Part I. Library— Culture — Society

1. The Annual Meeting of the Directors of the Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia

• Author: Trushina I.A., the Head of the Department of Interlibrary Interaction, the National Library of Russia, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences
• Abstract: On the Annual Meeting of the Directors of the Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia «Innovative Models of Development and the Quality of Library Services provided to the Citizens of Russia», held at the National Library of Russia (NLR) on 22–23 October, 2013.
• Key words: Library Activity, International Cooperation, Electronic Library, Information Literacy, Library Services.
• Summary in Russian

2. Methodological Problems of the Identification of a Document as an Object of Cognition

• Author: Pleshkevitch E.A., Leading Researcher of the Scientific Research Department of Library Science, the Russian State Library, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor
• Abstract: There are analyzed the contradictions of the identification of a document as an object of study and the solution options in the Library Science and Bibliography Studies. There are shown the genesis and evolution of the epistemological and ontological definitions of Document. The solution to this problem is proposed through the development of the methodology of documentary-informational approach.
• Key words: Bibliography Study, Library Science, Epistemology, Document, Document Science, Documentary Activity, Ontology, Contradiction, Theory of Documentary Information.
• Summary in Russian

3. Possibilities of Disclosure of Dissertation Collections using the Method of Scientometric Analysis

• Author: Kabanova N.M., the Chief Archivist of the Research Scientific Department of Manuscripts, the Russian State Library
• Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the findings of scientometric measuring of the Collection of Dissertations (and author’s abstracts), in order to determine the obtained results of usage of this method.
• Key words: Scientometrics, Method of Scientometric Analysis, Quantitative Methods, Dissertation Collection, Forecasting of Science Development.
• Summary in Russian

Part II. Informatization — Resources — Technologies

4. Service-Oriented Research and Library Innovation Studies

• Author: Oparina O.D., Director of the Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Research Library named after V.G. Belinsky, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences
• Abstract: There is considered the service-oriented science concept and its application for study of information systems operation. There are demonstrated the directions of studies and the examples of technology innovations in the foreign libraries.
• Key words: Library Innovation Study, Library Innovations, Web-services, Innovative Activities, Internet-technologies, Service-oriented Architecture, Service-oriented Science, Service-oriented Studies.
• Summary in Russian

5. Advantages of Library Virtual Reference Services

• Author: Matyasheva S.S., Specialist-Expert of the Library of Administration of the President of the Russian Federation
• Abstract: Information service of users is the most important function of the foreign and the Russian libraries. Informatization and computerization change the user’s needs, professional qualities of librarian-specialist, component part of stock, technology and organization of library processes, and mainly reference service. With the appearance of virtual reference services people got the opportunity to take advantage of the help of specialists, who can demonstrate and provide the necessary high-quality and reliable information.
• Key words: Virtual Reference Service, Virtual Service, Traditional Service, Benefits of Virtual Reference Services.
• Summary in Russian

6. The Problems of Implementation of Discovery Type Search Services in the Libraries

• Author: Litvinova N.N., Chief Librarian, the Russian State Library, Candidate of Philological Sciences
• Abstract: There is presented the analysis of operation of Discovery type services (discovery services). There are discussed the problems of introduction of such services in the Russian libraries; there are described the typical setting procedures.
• Key words: Discovery Services, Link Resolver, Libraries, Implementation, Service Setting, License, Administration.
• Summary in Russian

Part III. Book — Reading — Reader

7. Coverage of the Missionary Activity of the Russian Orthodox Church in Siberia in the Secular Periodicals of the XIX century

• Author: Metropolitan Clement of Kaluga and Borovsk (G.M. Kapalin), Chairman of the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, Rector of the Kaluga Theological Seminary, Candidate of Theology, Candidate of Historical Sciences
• Abstract: Expansion in XVII-XVIII centuries of the territory of the Russian Empire in the East to the coast of North America gave rise to the development of the missionary work of the Russian Orthodox Church. The activities of missionaries, on one hand, were a personal spiritual heroic deed on spreading the faith, and, on the other hand, the part of state policy aimed at strengthening the statehood in the New Territories and acculturation of the autochthonous population. One of the sources, containing information on the activities of the spiritual mission in Siberia and Kamchatka in the XIX century, is periodicals.
• Key words: Orthodoxy, Siberia, Kamchatka, Priest, Missionary, Mission, Autochthon, Baptism.
• Summary in Russian

8. The History of Russia in Bloomers (on the Examples of Works of N.S. Samokish, the Artist)

• Author: Bortsova E.A., Post-Graduate Student of the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts
• Abstract: There is discussed the book graphic art works of the renowned artist N. S. Samokish. For the first time there is analyzed the art decoration of «Coronation Collection» and «The Century of War Ministry» publications. The author explores the bloomers made by the artist-decorator of these publications.
• Key words: N. S. Samokish, Bloomer, Book, Publication, Coronation, Composition, Design, Collection.
• Summary in Russian

9. The Impact of Library Programs on the Level of Reader Development of Schoolchildren

• Author: Kabatcheck O.L., Chief Scientist of the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Pedagogy of Children’s Reading, the Russian State Children’s Library, Candidate of Psychological Sciences
• Abstract: The article presents the results of experimental-psychological study of the efficiency of three copyrighted library programs, designed to develop reading and personal characteristics of the younger schoolchildren. Using the author’s scale of literary (reader) development, there are demonstrated the strengths and weaknesses of programs, referring to the author’s or reader’s position.
• Key words: Copyrighted Library Programs, Diagnostics, Reader (Literary) Development of Children, Subjectness, Author’s and Reader’s Positions.
• Summary in Russian

Part IV. Images — People — Destinies

10. Spiritual World of V.I. Vernadsky: the Scientist and the Books (to the 150-th Anniversary of Birth)

• Author: Spirovа V.I., Director of the Research Library of the Taurida National University named after V.I. Vernadsky, Simferopol, Ukraine
• Abstract: This article is devoted to V.I. Vernadsky — the great scholar and thinker. His scientific and public works are recognized worldwide. In the article there is analyzed, how the books influenced formation of his scientific and cultural outlook. There was used the principle of diary notes and there was made the attempt to restore the complicated spiritual phenomenon of V.I. Vernadsky basing on the scientific works, speeches, diaries, letters and memoirs of the scientist, and to determine the place of the books and libraries in his life.
• Key words: V.I. Vernadsky, Scientist, Diary, Letter, Memoirs, Book, Library.
• Summary in Russian

11. Overcoming the Civilizational Crisis — On the Way of Spiritual and Cultural Self Identification. On the Social and Philosophical Heritage of I.A. Ilyin

• Author: Sharipov A.M., the Co-Chair of the International Ilyin Committee, Candidate of Historical Sciences
• Abstract: On the activity of the International Ilyin Committee (IIC) on preparation and celebration of 130-th Anniversary of I.A.Ilyin, the great scientist and patriot of Russia.
• Key words: I.A. Ilyin, the International Youth Competition of Philosophical and Literary Essays «My Russia: the History is happening in us», Ilyin Readings, Conference, Philosophy.
• Summary in Russian

12. The National Library of Russia — Succession and New Guidelines: In Memory of V.N. Zaitsev

• Author: Likhomanov A.V., Director General, the National Library of Russia, Candidate of Historical Sciences
• Abstract: Publication in memory of Vladimir Nikolaevich Zaytsev (1938-2010), who was the Head of the National Library of Russia (NLR) for a long period of time.
• Key words: Library Activities, Teaching, Management, Development of Librarianship.
• Summary in Russian

Part V. International Content

13. The Round-Table Meeting «United Nations Organization: Twenty Years of Struggling for Your Rights» in the Russian State Library

• Author: Shandurenko G.V., Chief Librarian of the Department of Official and Normative Documents, the Russian State Library
• Abstract: On celebration at the RSL of the UN Day, dedicated in 2013 to the 20-th anniversary of the Vienna Conference. The event was prepared by the Center of Documents of International Organizations of the Department of Official and Normative Documents of the RSL jointly with the UN Information Center in Moscow and the Representation of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation (OHCHR).
• Key words: Human Rights, Vienna Declaration, United Nations Organization, Civil Society.
• Summary in Russian

14. School Library in the Conditions of Reform of the German Orthography (1996—2006)

• Author: Khakimova G.A., Senior Lecturer of the Department of Foreign Languages of the K.I. Skryabin Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology
• Abstract: There are considered the difficulties encountered in the activities of school libraries in Germany in the period of reform of the German language in 1998. There is analyzed the experience of resolving the linguistic, as well as social, political and economic problems in the conditions of one of the largest linguistic reforms over the last 100 years.
• Key words: Library, Libraries in Germany, Language Reforms, Reform of German Orthography
• Summary in Russian

15. The Russian Librarianship in Shanghai

• Author: Khisamutdinov A.A., the Leading Bibliographer of the Central Research Library of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences
• Abstract: The article is devoted to the history of librarianship in Shanghai in the Russian emigration community. For the first time there is described the activities of public and private libraries, and paid attention to the individuals who contributed to forming of these funds.
• Key words: Librarianship, Libraries in Shanghai, the Russian Emigration, the Russian Librarians.
• Summary in Russian

Part VI. Historical Practices and Reconstructions

16. The Scientific Conference «Library in the Context of History»: 2013 and Retrospective

• Author: Dvorkina M.Y., Chief Scientist of the Scientific Research Department of Library Science, the Russian State Library, the Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences
• Abstract: On the 10-th All-Russian Research Conference «Library in the context of History», which completed the twenty-year validity period of the same named project.
• Key words: Librarianship, Professional Consciousness, Scientific Readings, Regional Library History.
• Summary in Russian

17. The Library of Tobolsk Theological Seminary (the second half of XVIII — the first half of XIX century): Description of the Library Holding

• Author: Valitov A.A., Researcher of the Laboratory of History of the Development of Siberia, Tobolsk Complex Scientific Station of the Ural Branch of RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences
• Abstract: The article is devoted to the history of creation and development of the Tobolsk Theological Seminary and Seminary Library in XVIII-XIX centuries. There were used various archival and literary references, allowing to define the place of seminary library in the history of the region.
• Key words: Library, Theological Seminary, Tobolsk, Bishops; Fundamental, Student’s, Selling Libraries.
• Summary in Russian

Part VII. Education — Profession

18. The «Green» Libraries of Moscow. Children’s Libraries in the Year of Environment

• Author: Koloskova N.E., the Head of Sector of the Methodological Department of the A.P.Gaidar Central City Children’s Library (Moscow)
• Abstract: The material is devoted to the project activities of Children’s Libraries of Moscow, to the experience of forming the ecological world view of the readers, to ecologization of children’s libraries.
• Key words: Environmental Education, Green Library, Professional Development, Library Event.
• Summary in Russian

19. The Great Jubilee (to the 100-th Anniversary of the Higher Library Courses)

• Author: Dudareva E.B., Head of the Learning Center, the Russian State Library, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences
• Abstract: The material is dedicated to the celebration of centenary of opening of the first Russian Library Courses, which activity is still going on.
• Key words: Higher Library Courses, Teaching, Library Activity, Professional Development.
• Summary in Russian

20. An Important Contribution to the Library Management and the Library Profession Science

• Authors: Sokolov A.V., Professor of the St.-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Vinogradova V.A., Librarian of the Centralized Library System of the Frunzensky District (St.-Petersburg)
• Abstract: The review of the research and practice manual of M.P.Zakharenko «The Young Specialists of the Modern Library: Organizational and Management Approach».
• Key words: Review, Teaching, Professional development, Management.
• Summary in Russian

Part VIII. Facts — Events — Communications

21. «Chameleons» in the Library: Ekaterinburg hosted the III Non-Conference of Library Bloggers

• Author: Mikiytchuk M.A., Librarian of the Central City Children’s Library named after Alexander Pushkin (Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Region)
• Abstract: On the Non-conference of library bloggers — a unique platform for discussion of all the innovations, trials and errors of librarians’ work in Internet, — held on the basis of the Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Research Library named after V. G. Belinsky.
• Key words: Information Literacy, Media Education, Electronic Resource, Blog, smm-Manager.
• Summary in Russian