Ensuring Preservation, Continuity and Development of Scientific Thought: Look through History into the Future

Abstract

The article provides an overview of the jubilee events, devoted to the 300th anniversary of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, held in October-November, 2014. In the context of contemporary problems of library and information activities and continuity of knowledge development there was highlighted the research conference «Library of the Academy of Sciences: 300 years of Dedicated Service to Science». The attention is drawn to one of the major activities of the library, defining the outline of the ongoing and upcoming changes: improvement and development of the automated information-library system of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which solves the problem of openness and accessibility of the collections to the wide range of users.