The Institute’s library received the second part of the collection of articles "The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected: the User and the Future of Information and Communication Technologies" compiled of reports made at the same-name conference organized by IIS and Academy of National Economy affiliated to the Government of RF within the framework of the European Commission’s program "Cooperation in Science and Technology 298" (COST Action 298) in May 2007.

The proccedings issued in English under the editorship of Bartolomeo Sapio, Leopoldina Fortunati, Leslie Haddon, Kari-Hans Kommonen, Enid Mante-Meijer, Tomaz Turk, are divided into chapters according to conference’s topics: "Users as Innovators", "Humans as eActors", "The Multiple Cultures of the Information Society", "Future Directions", "Politics Online: Comparative Perspectives, Theories and Methodological Innovations", "Accessibility of Services and Terminals for All", "Semantic Multimodel Analysis of Digital Media", "ICT and China", "Gender in Broadband Society".

Among authors of the digest are numerous European scientists in telecommunications sphere, developers and independent consultants, who conduct joint analysis of social aspects of interaction between people and ICT. Among Russian authors there were such specialists as Alex Evtyushkin, Olga Vershinskaya, Marina Borovik, Ludmila Shemberko, Alexander Fedorov, Vsevolod Zherebin.

The main topics of the published articles reflect goals of the by-past conference: creation of the new knowledge about users’ possibilities and their involvement in broadband information society, providing for dialog between all interested parties in order to optimize the process of ICT development and use at interdisciplinary level, and development of network for advanced experience exchange and determination of key trends in ICT use.

Each author presents own view with accent on human, not technologies, production or business – in the spirit of overcoming interdisciplinary limits and in terms understandable for non-specialists.