Book recommendation services in bibliographic activities of libraries1

Book recommendation services, promptly reflecting the development of readers’ demands, are an important means of updating library funds. This study is devoted to the prospects for using Internet resources of this profile in library and bibli-ographic activities and has been carried out based on an electronic thematic collection of popular scientific literature posted on the website of the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The authors analyze Russian and foreign pub-lications on recommendation systems, consider their species classification in con-nection with the library and information sphere; propose an original definition of the term “book recommendation service”. Based on the results of the survey under-taken at the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, con-clusion has been made that readers, while choosing scientific and educational liter-ature, are in need not only for extended bibliographic information, but also for rec-ommendation services available online.