Obrashchenie k voprosam knizhnoy kul'tury Sibiri poslednikh let XVI - XVII vv., v chastnosti, k sozdaniyu vladychnykh, monastyrskikh, tserkovnykh i lichnykh bibliotek, predstavlyaetsya nemalovazhnym vvidu proiskhodyashchego v nastoyashchee vremya aktivnogo vozvrashcheniya k kul'turnym tsennostyam proshlogo. Biblioteki obychno formirovalis' pri khramakh i monastyryakh, organizatsiey sbora i khraneniya literatury v kotorykh zanimalis' v osnovnom dukhovnye litsa, a inogda i sami mitropolity i arkhiepiskopy. Kolichestvo knig v tserkovnykh i monastyrskikh knizhnykh sobraniyakh bylo razlichnym, no vklyuchalo krug knig, neobkhodimykh dlya soversheniya bogosluzhebnykh treb. Shirokoe rasprostranenie bogoslovskoy literatury opredelyaetsya gospodstvom v XVII veke pravoslavnogo mirovozzreniya. Dlya srednevekovogo chitatelya sochineniya takogo roda predstavlyali i esteticheskuyu tsennost'. Interes k istorii sibirskoy knizhnosti opredelyaetsya tem ogromnym vliyaniem, kotoroe ona okazala na dukhovnoe razvitie samoy Sibiri.