Министерство              Государственная публичная  
науки и технической       научно-техническая         
политики                  библиотека                 
Российской Федерации      России                     
                                                     
                                                     
НАУЧНЫЕ И ТЕХНИЧЕСКИЕ     Ежемесячный сборник        
БИБЛИОТЕКИ                по вопросам теории и       
                          практики библиотечного дела
                                                     
                                                     
ОСНОВАН в 1961 г.         № 4  (1996г.)              

CONTENTS AND ABSTRACTS

Danchenko T.N., Karamysheva L.M., Pozdhyakova G.I., Sokolov A.V. Specificity of academic libraries. The article examines the peculiar features of natural sciences academic libraries on the basis of analysis of empiric material related to the centralized system of the Academy of Sciences Library.

Popova S.A. Some problems of software products application by libraries of the region

Zaitsev V.N. Russian National Library — past, present, future

Belayche K. The French Librarians Association

Lang B. The Future of Libraries

Lehmann K.-D. The Information highway and cultural heritage

Bakhturina T.A. Bibliographic description standardization: stability or new shocks. The article considers a problem situation existing in the field of bibliographic description standardization. Described are the international tendencies of normative basis developement, the principles of revising the State Standard 7.1-84, theoretical, organizational and economic problems casting doubt on the expediency of such a revise in the nearest future.

Morgenstern I.G. On the improvement and introduction of a standard bibliographical description. The article is written from the perspective of a bibliographer who makes, uses bibliographical descriptions, disseminate the related knowledge and proceeds from the idea that the bibliographic consciousness stems from the skill of reading bibliographic records.

Kasparova N.N. Adaptation of international recommendations for description of ISBD (CF) computer files to the national practice of Russian bibliographic institutions

History in bibliography

Skvortsov V.V. Valuable 1995 editions

Sukiasyan E.R. A step forward ... or two steps back?