The article is devoted to educational and translating-publishing activities of the outstanding Russian missionaryeducator Vasily Vladimirovich Katarinsky (1846–1902), who was one of the first to begin scientific study and description of unwritten Kazakh and Kyrgyz languages. He has carried out translation of general education edifying literature for the Russian-aboriginal schools in Turkestan and the Steppe General Government, as well as compiling and editing primers, textbooks of Russian and Kyrgyz languages, Kyrgyz-Russian and Russian-Kyrgyz dictionaries. He and his colleagues have created a truly national samples of languages, and compiled the first Kyrgyz grammar and lexicographical works marked a truly scientific stage of modern Kyrgyz and Kazakh linguistic material collection, analysis and systematization, resulting in forming conditions to preservation and further development their structural and functional qualities being accumulated for centuries; strengthening their functional capacities; beginning creation of Kyrgyz and Kazakh written tradition; emerging trends in their regulations, as well as breaking out scientific interest of Kyrgyz and Kazakh intelligentsia to native languages problems, which were on the periphery of national interests for centuries.

The article presents facts and figures, describes in detail the stages and activities to rehabilitate and develop the book trade in Buryatia: state support (policy decisions of the party-economic apparatus), the bookselling network development, new bookstores construction, implementing progressive methods of work, moral encouragement measures, public involvement in assessing the quality of distributors activities, mass events, objective socio-cultural shifts, which have led to the increased growth rate of turnover. It is shown rising of sales volume of printed products to population (in 1957 the net profit was 80,900 rubles). Problems of the book trade were related to poor condition of storage space, trade in unsuitable premises, late books delivery to the distribution network, etc.

The article deals with the problem of applying terms of the library local studies in practice. The essence is that lots of concepts, according to the author’s view, do not meet modern trends of social-economic development of the territory, it complicates the process of forming the regional documents collection in libraries.

It is supposed to complete the conceptual row of the topic with more precise definitions and to introduce them into the lexicon of librarians-practitioners, it’s the article objective.

Using the complex of research methods (an informative approach, comparative analysis of quotations, analyticsynthetic processing technique) the existing terminology was studied and views evolution of local library researchers was analyzed in relation to local history and regional documents. Arguments legality of applying the term "regional document" in the library practical activities is shown.

As a result of the preliminary study, the author came to the conclusion about the need to clarify investigated terms, which should facilitate implementation of local history and regional studies work by librarians. It was proposed own interpretation of definitions and the refined scheme of the regional documents collection in the regional central library. 

The author analyzes the conscious perception of a literary text by students. He believes that perception is the willingness and desire to know the text author's world by a subject, a reader. In this regard it is proposed to pay attention to the educational standard competences aimed to form readers’ consciousness, activity and communication.

The article is devoted to the socio-cultural role of libraries, the state of librarianship in the country and ways out of the crisis, based on government documents for the culture development, library legislation, institutions of civil society.

Among the libraries of research institutions of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RI SB RAS) only 29 of 70 are members of any corporate library system. A survey of these libraries staff has identified the following issues that prevent them from working within corporate library systems: absence of electronic catalog in libraries related to lack of funding to purchase automated library information systems (ALIS), using various ALIS, different quality and uniformity missing of electronic catalogue records. The author suggests possible ways to solve these problems: transition to automated system IRBIS for libraries that work in other ALIS, joining IRBIS-Corporation, using cloud technology to embed information resources of the library.

In the context of activity in library corporations, participating libraries afford their electronic catalog into the union catalogue; implement technology of corporate catalogization, interlibrary loan and electronic document delivery; solve problems of information services of users applying the corporative product. However, to resolve the whole complex of problems some libraries have to participate in several corporate systems. For effective corporate interaction libraries need a unified library corporate system combining all libraries of SB RAS’ research institutions and providing solutions to all complex problems. 

A modern specialist of library-information work should quickly solve extraordinary information problem, professionally carry out expert-consulting, research, design and creative activity. To implement the above mentioned tasks library-information institutions need to attract young creative professionals who have special training.

Dissertations defended for the last 10 years in Russia were analyzed in order to clarify the research development trends on the problems of young generation professional orientation. Analysis of dissertations e-library collection revealed 183 works on relevant topics, 77% of which were devoted to pedagogical specialties.

Kemerovo State Institute of Culture trains unique professionals at the Department of Automated Information Processing Technologies (DAIPT) at specialty «Library-Information Activities», profile «Technology of Automated LibraryInformation Systems». The uniqueness of these specialists is determined by a wide humanitarian education, integration of their training in the field of library-information technologies and resources, information-analytical technologies with acquiring modern software and hardware, information-communication technologies. To attract students to this training direction DAIPT’s lecturers have developed forms of using information-communication technology in vocational guidance competitions for schoolchildren. To interact with contestants interactive forms are applied that allow activating participants and organizers joint activity. Competitive events are held both internally and in absentia.

Thus, studied theses and the experience of holding vocational guidance competitions among schoolchildren show that there is the necessity to develop science-based approaches to implementation of career-oriented work by higher education institutions in the field of information-library activities using modern interactive forms that activate the conscious activity of pupils.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the «Ministry of Education Journal» as a historical source on the history of libraries and librarianship. The magazine was published in 1834–1917. During the journal activities it published about 45 thousand articles, over 300 of which were devoted to librarianship. This is an average 3.42 publications per year. They are normative acts in the field of librarianship, articles devoted foreign librarianship, history of domestic libraries. A large number of notes were reprinted from local editions and dedicated to the provincial public libraries and libraries of educational institutions.

For the first time in the national librarianship the author analyzes the editorial policy of the journal related to library construction. The first stage was based on the concept of official nationality of the Minister of Education S. Uvarov, which was focused on publishing articles on the library system organization and familiarizing readers with the world librarianship development. The editorial policy second stage, began in 1860, was based on N. Ushinsky views about education nationality and upbringing through the book. The special attention was paid to activities of the Imperial Public Library, Rumyantsev Public Museum and Vilen Public Library. For the first time the journal publishes articles devoted to the problem of academic libraries acquisition, cataloging, etc. 

The article describes challenges facing university libraries in different historical periods, identifies the most stable prior areas to form a system of indicators. It shows that a university library as a part of a higher education establishment environ acts as an element of the education system and changes in accordance with trends of its information space development, changing the orientation vector, when performing tasks, maintaining original functions (educational, culturaleducational, scientific-informational, social ones). The conclusions suggest that the indicators system to evaluate a university library activity should reflect completeness and availability of a library collection, customer orientation in library-information services, as well as an economic efficiency of library resources costs.

The article presents a little explored issue in the Russian historiography on the history of appearance and the essence of «the cipher catalog of Chinese books of the Oriental Institute Library» in Vladivostok. The author shows the process of formting the Chinese Department of the University Library in the late XIX – early XX centuries, the contribution of Sinologists professors A. V. Rudakov and P. P. Schmidt and others in the book collection creation. The theme is disclosed on the basis of reports published in the «Proceedings of the Institute of Oriental Studies», «Reference books on Oriental Institute in Vladivostok for 1909», and the documents of the central and local archives of the Russian Federation, some of which are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The importance of the bookcatalogue of the China Department is shown both for the Institute, China studying, and Chinese language teaching, for Far Eastern sinologists and Russian Sinology.

The article reveals the role of a university library in forming the united information-educational space. The higher institution library is considered as a backbone element of the information-educational space. A qualitative change in the library activities is emphasized by its ability to interact with other subjects of the educational space both within the university and beyond it.

The university library has an integrative function providing the effect of the integrity of the information-educational space in two directions: internal and external ones. The emphasis is placed on the disclosing the integration external direction, that ensure the library access to the global information-educational spaces of the city, region, country, and world. Early forms of realizing the integration external direction are shown. First directions on the resources sharing are marked in organizing libraries interaction.

The involved item modern state supposes using both traditional and electronic information resources, and new information technologies allow opening new forms of implementation of the integration external direction. Among them are consortia and corporations of university libraries of cities, regions, as well as other levels and departments. Libraries, becoming resource centers of universities and regions, create research-educational orientated resources; serve the university, municipal and regional circle of users, providing them with direct and remote access to all available resources. The integrative function content of university libraries is connected with creating a uniform information-educational space of the region, namely the unification of library activities of territorial entities (a region, a city) and libraries of other regional systems and departments (education, science, culture, etc.).

The next form of implementing the integration external direction is participation of education institutions in development of the existing electronic library systems, i.e. interaction between electronic resources created by the universities of culture and arts, and external electronic resources available to students. Thus, integrative function of the university libraries includes supporting to fill external electronic library systems with the profile content (both educational and scientific character).

The third form implementing the integration external direction is an integrated electronic library. It allows organizing the united information-educational space with the whole set of information-educational resources such as bibliographic, abstract, reference, analytical, full-text ones, etc., and the university library ensures its integrity thanks to its integrative function. 

Enlightenment as well as cultural and educational activity plays a key role in forming cultural values. But educational activity of academic library is perceived in a limited context, that is why the article objective is to analyze an academic library activity as an educational and cultural center. The activity is expressed by a set of educational-information, leisure and cultural events as instruments to promote and develop scientific knowledge, to stimulate users’ reading activity, to form general human culture and specific competences. The article describes different approaches of understanding the educational activities, the emphasis is made on cultural and educational activities of university libraries, federal state educational standards of higher education and higher vocational training in various fields are analyzed to reveal the essence of the libraries activity. In the process of comparative analysis of cultural-educational activities authors studied sites and public reports of Russian university libraries (a case of South Ural State University Scientific Library) and world libraries (library complexes of Oxford University, Munich Technical University, Harvard University, University of Oslo). As a result, main forms of cultural-educational activities were identified and systematized taking into consideration advantages and problems of implementation.

The article considers the concept of the bibliosphere functions entered by A. V. Sokolov, terminology denotations and description of separate functions of librarianship, book publishing, bookselling business and bibliographic information, as well as a document and a book. The unity of essence functions of documents, books, and all social institutes of bibliosphere is established. New names of specific social functions of librarianship, book publishing and bookselling institutions are offered from positions of documentology.

The article presents a comparative analysis of scientific performance of Russia in the field of nanotechnology. An initial corpus of publications was extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded database through relevant keywords. It analyzes publications number, their citation, international co-authorship and its influence on citation for Russia and some countries among the most active in the field. Some intermediate results of implementing the Russian nanotechnology program are discussed.

Gaming plays an important role in the development of society and human beings. Involvement in gaming helps people to understand the fundamentals of social and cultural interactions in the historical context. Gaming in public libraries is one of the most dynamic directions of their activity. The article provides insights into main approaches to gaming in public libraries and describes briefly the most effective technologies in the professional discourse context. Research is outlined as a prerequisite for practical librarians to make decisions in exploring innovations and raising the quality of gaming programs in libraries. The library-information science specialists’ contribution in developing the gamification problem theoretical concepts is assessed as important one to specialists of different sciences concerning this topic.

The article describes the experience of Kaliningrad Regional Scientific Library on developing forms of professionalization of library-information specialists working at regional state and municipal public libraries. It shows main formats and technologies: conferences, seminars, schools, contests, webinars, remote training, participation in research activity, interaction with higher schools. The main format features are the partnership between higher educational establishments and competent library specialists.

The article represents two methods of estimating publication citations based on information-analytical systems «Map of Russian science» (IAS MRS) using analytical tools of this system to evaluate research significance of scientists. These techniques are advisory in nature and exemplified by two researchers, who publish the most actively in journal «Scientific and Technical Libraries». They can only be used for the analysis of citation of verified scientists in IAS MRS. The paper gives a comparison with the IAS Russian Science Citation Index. The advantage of the first technique is obtaining data to study the researcher profile in detail. The bibliometric analysis of an individual approach, in contrast to the comparative approach of the second technique is not directed to get the characteristics of «more, less, equal», but to study bibliographic information about publications obtaining not quantitative but qualitative data.

The comparative-analytical method has a statistical character showing a quantitative picture, which is the information basis for further bibliometric analysis and getting new qualitative results.