The purpose of the article is an objective assessment of library’s representation on social media in a certain period. The article presents analytical cross-sectional study of the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS) activities on social media and online media from July 28 to August 10, 2023. The analysis of mentions of the library on social media was carried out, the total number of which for the analyzed period amounted to 195 and received an average of 4.5 audience actions per message. The authors of the messages, mainly library specialists, were characterized, the main themes reflected in the published content were defined, trends were identified, audience engagement was analyzed and user reactions to the published content were assessed, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of current communication practices were determined. The author concludes that it is advisable to use analytical tools to build a successful communication strategy and increase the effectiveness of an organization’s activities on social media. A brief literature review on a particular topic was presented. It showed the wide research possibilities of data generated by social media and, at the same time, the insufficient development of the scientific research base of social media in the library and information sphere.

This article explores growing interest in the concept of presence in the humanities today. Technological innovations are argued to have facilitated advancement of a “digital” imagination, fostering a compelling sensory immersion into virtual words and creating the illusion of unmediated contact. This propelled dialogue about materiality and polymodality as implicit characteristics of literary texts, “enactivism” as evoking the “materialities of communication” (H.U. Gumbrecht) growing increasingly influential in literary cognitive studies. In this context the concept of epiphany thus acquired currency  in modern theory and artistic practice (from Romanticism to Postmodernism), epiphanic writing prioritizing the co-production of aesthetic experience and advocating closer attention to inferential dynamics and the mimetic, deictic or gestural potential of literary discourse in general. Finally, M. Merleau-Ponty’s notion of style is examined to demonstrate the central object of enactivist literary studies to be the author’s style, studied as an interactive experience, and not as an objectified form.

The article summarizes the reflections on the meaning of reading by the contemporary Canadian philosopher Robert Piercey. The study showed on what grounds this particular philosophical practice was built. The heuristic of his arguments in favor of reading as an important sociocultural phenomenon is assessed, and Piercey’s vision of the future of reading in the era of digital technology dominance is presented.

The purpose of the article was to present and analyze the history of the emergence and development of the Russian magazine Rebus from a Book Studies standpoint. The Magazine was published successively in St. Petersburg and Moscow from 1881 to 1917. It combined entertainment content (solving charades and rebuses) with a discussion of issues related to something inexplicable and mysterious (spiritualism, mediumship, clairvoyance, etc.). This study describes the fate of the magazine from the moment of its inception until its closure; the personalities of the editors; the features of the editorial policy, and the structure of the publication. The historiography of the most significant publications on the topic of the study was given. The publication will be of interest to Book Studies specialists and historians as well as to all those interested in the fate of Russian journalism in the pre-revolutionary period. The novelty of the study refers to introducing Book Studies discussion about phenomenon of the emergence and development of this very remarkable publication, which was the magazine Rebus.

This article provides significant addition related to the history of book publishing in the Saratov province in 1918–1928. According to the study, the number of books and brochures published in Saratov province from 1918 to 1928 was at least 2294. Among them, there were popular science books. However, their role and significance in the regional book publishing of the first Soviet decade have not received adequate coverage to date. Therefore, it seems important not only to establish quantitative indicators of output, but also to identify the factors that determined the appearance of this type of books, their subject matter, dynamics, features, analyze the book repertoire, the composition of authors and publishers. The study identified 173 titles of popular science literature published in the region in 1918–1928 by three dozen publishing houses and publishing organizations. Among the above-mentioned publishing organizations were scientific institutes and organizations, as well as cooperative, state and even private enterprises. The authors included many well-known scientists and practitioners in the province, university professors. Reacting to the problems of the region, they tried to provide information on modernization of agriculture in the arid Volga region; countering epidemics and diseases that threatened the province in the 1920s; strengthening women’s health; civil defense, on the development of a new metric system of measures, etc. A number of authors and publishing organizations stimulated the interest of the local community in technical creativity and promoted general science, local history and other education-related spheres. The highest rise in the output of popular science literature, recorded in 1924–1926, was largely associated with the activities of the Moscow publishing house Novaya Derevnya. It was placed in the province for printing books and brochures created by both Saratov and metropolitan authors under the conditions of the NEP (New Economic Policy).

The purpose of the article is to present the experience of teaching a special module titled "Medicine in fiction" at the Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute. Similar attempts exist and they were described in scientific literature. The Appendix contains a list of books included in the training module in Russian and Uzbek.

The author of the published letter, Mikhail Putsillo (1845–1889) was a researcher and an owner of entomological and mineralogical collections. He was famous as the first Russian scholar who specialized in Korean studies and a compiler of the Russian-Korean dictionary. The letter, addressed to the diplomat, scientist and politician, Baron Reinhold Friedrich Freiherr von der Osten-Sacken, contains some interesting information concerning the author’s work on the “Index of Cases and Manuscripts Related to Siberia” (1879). The edition was dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the accession of Siberia to Russia. The author also mentions the documents he found in the archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (concerning the Age of Exploration discoveries made by Russian sailors in the second half of the 18th century in North America). The letter is pasted into the book belonged previously to Baron Friedrich Freiherr von der Osten-Sacken and is still stored at the Department of Rare Books of the Altai Regional Universal Scientific Library named after V. Ya. Shishkov.

The main purpose of the article is to present the Pan-Armenian Digital Library. The project was implemented by the Poznan Supercomputer Centre, the Institute of Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, the Fundamental Scientific Library. Digitalization of cultural heritage became an integral part of the modern information society. The platform preserves historical heritage and makes it accessible to a wide audience. The Digital library includes articles from academic journals in various scientific fields. The Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia assigns UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) and DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to scientific articles. Notably, the library is doing important work to introduce OCR technology into scientific journals. Converting text from scanned images into editable text makes scientific literature more accessible to researchers by providing search and copy functionality.

The purpose of the article is to show the increase in the level of reading literacy among the population after the launch of Kazakhstan’s national project “Reading Nation”. In the conditions of rapid development of information and communication technologies there is a noticeable reduction in the share of regularly reading part of modern society, globalization of mass media, widespread availability of electronic audiovisual media, development of screen culture, social networks and entertainment industry has led to a reduction in reading of traditional books. Kazakhstan’s national project “Reading Nation” was developed on behalf of the head of state K.-J. Tokayev in 2020. The main goal of this project is to create in Kazakhstan an active environment for the creative development of children, modern youth and their parents, and to increase interest in reading among the population.

Book review: Solntseva Yu. Slow readings of Vladimir Odoevsky’s novel “The 4338th Year: Petersburg’s Letters”: Work Experience. Severomorsk: Severomorskaya tsentralizovannaya bibliotechnaya sistema, Tsentral’naya gorodskaya biblioteka im. L. Kreyna, Informatsionno-bibliograficheskiy otdel. 2024. 17 p.