The War Years Memory: How Russian Libraries Brought the Victory Closer (30th Readings on the History of Librarianship in Moscow)

The article provides an overview of the presentations of the participants of the 30th Readings on the History of Libraries and Librarianship in Moscow (February 19—21, 2025), a scientific and practical conference that traditionally unites specialists in the history of librarianship and bibliography, book culture and social communications. The conference was co-organized by the I.S. Turgenev Library and Reading Room, the Fundamental Library of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Library History Section of the Russian Library Association. The plenary session and two sections are briefly described: “Russian Libraries During the Great Patriotic War” and “Libraries and the Special Military Operation”