The journal version of the Annual Report presented at Crimea-2017 Third World Professional Forum (full-text version was published in the brochure distributed among the Forum participants). Modern trends, particularly The Big Data (which is reality at libraries, universities, research centers, archives, museums, as well as publishing and book trade), open access and digitizing of information sources are analyzed in detail as major factors of information environment development. The statistics of the rise in information content is given. The extracts from the UN resolution «Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development» adopted on September 25, 2015, and set to forth starting January 1, 2016 are cited. Its goals and objectives directly related to libraries, archives and academic institutions are highlighted. The copyright issues are analyzed as well. The principles libraries, museums and archives are to observe while implementing new technologies are highlighted. The correlation between electronic and printed book at the present book market is analyzed. It is underlined that “live”, i.e. printed book and live communication are the main values in our current life.