SPECIAL COURSE "THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIBERIAN CULTURE (1990-2010)" IN TRAINING LIBRARY EXPERTS

A considerable interest to the activity of regional studies is observed at present. The statistics of release of literature on regional studies in our country testifies to its incessant growth during last years. Numerous and various materials of regional studies are published: books, brochures, magazines, newspapers, leaflets, posters, musical works, maps and charts, author's abstracts of dissertations and others. The large volumes of document and electronic publications are difficult to process. Therefore, an important role in the system of information resources of Russia belongs to regional bibliography. Studying of various aspects of regional bibliography is seen significant to include in the program of training of library experts. A special course "The Bibliography of culture of Siberia (1990-2010)" offered to the students of the Institute of Arts and Culture of Tomsk State University is devoted to the bibliography of the cultural life of Siberia - a region, unique both in the extensiveness of the territory, and in cultural, ethnic and religious variety. The first part of the course is devoted to the bibliography of the cultural life of the Altai territory and the Altai Republic, Kemerovo region, Novosibirsk region, Omsk region, Tomsk region, Tyumen region, the Republic of Khakassia and the Republic of Tuva. In the second part, the bibliography of culture of Krasnoyarsk region, Irkutsk region, Transbaikalian territory, the Republic of Buryatiya, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is considered. Chronological frameworks of the studied bibliography are 1990-2010. In the bibliography such directions as the general tendencies of the cultural policy are reflected; education; physical training, sports and tourism; mass-media activity; library and book business; museum and archive business; fiction; the fine arts, design, architecture; music and entertainment arts; leisure activity; ethnic-social and religious processes. The primary aims of the course are to stimulate cogitative activity of students, to promote the formation of high bibliographic culture and interest to the history and culture of Siberia. The given special course shows features of development of the bibliography of Siberia, forms cultural and professional competences, the bibliographic culture, the idea of a region as a historically developed natural-social system, interest and respect for the culture of the native land.