Contemporary bookselling infrastructure in modern Russia is poorly developed. The general negative trends are particularly acute in regions. The article contains the analysis results of bookselling content in Siberian cities. Multiple levels of bookselling infrastructure state are revealed. Large cities (Novosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk) refer to a highly evolved level, among which Novosibirsk is the largest center of wholesale and retail book trade in the Eastern Russia. A great number of local bookselling network formations are in Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Barnaul, and others. Specialized bookselling enterprises are presented at the book market of the Siberian cities: selling foreign literature (Krasnoyarks), children books (Krasnoyarsk), autobooks (Omsk), etc. Large networks effect greatly the regional book market. They are: Irkutsk «ProDalitЪ» (47 stores) and Novosibirsk «Aristotel’» (22 bookshops). Book trade of polar Norilsk is original and formed mainly by local publisher «Apex». In general, the modern book-selling landscape of Siberia is diverse and characterized by an extreme unevenness of the book business enterprises distribution. The local bookselling groups preservation and development is the basis and guarantee of the book culture development in the region.

The article traces the geographical distribution and bookselling establishments in Saint-Petersburg Province (now Leningrad region) based on unpublished sources. The research identifies factors of St. Petersburg cultural and economic effect on the surrounding areas culture, summer residents’ contribution to the provincial districts development. In the study the following methods are used: content analysis, a technique of analogy, a bibliographic alapproach; main cities - bookselling centres in the region are appointed: Kronshtadt, Narva, Gatchina, Tsarskoe Selo.

This article contains an analysis of social-politically oriented German regional press in Russia in the 30-60s of the 19^th century. The main purpose of this study is to determine its characteristics and trends discussed in the context of the state censorship reaction. The author establishes the subject scope of periodicals in general and their articles. The issues raised by German authors cover the social-political problems of the Baltic provinces, their relationships with government, foreign political situation, especially in Prussia, etc. This research work is a result of a synthesis of historical facts based on archival documents, including documents of censorial departments, which existed in the 19^th century at the Russian Ministry of National Education and the Ministry for Internal Affairs. Through a comprehensive analysis of official documents, the author identifies several criterions, according to which different political periodicals were evaluated by censorship: periodicals main character, content of particular newspapers or magazines, editions structure and presence of political headings in them.

The article is devoted to life and activity of Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin, a famous Russian book-seller and enlightener of late ХIХ - early ХХ centuries. Along with primers, books and textbooks, which were available for impoverished village people, Sytin spread his countless calendars have becoming really popular encyclopedias.

The article first gives a general view of children reading of fiction in Siberia and the Far East. The relevance of studying children reading is determined by its great social and pedagogical potential. The study objectives are: 1) to identify popular children genres of literature; 2) to recreate the repertoire of favorite authors and their works; 3) to compare the range of reading of Siberian and Far Eastern young people with the reading of their age mates from other regions of the country; 4) to identify main factors forming readers demand of the younger generation. The study has shown that fairy tales, fantasy, detectives, adventures, historic and love stories are the most popular among children. National and foreign writers of the XIX - early XXI centuries are called among the children's favorite authors: A. Barto, M. Bulgakov, A. Volkov, A. Green, A. Dumas, A. Ishimova, A. Lindgren, S. Marshak, A. Milne, N. Nosov, A. Pushkin, M. Reed, M. Twain, L. Charskaya, E. Uspensky and many others. The comparison was made between reading literature by children from Transurals and the European part of Russia. Similarity in the repertoire of reading, favorite genres and authors is proved. Selection of literary works is determined by children personal interests and the curriculum content. Therefore, reading fiction is both leisure and business. Reading fiction on the pupils’ personal choice is usually considered as leisure. Reading literature for educational purposes is related to business. The article pays attention to the difficulty of separating leisure reading from business one when it concerns reading fiction by students. Growing readers’ interest in picturized literary works is marked. This article was written on a wide range of sources and research literature.

The interdisciplinary character of the science of language causes great difficulties in bibliographic support in this field. The object of bibliographing in linguistics is not only literature on the language, but also a variety of linguistic resources, which represent a special object to study a branch of linguistics - lexicography. Bibliography of linguistics is the least studied field by specialists among humanitarian bibliographic complexes. The paper first studied the array of domestic bibliographic sources for more than 150 years; the most significant of them are shown. The subject of research is national bibliographic resources in the linguistics field. The objective is to characterize the historical development of the linguistic bibliography in Russia. To achieve this goal we had to solve a number of tasks: identify existing sources for ongoing historical research; to trace the history of forming bibliographic sources, bibliography of bibliographies of linguistics; to form and analyze the body of bibliographic materials; to characterize the problematic areas in the bibliographic software of linguistics. Using the bibliometric analysis it was studied an array of bibliographic products published between 1860 and 2013, the dynamics of bibliographic resources formation was determined, the degree of bibliographic support of some topics and issues in linguistic science and prior directions of their development were revealed. The main results of the study should be considered: 1. The nuclear of fundamental indices on general and applied linguistics is singled out in analyzed literature sources covering the period 1918-1977, as well as in Slavic linguistics for 1825-1981. The complex of current and retrospective bibliographic products was formed and replenished in the country in 1963-1988. 2. The largest share of bibliographic sources in linguistics is presented by book and article bibliography (over 70%), many of which remain bibliographically unrecorded and unused. 3. The following subject areas of linguistics are considered to be bibliographically supported: inter-linguistics, culture of speech and language norms, lexicography, linguistic geography, linguistics regional geography, onomastics. 4. An obvious need to continue the index or database of bibliographic aids in the field of linguistics over the past 50 years is marked. 5. Further development of the linguistics bibliography is impossible to imagine without creating an electronic guide on the bibliographic resources of linguistics, which would reflect the diversity of bibliographical resources and provide their rich information potential for professionals and remote users

The article objective is to review theoretical and methodological problems of the library collection formation in accordance with national standards (GOST R 7.0.93-2015) requirements: optimization of technological processes for acquisition, registration, organization of library collections through the use of modern technologies, to upgrade the terms system relating to holdings. The work set and solved the following tasks: defining the library collection object; correlating notions of «the Russian Federation library fund» and «the national library fund»; analyzing the library collections grouping by a functional purpose; considering its modeling, basic principles of acquisition, distribution features; pointing reasons to exclude documents of the library collection; showing indicators to characterize the library holdings state. The library collection formation is considered as a series of successive processes and operations aimed to transform the documents amount in an orderly and systematic set (library fund). For the first time funds of a separate library are divided by functionality: custom funds designed specifically to serve users; technological funds used to maintain the user collections functioning, which are not included directly in library and information services. Stocks allocation is referred to activities on spatial ordering of documents in specially equipped premises - depositories, servers and/or other storages. Allocation of a local network of electronic documents is carried on servers and/or other electronic library repositories and organized by software and hardware. A detailed analysis of such complex library actions as documents exception, redistribution, and exclusion of the library fund is given

An innovative component of modern library-information education should become a trend, in which frames it is possible not only to compact and intensify the study of professional issues, but also to shape tools for future professional activities in the innovation logic of an effective character. This in turn requires integrating multiple types of work in a holistic format. A master class on modeling personal exhibitions and its results in developing problems of reading study with application of bibliographic reconstruction and knowledge mapping is chosen as one of these formats. In the master class course a complex of tasks was solved. Among them are the following: developing the strategy of exhibition modeling, its understanding according to the completeness of information and its degree of semantic coagulation as a way to learn and present information in the exhibition format; forming the communicative culture in the exhibition presentation process; improving analytical skills, creative thinking, and improvement of psychologic-pedagogical professionalism through familiarization with the personal contribution of a scientist related to readers study; the acquisition of knowledge and skills to map knowledge. The exhibition was carried out in several stages in the logic «from simple to complex» and starts with learning the exhibition structural design options, their semantic and color solutions; exploring the scientist contribution based on the bibliographic description of publications, annotations and abstracts, later on the basis of studying publications themselves and citation. The latter allows not only to map its content in different ways, but also to build the professional communication sociometric matrix. As a result of this master class with elements of a business game students acquire specific knowledge (in our case readers’ study); a various options of a personal exhibition intelligent-information products are created; the specialist intellectual capacity grows significantly, cognitive and metacognitive skills of specialists are developed; methodological knowledge based on innovative search activities is formed. The heuristic potential of the master class lies in the fact that the tendency to internal resources of a personality determining the propensity to innovate in their professional activities is clearly expressed in the world and domestic science.

The problem of school libraries inclusion into the educational process, activities on implementation of the Federal state educational standards, full disclosure of its pedagogical potential is becoming more important. The project technologies can contribute in promoting reading activity. The article objective is to show the possibilities of network project technology of school libraries as a tool to improve pupils’ reading activity based on author’s experiments in 2012-2016. To achieve this goal the following tasks are solved: features of the project method applied to education and library activities are discussed; resources of network projects in the school libraries practice are analyzed; based on the author's experimental work the possibilities of intensifying readers’ activity and forming readers' competences through the network of library projects in school libraries are studied. The article presents the results of publications analysis on the project library activities, considers the role and place of the network project in library pedagogy as a tool to improve pupils’ reading activity and a resource of non-formal librarians training. The author's experimental work carried out in the framework of the network project activities in school libraries is described.

The Commonwealth of Independent States creation in 1991 was a new reality for cooperation and development of post-Soviet states. Russia and Armenia have long close and stable relations in the scientific-educational sphere. The article objective is to evaluate the joint Russian-Armenian documentary flow in various scientific fields for ten years (2005-2014). As the research information base three main resources were studied that allow analyzing the co-publication activity: «Web of Science Core Collection» (Thomson Reuters); Scopus (Elsevier); RISC (OLC «Scientific Electronic Library»). Research articles and reviews were considered. The Russian-Armenian documentary flow dynamics was studied with the differentiation by arrays: publications, whose authors are both the Russian and Armenian scientists; publication created with and without participation in major international collaborations; publications involving authors of third countries; publication without the participation of third countries authors. Evaluation indicators of the joint Russian-Armenian publication activity were: the publications number dynamics; average citation; frequency distribution of publications on periodicals; frequency distribution of joint publications on areas of knowledge. The study reveals growing the number of publications, whose authors are Russian and Armenian scientists working in large international collaborations (ATLAS, CMS Collaboration, ALICE Collaboration, etc.) recent years. Such publications citation is quite high: the level of citation exceeds the world average parameters two-seven times for these years. The level of the cited publication carried on without international collaborations is 62-155% of the world average indicators. The documentary flow out of collaborations, but with the participation of third countries authors has a varied dynamic with an average growth rate about 1% (WoS) to 2% (Scopus). The main co-author states as «third» countries are: Germany, Italy, the USA and the UK. Main cooperation between Russia and Armenia takes place in physics and astronomy (about 1/2 of joint publications); chemistry (8%) and biology (6%) and material science (6%). Sciences spectrum of joint research is represented by 23 branches of knowledge. The study results showed a high level of the Russian-Armenian scientific ties with good development potential.

Publication activity, citation, impact factor, Hirsch index (h) are indicators defining scientific productivity of a research institution. The study objective is to analyze scientific productivity of «TatNIPIneft» institute. The author solves the following task: to create the Institute profile in the Russian Science Citation Index (RISC), to analyze bibliographical references in petroleum-targeted periodicals for 2009-2013, to identify trends of publication activity and citation dynamics in RISC, to determine an average number of citations per an article. To accomplish this it was revised the list of published works by the Institute and its staff in RISC, downloaded as PDF collections of scientific papers and monographs of the Institute employees, calculated an average number of citations per an article. The periodical, in which the Institute employees publish their articles were chosen, references were analyzed, the most productive authors and citation geography were revealed, the Institute publication activity and citation dynamics in RISC were discussed. The study allowed raising the Hirsch index in RISC, to create the Institute image in the international information space. It also revealed a downward trend of publications in periodicals. The publication activity analysis results allowed us to estimate the scientific potential of the Institute and to promote the administrative decisions adoption in the field of the Institute scientific productivity raise.

Marketing methods of evaluating services of both readers and library users online are important to improve the quality of library-information servicing. The most commonly used methods to assess the quality of library services are statistical indicators analysis of activities (attendance, the number of resources/services access, etc.); surveillance; user survey; questionnaires; analysis of online services and Internet resources to determine the level of user satisfaction (online questionnaires, «like» estimates and others). In assessing satisfaction/dissatisfaction of users, their servicing quality such marketing tools as SERVQUAL, LibQUAL + {TM}, SERVPERF, «mystery shopper», «Kano methododology» and the concept of «neutral zones» by Ch. Bernard are more relevant. Their applying makes it possible to obtain accurate and complete information on the efficiency of employees’ work, to develop a program of activities and necessary recommendations to improve the quality of library servicing.

The main article objective is a terminological analysis of «librarianship» concept. The development of theoretical concepts of librarianship as a science and as a branch of knowledge is explored. The concept of «library thought» and its correspondence with the concept of «the history of librarianship» is analyzed. The author substantiate the idea that the library thought development did not contradict the history of library science and was its important part, librarianship roots should be traced with the emergence of the first libraries. This point of view on the history of librarianship found understanding in the works by I. V. Lukashov, V. V. Skvortsov, M. I. Slukhovsky, Yu. N. Stolyarov and other library scholars. The article deals with polemic questions: when has librarianship been recognized as a science; can the first use of the concept of «librarianship» be considered as a sign of the emergence of library science. The analysis of applying the concept «library science» showed that before the early XX century it was defined as «a systematic presentation of knowledge about libraries organization and the management». The article analyzes dividing the library science into theoretical and practical parts; examines the fate of the theoretical librarianship in frames of «theoretical» discussions taken place in early 1930s, and attempts of Soviet scientists (V. A. Artisevich, I. A. Mesenyashin, N. Ya. Fridieva) to revive the theoretical library science; considers the views of Yu. V. Grigoriev substantiated the library science as independent one. Analysis of the national library science thought development in 1960s-70s of the XX century showed that its development was characterized by a scientific approach, with heightened attention to general theoretical and methodological problems that contributed to forming the librarianship as a science. The article states that in the modern terminology of the national library science there are two concepts: as a librarianship independent science and as a branch of knowledge. Combination into a single term of at least two different «library sciences» leads both to typological and substantial inconsistencies and errors, which can be seen in a variety of theoretical and practical disciplines including the word «librarianship». The author offers two options concerning use of the term «librarianship». The first one is to call the «librarianship» on the western model «library science», and the term «librarianship» applies to various disciplines (library science as a branch of knowledge). The second one is to retain in national science traditional name «librarianship» as a synonym for «library science» and not to use the word «librarianship» in the titles of different library disciplines to avoid confusion.

The article is dedicated to the domestic library science formation and development. It reviews and analyzes the concept proposed by A. N. Vaneev, according to which librarianship has emerged as a branch of science. This concept is based on the following facts: first, on the etymology of the term «bibliotekovedenie» meaning the knowledge on library; secondly, on the opinion of a participant of the discussion that took place in print in 1865, that library science and its works were not possible; that in 1910-1920s it was dominated the view on the library science as a branch of knowledge, and in 1930s the library science was declared a bourgeois science. Therefore, only in 1960s, the library science began to take shape of a scientific discipline, resulting in the duality, to overcome which it was proposed to replace the term «bibliotekovedenie (studying library)» with the term «library science» by A. Vaneev. The concept analysis showed that it was not confirmed neither etymologically nor pictographically. The author's concept is proposed, according to which the library science was formed as a scientific discipline during the XIX century. First, it is based on the thesis that the concept «branch of knowledge» is a library classification notion, whereas the concept «scientific discipline» is a scientific term, therefore they cannot be opposed to each other; second, on the view of science as systematic and focused research activities of a particular subject area. Therefore, it arises when there is the identification of this subject area. Such are the aspects of library activities to ensure public interests in the sphere of science, education and enlightenment. In practice, this was manifested in the «governmentalization» of librarianship and subordinating it to the Ministry of education. Understanding the subject area of library science by scholars was in the mid XIX century. The systematic character of scientific knowledge was achieved by institutionalization, through vesting the leading libraries of the country functions of scientific institutions, creating the library communities, professional printing, etc. All this took place during the whole XIX century. Thus, according to the author's proposed concept the formation of national library science as a scientific discipline ended in the late XIX - early XX century finally.

This research is an applied one and logically continues author’s studies devoted to social partnership development in the library-information field. The institute of social partnership (including the library-information sphere) evolves with the cluster strategies development as an integral part of the Russian community strategy. At the same time an integrated approach and unified methodology to study this problem, as well as description of effective methods and technologies of the library staged development in the social cluster space are needed. Technologies of the social partnership with library participation are a part of the social policy cluster aimed at maximizing to satisfy both material and spiritual needs of the general population. Recent years studying prospects of the municipal library activity are particularly relevant, as forward movement of the library policy in this direction allows positioning the interests of library and information institutions as coinciding with the interests of major members of the local community. Realizing these perspectives is one of the most important conditions of the effective innovative policy formation of the modern municipal library. The objects of study are municipal libraries of Belgorod region using effective profiled strategies of social interaction in their activity. The study aim is analyzing the experience of municipal libraries developing educational technologies for social interaction in the social cluster space of Belgorod region. Objectives are the following: to identify main goals and tasks of the cluster strategy in the library-information sphere of Belgorod region; to propose a typology of main clusters in Belgorod region; to objectify activity main direction for Belgorod libraries according to their types. Participating libraries in the cluster policy indirectly promotes changes in users’ life quality, development of new cultural needs by providing quality public legal-information services, adaptation of rural population to modern life conditions, help in identifying new niches in the labor market, including information ones. Main conclusions: territorial characteristics extrapolated to municipal libraries activities largely determine the general direction of library development. In the modern period preconditions of libraries participation in the regional clustering (modernization of material-technical base, development of regional, municipal, local normative documents, the experience of empirical data theoretical generalization) are largely implemented in Belgorod region. The practical component of the study is the possibility of adapting the libraries experience of Belgorod region into libraries of other territories of the Russian Federation, understanding cooperation of the library social institution, business-structures, nonprofit organizations and regional and municipal authorities.