Change Management: Library Discourse on Implementation of State Cultural Policy in the Current Conditions

Abstract

On November 16—17, 2022, the Annual Meeting of the Heads of Federal and Central Regional Libraries of Russia was held at the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg). The organizers of the meeting are the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the National Library of Russia and the Russian State Library. About 300 specialists attended the event in full-time mode from 76 regions of the Russian Federation, including the Donetsk Peopleʼs Republic and the Luhansk Peopleʼs Republic. During the two days of work, the participants presented 35 reports. The 2022 main topic is “Managing Changes in the Implementation of the ‘Strategy for the Development of Librarianship in the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2030ʼ”. The participants relied in their speeches on the “Fundamentals of State Policy for the Preservation and Strengthening of Traditional Russian Spiritual and Moral Values”, approved by the No. 809 Executive Order of the President of the Russian Federation of November 9, 2022. The event became the discussion site of the following issues: the library and the formation of socially responsible individual; the formation of strategies and programs for the development of libraries; the central library of the subject of the Russian Federation as the object of modernization; the formation and preservation of library collections. Among the presented draft documents developed as part of the implementation of the “Strategy for the Development of Librarianship in the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2030” are “Quality standard for the modernization of a public municipal library”, “Unified concept of scientific and methodological support for libraries” and “Indicative regulations on the organization of research activities in libraries in Russia”. Special attention is paid to the issues of interaction with the Donetsk Republican Universal Scientific Library named after N.K. Krupskaya and Lugansk Republican Universal Scientific Library named after M. Gorky. There were summed up the results of the All-Russian competition “Librarian of the Year — 2022” and the All-Russian competition “Library Analytics”. Within the framework of the meeting, the exhibition “Library Context — 2022” was held. The Meeting of the Board of the Russian Library Association took place as a parallel event.