The purpose of the article is to present the history of the creation and activities of the officers’ library of the 72^nd Tula Infantry Regiment.

   The initial local legal documents regulating its establishment and functioning were revealed: „Regulation on the regimental library“ and „Rules for issuing books from the regimental library“. The analysis of these documents was carried out, which made it possible to characterize the purpose of its creation, composition and procedure for replenishing library collections, management, the Library Commission composition and duties of its members, as well as the librarian and library watchman, library capital and its sources, size and procedure for paying membership fees by officers, settling of the librarian with the regimental treasurer, creation, storage, spending and verification of the library amount, spending of spare library capital, compiling an estimate of library expenses, cash receipts and expenses, library catalog, storage and transportation of the library, the procedure for ordering books and periodicals, rules for issuing books from the regimental library. The “History of the 72^nd Tula Infantry Regiment” (Warsaw, 1901) was examined for information on the history of the creation and activities of the officers’ library. The inventory on the state of the officers’ library in 1897 according to the catalog of books compiled by Captain V. G. Vostrosablin was done. His article „Officers’ Meetings“, published in the journal „Scout“ for 1898, was analyzed.

   The purpose of the article is to present the Leningrad Military Library of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (now the Information Historical and Scientific Center – Military Historical Library of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) – the main scientific library of the People’s Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR – path of formation.

   The relevance of the topic is due to the significant role of military libraries in preserving historical memory as the most important area of ensuring national security and sustainable development of the Russian Federation.

   The methodological basis of the research contains principles of historicism, consistency, and objectivity. The methods used are source studies, comparative, biographical. Based on the analysis of the source base, most of which contained previously unpublished materials from the Russian State Military Archive, the main stages of the library development in 1921-1936 are established, its staff, main activities, sources and dynamics of replenishment investigated. Libraries of military educational institutions nationalized in the early years of Soviet power, personal libraries and some military libraries of the Russian Imperial Army that entered the library collections are exposed. The data about the library chiefs and their contribution into its work organization are added.

   Memoirs of ordinary and professional revolutionaries of Siberia, previously not widely involved in scientific use, compose the subject of the paper.

   The purpose is to attract the attention of researchers to the historical sources under consideration (ego-documents on the history of the revolutionary movement of the end of the XIX – early XX centuries, the October Revolution and the Civil War, kept in the collections of the Siberian Historical and Party Commission (Sibistpart) of the State Archive of the Novosibirsk region P–5), as well as to confirm their high research potential.

   There are considered the activities of the Siberian Istpart as a new center for the development of historical science and the main collector and publisher of valuable ego-documents, the features of the revealed memories as a historical source and the specifics of working with them; the analysis of some memories is given to test the methods of such work. The research methodology includes the discourse analysis, biographical approach, and the method of source studies. The study of the P–5 collection materials has made it possible to classify the entire collection of memories gathered by the Sibistpart due to the level of the authors’ literary professionalism and the nature of the content; to identify the features of the memoirist’s linguistic style and thinking; to highlight the subjects paid more attention to – therefore described in detail and given his own opinion – to outline further prospects for studying these ego-documents. Conclusions are made about the high information value of these historical sources, and possible thematic and methodological directions for working with memoirs of the first half of the XX century are proposed.

   The relevance of the topic is determined by the socio- cultural significance of charitable activities.

   Lack of comprehensive and concrete historical research on the donation of books to the Tomsk City Public Library (TCPL), with the exception of fragmentary references to the names of donors, has conditioned the scientific novelty of the article.

   The purpose of the work is to analyze book donations as one of the sources of acquisition to the collections of this library.

   TCPL annual reports for the pre-revolutionary period compile the source base of the study. For the first time, the share of donated titles and volumes has been calculated – almost the half of books enriching the library collections. Institutions, organizations and individuals engaged in making large donations have been identified. Among them – A. A. Dikhoff, S. K. Kuznetsov, M. Ya. Turner, Moscow Public Museum and Rumyantsev Museum, Society for the Care of Primary Education in Tomsk, etc. Among the donating their works authors – professors of the Imperial Tomsk University: D. N. Belikov, A. M. Zaitsev, N. F. Kashchenko and others. Numerous facts of donations to the library are given. It is noted that donations were made by representatives of different social groups. The thematic repertoire and types of donated publications have been analyzed, with their significant part consisting of Siberia-studying literature and clerical documentation. For to form a respectful attitude to the book and library, to understand their important role in the life of a person and society, to encourage charity, numerous newly identified and recorded new facts of book donations could be involved. The results obtained can be useful for the reconstruction of socio-cultural life in the region in the pre-revolutionary period.

   The article objective is to attract the attention of librarians to the negative trend of reducing the network of rural libraries and out-patient service points in rural areas.

   To achieve it we have analyzed the state of the network of rural libraries of the Russian Federation in the ten years’ dynamics (2014–2023), basing on monitoring of the public library network in Russia, carried out by the National Library of Russia while implementing the All-Russian corporate project “Central libraries of Subjects of the Russian Federation” to create a full-text database of the same name. The authors consider the importance of rural libraries, their functions and role in the culture of rural territories. We have noted negative trends characteristic for the library sphere in the countryside, and listed their objective causes. Attention is focused on problems, which are facing rural libraries and marked in the Strategy for the librarianship development in the Russian Federation until 2030.

   The purpose of the article is to explore the development of the education book publishing in the Tuvan People’s Republic (TPR) and the connection of education with socio-economic and cultural transformations, taking place in the region in the period from 1921 to 1944.

   The creation of TPR opened up new horizons for political and educational reforms. Conditioned by the high level of illiteracy among the population, the Republic government came across the necessity to create the system of education that required solving the issue of developing the Tuvan written language. In 1923, at the Second Tuvan People Revolutionary Party Congress, the initial steps to introduce general compulsory education were taken, being an important start of the educational reform. As a result, the new state written language was developed based on the New Turkic alphabet, adopted in 1930, that became a significant step in eradication of illiteracy. Since the creation of the first textbooks, such as the primer of 1927, and up to the mid of the 1940^s, efforts were made to develop educational materials, including textbooks on various subjects. These initiatives were carried out both within the frames of local publishing houses and with the involvement of centralized resource organizations of the USSR, which allowed creating the own educational base. The conclusion of the article stresses that by 1944 there was established the school education system, which stimulated the process of working out textbooks and consequently contributed to increasing the cultural level of the population of the Tuvan People’s Republic and improving the quality of education.

   The image of the first Russian State libraries (the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Library of Russia) is examined in the context of their work with the mass media. The uniqueness of the image of national and similar in scale of activity state libraries is emphasized.

   The purpose of the article is to identify trends in the coverage of these libraries’ activities in press.

   Today, despite the demand for traditional journalistic means (press release, press conference, etc.), the socalled «new media» – SMM (Social Media Marketing), video content (including short vertical videos), etc. – are taking leading positions in promoting the image of organizations. The hypothesis previously put forward in the professional literature is confirmed that libraries will create not only individual services for working with the media, but also entire divisions that themselves produce media content. It is stated that corporate media, which experienced the peak of their popularity in Russia at the end of the 20^th – beginning of the 21^st centuries, are changing formats still remaining relevant for libraries. The conclusion of the study is that the image of the library profession at the present stage is associated with the paradox of bifurcation – media monitoring and auditing show that the image of libraries and librarians is conveyed as not very successful, but any mention has positive connotation.

   The article considers innovations in the Master’s Degree Program of the Library and Information Faculty of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture introduced on March 1, 2023, meeting the requirements of the Professional Standard “Specialist in Library and Information Activities”.

   The purpose of the article is to evaluate the content of innovations in the educational Master’s Program of the Library and Information Faculty of SPbSIС, to present some ideas for further perfection of the native library Master’s institute.

   The changes have affected the name of the educational program, the content of professional competencies, names, composition, and selectively the content of academic disciplines. Six new competencies have been proposed instead of the previous seven, focused on generalized work functions of the seventh level of qualification established according to the above-mentioned Standard for the Master of Library and Information Activities (Bibliographic and information- analytical activities of the library; Library research, methodological and project activities; Organization of activities of the structural unit of the library). The research component has been strengthened in the practice block: instead of one academic research practice, a two–level research practice has been introduced (academic in the first year and production in the second year), the project practice has been replaced by organizational and managerial practice. The transformation of the Master’s Degree Program is incomplete yet. In the context of the “Strategy for the development of the education system until 2036 with a view to 2040” being developed at the present stage, it will inevitably be adjusted and updated in the context of digitalization and modernization of all sectors of the country’s economy.

   Libraries have traditionally been involved in educating and supporting scientific process. However, the spread of the open science concept has led to changes in the way libraries support science. Promoting open science among various members of the society is an integral part of this change. Based on pre-viously identified competences necessary for such participation, as well as the structural-functional model of forming the librarian-bibliographer popularizer of open science competences, the course of professional development was organized in SPSTL SB RAS.

   The purpose of the article is to present the results of training the librarians at the professional development course “Librarian- Bibliographer - Instructor of Open Science”.

   Two tasks were associated with the achievement of the goal: 1) to clarify the level of preparedness of library professionals to popularize open science, and 2) to determine the usefulness of the course by comparing the level of preparedness of library professionals and professionals who graduated from the advanced training program. Based on the survey of the 4th year Bachelor of Library and Information Science graduates of 11 universities of Russia, and a survey of professionals working in libraries completed in December 2024, it was determined that library professionals have difficulties in organizing activities within the framework of citizen science and in complying with current legal regulations in the area of copyright and related rights. The advanced training course “Librarian-Bibliographer – Open Science Instructor”, developed to close the gaps in the erudition of library specialists, according to the results of the analysis of final testing of students and their comparison with the obtained data, showed the increase in the level of competences necessary for a librarian- bibliographer to popularize open science.

   The purpose of the article is to present the results of the All-Russian conference with international participation “Developing science: the youth potential of libraries” and the competition of scientific papers by young librarians, organized by the Department of Library and Information Resources of VSGIK with the support of the RBA Youth Section.

   General characteristics of presentations made at the plenary and sectional sessions are given, the topics of the works that won prizes at the competition in the nominations “Bibliostudies: opening scientific horizons”, “Biblioproject: from the idea to implementation” are analyzed.