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New Realities: Libraries in Post-Soviet Russia

Knutson, Ellen M.

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Title
New Realities: Libraries in Post-Soviet Russia
Author(s)
Knutson, Ellen M.
Issue Date
2007
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries and society
  • Libraries in Russia
Abstract
The transition away from communism toward a more democratic society and the move to a market economy had profound effects on Russian libraries. Using the main public library in Bryansk, the Bryansk Region Scientific Library, as a case study, this article examines the changes in library service, including information access and the opening of previously closed collections, funding issues, the library’s relationship with the government, changes in the professional mindset of librarians, and the information needs of library users in this period of transition.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3708
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Copyright 2007 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

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Library Trends 55 (3) Winter 2007: Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change PRIMARY
Library Trends 55 (3) Winter 2007: Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change. Edited by W. Boyd Rayward and Christine Jenkins.
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