The article is devoted to the overview of the events held within the framework of the III St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, which completed the Year of Culture in Russia. The scale of the Forum by content, as well as by the number of participants exceeded all expectations of the organizers. The Forum assembled over 7 thousand professionals from dozens of countries around the world. Its extensive program included conferences and round tables on topical issues of the modern domestic and foreign culture, performances and master classes by prominent artists of the world level, and signing of memorandums on cooperation with several countries. One of the main venues of the Forum was the Presidential Library named after Boris Yeltsin. There were held the events dedicated to the upcoming Year of Literature. At the various meetings of Forum, devoted to library, book, reading, there was repeatedly noted that modern information technologies had complicated the life of libraries, demanded search for the new forms of work, able to respond to the challenges of the time.