The library in the modern world acts not just as a repository of books, but as a multifunctional cultural center that combines traditional storage and dissemination of knowledge with new technologies and cultural initiatives, including open spaces for collaborative work, reading and recreation areas for citizens, use of digital resources and technologies, and educational and cultural events.
Moderator:
Elena Gennadyevna Akhti, Deputy Director for Development of the St. Petersburg State Budgetary Institution of Culture "Central City Public Library named after V. V. Mayakovsky"
Speakers:
- Zoya Chalova, Director of the St. Petersburg State Budgetary Cultural Institution "V. V. Mayakovsky Central City Public Library.
- Duda Vadim, Director General, Federal State Budgetary Institution "Russian State Library".
- Elena Guseva, Director of the Department of State and Priority Projects of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "The Russian State Library".
- Olga Zhlobinskaya, Head of the Department for Coordination of Library Cooperation of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.
- Marina Nikishina, Director of the budgetary institution "National Library of the Republic of Karelia".
- Olga Ustinova, Director of the St. Petersburg State Budgetary Cultural Institution "State Special Central Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
- Mikhail Nazarov, Head of the Methodological Work Section of the Development Department of the St. Petersburg State Budgetary Cultural Institution "State Special Central Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired".
- Gai Anastasia , Director of the St. Petersburg State Budgetary Cultural Institution "St. Petersburg State Theater Library".
- Elena Matveeva, Director of the State Institution "Centralized System of State Public Libraries of Minsk".