The article is devoted to Cyrillic handwritten books of the XIII–XIX centuries, created in the Romanian principalities, and stored today in the manuscript collections of the Russian State Library. The uniqueness of the writing system, functioning in the principalities (Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania) since their political formation, is that it was a Cyrillic script based on the old Slavic language with a predominant Roman-speaking population. In course of the writing system’ development in the principalities, there was a transition from the Slavic font to the Latin one; the intermediate result of this transition was the creation of monuments written in Romanian language with Cyrillic script. The main stages of this process are considered by reference to the specific examples of unique handwritten books and their fragments that have become objects for collecting by scientists, antiquaries, and Old Believers, whose book collections have formed the basis of the handwritten collections of the Russian State Library. They are the oldest Cyrillic manuscripts and their fragments dated to the XII–XIV centuries, found on the territory of Romania, Slavic manuscripts, produced mainly in monasteries of principalities in the XV–XVII centuries, translations of individual words into the Romanian language in the rewritten Slavic texts in the XVI century; the glosses and comments in Romanian on the margins of Slavic manuscripts in the XVI–XVIII centuries; numerous notes in the Romanian language in the manuscripts of the XVI–XVIII centuries, made by owners and readers; translations of literary monuments, including bilingual (Slavic–Romanian) and trilingual (Slavic–Latin–Romanian) versions in the XVI–XVIII centuries; Romanian–Slavic and Slavic–Romanian dictionaries in the XVII–XVIII centuries; letters and their copies in the Romanian language (sureties) in the XVI–XIX centuries. The article is an intermediate outcome of studying and describing Cyrillic Romanian handwritten books in the collections of the Russian State Library, which will result in the publication of a hard–copy catalog.

The relevance of the topic is due to the great role of military-historical literature and libraries as its repositories in forming the historical memory ofthe people, which is important for ensuring the spiritual security of the country. The article is the first to examine publications on the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905 from the book collection of the “House of Officers of the Novosibirsk Garrison” of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, got from other military libraries. The purpose of the article is to identify the fate of military libraries. Research tasks are: 1) to calculate the number of publications on the Russian-Japanese War in the book collection of the “House of Officers...”; 2)to reconstruct their repertoire; 3) to determine libraries which collections they were originally included in. The study methodologically bases on historic, objective, systematic principles, localization of historical facts. Methods used are that of source studying, comparative and statistical. The work is done on a wide representative source base, constituted from pre-revolutionary publications of the “Houses of Officers...,” periodicals, regulatory and legal documents of the military department. 21 catalogs of officer libraries were analyzed, confirming the presence of issues on the Russian-Japanese War in them. As a result of the study, 92 pre-revolutionary works in 100 copies dedicated to the Russian-Japanese War were revealed in the library of the House of Officers. For 66 of them in 71 copies the former ownership of 18 military libraries was established. Their repertoire was reconstructed. The results show that the First World War, which destroyed the personnel of the Russian army, became an involuntary cause of the ruin of ­military libraries, having left them without supervision in the places of the previous quartering of troops and deprived them of officers - enthusiasts of ­librarianship. The revolutions of 1917, radical transformations of Soviet power and the Civil War completed the ruin of the tsarist army military libraries, which ceased to exist as independent book collections. The study has expanded the understanding of the state role in military-historical works’ dissemination and military libraries’ collections replenishment.

On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the World War II, the authors turned to the previously unexplored subject of organizing book exhibitions to the anniversaries and memorable dates of outstanding scientists in the war period. The article is based on the documents found in Moscow and St. Petersburg Archives of the Academy of Sciences considering the aspects of exhibition activity conducted by the librarians of the USSR Academy of Sciences institutions and, particularly, by the Sector of Special Libraries, in the period of the Great Patriotic War. This, practically not considered previously, aspect of the academic libraries work during in the war period was, determines the novelty and relevance of the study. The authors used the general scientific methodology, applying source study, archaeographic and analytical-synthetic methods of work with documents. Even in the ordeals of the severe war years, in spite of inaccessibility of the majority of academic libraries’ collections for searching the editions needed, the librarians did their best to organize book exhibitions in commemoration of the outstanding foreign and Russian scientists, such as I. Newton, N. I. Lobachevsky and others. Science sessions devoted to the occasion where men of science reported about the worldwide known scientist, always preceded the ceremony of the exhibition opening. Organizing book exhibitions was an extremely difficult task due to the evacuation of the most precious books of academic libraries from Moscow, poor communication between academic libraries and the blockade of Leningrad where the oldest academic library situated. All the exhibitions were prepared on the initiative of the Soviet Academy of Sciences top management and under its auspices. Their purpose was to raise the prestige of science in the Soviet Union. All the people (the representatives of the USSR war allies among them) who attended those exhibitions demonstrated great interest and highly appreciated the librarians’ efforts and praised them for their professionalism, dedication and commitment to their work.

Actuality and significance of problems of forming social consciousness with its necessary defence component are conditioned by unremitting tension of inter-state relations, transiting into a certain degree of war confrontation. Experience of all wars testifies to the fact that all victories in war hostility are achieved not only by rivalry of military potentials and generals’ skills but also by firmness of spiritual bases and people moral strengths. War history many times has proved patriotic incite and the society unity to be important factors influencing the course and the result of wars. Since the moment of writing invention, oral traditions began to be supplemented by document evidences of war history and invention of book printing not only has widened possibilities of memorable history events’ data circulation but also has transformed the printed word into effective means of information hostility of struggling sides. This article aim is to actualize problems, connected with transformations of war memories, and using book for to preserve it and form a defence component of public consciousness. Historical and book-study analysis of military publishing practice of the XVII–XX centuries proves the tradition of describing war history not only for to study battle experience by military specialists but also for to consolidate the tragedy and lessons of war in public consciousness. Memories of war cannot be similar for winners and losers, and that produces different evaluations of war events and their relevant reflection on pages of fundamental militaryhistorical works and memoirs. Comparison of different memorialists’ viewpoints confirms memory variability, but permits the researchers to approach evaluations that are more objective. To observe the 75-th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 by carrying out the Year of memory and glory in Russia has become a new impulse for turning to historical memory and research of poorly studied problems. This war experience contains actual lessons of book usage as an important means of forming defence consciousness in the pre-war period and its reconstruction in the years of war.

One of the system-forming elements in the library sphere are central libraries of the Russian Federation subjects (national, territorial, regional), which provide methodical maintenance of library activities in their region. The main task of methodical centers is to develop and improve methods of work performed by library specialists. The Far Eastern State Scientific Library is the methodical center for public libraries in the Khabarovsk Territory. There is a specialized division – the Department of Research and Methodical work – in its structure. In the course of scientific and methodical activities, the division is implementing information, organizational, research and pedagogical functions, so the structure of the department includes a group of methodical maintenance, a group of specialists engaged in research work, and a licensed center for additional professional training. Well-organized professional communication is the key to the successful development of the region library sector. Consideration of methodological support as an activity to organize and maintain professional communication of library professionals will reveal how effectively such communication is organized, what types, forms and channels of communication are used in the process of methodological support of the library institution activities in the region. The Library gives great attention to the communication formation at various levels (interpersonal, group, mass), and strives to use all available forms (written, spoken, visual) and channels (spoken, document, electronic) of communication. The article objective is to elucidate the Library experience of methodical support of public libraries in the Khabarovsk Territory.

In contrast to Oldenburg’s concept of «library – the “third place”» the article presents its role as the «second place», i.e. the place for study and work, on the examples of music and art schools libraries, (music schools/CAS) of St. Petersburg. These establishments meet the specific needs of library users (students and teachers) that occur in the process of educational activities on pre-service programs in various types of art. The peculiarity of these libraries permit them to preserve their own niche in the general library and information space and in each concrete institution of additional education. The article examines social functions, goals and tasks of DMSH/DSHI libraries, their normative-legislative regulations, financial and acquisition questions, work of referencesearch apparatus, forms of servicing users. Possible ways of their development are designated: creation of the special Model standard; transformation of libraries into educational information centers on art in the educational environment of schools with the appropriate technical and technological equipment and the Internet access; active mastering of social networks. All this will allow DMSH/DSHI libraries to develop and implement additional forms of service.

Valeology is a science that studies the internal reserves of the human organism and possibilities to increase them. At present, it is very dynamic time, when social and technological transformations are constantly happening, larger and larger digitalization “embraces” the activities of traditional cultures and institutions, a person has to respond to these challenges and adapt to these changes. Therefore, recommendations of this science are very important. The change rapidity, their ambiguity and the need to respond these challenges effect the human health including staff working in library and information institutions. In this regard, the relevance of considering issues of library valeology as the direction of library information activity is growing. The current subjects of library science is to study and prevent professional diseases of the librarians, as well as, educational activities of the library to promote healthy lifestyle. The article objective is to provide a brief description of risks of occupational diseases of library workers for to develop ways for the valeological support of professional activities based on the experience of the Municipal Budgetary Institution of Culture “Centralized Library System” in Nazarovo city, Krasnoyarsk Region. In the research process the concept of “library valeology” has been considered, the professional diseases of librarians have been identified, the program “Our Health!” to prevent the librarians health has been created. The presented experience in the practical implementation of library valeology may interest colleagues both in the library, and other spheres of culture.

The article objective is to represent the analysis results of the flow of published documents that highlight the contribution of Novosibirsk city and Novosibirsk Region residents to the victory over fascism during the Great Patriotic war. The documentary flow consisted of more than 600 publications over a 30-year period, which was selected of the regional bibliographic database “Scientific Sibirika” generated by the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences using analytical services. The paper presents a brief scientometric analysis of a document corpus, as well as features of its temporal, thematic, and type-specific structure. Emphasis is placed on the characteristics of monographic publications: their variety is shown, and monograph bibliographic descriptions are given. The article lists the most productive periodicals and thematic collections on the topic, scientific events, where discussions took place on the life of the Siberian region and its inhabitants during the war years. It names Novosiberians – participants of military operations, materials about whom are included into the database. Authors with high publication activity on the above-mentioned subjects are identified. It is concluded that the thematic section “History of Siberia and the Far East” of the database “Scientific Sibirika” serves as a reliable source base for historical and regional studies. Introducing modern technologies in the bibliographic practice makes it possible to work remotely not only with bibliographic descriptions, but with full texts of electronic documents as well.

The article objective is to identify factors transforming the processes of publication, dissemination and preservation of scientific monographs, their importance in the system of scientific communications. A review of publications is ­devoted to the problem of publishing, disseminating and preserving a scientific monograph as a significant part of scientific literature. The authors highlighted the reasons of slowdown in the publication of scientific monographs and the impact of various factors on the process of preparing and disseminating scientific literature of economic, communicative, bibliometric, reading and publishing nature. The paper compares possibilities and limitations of the processes of searching, preserving and organizing the acquisition of library collections by electronic and paper versions of a scientific monograph presented in publications. Editing scientific monographs and their significance in the system of scientific communications in our country is undergoing a period of serious transformation: information on new titles is dispersed in many sources; lowering the development of scientific publications in general, both in circulation and in the number of titles is observed. At the same time, publishing technologies themselves do not stand still, new ways of publishing and disseminating scientific monographs appear, which affect the change in the technology of acquiring library collections.

This article discusses the effective operations of Spanish libraries in association with the Spanish Federation of Societies of Archivist, Librarians, Documentarists and Museologists (FESABID) and the information resources, provided by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) to support libraries around the world during the pandemic. The author highlights the role of Spanish librarians in their struggle with fake news, which constitute a menace for Spanish citizens’ life and safety. The article evaluates the “eBiblio” online loan service’ work experience, launched by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain in collaboration with Spanish libraries in 2002. The article considers the information specialists’ experience in the development of the State Protocol of the Ministry of Health in Spain regarding the libraries reopening after the pandemic. The article considers the IFLA Library Map of the World as the main tool for getting reliable library statistics in pandemic. The author attempts to comprehend the role of a library as an institution of culture in the post-pandemic era.