Library Space of the CIS Countries as a Self-organizing System: Research Methodology
Journal: Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science]
Year: 2019

The article reveals the research methodology of the library space of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) based on the theory of self-organization (synergetics). Synergetics as the direction of post-non-classical science was developed at the end of the last — the beginning of the new Millennium in the works of a number of researchers who proved the universality of this methodology and its applicability to the study of processes occurring in society. However, until the 2000s, this methodo