Bìblìotečnij vìsnik (Jan 2017)
Archives, libraries and museums - the sources base of the national memory and cultural heritage of Ukraine
Abstract
Archives, libraries, and museums are explored as the constituents of social institutes realizing the collection and storage of social, historical and national memory. The institutes organize deposition of memory sources, conduct scientific, information and cultural activities. Defined their main functions and the legislative process in the field of cultural heritage. Their main functions are preservation and study of historical and cultural sources, sharing unbiased information and scientifically grounded knowledge concerning the documental cultural heritage. The institutions’ activity provides governmental figures, educators, scientists and cultural figures with unbiased information, conduces countermeasures against the tendentious interpretation of historical process and the deformation of memorial senses of the past and modernity, the manipulation of historical facts and socio-cultural factors sense.
