for further exploration.