The article presents an overview of the Annual Meeting of the Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia - 2015, conducted by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the National Library of Russia and the Russian State Library on 20-21 October, 2015 in St. Petersburg. The theme of the Meeting “State Cultural Policy: the Role of Libraries” was closely connected with the activities of libraries in relation to the approval of “Basic Principals of State Cultural Policy”. There are considered the topical problems of the legislative framework of libraries, as well as their projects facilitating to implement the state cultural policy. There are summarized the results of the All-Russian Competition of Library Innovations and the II All-Russian Competition “The Library Analytics - 2015”. There are announced the names of the awarded with the Medal of the Russian Library Association (RBA) “For Contribution to the Development of Libraries” and awarded with the title of the RBA Honorary Member. There is published the Resolution of the Annual Meeting of the Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia.

The IX All-Russia Meeting of the Heads of Information Services for Culture and Art “Information and Analytical Support in the Sphere of Culture: Status and Prospects” and the Research and Practical Conference “Information and Analytical Projects of the Libraries: Challenges of the 21 century” were held on 16-18 September, 2015 in St. Petersburg. Basing on the materials of the events there is presented an overview of major actions and trends in the development of information and analytical activities of libraries. There are considered the prospects, success and risk factors in the information and analytical activity of libraries in the sphere of culture and art.

There is considered the Draft Federal Law “On Amendments to the Federal Law ‘On Librarianship’ in part of creation of the Federal State Information System ‘The National Electronic Library’”. There are highlighted the main provisions of the Draft Law, forming the legal basis of the activities of the National Electronic Library.

Bibliofuturology is study of future of bibliosphere. Bibliosphere is the system of book communication, uniting book publishing, librarianship and bibliography. The main objective of bibliofuturology is the development of strategy of use of book resources for humanization of humankind. There are characterized the subject field and methodical arsenal of bibliofuturology.

The article describes the genesis and evolution of the epistemological and ontological definitions of the model. There is analyzed the experience of using the modeling method in librarianship. There are consi-dered the theoretical and methodological foundations of modeling in librarianship as a method of scientific cognition.

The article describes the work of the II International Bibliographic Congress held on 6-8 October, 2015 in the Russian State Library under the motto “Bibliography: Future Outlook”. Members of the Congress have outlined the path for development of bibliography in the nearest future. There was prepared the Book Exhibition “Bibliography of Russia (2011-2015)” and the Virtual exhibition “The All-Russian Competition of Scientific Research Works on Library Science, Bibliography and Bibliology (Bibliography Science and Bibliographic Products). The Winners of the 21st century”.

There are considered the current state, the main trends of creation and development of the collections of electronic resources of regional orientation on the basis of libraries in the regions, as well as those being part of major Federal projects. There is described the experience of formation of region-oriented collections of the Presidential library named after Boris Yeltsin.

Review of the events in 2015 of the State Budgetary Institution of Culture “Library named after A. Chekhov” of the Centralized Library System of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, held in the framework of the Project “Round Tables and Research and Practical Conferences ‘Literary Process in the 20-21 centuries’” at the financial support of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications and the Russian Book Union.

For the first time there is presented the archaeological and historical information on the copy of Gospel published in the Moscow Synodal Printing House in 1841 and donated to the Holy Trinity Antony of Siya Monastery by the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich in 1844.

The article is devoted to the scientific work of the outstanding domestic bibliognost and historian of book E. Nemirovsky and dedicated to his 90th birth anniversary. There are considered the main directions and results of the scientist’s research.

The article describes the history of the library, its collections and the owner - Siberian manufacturer Gennady Vasilyevich Yudin. Uneasy fate of the Yudin’s Collection, his relationship with domestic and foreign counterparts had led to the ambiguity of his contribution and recognition of his achievements. However, since 1990, there are conducted Yudin Readings, and in 2015 the Readings were held for the eighth time. His heritage is being studied, catalogued, contributing to the reconstruction of the past of Siberia and Russia.

120th anniversary of the great poet of Russia S. Yesenin was celebrated by the entire literary world. The article is devoted to the prominent Russian library scientist Konstantin Ivanovich Abramov. There is noted his participation in the Great Patriotic War. It is characterized his activities associated with the Moscow Library Institute (nowadays - the Moscow State Institute of Culture): studentship, postgraduate study, teaching, managing the department of library science, etc. There is presented his work at the Lenin State Library of the USSR (GBL, nowadays - the Russian State Library, RSL), as well as his social activities. There are listed the awards of K. Abramov and demonstrated his involvement in the international library activities. There is considered in detail the contribution of Konstantin Ivanovich to the library science (the history of librarianship, including methodology of the history of librarianship; general library science, in particular the theme “Library and Power”. There are characterized the papers by K. Abramov, written in 1990-ies. There is shown contribution of K. Abramov in the library education, considering him being the head of the Department and scientific supervisor of postgraduate students.

The article is devoted to the history of creation and development of Ivanovo-Voznesensk Public Library in the second half of the 19 - early 20th century. There are analyzed the qualitative and quantitative composition of the library, the financial position of the library, the necessity for such educational institution for the city.

The article is devoted to the 100th anniversary of the First World War. It reveals the organization of library services for the wounded soldiers and prisoners of war during the World War I. There is considered participation of public institutions, social and charitable institutions, professional societies in the Book Supply libraries in hospitals and infirmaries, camps for prisoners of war. There are described forms of public participation in the collection of funds, purchasing, acquisition and delivery of books. There is presented the statistical data on the number of collected books and libraries.

The article highlights the activities of the Russian State Library (RSL) in the status of Depository Library (DL) of the United Nations (UN), analyzes the features of formation and use of the Depository Collection of the United Nations in the Russian State Library; there are considered the new strategic approaches to the functioning of DL in the digital environment and the project of creation of electronic collection for DL.

The article emphasizes the up-to-date trend in the international library science on careful study of standards for libraries. Definite causality of this work in the socio-economical environment of the library is specified. The new standards include seven basic parts and have made revisions in several important aspects. There are analyzed the specific features of Chinese librarians’ activities on creation and implementation of the national standards for public libraries for the purpose to increase the library efficiency.

The article analyzed the main reasons of significant reduction of demand for the services of public libra-ries of Russia from 1980 to 2014. There are revealed the factors preventing reduction of the capacity of market of the cultural goods.

The article presents information on the International scientific conference XIX Pavlenkov Readings held on 13-15 October, 2015 in the National Library of Russia, traditionally considering the history of book publishing in pre-revolutionary Russia of the 19th - early 20th century. The conference was devoted to I. Frolova - the historian-bibliognost, a quarter of century having led the Sector of bibliology of the National Library of Russia. At the plenary session and three sections (“History of publishing, History of book collections and rare books”, “History of censorship”) there were highlighted various aspects of book culture history of the Russian Empire: issues of publishing, bookselling, history of censorship, libraries, readership, bibliophilism, and book publishing in the province. Conference