Scientific libraries in the structure of Novosibirsk Scientific-Educational Complex
The study objective is to determine the potential of the city scientific libraries to support institutions of the scientific and educational complex with information. Using a wide range of statistical data, the authors describe the resource base development of scientific libraries in Novosibirsk including libraries of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and higher educational institutions. They show the influence of the scientific and educational space transformation on certain areas of scientific libraries activity. The article updates existing ideas on the component structure of the educational space interdependent subjects. Taking into account factors of a social nature affecting the structure of the scientific and educational environment of Novosibirsk, the authors characterize the scientific libraries potential, their documentary resources, and substantiate that accelerating the leading universities and scientific institutions integration motivates scientific libraries of different statuses to develop new models of their corporate interaction. Under the city scientific libraries disproportionately provision with information resources, it is advisable to form an adequate model for all participants interaction in the scientific and educational process, and create a system of informing about the resource capabilities of the entire conglomeration of city scientific libraries based on navigation tool application. Converging the resource base of the city scientific libraries should have a compensatory value for information support of scientific and educational activities.