On the New Methodological Approaches to the Study of Library Sector in the Region

Abstract

The collective monograph by S.Yu. Volzhenina, S.S. Guzner, L.A. Kozhevnikova “Library sector in the socio-economic system of region: methodology and methods of performance evaluation” (Novosibirsk, 2015) discusses the problems of theory and methodology of economics of library activities. The impetus for conducting the study was the need to identify the new approaches to the analysis of the status and development of librarianship in the region in the framework of the subject of the Russian Federation. The book presents the new solutions to one of the most complex problems of librarianship. There are substantiated the new terms: “Library Sector”, “Regional Library Sector”, “Regional Library Cluster”. There is described the model system of indicators and indices for assessing the activity of libraries and the method of determination of assessment of their contribution to the social production of the region. The model is tested and endorsed on the basis of library sector of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region - Ugra.