The goal of the study was to reveal distinction between the reading practices at different educational levels and to specify the libraries’ place in these practices. The reading practices are determined not only by the new technological (digital) environment but also by the institutional and organizational context and social relationship within the educational environment. The case study of educa-tional institutions of Novosibirsk Academic Center (namely Novosibirsk State Uni-versity and the University’s specialized Academic Research Center) was accom-plished. The data was acquired through structured interviews, questionnaire-based survey supplemented with the statistical data of RAS SB State Public Scien-tific and Technological Library. The majority of high-graders use the library for textbooks and/or if recommended by the teacher. The university library is less involved in the educational process; the students visit the library occasionally (e.g. searching for rare publications or lacking alternatives). The university is not their source of digital documents or full texts either; the students prefer not to scruti-nize the specificity of every database and access procedure and turn to searchable Internet-resources. The library, in student’s opinion, needs modernization for less formal and disciplinary regulations, for more comfort, and polyfunctional envi-ronment of reading rooms.

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Brief results of the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Science, Technology and Information in Libraries (Libway-2019)», held on the 1719 September in Irkutsk, are presented. Main organizers: State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS), Central Scientific Library of Irkutsk Scientific Center of the SB RAS, Irkutsk Regional State Universal Scientific Library named after I. I. Molchanov-Sibirsky.

В статье предпринята попытка историко-книговедческого осмысления концепта «память». Изучение мнений историков, социологов, книговедов позволило составить представление о роли книги и чтения в процессах сохранения памяти и формирования исторической составляющей общественного сознания. Проанализиро-вана связь традиций книжности и памяти, выявлены негативные тенденции «разрыва с традицией» в сфере книжной культуры. Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia; e-mail: ser.lutov@gmail.com The article presents an attempt to study the historical-bibliologic concept of memory. Studying the opinions of historians, sociologists, bibliologists allowed comprehending the role of book and reading in the processes of memory preservation and forming the public consciousness historical component. The author analyzes relationship between the traditions of bookishness and memory; negative tendencies of the «break with tradition» in a sphere of modern book culture. Book and historical memory S. N. Lyutov State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of