The paper deals with the archaeographic research of the book tradition of the Russian Old Believers and Buryat Buddhists in Transbaikalia. The idea is suggested, that there is the unity of the social-cultural typology in these book cultures despite their genetic difference. The «family book» phenomenon plays a special role in the unity of the book cultures of these two ethnic groups living at the same territory

The second half of XIX - early XX centuries is a period of the most dynamic development of military libraries in Russia. This time is characterized by a variety of libraries of different types and forms with their inherent properties and distinctive features. Hence, different views and approaches to the problem of terminology, typology and classification of libraries appeared in papers of Russian librarianship researchers. There are no universal schemes in the historical-library studies. The proposed classification of military libraries is based on multiyear experience of studying the history of the military librarianship. It was collected and analyzed about 300 systematic (mainly) and alphabetical book catalogs (and amendments thereto) in military libraries, published in 1862-1916, as well as more than 70 book catalogs of libraries in military schools (1830-1916). Studied sources give an opportunity to structure the different types and forms of military libraries not only in a chronological order, but according to type-forming functions: military research, military educational, army officers, special, soldiers, as well as book collections of famous military leaders. To characterize some groups of the military libraries more complete their different hierarchical scheme are used.

The problem of book typology being of decisive importance to identify the essential properties of a book as an object of communication is examined. The paper analyzes existing in bibliology concepts of book typology, their advantages and disadvantages, and determines the future research directions of book typological characteristics. Bibliological papers identify the important role of the typology in studying the essential book characteristics, formulate conditions of effective typologization and principles forming the typological book structure basis, designate methodological approaches to the criterion based on which the book typologization is possible. There are logical and methodological shortcomings in typological constructions made on the base of these regulations, which could be eliminated by studying the book in frames of the whole documentative system, i. e. as a document type. This approach will make it possible to determine the essential features of the book distinguishing it from other types of documents, accounting the modern conditions of communication.

The paper examines the basic publishing strategies of editorial boards of Siberian belles-lettres journals in the 1930s. Editorial staff activity of magazines in West and East Siberia is analyzed evidently for periodicals «Siberian Lights» and «The Future Siberia», the main forms of editor activity to promote editions to readership are identified. An attempt to classify the publishing strategies carried out by the magazine editorial boards is made. The strategies of personnel policy are considered as joining the best writers in the region around the journal, the use of a periodical format as an educational base to train a new type of writers, holding literary competitions. Strategies related to the content model of magazines include: focusing on regional issues, introduction newspaper elements to the editions conceptual model, boundaries blurring between the central and provincial literature. The strategy of mutual communication is understood as publishing readers' letters and manuscripts, critical remarks addressed to the editorial board. The particular importance for the editorial policy of Siberian belles-lettres journals is a strategy of cooperation between prints and media promoting them.

The paper examines the harmonization of information-library education and a new nomenclature of training directions approved by order of the Ministry of Science and education in Russia 12.09.2013 № 1061 («On the list of specialties and fields of training of higher education approval»). This topic is related to the acutest and most relevant theoretical problem of modern library science, namely to define the essence of the library profession. The purpose of the authors is to show that the library profession place in this list is determined by the content and direction of higher education in this sphere, its competency benchmarks. The article designates gaps of librarian training in the system of cultural education and the complexity of forming the systemic view on a united information space, reveals the complex of scientific-bibliographic, scientometric competencies, professional readiness to work with certain types of information resources and categories of users, mastering modern technologies of information-library services. A special attention is paid to the English-language training of the future librarian at the university. It is proved that he should learn a foreign language not only at the level of general cultural and professional competence sufficient to communicate on professional topics. In addition it is important to have the ability for professional work with information resources, to carry out basic information processes in foreign languages. The idea of forming new competences resulting as the expansion of traditional understanding of library, overcoming the collection locality, opportunities and demand of remote access, opening Russian libraries and information centers collections, information files and flows for foreign readers is developed. The practical results of the research are forms and methods of English-language training of future librarians as information specialists.

The article proves an approach to library activity as one of social practice, realized within a social institution of reading. The main feature of a library science as social practice is revealed in comparison with bookstores and archives activities, which is the organization of public usage of documents in actual and longtime regimes. It shows that separate components of the electronic environment (electronic libraries, sites, blogs, etc.) are included in the same social practice without institutionalization process (forming establishments). The conclusion is made that nowadays libraries are not the exclusive environment for realizing social practice of public documents usage arrangement.

The paper examines relationships of the quality estimation of the reference-information service for readers by librarians with professional motivation. Study results are based on the questionnaire survey of 199 employees of the public libraries network in Saint Petersburg. The study has been done in frames of research project «Staff development of public libraries of the corporate network of public libraries in Saint Petersburg executing the information-bibliographic service» in 2013-2014.

The paper presents main results of research project «Theoretical and practical aspects of creating an integrated branch information resource in V. A. Sukhomlinsky State Scientific-Pedagogical Library of Ukraine». It describes the integration system of library information resources generated on IRBIS64 basis, including electronic catalogs, united databases of periodicals and dissertations on education, pedagogy and psychology, an abstract database on the same subjects. The most important structural element of this system is the scientific-educational digital library consisting of electronic documents collection, reference-retrieval aids and a software complex. The general principles of its organization as well as the results of the pilot implementation are represented.

The article shows actuality of a new function of a modern university library supporting publication activity of the institution. The ways of the function realization are described and illustrated by experiences of domestic and foreign libraries.

The article concerns the necessity to overestimate the library management system under conditions of the information society, global automation of library processes and transition to digital libraries, and consequently it emphasizes the importance of creating a new structural unit dealing with information-analytical activity. It describes the requirements for an automated information-analytical system of library management as a part of the system to support management decisions making. The model of a new subdivision of the library, which can be used in scientific libraries of various levels and departments, is presented.

A typical site of a scientific library entering the structure of the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LNS RAS) is aimed to meet information needs of a certain scientific team - employees of scientific institutions served by a particular library. The main function of the site is to permit the user visiting the library virtually with both information and reference purposes. The site concept assumes compatible technology of its creation with ready software of LNS RAS and simple methods of content updating available to non-specialists in programming.

The paper is devoted to the development of «scientific thought» as a concept and a methodological category in the history of library science. The processes of generation and formation of scientific thought in the domestic librarianship and library science at the initial stage, i.e. since its inception to institutionalization as a scientific discipline, are examined. The duality of scientific thought in library science is marked: its differentiation into the library thought - a form of judgment in librarianship based on a generalization of everyday experience and knowledge, and the thought of library science based on scientific methods. It is suggested to associate the origin of the library thought with the emergence of libraries as institutional establishments in XVI-XVII centuries, rather than individual book collections, thereby separating it from the thought manifestation in bibliology. There are two stages in the development of librarianship thought: an auxiliary one, when it was formed in frames of other scientific disciplines, ensuring their development, in particular pedagogy, and an autonomous or independent one, associated with the comprehension of the library as a self-sufficient social institution. The origin of library thought is associated with the activities of V. I. Sobolshchikov, a domestic scientist who first used a comparative method in studying librarianship. It is suggested to consider some N. F. Fedorov’s ideas as manifestation of theoretical scientific thought in the national library science.

This is the first of three articles, devoted to regularities of the documentary-communication sphere sciences, claiming to be the laws. The paper discusses the laws of bibliography science in accordance with the science of science criteria imposed to a scientific law.

The article is carried out in the frameworks of studying the problem of reading and readers typology related to the characteristics of a type of reading called a creative one. Under creative reading (as opposed to other types) fiction can be used in research activity. It is proved that the use of fiction is a scientific method for creative readers, and many scientists, including psychologists, successfully use it.