Shaping the Country’s Cultural Sovereignty: Murmansk Hosted the All-Russian Library Congress

June 10—17 in Murmansk, the Library Capital of Russia 2023, the All-Russian Library Congress: XXVII Annual Conference of the Russian Library Association (RLA) took place. The event was supported by the Government of the Murmansk Region. The Congress was attended by 957 delegates from 68 regions of Russia.

The professional programme included two plenary sessions and 57 sectional and special events with 634 presentations. The Congress was held under the sign of two significant dates — the 85th anniversary of the Murmansk Region and the 85th anniversary of the Murmansk State Regional Universal Scientific Library. The grand opening and the first plenary session took place on June 12 2023 on the Day of Russia. On June 13 and 14 2023 the work continued at the breakout sessions. The results of the congress were summed up at the final plenary session on June 15 2023.

The relevance of the main theme of the Congress “Library — the cultural code of Russia” is connected with the state cultural policy and the tasks set for libraries. The definition of the cultural code of Russia is conditioned by the need to consolidate the citizens of the country on the basis of a common system of values, the formation of cultural sovereignty. The issues of implementation of one of the core documents of the library industry — “Strategy for the librarianship development in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030” were raised. The work of libraries in new social and geopolitical conditions was analyzed. The “Model Regulations on the Organisation of Research Activities of the Central Library of the Subject of the Russian Federation” was adopted.

1. Nikolaichuk I.A., Yakova T.S., Yanglyaeva M.M. Cultural Codes in Modern Public Space: Meta-Senses and Their Consumption in Russia and Abroad, Vestnik MGPU. Seriya: Filosofskie nauki [MCU Journal of Philosophical Science], 2023, no. 1 (45), pp. 48—67. DOI: 10.25688/2078-9238.2023.45.1.4 (in Russ.).

2. Bukina N.V. On the Methodology of Cultural Codes Research, Vestnik Buryatskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta [Bulletin of Buryat State University], 2010, no. 14, pp. 232—237 (in Russ.).

3. Trushina I.A. Change Management: Library Discourse on Implementation of State Cultural Policy in the Current Conditions, Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science], 2022, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 527—535. DOI: 10.25281/0869-608X-2022-71-6-527-535 (in Russ.).

4. Afanasyev M.D. Why Go to the Library? Reader and the “Strategy for the Librarianship Development in the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2030” (Report at the Annual Meeting of the Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia, Moscow, November 16, 2022), Information Bulletin of the RLA, 2022, no. 99, pp. 29—31 (in Russ.).

5. On Amendments to the Fundamentals of the State Cultural Policy, Approved by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 24, 2014, no. 808: Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 25, 2023, no. 35, Sobranie zakonodatel’stva Rossiiskoi Federatsii [Collected Legislation of the Russian Federation], 2023, no. 5, art. 777 (in Russ.).

6. Putin V.V. Russia: the National Question, Ehtnodialogi [Ethnodialogies], 2012, no. 1 (38), pp. 8—26 (in Russ.).

7. Merkulova N.G. Mentality — Cultural Code — Language of Culture: on Correlation of the Concepts, Regionologiya [Regionology], 2015, no. 2 (91), pp. 188—196 (in Russ.).

8. Likhachev D.S. Ya vspominayu [I Remember]. Moscow, Progress Publ., 1991, 253 p.

9. Trushina I.A. et al. Bibliotechnye stolitsy Rossii [Library Capitals of Russia]. St. Petersburg, 2020, 196 p.

10. Vyshkova T.A. The All-Russian Library Congress — 2023 opened in Murmansk, Rossiiskaya bibliotechnaya assotsiatsiya: ofits. sait [Russian Library Association: official website]. Available at: http://www.rba.ru/news/news_6019.html (accessed 07.08.2023) (in Russ.).

11. Strategy for the Librarianship Development in the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2030: Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 13, 2021, no. 608-r, Sobranie zakonodatel’stva Rossiiskoi Federatsii [Collected Legislation of the Russian Federation], 2021, no. 12, art. 2072 (in Russ.).

12. Afanasyev M.D. The Annual Report on the RLA Activity in 2022—2023, Information Bulletin of the RLA, 2023, no. 100, pp. 23—26 (in Russ.).

13. Gronsky V.G. A Library that Forms a Person. To the Year of the Teacher and Mentor, Information Bulletin of the RLA, 2023, no. 100, pp. 27—31 (in Russ.).

14. Bakhturina T.A., Golodnova N.N., Kononova E.V., Khaitseva L.B. Velikii bibliotekar’: Ehduard Rubenovich Sukiasyan: “Da, pravda, ya — schastlivyi chelovek!” [The Great Librarian: Eduard Rubenovich Sukiasyan: “Yeah, It’s True, I’m a Happy Person!”]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2023, 588 p.

15. Samarin A.Yu. The Great Librarian: Eduard Rubenovich Sukiasyan: Presentation of Publishing Project of the Russian State Library, Information Bulletin of the RLA, 2023, no. 100, pp. 32—34 (in Russ.).

16. Eidemiller I.V., Minkova T.E. School for Acquisition & Collection Development Policy Staff. Actual Problems of Library Collections Acquisition, Information Bulletin of the RLA, 2023, no. 100, pp. 72—88 (in Russ.).

17. Samarin A.Yu. (ed.) Nauchnye issledovaniya v bibliotekakh: tematika, organizatsiya, predstavlenie rezul’tatov: monografiya [Scientific Research in Libraries: Its Subject, Organization, Presentation of Results: monograph]. Moscow, Pashkov Dom Publ., 2023, 326 p.

18. Prezident RLA M.D. Afanasyev: “I Really Count on Magazines as an Institute for Book Recommendations”, Klassnyi zhurnal: sait [Class Journal: website]. Available at: https://www.classmag.ru/news/20101674 (accessed 17.07.2023) (in Russ.).

19. On Approval of the Professional Standard “Specialist in Library and Information Activities”: Order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation of September 14, 2022, no. 527n, Ofitsial’nyi internet-portal pravovoi informatsii: sait [Official Internet Portal of Legal Information: website]. Available at: http://publication. pravo.gov.ru/document/0001202210140007? index=1 (accessed 07.08.2023) (in Russ.).

20. Shibaeva E.A., Erkhova A.S. Shaping the Information Space: Library Trends in Social Networks, Information Bulletin of the RLA, 2023, no. 100, pp. 89—92 (in Russ.).

21. The National Library of Russia Invites to Get Acquainted with the Draft of Methodological Materials “Modernization Quality Standard of Public Municipal Library”, Rossiiskaya bibliotechnaya assotsiatsiya: ofits. sait [Russian Library Association: official website]. Available at: http://www.rba.ru/news/news_5963.html (accessed 07.08.2023) (in Russ.).

22. Lodygina P.A. On the Approval of the “Approximate Regulations on the Organization of Research Activities of the Central Library of the Constituent Entity of the Russian Federation”, Information Bulletin of the RLA, 2023, no. 100, p. 54 (in Russ.).

23. Trushina I.A., Vyshkova T.A. “Library — the Cultural Code of Russia”: All-Russia Library Congress/ the 27th Annual Conference of the Russian Library Association (Murmansk, June, 10—17, 2023), Information Bulletin of the RLA, 2023, no. 100, pp. 5—15 (in Russ.).