In the context of the development of modern information and communication environment, the top challenge of library institutions is to renew their activities and fill it with new functionalities. As science communications advance in accordance with the general evolution of the web sphere, the organization systems of information support for scientific research therefore undergo changes too. Scientific and academic libraries with their unique position in science communications are faced with the need to rethink their role and functions, with the problem of finding new ways of information and library support to research activities, and new services that meet the needs of modern scientists. Since one of the indicators for scientific institutions reporting is the number of institution references in the media, scientific libraries have begun to provide science news services. The authors consider the news information resources and services for scientific research institutions. The paper presents a brief description of news aggregator “Siberian Science News”, an information platform for distribution, storage and browsing of factual, bibliographic and full-text data. Based on this platform, staff members of the Branch of the State Public Scientific-Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) have set up a service to provide specialists with information to maintain and update the online news feeds of the research institutions of the Novosibirsk Scientific Center of SB RAS. The authors note that currently, according to the preferences of subscribers, there are used two types of information-analysis reports based on media publications. The results of the conducted research allow the authors to conclude that there is a need for more active promotion of the resource “Siberian Science News” and the service for the maintenance of news information. In the case of the research institutions, the service maintains the development of their news pages and news feeds on the websites of organizations, which in turn makes the organizations more visible in science communication environment and promotes research areas and scientific results.

The authors analyze the survey of the Novosibirsk Scientific Center’s libraries related to the relevant services provided by academic libraries. In Part 2, the authors discuss the findings for traditional and innovative services; attitude of library directors toward the newest services, and the latest developments. On the whole, the libraries of SB RAS research institutes enforce the widest range of activities and services based on the newest technologies. However, to offer modern information services, the librarians have to interact with researchers (experts) as their obvious partners. Through analyzing the survey results, the authors came to the following conclusions: all libraries have been accomplishing their traditional tasks; despite their adaptation to a new environment, as far as implementation of information services is concerned, they have remained at the level 1990s – early 2000s; library top managers demonstrate interest toward new knowledge and skills needed to offer innovative services to their users.

Historically, the scientific library has always been an important component of the structure of higher educational institution in Russia. Development of new technologies, creation of electronic information environment and availability of universities websites imposes on libraries certain responsibilities, associated not only with the provision of electronic resources and services to users, but also with the reflection on websites of various information about the libraries themselves, in particular, regarding their history. This information not only affects the formation of libraryʼs image, but can also become the basis for conducting modern scientific research in the field of library science. The presented research is devoted to studying the reflection of the history of libraries in the web space and determining the main trends in the development of information resources based on information on the history of librarianship.The authors highlight the results of the analysis of content of the libraries websites of the universities subordinate to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The paper presents the data obtained upon the study of websites (web pages) of 252 universities and their libraries. The study was conducted from February to April 2021. There authors identified five options for the representation of materials on the history of librarianship: historical reference, historical essay, comprehensive information product, presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, multimedia video presentation. Historical reference is the most common of them is. Based on the dates of establishment of universities and libraries compared in the course of study, it was possible to present in dynamics the general picture of their development.