Information technology and libraries: "The Electronic Resources of Libraries, Museums and Archives" X All-Russian theoretical and practical conference in St. Petersburg

From October 30th to October 31st, 2014, Vladimir Mayakovsky Central City Public Library (St. Petersburg) carries out the "Electronic Resources of Libraries, Museums and Archives" commemorative X All-Russian theoretical and practical conference. Conference theme is the "Information Resources - Futurological Aspect: Plans, Forecasts and Prospects."

The Conference is targeted to the information professionals of culture and education (librarians, bibliographers, museum and archive workers), the databases’ and digital libraries’ managers and administrators, specialized vocational schools faculty and postgraduates, and the electronic library systems providers’ employees.

The main thematic areas are:

- Future of libraries, museums and archives in the digital age;

- An outlook for promotion of the information resources of libraries, museums and archives in online environment;

- National (All-Russian) projects of digital libraries - present and future;

- Prospects for the development of electronic resources of public libraries;

- Regulatory requirements for the description and presentation of digital objects in electronic environment;

- Quality requirements for electronic resources of libraries, archives and museums: the current state and the development prospects;

- Prospects for the development of public libraries of digital documents: the issues of coordination, selection, unification of the principles of description and the access permissions;

- The optimization of linguistic search software services of the digital collections of libraries, museums and archives;

- Staff employees’ training and professional development for work with electronic resources in the context of future requirements for information professionals of socio-cultural sphere.