Libraries and society: The IX Interregional Conference on the Development of Library and Information Field in the Far East in Khabarovsk

April 20-22, 2016 in Khabarovsk is held the IX Inter-regional scientific-practical conference "Development of the library and information field in the Far East and higher library education".

The conference aims to discuss and exchange experiences, ideas, and plans to provide access to local and remote electronic information resources for science, education and culture.

Conference events are held in the Small Hall of the Khabarovsk Regional Philharmonic, the Far Eastern State Scientific Library and the Pacific State University.

To participate in the conference it was registered more than 100 specialists from Khabarovsk and Khabarovsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Birobidzhan, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the Sakhalin region. Among the participants - specialists of provincial and municipal libraries, libraries of educational institutions of higher and secondary vocational education, scientific research institutions of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; university professors, workers of cultural institutions, archives, representatives of public authorities. The conference was also attended by experts of the Presidential Library. 

The conference will include plenary and breakout sessions, the work of discussion platforms.