History of preservation of library collections -the key to understanding contemporary problems

Review of the monograph M.N. Glazkov «problems of preservation of library collections in Russia»*. The study is based on the reconstruction of a reliable picture of the development of one of the key and fundamental problems of library business - the preservation of library collections, features of the development of this important area in different periods of library construction in the country. The author conveys the specifics of the epochs, compares the present and the past of our profession, thinks about its future.