The 5th All-Russian scientific and practical conference "Library collections in the digital age: traditional and electronic resources, acquisition, and use.”
(March 30 - April 4, 2015, St. Petersburg)

General sponsor of the conference: Elsevier B.V.
The conference is sponsored by ZAO "KONEK."
Information support: "University Book" informational and analytical magazine.

Dear Colleagues!

We would like to invite you to take part in the 5th All-Russian scientific and practical conference titled "Library collections in the digital age: traditional and electronic resources, acquisition, and use," which will be held on March 30 - April 4, 2015, at the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg.

Acquisition librarians, bibliographers, information workers and other library specialists, publishers, aggregators of electronic resources, and company representatives are invited to participate.

Conference organizers:

The Russian Library Association, The Library Collection Development Section;
The National Library of Russia (Information and Bibliographic Department, Acquisitions Department, Library Collections Department and Reading Center of the Research Methodology Department of Library Science);
Elsevier B.V.

The conference program includes:

Plenary discussions:

• State cultural policy and issues related to the acquisition of library collections.
• Reforming of the federal system of legislation on legal deposit copies of documents in the digital environment. Search for a balance among the interests of authors, publishers, libraries and users.
• The revised version of Part IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation: new opportunities for libraries to digitize scientific and educational literature; publishers’ expectations.
• The Cultural Map of Russia: Literature. Reading. Opportunities for the development of infrastructure related to books, reading, and improving the quality of library collections.

 Experts’ discussions and roundtables 

• Russian Book Publishing in 2015: assessments, trends, analysis, forecast.
• Trends in the development of the electronic resources market in Russia and abroad (e-books, digital libraries, electronic resource subscriptions, online-shops, electronic services, cloud technologies, etc.).
• The National Electronic Library: methods of selection and formation of content in distributed library collections. Will the interests of copyright holders and authors be protected? How will the interests of municipal library users be taken into account?
• "Electronic Library Systems" in libraries and higher educational institutions.
• Sale of electronic resources. Business models for interaction of publishers and aggregators with libraries.
• Print on demand: the possibility of using in the acquisition of library collections.
• Open access resources and open archives of scientific information in the formation of library collections.

PRESENTATION OF PUBLISHERS, NEW PUBLISHING PROJECTS AND BOOKS

TRAININGS AND PRESENTATIONS OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

CULTURAL EVENT: WRITERS, EDITORS AND LITERARY JOURNALS OF SAINT PETERSBURG – FOR RUSSIAN REGIONS

THE ACQUISITION OF LIBRARY COLLECTIONS IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT: MODERN MODELS, DIGITAL COLLECTIONS, REMOTE RESOURCES, AND INTERNALLY GENERATED RESOURCES.

• Subscribed electronic resources: problems with selection and testing.
• The experience of libraries in the acquisition and use of electronic resources.
• Formation of electronic library collections: remote resources and internally generated resources.
• Electronic libraries and electronic resources: architecture and organization of access.
• Electronic and traditional library collections: issues of interaction and mutual influence.
• Organizational and methodological aspects related to the provision of access to electronic resources.
• Digital collections.

NORMATIVE AND LEGAL REGULATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIBRARY COLLECTIONS:

• Strategies and tactics of acquiring materials for library collections under current conditions.
• Pressing issues related to practices of acquiring library collections under Federal Law No. 44-FZ, “On the System of Public Procurement Contracts for Products, Works, Services for State and Municipal Needs.”
• Acquisition of library collections under federal laws restricting access to information (Federal Law No. 436-FZ, "On Protection of Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development,” Federal Law No. 114-FZ, "On Counteracting Extremist Activities").
• “Record-keeping procedures for library collections with comments and attachments” - draft regulation by the Russian Library Association; features of record-keeping procedures for online electronic resources; drafts of new Russian National Standards titled “Library collections. Technologies related to the development of library collections,” “Acquisition of documents. Terms and definitions,” “Electronic documents. The main types. Imprint. Technological characteristics of electronic resources,” and others.

An exhibition will be held within the framework of the conference.

In order to participate in the conference, please fill out a registration form.

Participation fee for publishers, aggregators, and company representatives amounts to 1,000 rubles (including VAT of 18%). In order to register, please email us at the address .

Applications for participation in the exhibition will be accepted until March 11, 2015.

Registration is open until March 14, 2015.

Please send a title of your report or presentation, as well as a brief summary in a .doc file format, for inclusion into the program to the following email address no later than March 11, 2015:  niobf@nlr.ru.  After March 11, late submissions will not be accepted. 

Conference materials are planned to be published. We kindly ask that you save copies of illustrations used in presentations in jpg or tiff formats with a resolution of 300 dpi.

An audio recording of the conference is planned to be made, which would allow for transcripts to be published.

This information letter does not constitute a public offer. 

The conference organizing committee reserves the right to select reports and presentations for inclusion into the conference program, and the right to select participants for the exhibition.

March 30, 2015 – Arrival. Check-in at hotels. Cultural program.

March 31 - April 3, 2015 - Conference.

April 4, 2015 - Check out. Departure.

 

Contact information:

For questions regarding the program, please contact:

191069, St. Petersburg, Sadovaya Str., 18.

Library Collections Section, Research and Methodology Library Science Department, the National Library of Russia

Eidemiller, Irina Vsevolodovna

Tel.: (812) 718-86-13
e-mail:

Acquisitions Department of the National Library of Russia
Petrusenko, Tatiana Viktorovna
Tel.: (812) 310-81-73, (812) 718-86-54
e-mail:

Information and Bibliographic Department of the National Library of Russia
Braunova, Elena Valeryevna
Tel.: (812) 310-24-03
e-mail:

Abaksheva, Nina Vasilevna
Tel.: (812) 718-85-73
e-mail:

For questions regarding participation of publishers and companies in the conference and the exhibition:

Eidemiller, Irina Vsevolodovna,
Tel.: (812) 718-86-13
e-mail:

For questions regarding hotel accommodations:

Gravshina, Zlata Nikolaevna.
Tel.: 8(952)236-31-96
e-mail: vgravshina@mail.ru

For questions regarding the Cultural program: 

"EVA"ExcursionCenter
Kirillova, Elena Vladilenovna

Tel.: (812) 313-61-11
e-mail: helen@evatour.ru