The Memorial Electronic Information Resource Dedicated to the Baikal Researcher M. M. Kozhov

Abstract

Scientific libraries are intermediaries between science and society; they concentrate scientific and popular scientific information for a wide range of users. The information block: science – library – society works. Libraries solve the issues of book preservation, documentary, archival heritage of scientists through various forms of preservation and popularization of the achievements of regional science: work with the rare collection of scientific publications (study of marks, book plates, autographs, etc. on books), publication of articles about scientists, creation of bibliographic and biographic databases (DB) and other electronic information publications of own generation.Communicative interaction between libraries, science and society is constantly expanding, including various new components of the popularization of science among young people than attract young people to science and cause interest in the profession of a scientist. The article describes the work of the Central Scientific Library of the Irkutsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of RAS in this direction on the example of the organization of electronic memorial library of Baikal scientist, Professor Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozhov.