The article is devoted to the history of Russian book business in Estonia. It traces publishing activities development in Narva - a city at the crossroads of cultures, gives a thematic-typological analysis of the publishing repertoire. The contribution characteristic of different ethnic groups in spreading Russian books at the Baltic States is represented based on studying typographers' social composition.

The article analyzes independent bookstores activities. It compiles and synthesizes data on modern Russian small bookshops (city, year of foundation, store area, titles number in assortment, sale personnel number). The basic characteristic features of small-format book-selling business are revealed: basic and auxiliary range, staff work, services offered to clients, ongoing activities, space design, enterprises environment. A particular attention is paid to the history and activities of «shopping club backstage format» Siberian bookstores: «Dog’s Heart» (Novosibirsk), «Beacon», «Fyodormihalych», «Korneyivanovich» (Krasnoyarsk).

The article is devoted to the Russian emigrant collection in Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii (Honolulu, USA). The range of Russian emigrant literature covers materials published in China, Korea, Japan, Australia, Alaska, the Pacific coast of the United States, and South America. The children literature collection is a special value. Besides there are archival materials devoted to Russians in the Asia-Pacific region. The history of its formation is described.

The article examines Vyatka region annalistic heritage regarding chronicles as a source of the Orthodox literature repertoire. It analyzes Vyatka region manuscript tradition. «Vyatka Land Story» and other monuments of regional spiritual heritage are considered for the Orthodox content. The study reveals annalistic sources of the State Archive funds in Kirov region and analyzes them within the bounds of typology based on functionality developed by M. N. Zlygosteva for Orthodox editions of West Siberia. Lots of these manuscripts are first described in scientific terms, and can arouse the interest of a wide range of researchers in the field of history, religious and regional studies.

The article deals with an actual recent problem, which is reading guidance. It considers approaches to the concept of «reading guidance» at all stages of national library science. Their analysis has shown that the following theoretical transformations of reading guidance problem can be traced: 1) transition from a reader individual approach to organizing systematic books reading; 2) forming an ideological orientation and a clear state policy to resolve mass reading; 3) understanding reading guidance as a pedagogical process that plays an important role in young generation upbringing and education. It is proved that reading guidance was the core of individual work with readers in Soviet libraries, and nowadays is a part of the state policy in the field of culture. Trends in terminology changes reflecting the essence of reading guidance are revealed.

The article examines regional targeted programs, their legal basis, properties, advantages. An analysis of 133 programs in the field of library science adopted in 2008-2012 at 80 subjects of the Russian Federation has allowed allocating possible criteria for their typification (resources manager, financing source, regional economic characteristics, target group, program objective and content), identifying, disclosing and justifying the necessity to account political, legal, economic, social-cultural (including demographic), technological factors influencing regional library-information systems to build a library-information program model

The article contains a description of possible applications of M. A. Rozov’s social relay-race theory in library activities of military schools and comprehensive schools with cadet classes. It describes in details the project «Cadethood: Information. Education. Reading», which is realized based on theories by M. A. Rozov, A. B. Antopolsky and A. A. Akhayan. We used papers by E. N. Guseva, the first national library science researcher, who introduced M. A. Rozov’s theory to the library professional community. The project structure and each element using technology are represented.

Reference-retrieval aids development prospects in SB RAS research institutes are considered. It is noted that the majority of electronic catalogs present only a part of information on editions, which are available in a library. Besides, some libraries provide information on their collections only in card catalogs. A special attention is paid to such activities as card catalogs retrospective conversion. The author indicates reasons for which libraries do not have the ability to replenish their electronic catalogs with retrospective information.

The current stage of society development is conditioned by the intense globalization processes, during which the local culture integration with the world international environment takes place. Globalization processes have affected all political, social and cultural institutions, including libraries. Physical, language, national boundaries cease to exist for libraries. Social-cultural innovations in any field become in the public domain as soon as possible with the Internet advances. A single global information space is formed. Thanks to the World Wide Web unimaginable before amounts of knowledge and information are available to human. However, according to many scientists views globalization has not only positive sides. Globalization processes can lead to a loss of local knowledge systems of national cultures, which could also benefit the global community. In this regard, the most important function of libraries is to search, preserve, systematize, and provide access to information resources of their region. Thus, the library must ensure the cultural content generation, help to overcome globalization negative effects. Library becomes an active subject of regional cultural policy, an organizer and coordinator of national and regional book culture heritage conservation.

The article analyzes modern library capability as a social cluster information support. A social cluster information support is offered to be considered not only as technological processes, but also as a process of intellectual resources exchange, that promotes recognition of a library as a territorial center of information-technological resources.

The article reveals and analyzes publications on library profession problems in six library science journals. It describes the research methodology; reflects bibliometrics and vebometric methods significance in such studies. The most productive authors are identified, researchers attention is also focused on journals «Scientific and Technical Libraries», «Library Science» and «Bibliosphere».

Prosopographic research is a kind of research used by specialists in different spheres of scientific knowledge including library science. It is applied to study historical issues in a wide range of problems of library science and librarianship development, which are relevant to modern period. Prosopographic research main stages are represented related to compiling a collective biography of a group of persons; advantages and limitations of a prosopographic method are analyzed, it is defined as a cross-disciplinary one. Main problems to be solved in this study course are determined: collection, analysis, assessment of representativeness and reliability of material to be studied for identifying similar and unique information, criteria formulation for selecting the members of the study group, drafting a questionary, procedures of research results analysis and interpretation. «Library Encyclopedia» and reference books issued by the Russian National Library, the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Public Scientific-Technological Library are recommended as sources for prosopographic research. The necessity of a prosopographic database generation is proved

In accordance with philosophical concepts of a scientific law the third article discusses the laws of bibliopsychology, laws of the information space development and theoretical ones of documentative communicology, which unites allied documentary-communication sciences (library science, bibliography science, bibliology, archival science, museology).

The article provides an overview of scientometric researches made by Russian scientists in 2000-2014. It considers a number of papers on the state, dynamics and spheres of the Russian science specialization, international cooperation of Russian scientists, aspects of using scientometric indicators and databases. The problem of Russian publications low citation abroad is highlighted. The most cited bibliographic reviews in various fields of science are listed: medicine, chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, sociology, ethnography and others. The review results can be used to discover directions of further development and to form new topics of scientometric studies.

Studying adaptation and job satisfaction is one of the most important problems in modern management. Domestic sociologists and psychologists have been actively engaged in research of this topic since 1960s, foreign researchers - since the early XX century. Job satisfaction is often regarded as adaptation results measured with objective and subjective indicators. The most recognized factors influencing it are the following: gender, age, experience, work character and content, profession prestige in society, personal value-meaning orientations of employees. This theme is poorly developed in library science, there is practically no deep theoretical research. In 2014 SPSTL SB RAS carried on a study of adaptation and job satisfaction in three large libraries of the Siberian Federal District. General (common for all libraries) and particular results were obtained.

Scientific disciplines integration sometimes leads to unexpected results at the present stage of science development. Research techniques, developed in frames of one science to solve their own problems, occurred to be useful for another one. A representative instance became reconstructing scientific biography of A. I. Ziloti - an outstanding musician of the late ХIХ - early ХХ centuries - based on the library science research methods, in particular, «linear-mine» technique of structuring and presenting personal biographical materials, offered by St. Petersburg scientist M. N. Kolesnikova and effectively implemented in E. V. Bakhtina’s thesis about a prominent library scientist V. F. Sakharov.