The authors provide the main statistics of the Russian book publishing in 2021, analyzing the output indicators of printed publications and trends in the publishing industry in Russia. Special attention is given to the project “National digital book platform”.

The article is devoted to the history of development and contemporary state of bibliography at its national centre — Russian Book Chamber. Special attention is paid to the automation of bibliographic processes and statistics of printing. The new technologies of work with legal deposits after changes in legislation in this sphere since 2017 are described at greater length.

The problems of development of the Russian book business and bibliology under transformation conditions of many functions of printed book are considered. The possibility of solving these problems in the framework of support and propaganda of information culture is shown.

The article presents the main stages in the development of popular (recommendation) bibliography. It is stated the revival of interest in this type of bibliography which is widespread on the Internet.

The method of analyzing the regional flow of scientific publications is proposed, and a logical justification for each stage is provided. The prospects of this valuation technique and bibliometric studies performed on its basis are substantiated.

The task is set to introduce the problem of social memory into the wider information space, into the management of social processes by library and bibliographic science. In the methodology of cognition of this problem theoretical and scientific and practical methods are allocated. The concept of generation and the related concepts of cumulation and selectivity are discussed. The factors of cumulation and selective generation in social memory are characterized: culture and cultural heritage, memorial and mnemic functions, digitalization of information processes. The importance of scientific and practical methods in the selective generation of social diversity, as well as for collecting of scattered ideas from documents, selecting of unique objects is shown; collections of books, personification, interiorization of consciousness of consumers of documentary information.

The article discusses the peculiarity of the existence and development of the artist’s book and zine culture in modern Russian book-making. The author identifies specific features and functions of the phenomena under consideration, and analyzes modern Russian books of the artist and zines as objects of bibliology.

The article considers a modern approach to understanding the essence of bibliology and gives its assessment. It shows the importance of a new formulation of the question on how to study a book in the combination of neurosciences and humanitarian knowledge. It substantiates the concept of neurobibliology as an interdisciplinary research direction that is at the junction of book science and the theory of cognitive processes. It is proposed to create an analytical center for researching the problems of neurobibliology.

The article describes the work on the annotated bibliographic index «History of Russia and the USSR in memoirs and diaries, 1917–1991» done by members of the department of the bibliography and local history of the National Library of Russia. Specific examples show the features of the approach to annotating memoirs, which reveal the period of national history for the years 1917–1922. The difficult cases of retrieval of biographical information about the authors of the memoirs are described.

The history of the largest Russian publishing house “Zarya” in Canada is reconstructed. The role of its owner S.A. Sauer is presented. Shown are the problems of distribution of the emigre book for Soviet citizens.

The article deals with issues related to the study of publishing practices for the formation of media resources of a popular science nature. Various forms of content organization are presented, as well as the peculiarities of the influence of the content of the resource on the forms of working with content.

Cookbooks are still popular among modern readers. It has been changed from a simple cooking handbook into a complete multi purposed hobby edition. The article proposes classification of modern cookbooks.