All-Russian Competition of Scientific Works in the area of Library Science, Bibliography and Book Science as the Reflection of Research Potential of the Scientific Branch

The article considers the history of the All-Russian competition in library science, bibliography and book science. The article gives the historical background of founding of the Competition and the main normative legal acts that laid down the procedure for the organization of scientific research in the library sector. Active participation in the competition of federal libraries, central libraries of the Russian Federation, universities of culture, libraries and organizations of other departments allows us to consider it as a basis for institutional and content analysis of the flow of domestic scientific publications in the field of librarianship. The article analyses the content of the competition winners’ publications in accordance with the evolution of scientific research in the field of librarianship. The set of submitted works is considered as reflection of scientific potential in the library sphere. The authors highlight organizations and scientists who have received the highest professional recognition as winners and who have contributed to the development of library science, bibliography and book science. The resumption of the Competition in 2021 is considered as one of the mechanisms for scientific support of librarianship.

all-Russian competition, library science, bibliography, book science, federal libraries, central libraries of the subjects of the Russian Federation, universities of culture, scientific research

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