The Book and Graphics Section of St. Petersburg Scientists House of the Russian Academy of Sciences is the oldest bibliophile club of the country, which draws to itself attention not only domestic, but also foreign researchers in bibliology nowadays. Besides research and educational activity the Section carried on and is carrying exhibition and publishing activity. More than two hundred exhibitions have been held, more than fifty editions reflecting its member activity have been prepared during its existence.

The article presents the experience of developing the format of bachelors’ state final certification (SFC) on direction «Library-Information Activities» in Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts. The 3^rd generation Federal Educational Standard requirements necessitate innovations in organizing and carrying out bachelors’ SFC, in particular, evaluation of their training quality based on a competence approach. SFC of bachelors-graduates of Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts includes the state interdisciplinary examination (SIE) and graduate qualification (bachelor) work. Components of a bachelor work, requirements for its structure, implementation algorithm, rules of registration and representation are enshrined at the University standard «Graduate qualification works». Authors outline main problems of developing a new format of SIE related with requirements of a subject-activity approach and integrative teaching materials. The leading competences were selected and correlated with the professional activity views; disciplines composition to be discussed at SIE was defined; tasks bank for SIE (theoretical issues and practice-oriented tasks) was generated, including a certain scale of assessment and a formalization model; a fund of assessment tools for SIE was formed; technical and ergonomic conditions for its implementation were defined. A new element of SFC is the exam matrix including: educational competence by bachelor’s activity; disciplines lists, theoretical issues and practical-oriented tasks; topics of bachelor’s works. This matrix serves to control SFE, its results analysis and subsequent adjustments. The bachelors’ SFC designed format for specialty «Library-Information Activities» (profile «Information-Analytical Activity») has been successfully tested in SFC of the University graduates.

The article considers a technique of library management based on organizational self-assessment, presents advantages as an effective method of self-improvement. Self-assessment is a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the organization compared to the selected model and gives a general idea of the control system effectiveness. It can also help to identify opportunities for improvement, set priorities and develop action plans to achieve sustainable success. As one of the most common self-assessment model it was considered All-Russian contest «100 best goods of Russia». The analysis of the competition questionnaires main headings have been carried on, and a model of self-tender evaluation criteria has been presented, which evaluating criteria are indicators of competitiveness and identification services. The author studied Novosibirsk State Regional Scientific Library activities to provide services of users information-library servicing based on automated technologies in frames of compliance the competition model criteria. The library participation in the competition helped to assess a level of users, employees, suppliers, promoters’ satisfaction, and based on it to identify priority areas for activity improvement. The results of the library contribution to the Contest allowed the authors to conclude that the diagnostic self-assessment can and should be an integral part of an annual cycle of planning, both strategic and operational.

The paper analyzes information requirements and interests of higher school library users. It presents services of a private office for a student, a teacher and administrative personnel of higher education institution available at the Siberian Federal University Scientific Library, which are defined depending on groups of users and their information requirements. A user private office is an integrated information and education interface for users, as well as a system of interaction and information exchange between readers and a modern higher school library.

The paper represents an overview of developing the bibliographic-information complex and bibliographic activities related with computer technologies introduction into the practice of library work and changes of the scientific community requests. It has presented characteristics of printed and electronic information products of SPSTL SB RAS since 1958 to nowadays; has shown perspective activity directions on creating information resources of own generation.

The article considers legal requirements for information-library support of higher schools with a musical profile. It takes into account known legal, organizational, and technological measures to facilitate the libraries music collections integration into the digital space. It outlines objectives of operating with media resources in «Media Library» department: media collection formation, its preserving and use studying, description in an electronic catalog, access provision. Authors determine materials format to be placed in the electronic library, propose modes of access and simultaneous media resources use: public, internal, local, limited ones. The problems are marked, which appear while working with the media collection: technical equipment, digitization quality, priorities of works selection for digitizing, digitized collections standardization.

The central problem of the article is reflecting calendars of memorial and significant data at the Russian libraries sites. The content analysis has revealed that electronic memorial data calendars are prepared by various libraries, have both universal and narrow thematic accents, differ in organizational structure and methods of implementation.

The article considers integration of document processing disciplines with the social communicative knowledge system evidently for training direction 071900.62 «Library-Information Activities» of «bachelor» qualification in Kemerovo State University of Culture and Arts. The study was carried on with analyzing the curricular material of «Social Communication» course and the document processing disciplines cycle. It was found that a purposeful process of integration allowed summarizing and transmitting scientific knowledge at a higher level, deepening understanding of documents information component, extending the professional outlook of future specialists, demonstrating not only general laws of social environment, but also their implementation in a particular subject area. Integration has updated the education content by broadening and deepening the subject of document information flow and documentary funds as knowledge.

The article presents a brief history of «clip culture» and «clip-thinking» or mosaic thinking concepts. Main theoretical and practical problems caused by spreading clip-thinking in education and culture are announced and analyzed. The risks for the future text culture due to the clip culture influence are shown

The article is devoted to the features of written communication in traditional societies. The paper deals with the written communication in frameworks of the traditional social consciousness specifics, determining social self-regulation through sacralization of social life significant aspects. It shows that the historical transformation of traditional consciousness is a desacralization process that takes place primarily as a destruction of certain behavioral norms and forms of activity as the only conditions for the society survival and well-being. The development of written communication leads to the book phenomenon, becoming a means of social institutionalizing of meanings that opposes one part of the social normative sense to the other one, which is also, therefore, more distinguished and can be fixed in other books. Institutionalization of separate book collections within libraries facilitates the desacralizing importance of written communication.

The article is devoted to problems of legal regulation of public libraries activity due to needs of the copyright compliance when using works. Main attention is paid to the analysis of the copyright limitations and exceptions in favor of public libraries.

This article describes the analysis results of modern automation means of library-information operations for educational organizations. The authors list new tasks of library under conditions of electronic resources utilization, describe the most convenient and frequently used system of libraries computerization.