Conference RCDL-2014 is the sixteenth one in the series of annual scientific conferences “Digital libraries: advanced methods and technologies, digital collections”. The Conference is held for the third time in Dubna at the hospitable Laboratory of information technologies of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR). Alongside with the Russian employees of scientific research institutes, professors and post-graduate students of the universities, specialists in the field of library science and information technologies, RCDL-2014 is attended by the representatives of France, Great Britain, India, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
The chairs of the Organizing Committee and Program Committee of RCDL-2014 express their gratitude to the authors of the submissions as well as to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Department of nanotechnologies and information technologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences for their support of the Conference. The RCDL Steering Committee thanks Director and employees of the JINR Laboratory of information technologies for their hard and responsible work on preparation and carrying out of the Conference as well as the members of the Program Committee for their important work on reviewing and selection of submissions.