Complex information resources of a research library: modernization and development

Library scientists have been actively considering the ways to improve various aspects of library activities recent decades. The most studied problems are the following: libraries innovative development in general, information systems updating, e-resources and services modernization, etc. The paper analyzes the history of creating the most significant complex information resources generated by the Branch of the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It shows that both internal (human, technological) and external (reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, emerging new software products or platforms) factors can evidently be reasons for upgrading some specific electronic products. Modernization of the library information resources can follow several areas: structure development, content updating, design improvement, changing generation technologies, hard- and software update, providing services based on resources, carrying out promotion activities. Using the e-resources property for continuous transformation, it’s possible to increase their life cycle significantly. At the same time, the main goal of modernizing library information resources is to improve their quality. The library information resources updating is a natural process in some extend permitting to improve content and service components of a resource for its providing in a modern form to a wide range of users. The choice of the resource improvement direction depends on its relevance, and developers’ competence level.

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Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Commonality and Diversity”. 21–22 May 2019. Session “Linguistics”

Slavic World in the Third Millennium ◽

10.31168/2412-6446.2019.14.1-2.21 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (1-2) ◽

pp. 295-297

Author(s):

Sergej A. Borisov

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Middle Ages ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

International Context ◽

Slavic Languages ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

Current State ◽

Wide Range ◽

History Of ◽

Academy Of Sciences

For more than twenty years, the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences celebrates the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture with a traditional scholarly conference.”. Since 2014, it has been held in the young scholars’ format. In 2019, participants from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Togliatti, Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, and Rostov-on-Don, as well as Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania continued this tradition. A wide range of problems related to the history of the Slavic peoples from the Middle Ages to the present time in the national, regional and international context were discussed again. Participants talked about the typology of Slavic languages and dialects, linguo-geography, socio- and ethnolinguistics, analyzed formation, development, current state, and prospects of Slavic literatures, etc.

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Studies of Permafrost in the European Northeast of Russia in the First Half of the 20th Century

Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta ◽

10.17223/15617793/460/21 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 173-181

Author(s):

Tatyana P. Filippova ◽

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Nina G. Lisevich ◽

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Ussr Academy ◽

The Arctic ◽

Science Center ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

Leading Role ◽

Wide Range ◽

History Of ◽

Academy Of Sciences

On the basis of a wide range of sources, the research analyzes the history of the study of permafrost in the territory of the European Northeast of Russia in the first half of the 20th century. The documentary sources revealed in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the National Archive of the Komi Republic (Syktyvkar), the Scientific Archive of the Komi Science Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar), the Vorkuta Museum and Exhibition Center (Vorkuta) are introduced into the scientific use for the first time. The 1920s became the period of the birth of a new scientific direction – permafrostology. This science gave an impetus to the systematic study and development of the North and the Arctic. The beginning of systematic geocryologic studies was connected with the development of the European Northeast in the 1920s–1930s. It has been determined that the USSR Academy of Sciences played the leading role in carrying out these studies: it organized special scientific expeditions for studying the cryolithozone of this region. The main results of the studies and their motives interconnected with the government’s interests in the development of valuable northern mineral resources are shown. The results of the expeditions were conclusions about the possibility of constructing large industrial facilities in the regions of the explored reserves of natural raw material resources. Following scientists’ recommendation, the industrial development of the Pechora coal basin and the colonization of the polar region began. The climatic and natural features of the region demanded stationary scientific research in the field of design and construction. The Vorkuta Research Permafrost Station (VRPS) (1936–1958), created under the supervision of the USSR Academy of Sciences, began to carry out this research. Today, the history of this station’s activities is poorly studied. The article presents the main directions of VRPS research: engineering permafrostology and general issues of permafrost studies. The staff of the station were researchers of the Committee on Permafrost Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences and scientists from among prisoners of GULAG. The role of the staff who made a great contribution to permafrost studies is shown. Under the leadership of the scientists of the station, on the basis of their techniques, large industrial structures of Vorkuta District and Vorkuta, among them the first railroad in the conditions of permafrost, were designed. The conclusion is drawn on the leading role of scientists of the USSR Academy of Sciences in carrying out studies of permafrost soil in the European Northeast in the first half of the 20th century which became the basis in the successful solution of construction problems in the Arctic territory.

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Concerning the International scientific conference “Science and Technology in the Years of Storm and Shock (to anniversaries of A. P. Karpinsky and L. S. Berg)”

Transaction Kola Science Cetnre ◽

10.37614/2307-5252.2021.4.21.016 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (4-2021) ◽

pp. 190-197

Author(s):

K. S. Kazakova ◽

Keyword(s):

History Of Science ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Scientific Session ◽

Scientific Conference ◽

International Conference ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

Wide Range ◽

Archival Documents ◽

History Of ◽

Academy Of Sciences

The publication is devoted to the international conference, which is held annually at the S. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of RAS in Saint-Peterburg. In 2021, the conference is dedicated to the anniversaries of A. P. Karpinsky and L. S. Berg. Within the framework of the conference, the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPbF ARAN) traditionally organized scientific session “History of archival affairs, archival funds and collections”, the participants of which discussed a wide range of issues related to the peculiarities of the formation and use of archival documents and collections.

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Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Commonality and Diversity”. 21–22 May 2019. Session “History”

Slavic World in the Third Millennium ◽

10.31168/2412-6446.2019.14.1-2.20 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (1-2) ◽

pp. 288-294

Author(s):

Konstantin Konoplyanko

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Middle Ages ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

International Context ◽

Slavic Languages ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

Current State ◽

Wide Range ◽

History Of ◽

Academy Of Sciences

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The Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Past and Present Research

Zhurnal Economicheskoj Teorii ◽

10.31063/2073-6517/2021.18-1.1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 1-28

Author(s):

V. L. Bersenev ◽

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V. St. Bochko ◽

M. Vl. Vlasov ◽

V. V. Sukhikh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Economic Thought ◽

Economic Research ◽

Full Potential ◽

Social Infrastructure ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

Wide Range ◽

History Of ◽

Academy Of Sciences

The article describes the contribution made by the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) (Ekaterinburg, Russia) to the development of economic theory. It is shown how the Institute’s history of research fits into the long-standing tradition of economic thought, which studied the role of people both as agents of economic activity and as its objects. The article traces back the development of economic thought from Antiquity, through the modern period and the heyday of political economy in the nineteenth century, to the contemporary stage. Throughout its history, economic research dealt with such problems as human behaviour within the system of economic relationships, social policies as a form of public support of the manufacturing sector, labour as a way of realizing people’s full potential, and so on. The history of the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the RAS started in the 1970s. The research was conducted in a number of areas, in particular the development of social infrastructure, methods of evaluation of living and materialized labour, the evolution of ownership during economic reforms, institutional support of economic transformations and the role of human agents in economy in twenty-first century Russia. Moreover, as the study makes clear, on researchers’ own initiative, a number of other projects were realized, covering a wide range of topics, from political economy of socialism to cliometrics.

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All men and beasts, lions, eagles, quails… Anthropomorphic and Zoomorphic Representations of Nations and States in Slavic Сultural Discourse

10.31168/0441-1 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Russian Empire ◽

Imagined Communities ◽

Cultural Discourse ◽

Visual Images ◽

Scientific Conference ◽

Historical Evolution ◽

The South ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

History Of ◽

Academy Of Sciences

The book was compiled on the materials of the scientific conference “Anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representations of nations and states in the Slavic cultural discourse” (2019), held at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and devoted to the history of the nations’ personifications and generalized ethnic images in period of “imagined communities” formation. This process is reconstructing on verbal and visual sources and by methods of various disciplines. The historical evolution of such zoomorphic incarnations of nations as an Eagle (in the Polish patriotic poetry of the first third of the 19th cent), a Falcon (in the South Slavic and Czech cultures in the 19th cent), a Griffin (during the formation of the Cassubian ethnocultural identity) is considered. The animalistic national representations in the Estonian caricature of the interwar twenty years of the 20th cent., so as the functioning of the Bear’s allegory as a symbol of Russia in modern Russian souvenir products are analyzed. The originality of zoomorphic symbolism in Polish and Soviet cultures is shown оn the examples of para- and metaheraldic images in XXth cent. The transformation of the verbal and visual images of “Mother Russia” personifications in Russian Empire was reconstructed. The evolution of various allegories of ethnic “Self” and “Others” is presented by caricatures of 19th – 20th cent. in Slovenian periodic and in Russian “Satyricon” journal (1914–1918).

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