The "Bookshelf". Secrets office library "SKB Kontur"

In the New Year Lifehacker.ru and Publishing "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber"Continue to explore the bookshelves IT-companies. We carried out the 2012-th cool contestFor which we were sent stories about the company libraries from all over Russia.

Today we have also not a short story of the city. We have a chance to explore the library of "SKB Kontur" in Yekaterinburg.

C development SKB Kontur familiar, perhaps, all the accountants and Russian businessmen. The company emerged in Yekaterinburg in 1988. Here and there is a central office, despite the fact that representative offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and other cities.
Specialist Internal Communications Katya Shirokova tells us that the company has a number of libraries. On one of the kitchens have Bukkrossing free zone (such cases we've seen in many companies, such as Yandex). A professional literature contained in the independent libraries of different departments. They say that the most interesting bookshelves in the management of development and user interface design department. To them we are going to watch.

Our first stop - the library of the designers. About it tells her guardian - the designer Masha Kovaleva.

Mary: "Our library - Sergei Solovyov's initiative, the head of department. About twice a year we do a centralized order books, but sometimes the children themselves bring something to read. Basically, in the library collected all the classic book about the design and interfaces. we also try to follow the novelties, so when the market comes something new, such as a regular book Yana FrankWe are waiting for her and immediately buy. "

Mary believes that in the field of design is not "Bible": "This is the path of each individual, and reading good books is not an absolute guarantee that everything will turn out." But let's take a look at what designers and developers read "Contour".

The library has Tufte English, which is considered a cult author on the topic of information design. Maria explains that the study of these works is difficult in English, and the author does not want to be transferred.

"We have a lot of publishing books Lebedev Studio: I personally enjoy"The book is about the letters from AA to Yaya"George Gordon. There is "Mandership"But it is rather easy because it needs to be."
In addition to books about design in the library there are books for general business processes. We spotted "Dao Toyota» and «Increase Conversion Website», Rework, Dream Team and even "sundresses marketing».

Maria continues the story: "Of course, we have"Mental hospital patients in the hands of"Alan Cooper. Book more than 10 years, it gives a historical overview and reading, you understand how the development of the software industry has grown. Cooper allows us to understand what the problems were in the industry, or reborn in the new. Now the book is someone on hand. "
It happens that the employees returning from studies from other countries (eg the Netherlands) and bring the printout of interesting materials. They are also stored in the library.

Now on hand is approximately 50% of the books. Many books on drawing, calligraphy and typography not read at a time - they have to work. Therefore, the delayed publication readers.
The process of transferring books just organized. They are stored in the closet next to the working place of Masha, and their presence can be found in the blog designers and planners. Here you can get acquainted with an average rating of the book and read reviews on it.

But notes on the read can be found and offline :)

The blog is also a section labeled mysterious letters "IF". There is a large pivot table, which shows who read and what grade this book set. The titles of books read is not easy, but it looks like this:

"Now we want to come up with some mechanisms to motivate people to read more, to make minimum reports and reviews, because it is most familiar Council encourages to read this or that book, - says Masha. - Once we come up with how to make sure that books are not lost. "
One of the options - stickers. For example, one version:

Saying goodbye to Masha, we briefly looked to the developers. What is on the shelves at them?

Order books and the library has been filled Operations Manager Management Development Anna A. Radosteva.

Anna says that the idea of ​​the library belongs to Edward Romanovich Shifman, development control manager. Today, about 70 books catalog. In recent years, an increasing number of publications in foreign languages.

Interestingly, the most read books are not about programming languages ​​and the development itself: it "Human factor. Projects team"DeMarco and Lister"Stoned by adrenaline and zombie templates», «Black Swan"Nassim Taleb and the same Rework.

But as looks in the "Contour" Bukkrossing area. Any employee can bring a book and put it on a shelf in the kitchen. Similarly, any other can pick up and read it as drinking tea at the kitchen office and at home.

Cool design, is not it?

Thanks to the team, "Contour" for a fascinating tour. Do you also like that? Write what you most impressed in this library. And we are preparing reports from other well-known Russian IT-companies.