Going Ahead (Reflections in connection with the 60th Anniversary of V.K. Klyuev)

Vladimir K. Klyuev — is an outstanding representative of the modern library intelligentsia, whose life is inseparably linked with the Moscow State Institute of Culture, where he covered an over 40-year path from student to Professor, and Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation. V.K. Klyuev is the initiator and author of the innovative University courses “Economics of library and information work”, “Marketing of library and information work”, “Library Law”, “Management of library and information work”. Since 2007 Professor V.K. Klyuev is the Head the Department of management of information and library activities. At the Department there was formed an authoritative scientific school; under only Klyuev’s supervision there were defended 10 PhD theses. V.K. Klyuev is the perennial Chairman of the Educational-Methodical Council of Russian Universities on education in the field of library and information activities; the developer of Federal educational discipline-specific standards of Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs; the leading co-developer of the project of the Professional Standard of specialist of library and information work; the initiator and coordinator of the inter-University series of 13 basic textbooks on all core Bachelor courses. Such a large-scale scientific and pedagogical project the Russian library school never knew. Professor V.K. Klyuev is Vice-president of the “Library Science” Department of the International Informatization Academy (IIA) under the United Nations, Academician of the Academy of Management in Education and Culture, Member of the Russian Professorial Assembly, Full Member of the Guild of Experts in the field of Professional Education and many other public organizations. 

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2. Pokrovsky N.E. Rossiiskaya intelligentsiya pered istoricheskim vyborom [The Russian Intelligentsia before the Historical Choice], Intelligentsiya v usloviyakh obshchestvennoi nestabil’nosti [The Intelligentsia in the Conditions of Social Instability]. Moscow, 1996, p. 35.

3. Klyuev V.K. Integratsiya nauki i praktiki (k 10-letiyu kafedry upravleniya informatsionno-bibliotechnoi deyatel’nost’yu MGUKI) [Integration of Science and Practice (for the 10th Anniversary of the Department of Management of Information-Library Activities of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts)], Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science], 2014, no. 5, pp. 116—120.

4. Klyuev V.K. Traditsii i novatsii otraslevoi magisterskoi podgotovki (iz praktiki Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo instituta kul’tury) [Traditions and Innovations in the Branch Master Degree Program (from the Practice of the Moscow State Institute of Culture)], Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science], 2016, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 593—598.

5. Kotler Ph. Osnovy marketinga: kratkii kurs [Marketing Essentials]. Moscow, Vil’yams Publ., 2012, p. 18.

6. Kotler Ph., Andreasen A.R. Strategicheskii marketing nekommercheskikh organizatsii [Strategic Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations]. Rostov-on-Don, Feniks Publ., 2007, p. 24.

7. Suslova I.M., Klyuev V.K. Menedzhment bibliotechnoinformatsionnoi deyatel’nosti: uchebnik [Library and Information Management: Manual]. St. Petersburg, Professiya Publ., 2009, p. 225.

8. Klyuev V.K., Zakharenko M.P. Bibliotekovedcheskii akademicheskii otchet [Library Science Academic Report], Bibliotechnoe delo [Librarianship], 2015, no. 11, pp. 39—44.