The documents discussed reflect a complex and contradictory process of organizing a regional academic publishing during the early years of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences.

The author consideres the essence of the term «library» as a social institute, the roots of its appearance. Basing on its modern understanding the library future is forcasted.

Article is devoted to the history of the origin and development of libraries in parish schools of Kostroma province in the late XIX - early XX сentury about which there were no publications in professional publications earlier. The author analyzes the qualitative and quantitative structure of library funds, reveals necessity and influence of libraries on pupils and adult population in the province.

The article discusses the urgent problem of democratization in the management of the library social institution, stated by the Russian Library Association in the «Priorities of Development» for 2011-2015. The author
examines different types of partnership relations between public and state institutions and introduces the concept «management partnership». The priorities facing the government and civil structures on forming public policy in the field of library activity are formulated.

The author considers the state of investigations in the history of Russian local bibliography in 1991-2009
in chronological, territorial and genre acpects.

The article treats the activities of V. P. Gajewski as a bibliographer, the main features of the development of Russian bibliography in the 50-70s of the XIX century, specifics of the «bibliographic school» in literary criticism. The paper analyzes the V. P. Gajewski bibliographic works, their importance in the development
of national bibliography, as well as the relationship between V. P. Gajewski and outstanding bibliographers
of the time.

A review of the collection of Buddhist information resources developed by the Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan is carried out. Thoroughly observed are themes and content of these resources, methods of implementation and copy right policy are discussed.

The concept of «family reading» as one of the reading models is analyzed, its historical origins, functions, role in family strengthening are revealed.

Presented is an approximate structure of a metodist professiogram and the peculiarities of the interaction between metodists and librarians.

Different approaches to the definition of territorial borders in the historical and booklore studies are considered.

The official site as representation in an Internet environment, should reflect all lines of activity of library carries out the problems assigned to it and functions and to be operated, to correspond to quality requirements. Management of activity of libraries in the electronic environment - the phenomenon new, малоизученное, not provided with applied researches and methodical workings out. In article the general approaches to management of the library site, existing in modern domestic library science are considered. The unresolved questions connected with organizational-functional structures and kinds of works, providing «встроенность» a site in library activity, by responsibility and powers of administration and employees are designated.