The National Project “Culture” as the New Stage of Development of Libraries (based on the Materials of the Annual Meeting of the Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia)

Abstract

On October 22—23, 2019, the Russian State Library hosted the Annual Meeting of the Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia. The Forum, focused on the analysis of the current state of the library sector and the development of priority areas for its further development, was held for the 26th time. The Meeting was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Library and the National Library of Russia. 294 participants from 57 regions of Russia, including employees of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Main Information Computing Centre (GIVC) of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, regional authorities, heads and specialists of libraries of various levels, universities, publishing houses and corporations attended the Meeting. The broadcasting of the meetings on the website of the Russian Association of Electronic Libraries significantly expanded the number of participants — there were recorded 609 connections.The main theme of the 2019 Meeting is “The National Project “Culture” as the New Stage of Development of Libraries”. The Meeting considered the issues of formation of the Concept of librarianship development in the Russian Federation, the results and prospects of creation of model municipal libraries within the framework of the Federal project “Cultural Environment”, the development of the National Electronic Library (NEL), the formation of the register of book monuments, including the issues of their digitization and inclusion in the NEL in the framework of the Federal project “Digital Culture”, etc.There were announced the results of two competitions: The Third All-Russian Competition of Library Innovations and the Sixth All-Russian Competition “Library Analytics 2019”. The Meeting included sessions of the jury of the All-Russian Competition “Librarian 2019” and the Board of the Russian Library Association. There were organized two Round tables: “The new mission of libraries — new competences of staff: How the system of professional education of library-information workers should change in the new reality” and “Subject fields statistics (6-NC Form) and Indicators of the National project “Culture””. The outcome document of the Meeting reflects the results of discussions.