The phenomenon of historical memory, while prominent in the present socio-humanitarian field has only recently drawn attention of book studies scholars in our country. It therefore becomes necessary in book culture scholarship to utilize the research potential of memory studies. This article focuses on ego-documents that include autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, and other documents of personal origin, to reveal their role in the structure of historical memory and to show how their publication affects their preservation. The article shows that ego-documents as specific social practices function as institute for creation, preservation, and transmission of historical memory. Approaches and methods of memory studies utilized in this article can be used to develop methodological approaches for the research project pursued by the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences entitled “Ego-documents on the history of the Great Patriotic War and other 20th century military conflicts in the archival depositories of Eastern Russia: problems of location, attribution, and publication”

The article deals with the problem of identifying and studying personal book collections of researchers in the funds of state libraries on the example of the documents from the collection of the Soviet historian N. V. Ustyugov, stored in the department of rare books and manuscripts (RBMD) of the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GPNTB SB RAS). The purpose of the article is to introduce valuable documents from this collection into scientific circulation, to attract the attention of the research community to it. The most notable documents from this collection obtained in 2018 are considered. They are: books of the XVIII – first third of the XIX centuries, belonging to the category of book monuments, the oldest of which (“Tsarstvennyj Letopisets”) was printed in 1769. In the process of studying copies stored in RBMD from the Ustyugov book collection , more than 250 books with donation records of outstanding scientists (A. A. Zimin, V. T. Pashuto, N. I. Pavlenko, A. M. Sakharov etc.) were also revealed.; records of 150 donors have been identified in total). They reflect the professional and human relations of the owner with colleagues, students, various aspects of his activities. The value of this collection as a curios reflection of a certain period of Soviet historical science is emphasized.

The article is dedicated to the early adaptation and development of the medical and pharmaceutical measurements system in traditional Mongolian medicine as shown in the example of the treatise “Khan Treasury” – about methods of treatment”. This work is a little-known translation into the classic Mongolian language of one of the oldest Tibetan medical treatises “GyalpoKorzo”, that belongs to the medical tradition of the Sakyapa school (11th century). The purpose of this study is to reveal the traditional medicine features of Mongolian peoples’ metric system on the example of the said work. The authors use a comparative historical method and historical-lexical analysis. The medical metric terminology available in the Mongolian text of the “Khan Treasury” was identified and systematized, the origin of the measurement units used in it, was determined. The scientific novelty is that new data have been obtained on the adaptation by Mongolians of the complex system of knowledge accumulated in traditional medical systems. It is shown that the studied lexical layer reflects economic and living conditions of nomads, features of cultural ties in East and Central Asia. The example of measurement terminology shows that Mongolians, while adapting and mastering Buddhist knowledge, apart from directly borrowing new categories and concepts, tried to rethink them in the realities of their own culture. Text and analytical materials of medical treatise “Khan Treasury” – about methods of treatment” are housed in the diachronic corpus of the old Mongolian language and will serve as the basis for the creation of a machine translation system based on artificial intelligence technologies (“deep learning”).

On the background of the civilizational paradigm change, the analysis of the innovative industrial potential is one of the relevant areas of book culture study, which lies in the mainstream of interdisciplinary research. The purpose of this article is to identify the specifics of the innovative potential of the regional book industry within the real processes taking place in the regional book culture. The article provides an overview of theoretical approaches to the concept of “innovative potential of the subject”, these approaches are extrapolated to the field of the book industry, and the challenges facing the system of book publishing and book distribution during the transition to a new stage of development are considered. Special attention is paid to the characteristic features of the implementation of innovative potential in province, the possible options for the development of regional book culture in terms of existing or emerging innovative potential are outlined. Successful examples include projects implemented at the intersection of official and unofficial culture, taking into account social and communication transformations, the generation of niche publishing and focusing on small communities.

The article considers functions of a monograph within the scholarly communication. They are studied via document that may have perceptive, nominative, informative, signative, sintactive, temporal, pragmatic and material (physical) elements. The corresponding functions are selected for each one. The internal functional orientation of a monograph is determined by the peculiarity of scientific information and its presentation to the reader. Therefore, one of the main element of the “scholarly monograph” system is its informational component. Its external functions (informational, memorial, legal, social, communicative) are manifested under the impact of external factors on the elements of the monograph system. The impact of the elements of the system on each other is manifested through internal functions: generalizing (synthetic, integrative), cumulative, historical, critical, epistemological, explanatory, etc. However, the external functions (informational and communicative) have the most noticeable impact on all elements of the system. Therefore they should be considered as the leading functions. These functions in a monograph manifest themselves in a specific significant way at the integrative stage of the development of scientific research.

To preserve and promote the historical and cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia is an urgent and timely issue in the context of sociocultural changes taking place in the world due to transformation of the society value orientations, information sphere globalization, and information digitalization. The significant contribution to the solution of these issues is made by national libraries, including the national libraries of the republics of the Russian Federation.
The article discusses the activities of the five national libraries in Republics of Altai, Buryatia, Sakha (Yakutia), Tyva, Khakassia on the formation of thematic full-text electronic collections. This study contributes to the creation of a unified (consolidated) regional information and navigation portal of electronic collections of the named national libraries.
Presentation of diverse local collections through a single access window, their relaying will contribute to the most complete preservation of historical memory, attracting the attention of specialists to these collections, meeting information needs.

Mobile transformation is considered as a promising direction for the development of the scientific infosphere. The aim of the study was to determine the prospects for the use of mobile technologies in the digital space of scientific knowledge and to identify the main challenges of their implementation. The research was based on the experience of libraries as the most active participants in the formation of the scientific infosphere and intermediaries in scientific communication. The article describes the practice of libraries on development ready-made mobile platforms (social networks, messengers), creating of own information resources and services with a mobile interface. It reveals possibilities of push-technologies, augmented reality technologies and QR-coding application. The challenges of the introduction of mobile technologies are identified. They are: financial constraints, inefficiency of the IT infrastructure, violation of the privacy and leakage of personal data, lack of qualified personnel, apathy of users. On the basis of the obtained data, prospects of application of mobile technologies in the digital space of scientific knowledge in libraries are disclosed. The first steps to solve the described problems are proposed.

The article presents the results of compiling the External Electronic Resources directory based on the online platform “Web-office of a Scientist” (http://i.uran.ru/webcab/) of the Central Scientific Library of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The directory includes electronic libraries and collections, repositories, and journal platforms on the research subjects of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. To select resources data from the universal repository registration system called Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) as well as scientific organizations’ websites in Russian Federation and abroad were used. The External Electronic Resources Directory contains 130 information sources on humanities, medicine, biology, physics, engineering science, chemistry, economics, mathematics, mechanics, computer science, agriculture, and Earth sciences. These information sources provide access to full-text documents, as well as multimedia and audiovisual materials, bibliographic and research data in English, Russian, French, German, Czech, Polish, Latin, and other languages. The search engine of the directory gives an opportunity to select electronic resource by tytle, link, country, subject, type, and a substring of the given resource description. There is a possibility of statistical accounting of queries to electronic resources from the Directory page on the online platform “Web-office of a Scientist”. The directory has practical importance for the research support and information servicing of scientists of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The use analysis of this Directory will be beneficial for the development of a search methodology as well as technologies to provide the scientific library with remote electronic resources.

The relevance of the topic “media culture of youth” is due to the insufficiency of special studies of the problem from the point of view of library activities. The article presents the results of a sociological study of the media culture of young people, conducted on the basis of the Chelyabinsk Regional Library for Youth. It is shown that it is characterized by a certain number of features of media consumption, where “getting information about what is happening in the world” is indicated as the most important by respondents. The problems of defining the concept of “media culture of youth” as a particular variant of the term “information culture”, and a comparison of the common grounds between information and media culture are raised, as well as the difference introduced by the emergence of the concept of “media culture”. Personality characteristics associated with a developed media culture are determined. The author cites the data of some sociological and statistical studies reflecting the peculiarities of the media culture peculiar to young people. The functions of the media and their influence on youth, the specifics of the existence of youth in the media environment are considered. The author highlights the peculiarity of youth activity in the media environment, including the specifics of information retrieval, the organization of communication through its interactive forms, the importance for the development of personal media culture of the phenomenon of social networks, its impact on changing the traditions of writing. The problem of network threats to users and the role of media culture formation in order to minimize such threats are considered separately. The role of the Internet in the formation of a synthesized youth subculture, which includes special etiquette, slang and hierarchy in the process of communication, is noted. The author provides data on the most typical properties of the media culture of young people, based on both existing and own research. An attempt is made to systematize these properties – the priority of communication through social networks, listening and browsing media files, turning to online games, running a network business, are called the most characteristic ones. The presented information and the results of the author’s own research are relevant for the development of strategies and tactics of libraries to form the media culture of young users.

Social, economic, political, digital transformations in society lead to changes in Russian social and cultural space. Leisure becomes a significant part of the modern cultural process. The problem of the study of cultural and leisure activities (CLA) remains open. Leisure activities are undergoing changes. The article provides an empirical analysis of cultural and leisure activities to comprehend the current stage of the cultural development process in Russia. The authors give the examples of the dependence of the forms of library practice on changing reader needs in a historical retrospective. It is noted that various forms of CLA are commonly implemented into the work of cultural institutions. Intellectual and leisure activities becomes a significant part of CLA. It is necessary for the inclusion of an individual into modern educational, professional, cultural spaces. New digital combined forms of work and project activities are popular tools that increase efficiency of cultural and leisure activities of cultural institutions. The article provides examples of the active involvement of the State Universal Scientific Library of Krasnoyarsk region in the intellectual leisure industry. The authors come to the conclusion that the content and technological change of CLA as a systemic phenomenon occurs under the influence of the realities of modern life and contributes to the functions evolution in cultural institutions.

The introduction of the project approach as a tool for the development of cultural and educational activities of university libraries is an urgent topic against the background of trends of increasing public and scientific attention to the “third mission” of the university as a cultural center of the region. The problem lies in the fact that libraries of higher educational institutions as scientific libraries pay priority attention to the promotion of research activities and the educational process at the university, and the potential of project cultural and educational activities in comparison with public libraries is not fully used. The purpose of the article is to summarize the experience of implementing cultural and educational projects in the university library.
The experience of the Fundamental Library of Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin shows that the use of the project approach allows you to gradually concentrate efforts on the implementation of socially significant cultural initiatives, and, following the ideology of the “entrepreneurial university”, to receive additional financial support for projects through participation in grant competitions. As conditions for the successful implementation of cultural and educational projects, the involvement of specialized departments as internal partners and the formation of creative competencies among library staff are highlighted.

The emergence of new forms of library and information services, the expansion of their range, the simultaneous provision of secondary and primary information, the reduction of the time frames for fulfilling a user’s request – these and other trends have affected the functioning of bibliographic electronic resources (BER). The purpose of the article is to identify factors influencing the development of BER in a modern university of culture, increasing the efficiency of their provision. The results of the study “Bibliographic resources of the modern library of the university of culture: state and development prospects” formed its basis. In total, 18 libraries of federal state budgetary educational institutions of higher education were studied. The analysis showed that the main components of improving the process of providing bibliographic electronic resources in the conditions of a modern university can be the following: the existence of a library development strategy; bibliographic electronic resources monitoring; organization and updating the reference and search apparatus; improving remote access to BER; resource integration; efficient use of automated library and information systems; filling the library site; service orientation and personalization of service; forming the information culture of the user and improvement of the professional level of library specialists. Of particular importance is the strengthening of the teaching and navigation functions of libraries.

The concept of open science, which is becoming more widespread, actualizes the problems of access to educational content. Scientific libraries, in their turn, face a number of challenges involving the operation with open educational resources. The purpose of the study was to generalize the main trends of this kind of work carried out by libraries of foreign educational institutions, the material was the data presented in scientific publications in 2012–2021. The content analysis of 70 articles made it possible to identify the following areas in the work of foreign academic libraries with open educational resources: the support of the educational process; a study of awareness on resources and interest in them in the students’ and professors’ environment; open educational resources assessment by users; promotion, as well as barriers to the use and development of open educational resources. The results of the study are of value for organizing work with open educational resources in academic libraries.