Abstract: Discusses activities of the Republican library of the Tatar ASSR them. V.I. Lenin during the Great Patriotic war. The highlighted characteristic of this period of trend, consisting in the application of the composition of the reading groups, the development of mobile library points, moving the centre of gravity in service to the readers on military subjects, a decrease in the dynamics of recruitment literature, incompleteness of the library staff and the deterioration of conditions of work.

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The reason for this work was the 25th anniversary of the main search engines for our country, Yandex and Google, which happened one after another. This article is an attempt to describe some events from the history of the development of Internet navigation tools from the point of view of a witness (and partly a participant).

Abstract: Universal access to the knowledge contained in the comprehensive printed record of mankind is a goal that can be achieved within a decade. With appropriate public policies and the development and deployment of standards, not addressed in this paper as they are the subject of a separate processes, most of this knowledge could be provided free at the point of use while increasing the return to copyright holders over the life of copyright protected publications. With proper attention to the representation of contextual knowledge in print images and the interchange of raw forms of this data, national governments can ensure the emergence of the first integrated and comprehensive resource representing the print literature of the world. Human creativity and capabilities will be unleashed without regard to barriers previously imposed by limited access to information, barriers that effectively kept everyone, no matter how privileged, from having full access to universal print heritage and supported dramatic differences between a very few who had significant access and the overwhelming majority that had virtually none.