Seminar “Information Provision of Science: New Technologies” and the History of Library Automation

The first professional standing Seminar “Information Provision of Science: New Technologies” has been held regularly since 1985. It is the platform for the library personnel, information workers and programmers to discuss the questions of development of the modern computer technologies for solution of library-information problems. Collections of materials of all seminars are published in printed form and presented on the website of the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (BEN RAS).

The article considers the situation in the field of the development of computer technology, existed in the mid-1980-ies that caused the need to organize the Seminar. There are presented the results of the analysis of Seminar proceedings published in 1985—2017, allowing to trace the development of library automation in the country. There is estimated the frequency of usage in the headings of reports of different terms related to this problem, that characterizes the dynamics of changes of its main priorities. Thus, the term ECM was widely used in 1980-ies, since 1991 ceased to be used; the term “electronic library”, which appeared in the proceedings of Seminar in 1999, reached its peak use in the late 2000-s, and then became quite “usual”; now in the titles of reports it appears much less frequently.

1. Kalenov N.E. The Methods of Informatics in the Activities of the Library for Natural Sciences: A Bit of History, Vklad informatsionno-bibliotechnoi sistemy RAN v razvitie otechestvennogo bibliotekovedeniya, informatiki i knigovedeniya: yubil. nauch. sb., posvyashch. 100-letiyu IBS Ros.akad. nauk [Contribution of the Information and Library System of the Russian Academy of Sciences to the Development of Russian Library Science, Informatics and Book Science: jubilee scientific collection dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the information and library system of the Russian Academy of Sciences], 2011, pp. 74—90 (in Russ.).

2. Doktorov Ya.Ya., Kalenov N.E. The Automated System of Registration and Distribution of Publications, Based on the PC Iskra-226, Problemy avtomatizatsii bibliotechno-bibliograficheskikh protsessov v akademicheskikh bibliotekakh: sb. nauch. tr. [Problems of Automation of the Library and Bibliographic Processes in Academic Libraries: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, 1988, pp. 73—76 (in Russ.).

3. Nesterov A.V., Dreizis V.P., Kamenev V.V. Features of the Library Local Network of Microcomputers, Problemy avtomatizatsii bibliotechno-bibliograficheskikh protsessov v akademicheskikh bibliotekakh: sb. nauch. tr. [Problems of Automation of the Library and Bibliographic Processes in Academic Libraries: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, 1988, pp. 67—69 (in Russ.).

4. Gorodnichy V.L. Book Ordering Automation on the Basis of Personal Computers Network, Problemy avtomatizatsii bibliotechno-bibliograficheskikh protsessov v akademicheskikh bibliotekakh: sb. nauch. tr. [Problems of Automation of the Library and Bibliographic Processes in Academic Libraries: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, 1988, pp. 88—90 (in Russ.).

5. Shvartsman M.E. Preparation of the Information for Union Catalogs on SM-4, Problemy avtomatizatsii bibliotechno-bibliograficheskikh protsessov v akademicheskikh bibliotekakh: sb. nauch. tr. [Problems of Automation of the Library and Bibliographic Processes in Academic Libraries: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, 1988, pp. 84—87 (in Russ.).

6. Senchenko N.I., Kostenko L.I., Slobodyanik M.S. The Main Provisions of the Conception of Automation of the Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Problemy avtomatizatsii bibliotechno-bibliograficheskikh protsessov v akademicheskikh bibliotekakh: sb. nauch. tr. [Problems of Automation of the Library and Bibliographic Processes in Academic Libraries: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, 1988, pp. 134—13 (in Russ.).

7. Zinina G.A. Personal Computers Application in the Development of the Automated Information and Library System of the Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, Sovershenstvovanie informatsionno-bibliotechnoi tekhnologii na osnove ispol’zovaniya sredstv vychislitel’noi tekhniki: sb. nauch. tr. [Development of the Information and Library Technology, Basing on the Use of Computer Facilities: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, 1990, pp. 14—17 (in Russ.).

8. Glushanovsky A.V., Levner M.V. Databases on CD-ROMs and their Using in Libraries, Sovershenstvovanie informatsionno-bibliotechnoi tekhnologii na osnove ispol’zovaniya sredstv vychislitel’noi tekhniki: sb. nauch. tr. [Development of the Information and Library Technology, Basing on the Use of Computer Facilities: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, 1990, pp. 18—23 (in Russ.).

9. Menyaev M.F. A Library and Information System Based on Personal Computer, Sovershenstvovanie informatsionno-bibliotechnoi tekhnologii na osnove ispol’zovaniya sredstv vychislitel’noi tekhniki: sb. nauch. tr. [Development of the Information and Library Technology, Basing on the Use of Computer Facilities: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, 1990, pp. 24—26 (in Russ.).

10. Glukhov V.A., Smirnova M.N. Development of an Automated Information and Library System for Social Sciences in the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION), Sovershenstvovanie informatsionno-bibliotechnoi tekhnologii na osnove ispol’zovaniya sredstv vychislitel’noi tekhniki: sb. nauch. tr. [Development of the Information and Library Technology, Basing on the Use of Computer Facilities: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, 1990, pp. 10—13 (in Russ.).

11. Chkhenkeli T.I. Automation in a National Library, Novye tekhnologii v informatsionno-bibliotechnom obespechenii nauchnykh issledovanii: sb. nauch. tr. [New Technologies in the Information and Library Support of Scientific Research: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, 1992, pp. 61—66 (in Russ.).

12. Vasilyev A.V. Automated Complex SOLAR, Primenenie EVM v informatsionno-bibliotechnoi tekhnologii: sb. nauch. tr. [Computer Application in the Information and Library Technology: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, BEN RAN Publ., 1995, pp. 35—38 (in Russ.).

13. Greshnov E.B., Pavlov A.I., Yudin A.B. Local Computer Network in a Library, Primenenie EVM v informatsionno-bibliotechnoi tekhnologii: sb. nauch. tr. [Computer Application in the Information and Library Technology: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, BEN RAN Publ., 1995, pp. 67—68 (in Russ.).

14. Myakova N.A. Technological and Software Support of the Automated Systems of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology, Primenenie EVM v informatsionno-bibliotechnoi tekhnologii: sb. nauch. tr. [Computer Application in the Information and Library Technology: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, BEN RAN Publ., 1995, pp. 16—17 (in Russ.).

15. Loginov B.R., Starkova M.N., Vyugin V.V. The Results of Application and Implementation of the Integrated Library and Information System (IBIS), Primenenie EVM v informatsionno-bibliotechnoi tekhnologii: sb. nauch. tr. [Computer Application in the Information and Library Technology: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, BEN RAN Publ., 1995, pp. 18—19 (in Russ.).

16. Ageeva T.I., Ignatyeva V.V. Computer Technology Implementation in a University Library, Primenenie EVM v informatsionno-bibliotechnoi tekhnologii: sb. nauch. tr. [Computer Application in the Information and Library Technology: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, BEN RAN Publ., 1995, pp. 33—34 (in Russ.).

17. Brodovsky A.I. The Integrated Library and Information System IRBIS Is a Typical Solution for Automation of Small and Medium Libraries, Informatsionnoe obespechenie nauki. Novye tekhnologii: sb. nauch. tr. [The Information Support of Science. New Technologies: collected scientific papers]. Moscow, BEN RAN Publ., 1997, pp. 89—96 (in Russ.).