Vìsnik Odesʹkogo Nacìonalʹnogo Unìversitetu: Bìblìotekoznavstvo, Bìblìografoznavstvo, Knigoznavstvo (Mar 2016)
FIRST ALL-UKRAINIAN CONGRESS OF LIBRARY WORKERS (1926) AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIBRARIES IN UKRAINE THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20'S OF THE 20th CENTURY
Abstract
This article explores the historical background, political and socio-cultural factors and the organization of the First All-Ukrainian Congress of library workers (1926), forming the main problems and issues that were raised at the congress and analyzed the value of its solutions for the further development of the library business in Ukraine in the second half of the 1920s. An analysis of scientific publications and materials Congress proved that the subject and content of the reports, co-reports and messages delegates were relevant, their discussion - quite fruitful and important, as proposed questions reflect the general trends of librarianship in Ukraine during this period. In the light of the decisions of the Congress and the development of library construction in Ukraine in the study described organization and scatter the country's massive network (public) libraries; improvement typology libraries, forms and methods of their cultural and media activities; activities of library associations; features acquisition of library collections; study the reader; organization of training and re-training of library staff. As a result of the study and analysis of the resolutions of the congress delegates reports, special publications found that theoretical and organizational and practical conclusions that were made at the Congress allowed to identify the main ways of further library construction in the country (and the creation of a single centralized library network, planned construction of a system of library service, coordination of various departments of libraries, unification of forms and methods of library work, etc.) for the next three to five years and had not only of great practical but also, often, methodological importance for development of specific library case and library. Analysis of the Congress suggests that almost every report was heard at the Congress, was a kind of summary of a certain section of the library building and expanded proposals for further development of librarianship in the appropriate direction. The main idea of many reports was that the study of working-class and rural readers considered necessary in the context of the ideological and political education of the population, which was proposed to create a system of offices and commissions to study the readers and books.
