Part of the Address at the 4th Meeting of the Public Committee Assisting Russian Libraries Development.

Legal issues of municipal libraries activities and trends of library legislation development in the Russian Federation were discussed at the 4th Meeting of the Public Committee Assisting Russian Libraries Development.

The article deals with the features of creation of the regional library policy in the Yamalo-Nenetsky autonomous district in the period of administrative reforms in 1994—2008.

Author analyses a library as a cultural institution, features of four-element structure and forms of being in the social medium.

The article deals with the concept of knowledge and information. This concept allows to create intellectual retrieval system and knowledge management system.

Russian Empire Code of Laws is the most important monument of native legislation, creation of which was the main stage in creation of Russian statehood. As the historic resource the Code Laws hasnt lost its significance even today. The article considers historic precondition of the Code Laws creatoin, its structure, official and non-official publications, modern electronic versions of this monument.

This article represents an analysis of Tatar language bilingual dictionaries of the 19th century, stored at the rare books department of the Kazan State University Research Library, named after N.I. Lobatchevsky. The article contains a brief biography of creators of these works and analysis of structure of these lexicographical masterpieces.

Newspaper aims at actual informing the readers on the current events, that’s why many think that it will get out of date some days after. But in the following years the newspaper remains in demand, although this demand might be decreased. The author argues that with the course of time it changes from the media of operative information to a valuable historical resource.

The main sources of «A Refutation or Demolishment by the Most Humble Nikon, Patriarch by the Grace of God, of the Questions Which the Boyar Simeon Streshnev Addressed to Paisius Ligarid, Metropolitan of Gaza, and Paisius's Answers» Patriarch Nikon, a comparison with the Patriarch library, defined the basic terms of reading the Patriarch Nikon. Within the context of analysis the ratio quotations the biblical text, the Nomokanon, the Holy fathers in «Objection or Demolishment» are revealed. The main principles of the Patriarch Nikon work with the source text are defined.

The article deals with the questions related to the impact of the remarkable person of V.F. Odoevsky on the book culture of Russia in the 19th century. He is known to be a brilliant writer, enlightener and book collector. In the beginning of 19th century he started to publish the almanac “Mnemosina” which is still actual today and considers as a still not explored event of book culture.

The Materials dedicated to the 100-th anniversary of O. Chubaryan, outstanding library scientist and teacher are published. The reminiscences of his relatives, friends and colleagues were presented at the session of “Round Table” in the Russian State Library and these are published in the book “Art as a Formula of Life. Pages of O. Chubaryan’s Biography”.

The Materials dedicated to the 100-th anniversary of O. Chubaryan, outstanding library scientist and teacher are published. The reminiscences of his relatives, friends and colleagues were presented at the session of “Round Table” in the Russian State Library and these are published in the book “Art as a Formula of Life. Pages of O. Chubaryan’s Biography”.

The Materials dedicated to the 100-th anniversary of O. Chubaryan, outstanding library scientist and teacher are published. The reminiscences of his relatives, friends and colleagues were presented at the session of “Round Table” in the Russian State Library and these are published in the book “Art as a Formula of Life. Pages of O. Chubaryan’s Biography”.

Congratulations to the oldest employee O. Djakonova on the occasion of her anniversary from administration and staff of the Russian State Library.

Technical Committee 46 «Information and Documentation» of the International Standard Organization (ISO/TC 46) is published. Even a short description of ISO/TC 46 activities visually demonstrates what incredible and truly revolutionary changes happened during the last 60 years in the library, documentation and information work. The modern ISO/TC 46 structure is given, the work trends of its four subcommittees and numerous working groups, the interaction with other ISO technical committees and international organizations is characterized. Importance of standardization problems in the field of library and information science and of librarianship, in particularly, is confirmed by the authors’ practical work lasting for many year. The proposed information permits to better imagine the preparation process of the international standards and necessity of Russian specialists’ participation.

The article attempts to show the essence of different approaches to assessing library performance and quality of its activities. The author conducted bibliometrical analysis of over 3 thousand not published theses on librarianship and information sciences dated 1903-2004 in English and over 400 publications in the journals on librarianship and information sciences for the last 15 years.

This article deals with the problem of “white stains” in the history of libraries in Russia — activity of libraries at the secondary professional educational institutions on a boundary of 19—20th centuries that gets special interest in modern conditions of reforming of a vocational school. The work reveals the purposes and features of functioning of similar libraries on an example of Kazan, and considers the organization of library cases in them, including literature acquisition, creation of catalogues and departments, work with readers, and also structure of their collections. The special attention is given to functioning of student’s libraries and reading rooms, and also work of librarians.

Regional bibliography of North Caucasus was forming gradually in the process of revelation, description, consideration, and classification of historical literature and published regional history sources. In the course of time it turned into a separate field of scientific bibliographical activity. As a result special bibliographical proceedings and training aids, allowing to get new historical knowledge, were developed.

In January 2008 the Ulyanovsk region celebrated its 65th anniversary, that summer the city Simbirsk – Ulyanovsk celebrated its 360th anniversary. Among the library jubilees: 115th anniversary of the opening of the first peoples library in memory of I. Goncharov, 95th anniversary of the opening of the first public library of the region - Simbirsk Karamzin social library, today Ulyanovsk Regional Research Library named after V. Lenin. In 2008 Ulyanovsk was named the Library capital of Russia.

The stages of development of the Azerbaijan National Library named after M. Akhundov, the main library in the country and one of the largest universal libraries of the world, which is widely regarded as a treasury of national culture of Azerbaijan. Its history reflects the history of librarianship development in the country. In 2008 the library celebrated its 85th jubilee which was the big event in research, educational and cultural life of Azerbaijan.

The article is about sources and milestones of regular library education development in Russia. Starting point of the librarian training is 1913 — the year, when library courses at Shanyavsky People’s University began their activity. As time goes the courses outgrew into Institute of Library Science and then it was reformed into Moscow Library Institute, which became the flagship of library education in the country.

The use of a citation-analysis method for optimization of information-bibliographic service at libraries in academic research institutes is considered in detail. The results of scientometric studies carried out in the Central library of Pushchino research center of the Russian Academy of sciences have been provided. In library science the citation-analysis method is used extremely rare, so the paper on the essence of this method and technology of its use may be used by library scientists.

Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media Communications of the Russian Federation M. Seslavinsky (Rospechat) presented albums and collection of books to the Russian State Library on February, 4, 2009. These interesting examples of bookbinding and series of ex-librises were created by known artists for his private library.

Article deals with the history of Institute library creation, its activity, structure, and also about the role of library in development of ecological consciousness of the person and his/her ecological culture.

The article contains information about the Exhibition “Unique Book”, its exhibits, and also about the presentation of the project “History of Russian art in 22 volumes”, held on February 8—10, 2009 in the Moscow City Government.

About Irkutsk Regional Library’s experience in legal education of the population.