Albina Krymskaya, Ph.D.

Albina Krymskaya is an Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of the Library and Information Science Department of the St. Petersburg State University of Culture (Russia). She has a Ph.D. degree in Library and Information Science (dissertation title “Knowledge Management Technologies in Biobibliographic studies”). Albina began her career in 2011 teaching LIS classes. Since 2014, she has done double duty working as an associate professor and a deputy dean in the LIS Department. She teaches three courses: “Analysis of professional information”, “Information resources in social and humanitarian sciences”, and “Using information analysis to avert crises in book publishing, the arts, and business”.

Albina has over 150 publications on knowledge management, international history of information science, history of Russian-American scholarly exchanges, and information resources in the field of international relations, history and economics. These publications include a bibliographic index on Knowledge Management (2009) and a monograph (2014) about American exchange students’ educational experience in St. Petersburg.

She is a chair of the IFLA Section on Education and Training (SET). In IFLA she initiated such projects as “LIS Student Voices: Global Peer-to-Peer Dialogue” for the Building Strong Library and Information Science Education (BSLISE) Working Group and “A Webinar Series for LIS students” for the IFLA Division C Units. Both are aligned with IFLA Strategy 2019-2024 and aimed at involving LIS students into the LIS international dialogue and IFLA community. She is a member of the Section for International Cooperation of the Russian Library Association (2021-2024).