Libraries and Society: "Traditional Library in Electronic Environment: New Approaches" inter-regional conference in Krasnoyarsk

From the 22nd to 26th of September 2014 the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk) jointly with the State Scientific Library of Krasnoyarsk Krai (Krasnoyarsk) carry out the "Traditional Library in Electronic Environment: New Approaches" interregional scientific conference.

The conference’s objective is a complex discussion of current problems in the field of library and information.

In the agenda:

- Traditional and electronic sources of documents and library and information services in the contexts of globalization and the information society.

- Digital libraries: total outlook or a segment in the development of librarianship.

- Scientific Electronic Libraries: the challenges of current importance and modern solutions.

- The promising directions in the library and information sector on the basis of electronic resources and technologies.

- Diversification of the electronic system of scholarly communication.

- Electronic resources for science and education: content, services, and advancement.

- Information support for research: traditions and innovations.

- An access to the electronic sources generated by the institutions in external information systems.

- Library in social networks.

- Electronic management.

- Humanistic mission of the libraries in the digital era.

- The modern reader-user; a change of the information model.

- The career situation at the libraries: diagnosis and methods of engaging the qualified personnel and the improvement of librarians’ skills.

- The dynamics of a specialized higher and an additional education in the Siberian-Far-Eastern Region (XX - beginning of XXI century).