Part I. Library — Culture — Society

1. The War. The Library. The Victory

• Author: Koval L. M., Head of the Sector and Head of the Museum of History of the Russian State Library, Cand. Sc. (History).
• Abstract: On the contribution of staff of the Russian State Library to the struggle against fascism during the Great Patriotic War.
• Key words: The World War II, Stalingrad, Militia, Human Resources, Exhibition Activities.
• Summary in Russian

2. The Siberian Shield of the Volga Stronghold

• Author: Ermakov I. I., Bibliographer of the Research-Bibliographic Department of the Information and Library Center, the Tyumen State University.
• Abstract: On the fundamental work «The Siberian Shield of the Volga Stronghold», telling about the contribution of the Siberians and the Far-Easterns to the defeat of Nazi invaders and their Hungarian, Romanian, Italian satellites and the Spanish «Blue Division» on the banks of Volga, the Great Russian River.
• Key words: Publishing Activities, the World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad, Memoirs.
• Summary in Russian

3. «Intellectual Culture and Book. Traditions and the Present Day»: The International Research Conference «Rumyantsev Readings — 2013»

• Author: Tikhonova L. N., Deputy Director General for Research and Publishing, the Russian State Library, Cand. Sc. (Philology).
• Abstract: On the Annual International Research Conference «Rumyantsev Readings — 2013», held on 16–17 April, 2013 in the Russian State Library.
• Key words: Conference, Nikolay Petrovich Rumyantsev, Formation of National Consciousness, Intellectual Culture.
• Summary in Russian

4. Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty in the Russian State Library

• Author: Bushuyev S. V., Leading Researcher of the Scientific-Research Department of Books and Reading, the Russian State Library.
• Abstract: On the complex of celebration events devoted to the 400th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty, held at the Russian State Library in March 2013.
• Key words: Exhibition Activities, the Romanov Dynasty, Historical Heritage, Rare Documents, Rescript, Articles of War.
• Summary in Russian

5. Information Functions and Humanistic Mission of the Russian Libraries

• Author: Sokolov A.V., Professor of the Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences.
• Abstract: In the Library Science context there are considered the following notions: «Information», «Information Function», «Humanistic Mission», «Library Humanism».
• Key words: Information, Informational Function, Library Humanism, Humanistic Mission.
• Summary in Russian

6. Methods of Determining the Functions of the Regional Libraries

• Authors:
  Vokhrysheva M. G., Head of the Department of the Document Science and Bibliography, the Samara State Academy of Culture and Arts, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences;
  Professor Kluyashkina I. N., Head of the Library, the Samara Institute of Management.
• Abstract: The article is devoted to the matters related to determination of functions of the regional libraries: universal, research, children’s, youth libraries and libraries for the blind. There are substantiated the methodological principles allowing to organize the system of functions in the conditions of diversity of approaches and designations, proposed in the dedicated print media, as well as there are identified the directions of actualization of functions in the modern circumstances.
• Key words: Regional Libraries, Functions, Methodological Principles, Updating of Functions, Essential Functions, Basic Functions, Typological Function, Priority Functions.
• Summary in Russian

7. The All-Russian Competition of Library Innovations: Output and Outlook

• Author: Guseva E. N., Head of the Library Stock System Management Department, the Russian State Library, Cand. Sc. (Pedagogy).
• Abstract: On the All-Russian Competition of Library Innovations, which was held for the first time in Russia at the Russian State Library in October, 2012 — April, 2013, within the framework of celebration of the 150th anniversary of the opening the first Public Library in Moscow.
• Key words: Innovation, Information Technologies, Innovation Activity, Automated Formation of Collective Documents.
• Summary in Russian

Part II. Informatization — Resources — Technologies

8. «Library Stock in the Digital Age: Traditional and Electronic Resources, Acquisition, Utilization»

• Author: Serova O. V., Head of the Division of Library and Information Service, the Russian State Library.
• Abstract: On the All-Russian Research and Practical Conference «Library Stock in the Digital Age: Traditional and Electronic Resources, Acquisition, Utilization», held on 26—29 March, 2013 at the Russian National Library.
• Key words: The Russian Library Association, the Copyright Law, the Use of Electronic Resources, Business Models of Interaction with Libraries, Professional Literature.
• Summary in Russian

9. User’s Options for Information Search in the Electronic Libraries, or «Knight at the Crossroads»

• Author: Lavryonova O. A., Head of the Department of the Development of Computer Technologies and Linguistic Support, the Russian State Library, Cand. Sc. (Phylology).
• Abstract: There are considered the matters of arrangement of the thematic search in the electronic libraries. In any information system, the man finds himself in the role of a traveler, to whom there are offered the options for choosing the way to get the result. The role of notorious labels on the fairy stones are played by the computer screens with the texts in the menu windows. How far did the information systems go from the well-known since childhood texts, such as «Turn right — find luck»?
• Key words: Thematic Search, Electronic Library, Electronic Catalogue, Semantic Network, Graphs, Thesaurus, Ontology, Library Bibliographic Classification, LBC, Knowledge Representation System, Verbal Formula of Indexes, Semantic Web.
• Summary in Russian

10. Electronic Library Systems: Is there an Alternative?

• Author: Kostyuk K. N., General Director of «Direct-Media» LLC, Candidate of Political Sciences.
• Abstract: The article explains the concept of «Electronic Library System» (ELS), the peculiarities of its distribution model and services, tasks to be performed in the terms of development of e-publishing in Research and Education spheres. There are described the peculiarities of normative regulation of the ELS and its development issues at the modern stage. The author presents the ELS as the source of innovative changes in the book publishing sphere.
• Key words: Electronic Book, Electronic Library, Electronic Library System, ELS, University Library, ELS Criteria.
• Summary in Russian

Part III. Book — Reading — Reader

11. Passion for Bibliophily [International Conference «Bibliophily and Private Collections»]

• Author: Seslavinsky M. V., Head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, the Chairman of the Board of Nonprofit Partnership «National Union of Bibliophiles», Cand. Sc. (History).
• Abstract: On the Second International Research Conference «Bibliophily and Private Collections», held on March 22, 2013 and organized by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, the Russian State Library and the Nonprofit Partnership «National Union of Bibliophiles» (NUB).
• Key words: Bibliophile, Moscow Bibliophiles Club, Bibliology, Personal Depository, Monument of Book Culture.
• Summary in Russian

12. Publishing Activities of Cossack Villages and Hamlets

• Author: Boldyreva O. P., Head of the Department of Library Stock Preservation of the Russian State Art Library.
• Abstract: The establishment and development of Cossack villages and hamlets in the period of the first wave of emigration is the unique page in the history of the Russian exile. One of the important features of the Cossack villages’ existence was the activity on publication of journals and anthologies. It became the most important function and it determined its livelihoods. All the hardships and burdens of financing of these magazines were carried on by Czechoslovak authorities, as well as by the Cossack villagers.
• Key words: The Russian Literature Abroad, the Cossack Press, Magazines, Anthologies, the Cossack Villages, the Cossack Villages Editions, Czechoslovakia, the Russian Help Action
• Summary in Russian

Part IV. Images — Faces — Destinies

13. «Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863—1945)»: Exhibition at the RSL

• Author: Tatarinova E. A., Deputy Head of the Department of Exhibition Work Management, the Russian State Library, Cand. Sc. (History).
• Abstract: On the Book Illustration Exhibition dedicated to the life of V.I. Vernadsky. The exhibit displays reflect practically all the activities of Vladimir Vernadsky: his lifetime printed research works (including autograph notes of V.I. Vernadsky), its reissues, books issued to the other anniversaries of the scientist, publication of his correspondence and diary records of 1917—1925, books on life and work of V. I. Vernadsky, written inclusively by his students and followers.
• Key words: Lithography, Mineralogy, Natural Sciences, Research activities, Exhibition Work.
• Summary in Russian

14. The Library Science Defectology Matters in the Scientific Heritage of A. E. Shaposhnikov

• Author: Matveeva E. O., Professor of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, Cand. Sc. (Pedagogy), Member of the International Academy of Informatization.
• Abstract: This article is devoted to the analysis of the scientific heritage of A.E. Shaposhnikov. The article analyzes the contribution of the scientist to the development of the domestic defectological library science, to the formation of the system view of rehabilitation tasks of the Russian libraries. Special attention is paid to the concept and methodological aspects of social and cultural rehabilitation of disabled readers, substantiated by the researcher.
• Key words: Library, Defectology Matters of the Library Science, Readers with Disabilities, Social and Cultural Rehabilitation, Equal Opportunities, Training of Librarians.
• Summary in Russian

Part V. International Content

15. The Main Information Products of the Regional Universal Research Libraries of Ukraine

• Author: Postelzhuk E. N., Postgraduate Student, the Rovno State Humanities University, (Dubno, Ukraine).
• Abstract: There are discussed the information and analytical products of the regional universal research libraries of Ukraine of 2010—2011. There are analyzed the peculiarities of the traditional and the newest types of the information products of libraries.
• Key words: Information Products and Services, Informational and Analytical Products, Regional Universal Research Library, Bibliographic Index.
• Summary in Russian

16. The Russian Libraries in Beijing and Tianjin

• Author: Khisamutdinov A. A., Professor, the Far Eastern Federal University, Doctor of Historical Sciences (Vladivostok).
• Abstract: The article is devoted to the history of libraries in Beijing and Tianjin, closely connected with the history of the Russian emigration in China. For the first time there are analyzed the activities of the various libraries: religious, public and private. Special attention is paid to the individuals who build the library funds. The source for this article was formed by the collections of the Hamilton Library of the University of Hawaii (Honolulu, USA) and the Museum of the Russian Culture in San-Francisco, as well as by the holdings and catalogs of other American libraries, where the books, previously held by the Russian libraries in Beijing and Tianjin, were revealed.
• Key words: Librarianship, Libraries in Beijing, Libraries in Tianjin, the Russian Emigration, the Russian Librarians.
• Summary in Russian

Part VI. Historical Practices and Reconstructions

17. Libraries of the People’s Commissariat of Education System in Stavropol Region during the Great Patriotic War

• Author: Borovtsova A. E., Head of the Department of Periodicals, the Stavropol Regional Universal Research Library named after M. Lermontov, Cand. Sc. (History).
• Abstract: The article describes the libraries’ activities of Stavropol region during the Great Patriotic War, libraries’ contribution to the victory. Basing on the wide range of sources there is retraced the reconstruction of libraries’ network both in towns and in villages. There are visually shown the directions of libraries’ activities, opening of new departments, dynamics of formation of book stock of Stavropol region upon the German occupation.
• Key words: The Great Patriotic War, State Library Policy, Stavropol Region, Library System, German Occupation, Book Stock.
• Summary in Russian

18. «The Nursery of Enlightenment and Military Education in the Far Edge» (To the 200th Anniversary of the First Siberian Emperor Alexander I Cadet Corps and its Fundamental Library)

• Author: Panchenko A. M., Senior Researcher, the State Public Research and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Cand. Sc. (History), Associate Professor.
• Abstract: The article is devoted to the history of the Fundamental Library of the Cossack Army School of the Siberian Cadet Corps, its 200th anniversary is celebrated in 2013. In the opinion of many experts of librarianship, this Library was considered to be one of the best collections of the books in Siberia and the Far East. This work continues the series of publications on the history of the Military Librarianship of the Russian Army.
• Key words: Omsk, the Siberian Cadet Corps, Fundamental Library, Pupils, Book, Librarian, Military Traditions, the History of the Military Librarianship of the Russian Army.
• Summary in Russian

Part VII. Education — Profession

19. Information Meeting «World Water Day — 2013: Water Cooperation»

• Author: Makarova E. N., Senior Researcher, the Department of Official and Normative Editions, the Russian State Library.
• Abstract: Year’2013 in Russia is declared the Year of Environment. The Theme of the Year’2013 is «Water Cooperation», within this framework there was hosted a Round Table Meeting at the Documentation Center of International Organizations of the Russian State Library on March 22, 2013, devoted to the issues of the environmental protection.
• Key words: Environmental Information, World Wildlife Fund, UN Information Centre, Water Resources.
• Summary in Russian

20. V. V. Serov — Professional of Library Construction

• Author: Vaneev A. N., Distinguished Professor, the Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences.
• Abstract: Review of the Publication «The Architect of the Library System. In Memory of Vasily Vasilyevich Serov (1931—2000)», recreating the history of the Soviet librarianship.
• Key words: Bibliography, Moscow State Library Institute, Memoirs, Pedagogical Activity, a Network of Public Libraries
• Summary in Russian

Part VIII. Facts — Events — Estimations

21. «Media and Information Literacy in the Information Society»: The All-Russian Research and Practice Conference

• Author: Kalinkina A. V., Editor, the Editorial and Publishing Department of Periodicals, the Russian State Library
• Abstract: On the All-Russian Research and Practical Conference «Media and Information Literacy in the Information Society», held in Moscow at the House of the Russian Literature Abroad named after A. Solzhenitsyn, on 24—27 April, 2013.
• Key words: Information Literacy, Digital Content, Media Communications, Media Education.
• Summary in Russian

22. «Music Library Today: Achievements and Challenges»

• Author: Semenyuk A. A., Head of the Department of Music Publications and Recordings, the Russian State Library, Cand. Sc. (Pedagogy).
• Abstract: On the Second All-Russian Workshop «Music Library Today: Achievements and Challenges» devoted to the theme «Printed Music around Us», held on 25—26 March, 2013 in Moscow.
• Key words: Sheet-Music Collection, Printed Music, Music Text, Reference Bibliographic Index, Sound Carrier.
• Summary in Russian