Academic libraries, apart from their main function, which is to provide information services to academic communities, may also perform a number of social roles in the broad meaning of the term. Accordingly, they now tend to serve as the third place offering inclusion and animation activities to academic as well as local communities (including…

This paper examines the system of public education in Kars Oblast in the period 1878-1917. The present part of the work covers the period 1878-1908, which spans the timeframe from the incorporation of the region into the Russian Empire through to the commencement of preparatory activities related to the introduction of compulsory primary education…

The paper highlights early steps in the development of the school system and its progression with a focus on the Vologda governorate in 1725-1917. Speaking of the materials, this part reviews the works on the history of pedagogy published in the pre-revolutionary period, as well as modern Russian scholarly literature. Research problems were…

The democratic society of the 21st century requires a person to possess advanced communication standards. The article sets tendencies to develop reading culture among teenagers by means of events and projects aimed to support reading. The Yelabuga Institute of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University hosts the following projects: "The Festival…

The purpose of this research was to discover the conceptions of information literacy (IL) prevalent across multiple stakeholder groups in an international middle school community. The research involved students, parents, teachers, librarians, IT personnel, administrators and leadership in recorded focus group discussions. Using a phenomenographic…

The article describes how education changed in Russia between 1992 and 1993, noting the change was very noticeable, though numerous and extreme problems remained unresolved with most of the current political regime's reforms not yet reaching working class people. The article also discusses several issues, unrelated to education, in 1993 Russia.…

The Commissioner's introduction to Volume 1 includes state school system statistics. Chapter I addresses vacation schools, playgrounds, and settlements, with discussion of poor children in major cities, playground conditions, playground social conditions, play psychology, and settlement-movement history. Subsequent chapters cover laws concerning…