ASU scientist served as an expert at an international book congress

The 1st International Scientific Congress “A Book: Siberia-Eurasia” and international exhibition fair took place on 1–3 September at the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk. The participants included representatives of such Eurasian countries as Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Japan, South Korea, Israel, China and Poland. The organization committee comprised such famous representatives of Russian scientific community as SB RAS chairman, academician A.L. Aseev, director of the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.E. Guskov, academician V.I. Molodin, world’s leading scientists and bibliographers, director of scientific libraries of Poland, China, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus.

The opening ceremony was held on 1 September. The participants were welcomed by academician A.L. Aseev, Minister of Culture of Novosibirsk Oblast I.N. Reshetnikov, consul general of Germany V. Richter, consul general of Poland K. Sviderek, first secretary of Israel Embassy I. Zweig, honorary consul of France G.V. Milogulov, director of National Library of Kyrgyzstan Zh.K. Bakashova and others.

The special characteristic of the forum was its eventful professional program designed for scientists and practitioners in book industry, culture experts, journalists, writers, book publishers, librarians, illustrators and retailers. The main event of the program was scientific congress, which comprised 13 workshops: “Information Technologies in Publishing and Library Business”, “Book-Printing Art”, “Books in Media Environment: Social and Cultural Interaction, Expert Evaluations”, “Books and Cultural Environment of Eurasian Space”, “Book Culture of Eurasia within Historical Context”, “Reading Region: Books in Contemporary Life”, etc. More than 200 people from Kazan, Saransk, Tashkent, Yakutsk, Tomsk, Chelyabinsk, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Ulan-Ude, Khabarovsk, Saint-Petersburg, Omsk, Kemerovo, Bishkek, Dalian, Warsaw and other cities registered to participate in the congress.

Head of ASU Public Relations Department, Doctor of Philology, Assistant Professor Dmitry V. Marin acted as an expert at “Books and Cultural Environment of Eurasian Space” workshop. His colleague in expert work was Assistant Professor of Dalian University of Foreign Languages Chanjuan Wang. The workshop discussed the problems of book-publishing industry of Siberia and Russian national regions in XIX–XXI centuries and had a format of webinar with Kazan State University of Culture. D.V. Marin delivered a report and presented a book series “Altai. Destiny. Epoch”, which has been published in the framework of government program since 2014. This is a sequence of books about outstanding people of Altai Krai. For the present moment, 6 books about A.I. Skurlatov, G.S. Titov, M.T. Kalashnikov, Metropolitan Macarius (Nevsky), V.S. Zolotukhin, V.M. Shukshin. 4 more books are supposed to be published by the end of 2019.

“This is a genuinely unique project that has no analogues in Russia. This fact was once again confirmed by discussion participants after our report,” said D.V. Marin. “Thus, representatives of Kazan decided to address the President of Tatarstan in order to initiate the publication of similar book series in their republic. This is why we need our project to be evaluated by professional philologists and bibliographers and edit the books in the course of the publishing process. ASU employees act as editors of the book series and often review the books in different regional journals.”

Bibliographers and publishers of Russia and partner-countries pointed out the high organizational level of the 1st International Book Congress.