Strategic Guidelines of the State Library Policy

The Annual Meeting of the Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia was held on November 11—12, 2020 in the online format. The event was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Russian National Library and the Russian State Library. The main goal of the meeting is to ensure participation of the heads of federal and central regional libraries in the formation and implementation of the state library policy. The topic of the 2020 Meeting is “The Library Profession and Scientific and Educational Work of Libraries”. The scientific content of the meeting was basically determined by the “Strategy for the development of librarianship in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030”, the draft development of which has been already completed as a whole, but requires the deployment of large-scale research work to form the unified system for monitoring the activities of libraries in the country.

The meeting focused on the following issues: organization of scientific research work in libraries; training of professional staff; modernization of librarianship and the role of information technologies in the modern development of libraries and digitalization. The relevance of these topics was proved in the discourse on the development of higher and further professional education in the library sector, improvement of availability of information in the modern conditions. During the sessions, there were summed up the results of the 7th All-Russian competition “Library Analytics” among the central libraries of the subjects of the Russian Federation, the 8th All-Russian competition “The Best Professional Book of the Year” and the 7th All-Russian library review competition for the best electronic publication on culture and art.

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11. Join the Public Discussion of the Draft Strategy for the Librarianship Development in the Russian Federation until 2030, Rossiiskaya bibliotechnaya assotsiatsiya: ofits. sait [Russian Library Association: official website]. Available at: http://www.rba.ru/news/news_3303.html (accessed 01.12.2020) (in Russ.).

12. The Draft Strategy for the Librarianship Development until 2030 Will Have Been Submitted to the Government of the Russian Federation by the End of the Year, Ministerstvo kul’tury Rossiiskoi Federatsii: ofits. sait [Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation: official website]. Available at: https://culture.gov.ru/press/news/proekt_strategii_razvitiya_bibliotechnogo_dela_do_2030_g_budet_vnesen_v_pravitelstvo_rossiyskoy_fede/ (accessed 01.12.2020) (in Russ.).

13. There Are Developed Recommendations for Libraries to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus Infection, Ministerstvo kul’tury Rossiiskoi Federatsii: ofits. sait [Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation: official website]. Available at: https://culture.gov.ru/press/news/razrabotany_rekomendatsii_po_preduprezhdeniyu_rasprostraneniya_koronavirusnoy_infektsii_dlya_bibliot/ (accessed 01.12.2020) (in Russ.).

14. On October 9, the NLR Launched the “Book Lighthouse of St. Petersburg”, Rossiiskaya natsional’naya biblioteka: ofits. sait [National Library of Russia: official website]. Available at: http://nlr.ru/nlr_visit/RA3544/Knizhnyy-mayak-Peterburga (accessed 01.12.2020) (in Russ.).

15. The 10th All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference “Library Collections in the Digital Era: Traditional and Electronic Resources, Acquisition and Use”, Rossiiskaya natsional’naya biblioteka: ofits. sait [National Library of Russia: official website]. Available at: http://nlr.ru/nlr_pro/RA3817/materialy-konferentsii (accessed 01.12.2020) (in Russ.).

16. Velikii bibliotekar’: k 120-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya Margarity Ivanovny Rudomino [A Great Librarian: To the 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Margarita Ivanovna Rudomino]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2020, vol. 1, 480 p.

17. Velikii bibliotekar’: k 120-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya Margarity Ivanovny Rudomino [A Great Librarian: To the 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Margarita Ivanovna Rudomino]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2020, vol. 2, 432 p.

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19. The Results of the 7th All-Russian Review-Competition for the Best Electronic Publication on Culture and Art, Rossiiskaya bibliotechnaya assotsiatsiya: ofits. sait [Russian Library Association: official website]. Available at: http://www.rba.ru/news/news_3564.html (accessed 01.12.2020) (in Russ.).

20. The Final Document of the Annual Meeting of the Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia, Rossiiskaya natsional’naya biblioteka: ofits. sait [National Library of Russia: official website]. Available at: http://nlr.ru/nlr_pro/dep/artupload/pro/article/RA3494/NA34782.pdf (accessed 01.12.2020) (in Russ.).