Digital resources of the Russian State Library (RSL) are composed of the Digital Library including 11 collections, the largest of which and the one of the greatest demand is the Digital Dissertation Library, of the RSL Internet Store and of other electronic services. The Russian State Library is in a constant process of broadening its electronic collections, and it would develop the very system of its remote services for readers, too. Thus the RSL makes its contribution to the quality of science and education in Russia, to cultural education of the nation and to creation of a united library and information environment within the state.

Practice of holding the sociological surveys conducted for the purpose of detection of opinion of users on electronic information resources and the related information services provided by Educational and scientific information center of the Kazan National University of Science and Technology is described. Results of these polls are given. Experience on formation of information culture of users of Educational and scientific information center of the Kazan National University of Science and Technology is presented.

The article tells about the creation of knowledge management system in Republican Medical Library Information Centre (RMLIC, Kazan). Key elements of knowledge management in libraries are explained. The information on programs of improvement of professional skill of librarians, forms and methods are given.

Discusses activities of the Republican library of the Tatar ASSR them. V.I. Lenin during the Great Patriotic war. The highlighted characteristic of this period of trend, consisting in the application of the composition of the reading groups, the development of mobile library points, moving the centre of gravity in service to the readers on military subjects, a decrease in the dynamics of recruitment literature, incompleteness of the library staff and the deterioration of conditions of work.

Library processes are considered from the point of view of building a smart library. Identified problems of creation and support the latest version of the library site, the replenishment of the Fund of the role and place of "smart" electronic educational resources in engineering education, the establishment of thematic collections via the electronic library systems.

The modern stage of higher education system development is related to the new educational model of specialists training based on the graduates’ competences for further professional and social activity within the conditions of rapidly socio-economic developing of modern society.

Methodological support of educational problems is not only a significant component of federal state educational standards of higher education and one of the important accreditation criteria but is a core element of the new educational model.

The article raises questions of overcoming the crisis in the library through the merger of informational library resources with the RUDN’s Learning Management System. The new role of the library in the creation and support of the Learning Management System, and integration of the electronic library system and other databases with the Learning Management System is discussed.

The software package of book supply coefficient calculation represents a monitor that reflects interrelation of printed along with electronic methodological support and principal educational programs implemented in the university. Data provided by the book supply software allows prompt planning, on-time adjusting of printed publications purchase, and forming effective subscription for electronic library databases according to relevancy of the content in a particular university’s current educational process.

The article presents the results of the in-depth interviews and a questionnaire survey of representatives of the scientific-technical sphere with the aim of defining the information skills required for carrying out of examination of projects of applied research and experimental development in the framework of the Federal target program «Research and development on priority directions of development of scientific-technological complex of Russia for 2014-2020».

The methods of information and analytical support of examination of scientific and technical projects within the Federal Target Program «Researches and developments in priority directions of scientific and technological complex of Russia for 2014–2020» are discussed. The results of a poll of independent experts in the assessment of effectiveness of the specified support are presented. 

Article is devoted to a research of a private library of the famous Tatar poet hero Moussa Dzhalil which is exhibited at the museum apartment of the poet. The structure is analyzed, the structure of library is characterized.

Many lines have been written about the wealth of the holdings of the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan. When speaking of the rare books stored in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of our Library, it is worth mentioning the lifetime editions of some Russian classics. Many of these editions are bibliographic rarities. The history of the publication of A.S. Pushkin’s "Eugene Onegin" and "Poems", F.I. Tiutchev’s "Poems", and A.A. Akhmatova’s "The evening", is especially interesting. It would be impossible to have all the lifetime editions of famous poets and writers within one library’s holdings. Nevertheless, the staff of the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books continue the search for such rarities among our Library’s holdings.