The purpose of the article is to characterize the documentary stream (DS) of front-line diaries publications of Siberians – participants in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945). The article shows the place of diaries in source studies and the importance of diary entries for the study of anthropological content and “psychology of war”. It grounds the reasons for the paucity of front-line diaries in comparison with other types of egodocuments (memoirs, letters). For the first time, the documentary stream, consisting of 40 publications of diaries (and about diaries) of Siberians, was identified and completely studied: bibliometric indicators and content characteristics were presented; sites containing full texts of diaries (or their fragments) were identified and their significance was assessed; diaries storage locations were determined.

The studied DS provided information about the diaries of 28 Siberians – the ordinary war participants who, for the most part, had civilian professions in the peacetime. An assessment was given to the site “Prozhito”, realizing the project to collect full texts; the need to preserve full texts of diaries was grounded: to identify diaries stored in personal or family archives and transfer them (or copies of them) to state museums and archives; the importance of studying ego-documents about the Great Patriotic War for the goals of education and ­patriotic training was emphasized. 

The authors have attempted to comprehend the ecological component of book culture, its importance for social development and evolution of human needs. This problem updating is closely connected with the modern state of book culture, characterized by minimization of state management, absolutist commercial approach, appearance of the great amount of players on the book market, multiformity of book products and modes of their advancement, transformation and re-estimation of activities of institutes of reading infrastructure, etc. It demands, according to our viewpoint, re-comprehension of the book culture state, inclusion of ecological criteria into its functioning, which presupposes, most of all, social attention to its various manifestations due to their correspondence to humanist values and national interests. The aim of the article is to reveal and justify the “book culture ecology” concept.

The formation of ideas about this concept was ­carried out in the context of the paradigm of cultural ecology through clarification of its content and main vector directions. The article justifies the importance of book culture and considers different approaches to its treatment. It is shown that the eco-cultural aspects of book culture are an organic embodiment of its static and dynamic characteristics. In the progress of the study, the authors used terminological and operational analysis as well as structuralfunctional approach. Eco-cultural approach to different phenomena of book culture defines ethical norms of functioning of book-publishing industry different actors, determines their most important for the society principles of activity. Moreover, the study has defined difficulties of developing book culture ecological compatibility criteria. The result of the analysis has manifested itself in the generalized definition of the concept under study.

The study of the semantics of images and colors found in the Old Believer miniaturist helps to better understanding and revealing the meaning of thanatological representations of this confessional group. Special role belongs to the text that accompanies the miniature and often becomes a source of interpretation of certain symbols. The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the reception of the image through the text and the semantics of illustration colors by a representative of the XVIII cent. as a bearer of semiotic and semantic codes of historical and cultural tradition.

The article reveals the external ideas of the Old Believers about the afterlife through the description of the plot of the sinner’s soul in hell depicted on the miniature and represents an attempt to read and reveal the semantics of the images found in the miniature. An important place in the publication belongs to the study of color perception and its role in the description of images.

The author provides a brief overview of pre-revolutionary, Soviet and modern historiography devoted to interdisciplinary intersections in this issue, thereby actualizing the problem field under consideration, as well as forming the theoretical foundation of this research.

The article also describes the miniature contained in the manuscript, the plot and compositional basis is revealed, the characters are highlighted, and the connection of the handwritten miniature with the book tradition of Ancient and Medieval Russia is revealed.

When comparing the source under study with other sources (22 archival Old Believer manuscripts: 7 of them are Synodica, 7 are Collections of teachings, words, etc., the remaining ones include the lives of saints, apocalypses, etc.), the author tries to make correlation between the use of color in certain images and its meaning. Based on such a comparison, the semantics of colors is revealed: red is the color of saints and sinners, white is the color of the spiritual and bodily, the role of green and black is shown in preserving the book tradition and the depiction of animals. The conclusions of the article include highlighting of colors/images and patterns in their use. 

The purpose of the article is to consider the state of scientific book publishing in Buryatia in 2017– 2021 for to determine the basic directions of its development when compared with the previous period, characteristics of specious diversity presented in the scientific book publishing’ repertoire and to expose basic publishing houses engaged in the release.

The work contains a historiographical analysis of publications devoted to the studied problem on the example of Siberia and the Far East, including the national republics of the region: Tyva, Sakha (Yakutia), Buryatia. Statistical data on the release of various types of documents related to scientific publications (monographs, collections of scientific papers, conference materials, abstracts and abstracts of dissertations) are presented. They reflect the dynamics of books issuing by publishing houses of higher educational institutions of the republic, including the D. Banzarov Buryat State University, the East Siberian State University of Technology and Management, the V.R. Filippov Buryat State Agricultural Academy, the East Siberian Institute of Culture, the publishing house of the Buryat Scientific Center of SB RAS, other state and commercial publishing organizations of the republic (“Belig”, “NovaPrint”, “IP Balzhinimaev AB”). The author notes that publishing houses of universities and scientific organizations annually demonstrate high rates of scientific publications. Their publishing repertoire includes various types of works, most of which are monographs, conference materials and dissertation abstracts.

At the same time, collections of scientific papers are practically not represented in the documentary stream of publications, and abstracts are completely absent. The peak of scientific publications was in 2018, when 102 publications came out of print. In the subsequent period, we state a decrease in the number of books published.

The aim of the article is to present the structure of the common archive of the Samizdat and Non-traditional Printing Sector of the Laboratory of Book Studies of SPSTL SB RAS formation on the ­example of the main storage units – personal collections of writers, artists, cultural figures and musicians. It provides classification of the existing unpublished sources in the sector’s collections, analyzes authorial materials, dedications, autographs, drawings and markings, mentions of the alternative printing process authors and participants in periodicals and correspondence. The article describes the sources of samizdat and non-traditional printing, existing in the sector, reveals the content of the main thematic directions. It characterizes archival units on the examples of alternative book publishing, various forms of samizdat, ephemera, ego-documents, fragments of personal libraries, examples of periodical printing. It also offers the classification of personal collections based on temporal periodization, thematic and territorial characteristics. The analysis of the content of the presented sources bases on the personal collections of M. Baturin, I. Akhmetiev, V. Ivaniv, O. Volov, E. Shurygin, E. Iordansky, A. Chekanov, as well as various unofficial creative communities and groups. Special attention is paid to the formation of communication chains and links between authors in the informal cultural environment, in the field of samizdat and alternative book publishing from the 1960s to the 2010s that clarifies the criteria of such ties.

The purpose of the article is to present the evolution of state policy towards public libraries in Russia in the second half of the XIX century. As a result of the research, the author has established that the content of laws and by-laws regulating the work of public libraries was determined by their status as public organizations and reflected deep contradictions of the government course during the years of bourgeois transformations and in the post-reform era.

The government of Alexander II took the library initiative of education zealots as continuation and support of their own reformation attempts. The author shows how the legal status of public libraries was fixed in the legal field of Russia, acquisition rules were changing, the procedure for opening public libraries and supervision for their activities was carried out. The author notes how the repressive nature of legislation, aimed at protecting the urban reading public from unwanted literature, which intensified in the 1880s and 1890s, had a negative impact on public self-organization in the field of education. He concludes that circumstances formed significantly hindered the development of public libraries in Russia.

Lack of comprehensive records on the history of reading in Siberian cities’ libraries, scanty and brief references to reading fiction by the Troitskosavsk Public Library visitors condition the novelty of the declared topic. The purpose of the article is to determine the place of fiction in the reading circle of the Troitskosavsk Public Library visitors in the late XIX – early XX centuries. Methods of comparative analysis, statistical and source study became the main ones when exploring the topic. The source base of the study was 18 reports about the work of the library for 23 years (1887–1909), starting from the time of its foundation, and 2 catalogs revealing its collections.

For the first time, the share of fiction in the issuance of publications from the library to the house, in general and without periodicals, was calculated. The obtained data reveal that fiction was the main object of readers’ demands. Calculations were made of the total number of issues of books of individual writers and poets for 15 years (1895–1909) and the average per year, basing on which the top 20 of the most popular of domestic and foreign authors within the library visitors were compiled. The first three places in the ranking of Russian writers were taken by L. N. Tolstoy, V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, A. K. Sheller-Mikhailov, foreign – M. Reed, J. Verne, G. Emar. Readers gave clear preference to prose works. The works of Russian authors were more often in the library visitors’ demand than foreign ones.

The study complements the information already introduced into scientific circulation about reading fiction in pre-revolutionary Siberia, its place in the reading circle of Siberians and their popular authors.

The purpose of the article is a critical analysis of the historical experience of forming the educational Soviet state library policy in the 1920s and 1930s and determination of the possibilities of its modern use. It is shown that the basis of this policy were the views of the domestic revolutionary democrats on science and its popularization, as well as V. I. Lenin’s ideas about the political education of the working class and the development of its political consciousness. It is noted that the library educational policy began to be formed within the framework of the educational concept of librarianship as a form of extracurricular education and political propaganda in the late XIX – early XX century, however, the political and organizational conditions for its implementation developed only in Soviet times. The main motive for the formation of the Soviet educational policy was the need to prepare workers and peasants for participation in public administration throughout the power vertical, the fight against the church, as well as improving workers and peasants’ technical and agricultural literacy. Propaganda became the main form of interaction as the most concentrated expression of political, scientific and technical education. These political and pedagogical principles are disclosed and conclusions are drawn about the prospects of using the experience of those years when forming modern library policy on the organization of interaction between science and society. The main achievements and shortcomings are analyzed. The experience of the 1920s and 1930s shows that such policy will become successful if keeping to the following conditions: 1) the library policy in this direction being an integral part of the national educational and scientific policy; 2) the organized management of educational and scientific reading; 3) library impact should have an active character; 4) principles of modern educational library policy are modernized taking into account the achievements of pedagogical science in the field of enlightenment, sociology of reading, information culture and popularization of science.

The article presents an analysis of statistical data of the National Library of Russia (NLR) monitoring, characterizing the availability of library services in the Russian Federation. It names factors influencing the accessibility of library services: a developed network of out-of-station and mobile service points, provision of transport vehicles, optimal operating hours of libraries, accessibility of library premises (accessible environment) for people with disabilities (HH) and inclusive library space, developed digital library infrastructure providing services to readers remotely. Since the huge volume of statistical data makes it impossible to consider all aspects of the accessibility of Russian libraries within the framework of the article, its objective is to give a comparative analysis of some of them (coverage of the population of the Russian Federation with library services, the number of people per a public library, distribution of non-stationary service points across Russian regions, provision networks of public libraries by transport, operating hours of library institutions and reduced work schedules of specialists and their variations in frames of the RF subjects). The work states that the availability of library services to the population is a condition for ensuring the quality of the population life. The problems of accessibility of Russian library services could be solved by modernizing the network of municipal libraries, improving the transport and digital infrastructure and organizing the comfortable library space to all categories of citizens. The materials can be used by regional departments of culture when planning the modernization of library institutions’ network.

The emergence of new information channels and methods of distributing scientific publications, active development of digital technologies are changing the tasks and forms of work of scientific libraries, which form documentary and information resources and have extensive experience in meeting the information needs of representatives of the scientific and educational complex. The directions of scientific libraries’ activities are complemented by purposeful training of users in the basics of information culture.

In scientific libraries – libraries of universities and central scientific libraries of the subjects of the Russian Federation – much attention is paid to servicing students. The change in the educational model, strengthening of the self-educational component in the educational process of the university, the increasing importance of the information culture of the individual change the status of scientific libraries: from an element of the information infrastructure, the library turns into a subject of educational activity, interacting with faculties and departments on the principles of partnership.

The purpose of this article is to present the results of the survey of the information behavior of students in Chelyabinsk, who use in their work, along with information resources of university libraries, document and information resources of the Chelyabinsk State Universal Scientific Library and to determine areas of cooperation between the Central Regional Scientific Library and higher educational institutions.

The article is devoted to the study of the documentary heritage, its role in the socio-economic development of the region. The author highlighted the basic requirements of regulations in preserving the documentary heritage in the region. The purpose of the article is to show the library and university capabilities in implementing tasks to preserve and promote cultural heritage for the further development of the territory on the basis of the results of the conducted research.

Using the example of the Kemerovo region (Kuzbass), the main parameters of the documentary heritage usage for socio-economic development of the region are determined: ensuring preservation of the documentary heritage; providing access to information; information support for all aspects of regional development; creating digital content of memory institutions (libraries, museums, archives); promoting the documentary heritage; putting into scientific circulation new components of the documentary heritage; research activities; integration of memory institutions for to preserve cultural heritage. The article presents the description of the digital documentary heritage of Kuzbass in the central library (V. D. Fedorov State Scientific Library of Kuzbass). The main types of work of the Kemerovo State Institute of Culture (KemSIC) in preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of Kuzbass are outlined.

The article also considers the integration of the activities of the central library with the culture university as one of the key factors in increasing the efficiency of work in this direction. It is emphasized that cooperation between libraries and other institutions and organizations, including authorities and local self-government allows to work out and implement joint projects aimed at developing the region and increasing its level of sustainability. It is noted that the central libraries of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and the Universities of Culture are key participants in the preservation and development of the cultural heritage of the region.

The main conclusion of the study: close integration of the library and the university makes it possible to solve complex problems of preserving and promoting the documentary heritage of the region.

The article deals with current issues of theory and methodology of library and information education. Its purpose is to substantiate the expediency of forming the thematic structure of the course “Library Professionology”, based on generalization of scientific ideas about the subject of library professionology as the library science discipline. The publication analyzes the methodological approaches of specialists from the leading universities of culture (Moscow State Institute of Culture, Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts, East-Siberian State Institute of Culture) to the construction of the content of one of the special academic disciplines – “Library Professionology”, – which is included in the curriculum for training Masters of Library and Information Activity.

The author proposes one of the variants of the structural and logical model of the course “Library Professionology” – the complex theoretical and applied discipline that covers a wide range of problems related to the place and role of the library profession in the society. Mastering the essence and content of the library professionology by the Master students necessitates the acquisition of various professional competencies, with the general pedagogical competencies being the most significant among them. For this reason, the central place in the course should belong to the study of issues related to professional education – from history to current problems of organizing the library professionals training, content, methods and forms of training at the present stage.

The purpose of the article is to present the results of the book competition movement in Siberia and the Far East in the last three decades, to identify the trends of its evolution, to determine problems and prospects.

The research methodology bases on a combination of formal-logical and comparative-historical methods with the analysis of data from various sources. The forms of competitions are identified: universal and special. It has been determined that either only local publications, or also books published in other regions, can participate in competitions. Long-term (“Book of the Year of the Republic of Buryatia” (Ulan-Ude, since 1997), “Best Book of the Year” (Vladivostok, since 1997), “Best Book of Altai” (Barnaul, since 2006)) and recently emerged regional projects are characterized. The authors have analyzed the contribution to the organization of competitive projects made by regional authorities, libraries, educational institutions, public organizations, etc. The most common nominations of universal competitions and specialized topics have been determined. Attention is focused on the importance of an integrated and systematic approach to transforming festivals into a full-cycle creative system. It has been stated that, in general, expert-competitive activities have a multifaceted, multifactorial impact on the sociocultural landscape of the region, contributing to strengthening and development of the beneficial influence of the book on the aesthetic, moral and legal consciousness of the society.