Analysis of the libraries collections system of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The article elucidates directions of scientific-research work development in the field of forming and using library collections in SPSTL SB RAS. Within the frames of the Library scientific projects some problems of research activities – value, ideological, communicative and others – aimed at active practical reform and widening the professional field of scientific libraries system’ resource base are presented. The review of researches, done by the authors, includes the analysis of regularities and tendencies of the departmental and territorial system of libraries collections forming and preserving as well as approaches, forms and methods of studying documentary resources in the retrospective and at present – in the context of growing indicators of digital resources usage. The article exposes, on the one hand, the objective preconditions for libraries’ interaction and, on the other hand – negative tendencies such as growth of collections breaking up and non-coordination of document resources forming policy, further deepening of departmental and regional differences. The problem of territorial libraries cooperation with the aim of growing the joint territorial library stock effectiveness is actual. Scientific-research work (SRW) in the large modern library is an independent complex kind of activities, promoting its development as an open social system and its vital preservation in the environment of other information structures. Departmental, regional, national research programs determine libraries scientific research themes. The results of libraries scientific-research work are regarded as equal with other scientific-research establishments’ contribution into the solution of the large-scaled scientific-industrial problems.