The 10th All-Russian Meeting of the Heads of Information Services for Culture and Art

Abstract

There is presented an overview on the 10th All-Russian Meeting of the Heads of Information Services for Culture and Art “Libraries in the information support for realization of state cultural policy”, held on 3—4 October, 2017, and organized by the Russian State Library in the partnership with the Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Culture. The central theme of the discussion was the development of information involvement of the regional libraries in the implementation of state cultural policy, enhancement of the scientific information activity of libraries in the sphere of culture and art, and increase of their innovation capacity. Within the frames of the meeting there was held a webinar on the topic “Modern information resources on culture and art”; there also took place the award ceremony of the winners of the 6th All-Russian competition for the best e-publication on culture and art, which was attended by 63 state and municipal libraries from 44 regions of Russia. At the special meeting of libraries — participants of the Russian system of scientific and information support in the sphere of culture (Rosinformkultura) there was announced on the adoption of a new edition of the Regulations on Rosinformkultura, and there was elected its Board. The Final document calls to promote the development of electronic information resources on culture and art, to ensure the relevance of information and its accessibility on the Internet, and actively participate in the projects of Rosinformkultura.