The article is a documentary essay on the last stage of activity of the State scientific library of the USSR Ministry of Higher Education in 1957–1958 and the creation on its basis in 1958 of two largest modern scientific libraries in Russia. They are the State public scientific technological library of the Siberian branch of the Russian academy of sciences in Novosibirsk and the State public scientific technological library in Moscow. (At that time they were the State public scientific technological library of the Siberian branch of the USSR academy of sciences the State public scientific technological library of the USSR.) It is shown what stages of preparation and the decision implementation has gone through and what obstacles it has faced. The further development of the two State public scientific technological libraries has brought them to the forefront of information and library activities and has shown the correctness of the decision made in 1958.

The development of an open science information infrastructure requires the presence of highly qualified library staff. He should be capable of responding to and interested in changes in science and technology, able to create innovative information products and make them available to the public, organize new forms of interaction with scientists, implement educational programs, and advise on associated with the concept of open science. The study is conducted in order to determine the areas of training and practice-oriented training for additional professional programs and retraining of specialized specialists. These programs are the specialists to acquire practical skills in the creation and use of open information resources of various types, the formation of information culture of users, the development of scientific communication and new library and information services. The results of the analysis of the required competencies of library specialists are presented. They take into account the trends in the development of the information ecosystem of open science and building relationships with users through partnerships; the system of different training in Russia is studied and the gap between the education of librarians and the practice of their work on information support of research activities is determined.

One of the urgent problems of domestic librarianship is highlighted, namely, the composition and content of book monuments stored in regional centers. These include the Aldan-Maadyr National Museum of the Republic of Tyva, one of the subjects of the Siberian Federal District of the Russian Federation. In 2011 the rare book sector was created in the museum, which concentrates the book monuments. The purpose of the article is to analyze printed publications published in the Tuvan People’s Republic, and now are the part of the book monuments of the National Museum of the Republic. It describes their composition, content and state of preservation. Newspapers, magazines, books, brochures and other types of printed products issued in the Tuvan People’s Republic give an idea of the state of the book culture of the country existed for twenty-three years: from 1921 to 1944. It shows the origin of printing and its development and graphic basis of local book publishing, its thematic repertoire and other aspects. The article gives recommendations on treatment of printed publications of the Tuvan People’s Republic, which can help to expand the directions and topics of museum information, educational, educational activities intended for the general public.

While librarians and bibliographers accept by default the understanding of Sibirica as “literature about Siberia”, book collectors developing a Siberian theme do not adhere to this approach and proceed from less strict ideas about the scope and content of the concept. Besides the thematic criterion for the selection of literature, they take into account a number of formal ones (Siberia as the place of publication, the place of birth / temporary stay of the author, “Siberian” inscriptions) and also track the indirect connection of sources with the region and their typological significance for Siberian studies. The resulting amateur collections implement a kind of field model, where along with the core (Sibirica in the conventional sense) there is a precore, of near and far periphery (Sibirica in the unconventional sense). The private library of Tomsk local historian and bibliophile Vladimir Domaevsky, formed in the last third of the XX – early XXI century, is a vivid example of a collection with the described structure. The analysis of the publications from this book collection stored in the fund of the Tomsk Regional Universal Scientific Library named by A. S. Pushkin, with the involvement of the “Sibirica Domaevsciana” catalog data, allowed us to reveal the complexity of the amateur interpretation of the termoid “Sibirica” and to substantiate a broader view of the tasks of regional bibliography.

Book collections of parish churches represent a special phenomenon of the Russian book culture. Despite of the fact that these collections were, as a rule, small and performed a purely liturgical function, their careful study expands our ideas about the culture and life of the Orthodox population, about the ways of distributing handwritten and printed books. This topic is of particular importance for the analysis of the ethno-confessional policy of the Russian state in the XVI–XVII centuries in the annexed territories of the Volga region, the Urals and Siberia. The sources for the study of parish libraries in the period under review are not only the books themselves, but also the records of management materials. Within the study of the book culture of the Middle Volga region of the XVII century, we have identified previously unpublished lists of books in two inventories of the church parish of the village of Usolye. It was established at the south-eastern borders of the Russian state. (The village currently belongs to the Shigonsky district of the Samara region.) These documents are the only currently known inventories of the church library of the XVII century on the territory of the Samara Volga region. The purpose of this article is to introduce the identified book lists into scientific circulation as a result of their reading and analysis. Of scientific relevance is the discovery of new regional historical and book sources, as well as the consideration of the mechanisms of formation of parish book collections, the study of their repertoire. Formally, the collection in Usolye is a typical book collection, but for a border village of the XVII century it is unique with a large number of books and the predominance of printed copies in it.

A book is not only a carrier of information, but also the way of its aesthetic visualization. This actualizes the problem of understanding a book as an artistic artifact. The study of the book in this context implies the identification of several aspects: the art of the book; the existence of the book as an exhibit of museum and exhibition art space; the use of the book as a compositional and meaningful element of works of fine art, as a component of library design, living and working spaces; alterbooking and architectural structures in the form of a book. The article is devoted to the art of the book and its exhibition in museum and exhibition space. Its goal is to systematize the factors and features that should be considered in the study of the art of book for the possibility of its holistic interpretation from an art criticism perspective. The article considers the role of decoration in creating visual and verbal unity. The functions of illustration depending on the cultural and historical context as well as a purpose of the book are determined. Attention is paid to such phenomena of book art as fore-edge painting, artist’s book and art albums. The existence of the book in museum and exhibition art space is also considered. There are two types of exhibitions: single-subject exhibitions devoted exclusively to books and exhibitions with other objects participating in the realization of the semantic concept of a cultural event.

The article objective is to show the bibliographic activity development on information research support in the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS). Namely, changes in the technology of creating information resources of own generation due to computers and software; to represent the product types created by employees during 1958–2021; to highlight topics of traditional bibliographic current and retrospective indexes, bibliographic and full-text databases. The paper presents quantitative characteristics of the generated electronic resources; shows the forms of bibliographic services: information selective dissemination, differentiated services for managers, electronic thematic exhibitions of literature based on the databases; gives a brief description of bibliometric research. The authors determine prospects to develop the number of SPSTL SB RAS information and bibliographic complex. They are growing the authoritative data files in bibliographic databases, expanding the repertoire of Open Access sources to select information for regional bibliographic resources, developing interactive forms of information services for scientists and specialists; participating the semantic web through linked data technology based on authoritative files as an object (predicate), improving the service capabilities of the information search system (access to full texts).

The issue of reflecting the scientific achievements of individual scientists and the results of research activities of research teams in the information environment is of great importance for many branches of science and practice, including medicine, where open data can improve the provision of medical care and influence healthcare policy. The effectiveness of search queries and the further effective use of the data obtained in research and practice, especially during epidemics and the treatment of serious diseases, largely depend on accessibility of medical information. Scientific repositories allow the management of all kinds of research results, integration with information systems, and compliance with the FAIR principles. The aim of the study is to identify and analyze development, indexing (in catalogs), visibility by search engines, type-specific characteristics, etc., of open access medical repositories in Russia and abroad. As a result, of the study, the following conclusions are made: 1) the number of repositories in the world is growing, including an increase in their number in the subject area “Medicine and Health”; 2) the infrastructure of Russian open access information platforms is being formed. However, open medical repositories are being developed poorly, most part of which is not represented in global catalogs (OpenDOAR) and is incompatible with the OAI-PMN standard, which allows the collection of data from repositories by various search engines. Thus, the research results are invisible in Internet search results, and Russian medical repositories are not present in the rankings of world repositories.

Due to the multiple increase in internal and external challenges to national culture and values, the implementation of educational functions, especially among teen-agers and young people, becomes the key one in maintaining the stability of the moral potential of society. A special place in this issue is occupied by libraries that are not directly related to the education of students as schools and higher educational institutions, but are fully suitable for this through the implementation of their educational function. Enlightenment is closely related to the task of education, since it is a part of users socialization. The aim of the article is to show the need to revive the direction of training librarians in higher educational institutions, who would have the competence to solve strategic tasks of the state cultural and educational policy for the protection, preservation and strengthening of traditional values and Russian identity, especially when working with children and youth.

The number of libraries around the world and in Russia continues to decline. The regularity of the situation is explained by the loss of real demand for traditional library services – the actual library attendance is rapidly declining. The founders, represented by local regional and municipal administrations, feeling the decline in the role of libraries, are gradually reducing their scale and number. The Moscow region became the Russian leader in 2021 in closing libraries: it liquidated 26 libraries. The closure was initiated by the local Ministry of culture. It was the first case in the country when the founder initiated the planned closure of a network of subordinate institutions. The analysis has shown that in the Moscow region, a clear strategy for the development of libraries was not developed. The main activities, directions, forms and criteria for evaluating work were not defined. Changes in the industry were not reflected in the regional legal documentation, decent funding for the library sector was not provided. Huge advantages of corporate work in the formation of consolidated information resources (primarily an electronic catalog and a digital local history collection) were not realized. The author concludes that the practice of the Moscow region administration serves as a stern warning to librarians for all other subjects of the Federation: the example of the Moscow Region will no doubt be taken up by the authorities of other regions in the country.