Theoretical Conceptualization and Practical Activities of the Government in the Issue of Sufficient Provision of Population with the Library Services

The article examines the dynamics of sociocultural changes and continuing differentiation of the regions in the conditions of infrastructure of cultural environment in terms of availability of access of citizens to the cultural values and benefits, described on the example of library network. There considered the issue of the need to identify the relationship between the activities of management institutions in the field of culture and the processes of change in socio-cultural environment of Russian regions taking into account their compliance with the main theoretical provisions, established in the normative legal acts of the Russian Federation as an instrument of state cultural policy. There are analyzed the consequences of transition from the normative standards of sufficient provision of population to the “Road map” optimization activities. Basing on the actual quantitative indicators and statistical data, the authors raise the discussion issues on the reduction of the branch units, the prospects of keeping the users in the rural areas, the relevance of libraries in the modern culture as a whole, and offer their point of view on the development of the field library services. Specific examples reveal imbalances in the formation of library networks in different regions of the Russian Federation. Differences in the assessment of processes in the library area between the experts, institutional authorities and public associations lead, according to the authors, to the challenging contradictions. As a result, the government remains the only responsible entity for the status of cultural environment in the society that does not correspond with the modern vision of multi-stakeholder governance, strengthening of the role of municipal management and the functions of the public sector of civil society.

Library Network, Library Services, Sufficient Provision with Libraries, Culture, Cultural Policy, Subject of the Russian Federation, Government, Standards and Norms

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