The authors provide the main statistical data of the Russian book publishing in the first half of 2020.

The author analyzes the bibliographic resources created by independent Moscow public libraries in the 21^st century.

The article describes topics of master’s theses in the field of ‘Library and information activities’ at the Kemerovo State Institute of Culture. Methods of scientific research have been identified, which are divided into three groups: theoretical; empirical; methods of processing and visualizing of empirical information.

The author attempts to substantiate a new look at the subject of bibliography and to observe how this will impact on the development of the science of it — bibliography science. New technologies and improvement of digital (computer) methods of the humanities (DH — Digital Humanities) will lead to qualitative changes on the way to precise bibliography science.

The analysis of modern electronic bibliographic products of inter-settlement, rural libraries of the republic is presented. Information on the types of bibliographic aids, their compliance with quality criteria, some quantitative data are reported. The characteristic of unique local lore bibliographic products is given.

The functioning of the mass script book in the sociocultural (communicative) space of Roman society of the Empire era is considered, its role in the formation of ideological ‘meanings’ and cognitive status in the culture of antiquity, as well as the relationship between author, publisher and reader.

In article on the basis of catalogs of books of 1889 and 1913 of a main library of the Kazan Infantry Yunkersky College (from 1909 — Kazan Military College) editions of departments of spiritual and moral contents for cadets of military school are considered. The comparative characteristic of these departments among themselves and with the same departments of main libraries of others yunkersky and military colleges is given.

The article is devoted to the activities of the famous St. Petersburg bookseller G. I. Klosterman, who used the European model of book distribution in the book market of St. Petersburg, adapted to the conditions of Russian reality. In the last third of the XVIII – the first half of the XIX century personal relations with influential people of St. Petersburg, long-term contacts with foreign publishers and booksellers, cooperation with government agencies, the use of various progressive methods and ways of bookselling; book trade advertisment contributed to the constant income and stable position of G. I. Klosterman.

The authors briefly cover the process of formation and development of the State Book Chamber of the Tajik SSR, in 2005 renamed as the State organization ‘National Agency of the International Organization of Standard Book Numbering — Book House of Tajikistan’, analyze the main characteristics and features of compiling retrospective union catalogs, ‘Chronicles of printing’ and collections of statistical materials. The article discusses the implementation of the project to prepare electronic retrospective and current bibliographic indexes, digitize the analogical printed indexes of the past with the output into web-site.

This paper highlights both partnerships as successful models for supporting the digitization and distribution of massive newspaper collections, and highlights key lessons learned from the program. Topics include: logistical challenges; development of cloud-based workflows; publishers and copyright; challenges of working with languages in non-Roman scripts, and broad accessibility through consortia and Open Access collections.

The author shows a short description of the history and characteristics of legal deposit legislation in Syria. The article considers the legal deposit of electronic publications in the country. The article highlights the main recommendations and international experiences in the use of electronic legal deposit. The author presents some proposals for improvement of legal deposit system in Syria.