The Eighth World Professional Forum «The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations» («Gelendzhik-2024»): The review of events

The Eighth World Professional Forum «The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations» («Gelendzhik-2024») was held on June 9–15, 2024. The forum subject scope comprised the issues of developing and using artificial intelligence in library services, staffing and practical training of library professionals, scientometrics and bibliometrics, patent information, e-libraries, electronic archives and online resources, library educational projects in Russia, developing digital environment and other vital problems of the library, information, scientific, educational and cultural communities. The authors review the following events: Twenty Ninth International Conference «Libraries and information resources in the modern world of science, culture, education and business», 2024 theme «Libraries inthe modern digital environment: New forms of cooperation and user services»; Scientific Educational Symposium «Building and development of the modern digital environment for education and science»; B. Lensky Seventh Industrial Conference «Book publishing and the libraries: Vectors of interaction»; Eighth Museum Assembly «Preserving traditions, implementing innovations»; Seventh General Conference of the National Library Association «Libraries of the Future; Fifth Conference «Green libraries – libraries of the future»; Fifth Scientific Conference «Scientometrics, bibliometrics, open data and publications in science»; etc. The conclusions on the Forum are made.