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Professional career

 

May 1975 – January 1977 — engineer of the Special Design Bureau of Kazan Computer Plant

1977-78 – applied mathematician and programmer at Zhitomir branch of UKRSELKHOZTEHSISTEMA Republican Design and Technological Production Amalgamation

 

State Public Library for Science and Technology of the USSR  (since March 1992 - SPLS&T of Russia)

 

 1978 – senior engineer of the State Public Library for Science and Technology of the USSR, Management Process Research Sector of the SPLS&T System Automation Department, later – senior researcher.

 1980 – head of the USSR SPLS&T sector for Automated Technologies Design for Key Library Processes.

 1988 – head of the USSR SPLS&T department for research and development of automated library information systems and networks.

 1990 – head of the USSR SPLS&T Division of Research, Design and Development of Automated Library Information Systems and Networks.

 1991

May – Chief Designer of the Automated Library Information Systems and Networks, USSR State Public Library for Science and Technology

August – USSR SPLS&T Deputy Director in charge of Research and Automation;

October – First Deputy Director of the State Public Library for Science and Technology.

 1992 – lecturer, later – docent of the Moscow State Institute of Culture (today Moscow State University of Culture and Arts) Information Systems Chair (part time).

 1998 – professor, Moscow State Institute of Culture Virtual Communications Chair (part time).

 2000 – head of Moscow State Institute of Culture Chair of Information Technologies and Electronic Libraries (since 2009 – Chair of Electronic Libraries, Information Technologies and Systems) (part time).

 2006

May – Director of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology (RNPLS&T).

October till present– Director General, RNPLS&T

 

Moscow State Institute of Culture (MSIC, before 2015 — Moscow State University of Culture and Arts)

September 1992 — Associate Professor at Information Computer-aided Processing Chair, MSIC (part-time);

August 1998 — Professor at Virtual Communications Chair, MSIC (part-time);

Since August 2000 — till present — has founded and headed the IT and Electronic Libraries Chair (since 2010—the Chair of E-libraries, Information Technologies and Systems; since 2014—Chair of Culture Informatization and Electronic Libraries), MSIC (part-time).

 

Participation in professional organizations

1994-2014 — Chairman of the Permanent and International Organizing Committees of “Crimea” International Conference “Libraries and Information Resources in Modern World of Science, Culture and Business”.

2007 till present — Chairman of the Permanent and International Organizing Committees of LIBCOM International Conference "Information Technologies, Computer Systems and Publications for Libraries".

2007-2016 — Vice President of the Russian Library Association.

2007-2015 — Member of IFLA Permanent Committee for Copyright and Other Legal Matters.

Since 2015 till present — Chairman of the Permanent and International Organizing Committees of “Crimea” World Professional Forum.

Since 2015 till present — President of the National Library Association “Libraries of the Future”.

 

Professional interests

- mathematical statistics, queuing theory and networks;

- research, modeling and design of library automation systems;

- new concepts of modern information and corporate digital technologies in libraries;

- library information networks, telecommunication technologies and the Internet;

- information and linguistic support of library technologies;

- Russian and foreign library experience of building information society and its transformation into knowledge society;

- international library and information cooperation projects;

- digital libraries and open access systems;

- copyright and intellectual property;

- library and information education.