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14/11/2017. News from the annual meeting of directors of Russian libraries
November 14-16, 2017:
In the framework of VI St-Petersburg International Cultural Forum, the Russian National Library in St-Petersburg held the Annual Meeting of Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia, which was dedicated to the theme Transformation of Libraries and Library Systems in Modern Conditions.
The annual meeting was attended by more than 300 heads from 67 regions. There were representatives of publishing houses, book-selling organizations, aggregators of information products and services, firms, producers of goods and services for libraries among the participants of the meeting. Within the framework of the meeting, an exhibition Library Context 2017 was opened; it presented products of bookselling organizations, as well as special equipment for libraries.
Plenary sessions, reports, round table discussions, exhibitions, the solemn award ceremony of the competition The Librarian 2017 were held during the annual meeting.
A broadcast and recording of the annual meeting of the heads of federal and central regional libraries of Russia is available on the website of the Russian National Library.
On the 15th of November, at the plenary session the Head of the National Library of Karelia Marina Nikishina made a report The National Library: a Look into the Future after Reconstruction.
On the 16th of November, the Head of the National Library of Karelia participated in a round table discussion St. Petersburg - Harbin: the legacy of Art Nouveau (the meeting was held as a part of professional program of the Cultural Forum at the Museum and Institute of the Roerich family), and also in III Conference Book Policy of Regions and award ceremony of the contest The Most Reading Region – 2017. The Conference was held in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library during the section Literature and Reading of VI St-Petersburg International Cultural Forum and broadcasted online on the portal of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.
Within the framework of the conference, the results of contest The Most Reading Region – 2017 were summed up, the contest was organized by the Russian Book Union with the support of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications. The competition started in May 2017. 84 regions were ready to take part in it.
St. Petersburg became the winner of the contest The Most Reading Region – 2017. The Head of the Republic of Karelia Arthur Parfenchikov was awarded with the special diploma of the contest The Most Reading Region.