Modern Children’s Book in a Focus of Scientific Conferences of the Nizhny Tagil State Social and Pedagogical Institute

This article explores the history of scientific and practical conferences dedicated to children’s book at the Nizhny Tagil State Social and Pedagogical Institute. The aim of the article is to reveal the specifics of interdisciplinary research of children’s book in the process of conferences; to study the possibilities of the conference as a form of mediation between representatives of professional communities studying children’s book (scientists, representatives of various humanitarian disciplines) and practitioners (teachers, librarians). The main results: analysis of history of scientific and practical conferences devoted to children’s book, which were held at the Nizhny Tagil State Social Pedagogical Institute in 2008–2019; identification of the themes and issues of the conferences, the forms of participant’s work (reports, round tables, master classes, exhibitions, etc.); justification for the role of scientific and practical conference devoted to children’s book as a form of mediation between professional communities of writers, critics and researchers of children’s literature, teachers, librarians.