This publication continues the authors’ research within the framework of the scientific project of the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In this work the authors focus on studying the document flow of ego-documents of the indigenous peoples of Siberia (publications and Internet resources). We conducted the study using materials from the largest regional bibliographic database “Nauchnaya Sibirika” with the involvement of missing sources from the catalogues of a number of large libraries. The purpose of the article is a comprehensive description of ego-documents containing memoirs, diaries and letters of Siberian indigenous peoples (study of the documentary flow content in the printed form and on websites, review of publications on ego-documents on the problem). The authors defined scientific approaches and research methods. The documentary flow consisted of 64 publication titles from 1966–2023, primarily in Russian. The authors selectively included publications in the languages of indigenous peoples (if there was a translation into Russian). The authors noted significant difficulties in selecting documents: there were no nationality data in many publications; often the affiliation of war participants could be determined by indirect signs (characteristic names, surnames, geographical data, etc.), however, many indigenous peoples have Russian surnames; there was no translation of titles into Russian, etc. These reasons justify the inevitability of gaps in the selected flow of documents. The authors emphasize that this study is the first approach to the problem under research. Novelty of the study: for the first time, the publications and Internet resources flow ego-documents of Siberian indigenous peoples (Altaians, Buryats, Mansi, Siberian Tatars, Tuvans, Khakassians and Yakuts) has been selected and comprehensively studied with a certain completeness as historical sources. The authors have come to the following conclusions: the most acceptable option for introducing ego-documents into the scientific and social circulation is their presentation in the languages of the Siberian peoples with the translation into Russian, that makes it possible to convey information about the feat of indigenous peoples to the entire Russian society; there is raise of the pressing issue of the prospects for preserving ego-documents located in private archives; the lack of necessary data on the nationalities of the peoples of Russia makes it difficult to find information on relevant websites; there are problems of accessing full texts of egodocuments in the Internet space.

The purpose of the article is to show the evolution of handwritten amateur publications in the 1920s – 1940s and to give an example of the ego document that emerged as a result of it. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that it lies in the field of the history of everyday life and microhistory. Amateur publications, especially those created by children, are usually overshadowed by official print editions and have a low level of preservation, so the introduction of each of these sources for scientific use is certainly significant. In this case, such a publication is a collective diary kept by schoolchildren in Bolotnoye, Novosibirsk region, in 1944–1945. The study shows that despite the harsh pressure of the state on diaries and albums, as well as attempts to replace the content of old forms with new ones more appropriate to Soviet reality, the children’s diary escapes the framework imposed on it and shows the lives of children in its real form.

The purpose of the article is to present the activities of the State Public Library of the Kazakh SSR named after A.S. Pushkin during the Great Patriotic War. Memory about the events of the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War is one of the most important components of the historical consciousness of the peoples of the post-Soviet space. The war changed the specifics of library work, subordinating it to the tasks of promoting armed struggle against Nazi aggression, training the population in military affairs, and supplying literature to evacuated defense enterprises and scientific organizations. Particular attention was paid to library services for military units, recruiting stations and hospitals. Despite all the difficulties of wartime, library work indicators grew. The relevance of the topic is determined by the need for constant work on conceptual understanding, systematization and replenishment of knowledge about the Great Patriotic War.

The purpose of the article is to introduce into scientific circulation the unique document from the archive of the Scientific Library of Tomsk State University (SL TSU) “Scheme of bibliographic works on Western Siberia in Tomsk State Scientific Library”. The note by A. I. Georgievskiy, prepared in 1935–1936, supplements the information on the history of local lore bibliography of the 1930s and presents SL TSU as a major Siberian bibliographic center. The document defines the range of tasks of Siberian bibliography, the need to expand the ties of SL TSU with other bibliographic institutions of the country in the context of socialist construction and the first five-year plans.
The relevance of studying archival documents of the 1930s is associates with the presence of large gaps in the history of librarianship in Western Siberia during this period, and in particular – in the field of development of local history bibliography. The research has established that the directions of regional bibliography outlined in the period under study have found their development in the work of TSU Scientific Library in the post-war years.

In the context of the struggle for import independence and technological leadership, intellectual property protection assumes particular importance, which in turn entails the need of raising citizens' awareness in this sphere and upgrading IP culture in the society. The basic curators of knowledge, information about intellectual property in particular, are libraries. The purpose of the article is to present the results of the study showing the completeness degree of collections of scientific and scientific-technical libraries and libraries of technical universities, selected within the framework of researches of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Federal Institute of Industrial Property”, with educational literature on intellectual property. This article will be useful for librarians as well as for teachers, graduate students, and a wide range of people interested in IP-culture issues.

The purpose of the article is to show possible areas of interaction be-tween scientists from different organizations that promote the development of the regional scientific space, lead to the generation of unique scientific ideas, and formation of the generation of active employees. The representative of the Saint- Petersburg State Institute of Culture, Arkady Vasilyevich Sokolov, the most prominent and authoritative scientist in the system of sciences of the document-communication cycle, for many years cooperated with specialists from the Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture. The study of principles and areas of cooperation with various institutions, influence on specialists in the information sphere, his scientific heritage permits to state the pattern of com-municative practice for transmitting the experience of work.  
It is shown, how great could be the role of the invited specialist in the fortune of the higher educational establishment and its employees in forming the regional information space and the possibilities of scientific communication are emphasized. On the basis of the results of such joint work the variants of decisions for inviting leading scientists into educational institutions, organiza-tion of their activities and involving local specialists into research projects of the invited specialist are suggested. 

Information and analytical products and services (IAPS) have come a long way in their development, starting from ancient handwritten collections to modern varieties (ratings, knowledge maps, infographics). The purpose of the work is to analyze approaches and practices relative to the creation of IAPS by scientific libraries taking into account the development of information technologies. IAPS, which are becoming the key component of supporting users of scientific libraries, are considered. The historical path of the development of analytical and synthetic information processing is briefly considered. Particular attention is paid to emergent technologies (artificial intelligence, big data, AR / VR) in the information and analytical activities of libraries. Based on the analysis of IAPS presented on the websites of libraries of the world's leading universities (TOP-15 world and 15 Russian universities) included in the Leiden Ranking in 2024, the results were obtained that demonstrated the extent of the development of approaches to the creation of IAPS and made it possible to determine the most popular and non-standard forms of IAPS in scientific libraries.

The purpose of this paper is, basing on the survey outcome of executives of libraries of research institutions under the scientific and methodological guidance of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, to measure their attitudes towards promoting scientific knowledge in society and libraries engagement in it. The pertinence of the topic is related to the change in attitude to the educational function implementation in libraries and is very current when, firstly, the state authorities focus more on scientific and technical libraries, secondly, the communication of science and society is intensively reinforced, and thirdly, libraries keep on looking for new forms of interaction with their users. Ways and means, and activity of the scientific and educational function implementation are closely related to libraries types. Processing of online questionnaire data has determined that over half of the libraries participate in the promotion of scientific knowledge, including with support from scientific institutions and/or jointly with them. Some libraries provide popular science and educational events not only upon institutions requests, but on their own initiative. The most frequent lines of library action in this area encompass exhibitions, museum work, digital information products, various formats of scientific and educational activities. Moreover, the main reasons are identified why a number of libraries are unable of performing the scientific and educational function, and the benefits of libraries’ involving in the promotion of science are also listed.

The purpose of the paper is to characterize the main stages of the development of higher library education in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) on the example of the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts. A brief description of educational programs implemented at the institute since 2001 is given, as well as an assessment, based on statistical data, of the provision of public libraries in Yakutia with specialists with higher library education. The article also emphasizes the contribution of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) to the development of higher library education in the republic. Considerable attention is paid to the present stage and prospects of higher library education in the republic from the perspective of “Development Strategy of Librarianship in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) until 2032" and the federal program "Priority – 2030. The Far East”. 
 New bachelor and master degree programs are characterized, and a list of basic competencies, being formed as a result of their implementation is proposed.
Special attention is paid to the competencies required by library specialists on the market of information and cultural and educational services in the context of the creative economy. The authors dwell upon the current problems of training library specialists in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and propose ways to solve them. 

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the need for the reconstruction of library education disciplines in Uzbekistan in the context of changing society, to propose approaches to the formation of the comprehensive academic discipline "Evolution of the library and information space of Uzbekistan in the context of historical, cultural and social transformations".
The emphasis is placed on adapting the course content to modern challenges and needs of the educational environment. The need to strengthen the historical and national component in the curriculum to form the professional identity of specialists and improve their cultural competence is emphasized. 
Modern challenges and trends associated with the transformation of the library space, including digitalization processes, the development of information and communication technologies, globalization and localization of librarianship, which affect library education, including the content of educational programs, are discussed.
The structural and substantive model of the course curriculum is proposed, aimed at developing students’ analytical thinking, stable professional values, interest in the historical heritage and the current state of the country’s information and library space.
The development of the comprehensive curriculum and its implementation in the educational process of library education institutions should contribute to: increasing the professional competence of future librarians in the context of the permanent development of information and communication technologies; preserving and popularizing the national cultural heritage in the global information space.

The purpose of the article is to analyze data on advanced training of employees of municipal libraries in the Novosibirsk region. The article substantiates the relevance of continuous professional development for library specialists in connection with implementation of the professional standard «Specialist in library and information activity». Continuous professional development is considered as a complex of formal, informal and non-formal training. The article describes the possibilities of obtaining additional professional education on the basis of the Novosibirsk State Regional Scientific Library, taking into account individual needs and goals of municipal libraries. The author has analyzed the activities of the educational center “Sibirika” and the most relevant additional professional programs. It is concluded that there is a contradiction between the high need of municipal libraries’ staff to master additional professional programs and their finance capabilities. The way out of this situation is seen in the creation of a bank of short-term courses and use of various forms of non-formal education to ensure the professional development of library specialists.

The purpose of the article is to present methods and results of the pilot study of forming professional values of student librarians. The relevance of the article is associated with the need to bring the library profession out of the state of anomie and the need to modernize not only the technology of library work, but also the value characteristics of the professional picture of the world of a librarian. 
The process of forming professional values of young people begins during the period of study in specialized classes of senior school, but complete formation occurs during vocational training and at the beginning of the professional career. The conducted pilot study of professional values showed the correctness of the hypothesis about the stage-by-stage formation of professional values in the chain “school – secondary professional education – high education – professional activity”. The survey involved students of different courses of correspondence and full-time education. It was found that students were satisfied with their education, but due to certain reasons they did not want to work in their specialty, considering education as a stage of personal development and planning to build their professional activities in the organizations with the higher payment level. Library education gives young people a high degree of confidence that they will adapt to any type of activity. 
The practical significance of the work is in the study of the professional values of librarians and the proposal to conduct an interregional study.

A review of the book by E. V. Smolina. Libraries in the Electronic Environment. Working with Target User Groups: Domestic and Foreign Experience is presented. St. Petersburg, 2025.