The article covers the problem of compiling a complete bibliography of the scientists using current information and communication technologies. Comparison of forms representing information about scientific works — from card files of employees’ works to electronic databases of publications and to the creation of author profiles — allows to conclude: today the most faithful publications of Russian scientists are reflected in electronic databases maintained in scientific libraries of research or educational institutions.

The article presents the results of the analysis of scientific publications on reading of the population of the Kemerovo region — Kuzbass published in regional scientific journals and scientific and practical collections issued by the subjects of the reading infrastructure in the period from 2000 to 2020. The authors used bibliometric analysis as a research method. The analysis was carried out according to the criteria: dynamics of the growth of the number of publications; author’s structure; thematic orientation.

The article raises the question of the need to solve the problem of full-text access to the own resources of public libraries on the basis of remote access.

The article reveals the reader’s attitude to a popular science book in general and to reading the texts of this group in particular. Some essential characteristics of the popular science text as a media product are revealed. As an empirical basis are the results of the poll organized by the author.

This article informs that formation of an information culture of volunteers is necessary for the development of a system of knowledge and skills in using various methods and means of search and subsequent analytical and synthetic processing of information related to volunteer activities.

The article devoted to the 130th anniversary of the prominent personality of the book N.F. Yanitsky (1891–1979) examines his contribution to the organization of the international professional relations of the Book Chamber during his leadership period of the national bibliographic center (1921–1931). The author analyses N.F. Yanitsky’s contacts with foreign bibliological and library-bibliographic institutions, international professional organizations, covers his scientific trips abroad in 1924, 1926, 1927, 1929.

The material was prepared for the 100th anniversary of Tsilia Iosifovna Green, a historian, bibliographer, bibliologist who has worked in Russian National Library for more than half a century. Her short biography is presented, the characteristics of scientific and administrative activities are given.

On the basis of archival materials and published sources the activity of the colonel F.F. Kruse from 1853 to 1872 at the library of General Staff is analyzed. Individual facts of his biography and a track record and also his own system of books arrangement and their placing in fund are given.

The article presents the 17th century French edition from the library of F.V. Karzhavin with his numerous marginals and notes. One of the texts included in this edition — «Livre de la Doctrine de Mahomet» — was translated by Karzhavin into Russian in 1769 and published under the title «Ахукамукхама Талым Набы, или Книга богословии Магометовой» (Moscow, 1783). For a long time bibliographers considered the source of this translation to be the work of the Byzantine historian Laonikos Chalkokondyles. However, its true original, found by the author of the article in the museum-estate «Arkhangelskoye» near Moscow, not only refutes it but adds the new details to the history of Karzhavin’s translation as well.

The author tells about the creation of reference bibliographic manuals on fiction in the Russian State Library (RSL). The stages of the process under consideration are identified and characterized from the 1920s to the present. Various types of manuals are presented, specific publications that most fully and vividly express the essence and reveal the peculiarity of each stage are analyzed. The influence of modern information technologies on this process is shown. The prospect of further activities of the RSL in this area is outlined.

The author examines the republished literature on the history of the book by such outstanding authors as F.I. Bulgakov, A.A. Bakhtiarov, S.F. Librovich, E. Egger. Editions issued more than 100 years ago are republished both in paper form and in electronic form on library websites. Comparative characteristics of these works are presented, as well as the cost of original and reprinted works.