Morgenstern Readings — 2016. Libraries of Regions in the Digital Era

On 6-7 October, 2016 at the Chelyabinsk Regional Universal Scientific Library took place the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference “Morgenstern Readings - 2016. Libraries of Regions in the Digital Era: Management, Resources, Technology”. The conference was held at the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Russian Library Association, the Ministry of Culture of the Chelyabinsk Region, and the Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture. The All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference is named in honor of the outstanding scientist-biblio-grapher, Doctor of pedagogical sciences, Professor Isaac Grigorievich Morgenstern (1932-2008), who devoted his life to various aspects of the theory and practice of bibliography, librarianship, bibliology and social informatics. The conference was attended by 140 people - among them are the prominent Russian scientists in the field of library science and bibliography, leading experts and directors of the central, regional and municipal libraries, workers of library and information education, young library professionals and postgraduate students. The geography of participants was wide: from the Central Russia to Western Siberia, from St. Petersburg to Kemerovo. The Conference program included the plenary session, work of 3 Sections (“Innovative technologies of information and bibliographic user’s service as a factor in the development of the library”; “Reference and search tools of the library: new format”; “Problems of training, advanced training and retraining of library staff: the content of courses, quality of training and connection with practice”), the Round table “Morgenstern School: Remembering the Teacher...” and the tour in the Reading room named after I.G. Morgenstern. In total, there were presented 42 reports, including 7 poster presentations.

Bibliography, Conference, Morgenstern Readings, Information-Bibliographic Service, Refe-rence and Search Tools, Information Culture, Chelyabinsk Regional Universal Scientific Library

1. Kutlina L.P., Yakubets V.N. (eds). Biblioteki Chelyabinska: spravochnik [Libraries of Chelyabinsk: the Reference Book]. Chelyabinsk, Yuzhno-Ural’skoe Knizhnoe Publ., 1987, 123 p.

2. Morgenstern I.G. God spravochno-bibliograficheskoi raboty: (Ob itogakh odnogo eksperimenta) [A Year of Reference and Bibliographic Work: (On the Outcome of an Experiment)], Sov. Bibliografiya [Soviet Bibliography]. Moscow, 1975, no. 3, pp. 24—38.

3. Bukhshtab B.Ya. (ed.) Bibliografiya khudozhestvennoi literatury i literaturovedeniya: uchebnik [Bibliography of Fiction and Literary Studies: the textbook]. Moscow, Kniga Publ., 1971, 400 p.

4. Morgenstern I.G. Obshchee bibliografovedenie: ucheb. posobie [General Bibliography: the manual]. St. Petersburg, Professiya Publ., 2006, 208 p.

5. Morgenstern I.G. ABCDE/ABVGDE: vospominaniya, pis’ma [ABCDE/ABVGDE: Memories, Letters]. Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk State Academy of Culture and Arts Publ., 2008, 372 p.