INFORMATION LETTER #1

Dear Colleagues,

The Russian Library Association, Russian National Library (St. Petersburg), Russian State Library (Moscow), State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk), Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts (Yakutsk), and National Library of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) (Yakutsk) announce the convocation of the 4th International Bibliographic Congress on September 16-19, 2025 in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (Russia).

Bibliographers from all over the world are invited (no registration fee). It's possible to participate remotely (online).

Theme of the Congress: “Bibliography and the preservation of the cultural heritage and linguistic diversity of the peoples of the world.”

The following issues will be discussed:

●   Strategic issues of bibliography development in the context of the digital economy. Artificial intelligence in the library. Advanced experience in the field of IT.

●   National bibliography. National bibliographic services. Practices of creating a national bibliography.

●   International bibliographic cooperation.

●   Bibliography as a means of promoting culture, preserving the cultural heritage of countries and peoples, providing access to heritage.

●   Indigenous knowledge and ethical information management, data and databases. Indigenous languages in the context of repositories, databases or publications.

●   Book heritage. Scientific description of individual book monuments and collections.

●   Access to information. Internet management. The role of libraries.

●   Bibliographic resources: types, genres, topics, directions of development.

●   Development and implementation of standards for bibliographic description of documents. Functional requirements for bibliographic records.

●   Library catalogues: IT paradigm of cataloging.

●   Innovative approaches to cataloging, linked data capabilities, collaborative metadata creation.

●   Presentation formats and authoritative control of bibliographic data.

●   Bibliographic support for science, technology, education and culture.

●   Bibliographic tools for book promotion and reading. Reading and literacy development in libraries, integration of reading research.

●   Bibliography for children and youth.

●   Professional education of bibliographers, cataloguers: trends and approaches.

●   Information and digital literacy. Information culture of the individual. Bibliographic culture as the basis of intellectual activity.

●   Current state of bibliographic science. Bibliographic topics in research activities. Scientific schools in bibliography.

●   Historical and bibliographic research in the context of world domestic cultural heritage. Biography in historical and bibliographical research.

●   Modern scientometric systems. Scientometric and bibliometric research.

Dear Colleagues, We are open to new ideas and suggestions. Please send all suggestions on topics and issues for the Congress to the Organizing Committee at e-mail: congress@nlrs.ru.

Working languages: Russian, English

An information letter and a registration form for the Congress will be posted on the websites of the Russian Library Association https://rba.ru/, Russian State Library https://rsl.ru/, National Library https://nlr.ru/, SPSTL SB RASRAS http://spsl.nsc.ru/ and the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) https://new.nlrs.ru/.

Contact: e-mail: congress@nlrs.ru

Congress Organizing Committee