Not only books: the director of Svetlovka is about how libraries are turning into media centers. Central City Youth Library named after M.A. Svetlova

State state-financed organization culture of the city of Moscow "Central City Youth Library named after A.I. M. A. Svetlova- the first in Moscow and one of the oldest libraries in Russia for youth. It is located in the Central Administrative District at the address: Bolshaya Sadovaya st. , 1 (administration, youth media center, coordination and methodological and information and bibliographic departments, public relations department and editorial and publishing department) and Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya  ul. , d. 23 (subscription, departments of literature on art, information electronic resources and the formation of library and information resources and electronic cataloging). The founder of the library is the Department of Culture of the city of Moscow.

History of the Library

In April 1941, with a staff of five people, the Gorodskaya youth library. It was created on the basis of the youth department of the current TsUNB them. N. A. Nekrasova. During 1941, 2,250 books were purchased. As of January 1, 1942, the library fund was 24,124 items. storage, the number of readers 5385 people.

Library leaders

The first director of the library (since 1941) was V. I. Mezhirovskaya, from 1948 to 1953 the library was headed by P. M. Nepomnyashchaya, from 1954 to 1959 - Irina Viktorovna Bakhmutskaya (later director of the Republican State Youth Library , initiator of the creation of a network of youth libraries in the USSR). In 1961, Raisa Ilyinichna Kozhevnikova, who worked for about three decades, headed the City Youth Library No. 3. Since 1998 Lyubov Anatolyevna Popova has been the director of the library.

Library activities

Already in the 1950s, the library became a methodological center on the scale of the Union, where people come to learn from the experience of working with young people. “Review books” have been preserved, including entries made by librarians from Siberia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, the republics of the North, rural libraries. The status of the methodological center for library and information services for youth for public libraries the capital was first officially enshrined in the Law of the city of Moscow "On library and information services for the population of the city of Moscow" dated September 23, 2009 No. 36 in paragraph 4 of Art. 4. The library network of the city of Moscow: “The Central City Youth Library performs the functions of a methodological center for youth services, specialists in working with youth, carries out cultural and educational, educational work, provides information support to young people in the educational and self-educational process, including in the framework of interaction with educational institutions, in the choice of professional guidelines and professional adaptation.

In the summer of 1957, the Youth Library participates in the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow "For Peace and Friendship Between Nations". 34,000 delegates from 131 countries of the world, 2,000 journalists arrived in the capital. From July 28 to August 11, the library was the official platform for international meetings.

On October 5, 1965, by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, the City Youth Library No. 3 was named after the poet Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov, the author of texts for famous songs"Grenada" and "Kakhovka". In 1967, M. A. Svetlov was posthumously awarded the Lenin Prize. A memorial exposition is opened in the library, the Svetlovsky archive is being formed. Publications came by subscription from the Bureau of Newspaper Clippings of the City Spravka, from personal archives not only of residents of Moscow and the USSR, but also foreign countries. The library acquired and keeps in its collections many editions of the writer's works.

In the 1960s, the professional orientation of young people became one of the main activities in the library. There were conversations and book fairs about the choice of a profession, dozens of peredvizhki worked at factories in Moscow, in military units and house administrations. Students of vocational (trade) schools organized exhibitions of their products. Today, the Center for Career Guidance and Legal Assistance to Youth operates in the library. Library users are provided with access to the reference and legal systems "ConsultantPlus" and "Garant", full-text databases on economics and law, professional orientation of youth.

In the 1970s, the library became a center of enlightenment, participated in the creation of Universities of Culture, lecture halls, arranged musical evenings in the Hall of Columns of the House of the Unions - formerly the Russian Noble Assembly, the place of balls of old noble Moscow. In 1981, the Youth Library named after. M. A. Svetlova became a laureate of the Moscow Komsomol Prize in the field of literature and art.

On the basis of the Order of the Department of Culture of the City of Moscow dated January 25, 2013 No. 37, the State Budgetary Institution of Culture of the City of Moscow "Central City Youth Library named after M. A. Svetlov" was renamed the State Budgetary Institution of Culture of the City of Moscow "Central City Youth Library named after M. . A. Svetlova", the abbreviated name of the GBUK of the city of Moscow "TsGMB named after M. A. Svetlov". books, audiovisual documents and musical publications includes over 86 thousand records, an electronic catalog of bibliographic descriptions of articles from periodicals - more than 56 thousand. The library is open to everyone: literary creativity Youth "Me and Everything", musical workshop of young authors and performers "Orpheus", dialogue youth Orthodox club "Dominant". The library contains an extensive collection of documents dedicated to the life and work of the poet Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov. TsGMB them. M. A. Svetlova is a coordination and methodological center for working with youth and youth for the libraries of the city, the publisher of the information collection “Libraries of Moscow for Youth”.

Why did the library boom begin in Moscow and the capital's reading rooms became the most interesting different people? The director of one of the most popular Moscow libraries, the Central City Youth Library named after M.A. Svetlov.

It is difficult to call Moscow libraries now libraries in the old sense of the word. Now many of them have turned into full-fledged multifunctional cultural centers, living in the rhythm of big city. Here you can still take home paper books or sit in the reading room, but there are also other opportunities and activities - from creative meetings With famous people to coworking spaces. About how the Youth Library named after M.A. Svetlova, the site was told by its director Valentina Agafonova.

- What will the reader who wants to go to Svetlovka see now?

Our departments are located in three different buildings. The youth media center on Bolshaya Sadovaya has space for various events and a fund of foreign literature. Here you can take fiction and educational books in foreign languages, popular science and business publications, periodicals. The main subscription is located on Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, there is most of book fund of adult and youth literature - from art and business books to scientific and educational publications. The children's library is located in Bolshoy Tishinsky Lane, it also has its own collection (classical and modern literature, children's encyclopedias, as well as books on child development, education and psychology), and space for events.

Everyone can meet cult personalities in our library

— What is a youth media center?

- The media center works almost daily in the format of a lecture platform. Meetings are held here as part of affiliate programs and own projects. We hold “Meetings on Bolshaya Sadovaya” with famous people: actor Yuri Kolokolnikov, director Yuri Bykov and many others came to us. The last one was held in our library creative evening Evgenia Evtushenko. This cycle is very popular. In fact, everyone can meet cult personalities for free.

There are educational, or rather, educational formats. The organizers of the Enlightener award hold meetings with writers and special events. Often we simply invite interesting lecturers, different topics, which we choose for one or another target audience: see what is interesting for everyone age group. We also cooperate with universities, philological faculties- we conduct classes, contests of readers. These formats are also very popular.

— How has the work of the library changed after modernization?

— We have installed convenient self-service stations. Now a person does not need, as before, to come, each time to fill out a card for a book with the participation of a librarian. There is an electronic library card: you choose the number of books (not necessarily one) and put them in the station. It reads RFID tags, automatically enters these books into your library card, and that's all - you can independently track when and what you need to turn in, which books you have on hand. This is one of the most convenient options for modern libraries, including ours. Also at the end of last year, new computers were purchased for visitors.

The work schedule has also changed. Previously, libraries were open until 19:00 or 20:00 maximum, and now they are open until 21:00 or 22:00, so that everyone after work, college and on weekends can come to receive services, read, and so on. Our library is a youth library, so now it is open from 10:00 to 21:00 from Tuesday to Saturday and until 20:00 on Sunday. Monday for libraries is a single day off.

— Did you get more visitors after the upgrade?

- Svetlovka has always been popular. Since the 1940s, there has been a youth library where career guidance classes were held - a very popular direction in those days. There were also very strong poetic studios here. There are several contemporary poets who came out of the poetry circle of our library.

We have regular visitors who come to us like in an office, in a coworking space - they spend almost half a day here

We are trying to maintain popularity, including arranging a comfortable environment for work and study: to place tables near stained-glass windows, it is more convenient to place places for readers. We look at how comfortable people are, how they settle down - and yes, we see that people come to us.

When I went to the library last year to decide whether I wanted to become its director, during the day the lights in the reading room could even be dimmed, because there was no one there. And now on weekdays you can always find six or eight visitors there who come to us with different goals, and not just to take books.

- Why are they going?

- Now, in principle, few people go to the library to sit down with a book and read. People come with laptops to work, work out or listen to someone. We have regular visitors who come to us like in an office, in a coworking space - they spend almost half a day here. These are mostly young people, such as teachers who teach online.

There is, of course, a teenage audience - schoolchildren of 15-16 years old who come after lunch. For them, we have a large toy library, which is constantly replenished - we buy board games and they give them to us. Pensioners also come to Svetlovka, middle-aged people often bring their children or parents here, depending on the format of certain events that are held in the library.

That is, it cannot be said that only some certain type readers. And it's nice that during the day young people (I think over 25 years old) sit, work, hold meetings and negotiations. We are dealing with completely different formats of interaction within the walls of the library.

The city's attention is drawn to the library network

- What are you working on now? What projects are the most important?

- First of all, we are trying to develop a popular science direction, which is popular among young people. Of course, a modern library is both events and a workspace - anything. But it's not a library if it doesn't have new good interesting and modern books. And in Lately we rely on popular science literature, on books on self-development. Therefore, we are friends with specialized publishing houses.

We also update the literature. And we try to follow different literary prizes, for trends and bestsellers. Otherwise, it is not clear why come to us. We are proud of the updated fund. Sometimes people ask me: why, if you can buy it? I answer: yes, but books cost from 500 rubles and more. What for? You can come, take, read and return the most popular books you see on social networks and blogs. The same with the children's department: we try to buy all the novelties of the famous children's publishers, and we are talking about books for children of different ages.

For section foreign languages We bought expensive educational literature. Teachers with teenagers, parents of schoolchildren, and students come to us to take everything related to learning English: textbooks to prepare for passing TOEFL (a test of knowledge in English as foreign. — Approx.mos. en), the latest edition of Murphy, and so on. People can come and photocopy something for themselves, because these books are really very expensive. That is, now we are updating the fund educational literature in English. We would like to have at least a small number of good novelties in the most popular European languages, and we have yet to fulfill this plan.

There is active support aimed at ensuring that libraries are not only called in words cultural centers, but also could surprise visitors with new opportunities, service

— modern library modern qualified employees are needed. Please tell us who works for you? What should a librarian know and be able to do taking into account modernization?

— There are a lot of young guys in the media center. In addition to the standard duties of helping visitors and consulting, each one is also assigned a function related to different types events. Someone holds meetings of certain formats, negotiates with partners, someone leads social networks or a column, someone makes photo reports or mounts videos. We empower employees to realize own projects— even the most daring ones. For example, a boy works for us, a graduate of the Literary Institute, who is now publishing his book and will present it in our library.

With librarians, we discuss what would be interesting to them and our audience - a list of topics of interest to young people, interesting people constantly updated, and we take this into account. Therefore, modern librarians are very multifunctional specialists. We also have excellent “classic” employees. For example, our head of the Department of Art Literature has been working in Svetlovka for forty years, and we appreciate her very much. She was awarded the diploma of the Mayor of Moscow. We are for very different specialists to work in the library. The main thing is that they love their work, that it is interesting for them. Then it will be interesting for visitors.

To be honest, I am very proud to be the director of the first youth library in Moscow founded in 1941. I see that the city's attention is turned to the library network. There is active support aimed at ensuring that libraries not only in words are called cultural centers, but also can surprise visitors with new opportunities and services. I want the interest not to disappear, and we continued to be supported. Now we are moving very quickly, and in the media space too, which is extremely pleasant and very motivating to work. And to ensure that those who did not even think about it before came to libraries.

State budgetary institution of culture of the city of Moscow "Central City Youth library them. M. A. Svetlova- the first in Moscow and one of the oldest libraries in Russia for youth. located in Central Administrative District by the address: Bolshaya Sadovaya st., d. 1 (administration, youth media center, coordination and methodological and information and bibliographic departments, public relations department and editorial and publishing department) and Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya st., d. 23 (subscription, departments of literature on art, information electronic resources and the formation of library and information resources and electronic cataloging). The founder of the library is the Department of Culture of the city of Moscow.

History of the Library

In April 1941, with a staff of five people, the City Youth Library was opened in Moscow. It was created on the basis of the youth department of the current TsUNB them. N. A. Nekrasova. During 1941, 2,250 books were purchased. As of January 1, 1942, the library fund was 24,124 items. storage, the number of readers 5385 people.

Library leaders

The first director of the library (since 1941) was V. I. Mezhirovskaya, from 1948 to 1953 the library was headed by P. M. Nepomnyashchaya, from 1954 to 1959 - Irina Viktorovna Bakhmutskaya (later director of the Republican State Youth Library , initiator of the creation of a network of youth libraries in the USSR). In 1961, Raisa Ilyinichna Kozhevnikova, who worked for about three decades, headed the City Youth Library No. 3. Since 1998 Lyubov Anatolyevna Popova has been the director of the library.

Library activities

Already in the 1950s, the library became a methodological center on the scale of the Union, where people come to learn from the experience of working with young people. “Review books” have been preserved, including entries made by librarians from Siberia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, the republics of the North, and rural libraries. The status of the methodological center for library and information services for youth for the public libraries of the capital was for the first time officially enshrined in the Law of the city of Moscow "On library and information services for the population of the city of Moscow" dated September 23, 2009 No. 36 in paragraph 4 of Art. 4. The library network of the city of Moscow: “The Central City Youth Library performs the functions of a methodological center for youth services, specialists in working with youth, carries out cultural, educational, educational work, provides information support to young people in the educational and self-educational process, including in the framework of interaction with educational institutions, in the choice of professional guidelines and professional adaptation.

In the summer of 1957, the youth library participates in VI World festival youth and students in Moscow "For peace and friendship between peoples". 34,000 delegates from 131 countries of the world, 2,000 journalists arrived in the capital. From July 28 to August 11, the library was the official platform for international meetings.

On October 5, 1965, by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, the City Youth Library No. 3 was named after the poet Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov, the author of texts for the famous songs "Grenada" and "Kakhovka". In 1967, M.A. Svetlov was posthumously awarded Lenin Prize. A memorial exposition is opened in the library, the Svetlovsky archive is being formed. Publications were received by subscription from the Bureau of Newspaper Clippings of the City Spravka, from personal archives not only of residents of Moscow and the USSR, but also of foreign countries. The library acquired and keeps in its collections many editions of the writer's works.

In the 1960s, the professional orientation of young people became one of the main activities in the library. There were talks and book exhibitions about choosing a profession, dozens of shifters worked at factories in Moscow, in military units and house administrations. Students of vocational (trade) schools organized exhibitions of their products. Today, the Center for Career Guidance and Legal Assistance to Youth operates in the library. Library users are provided with access to legal reference systems " Consultant Plus" and " Guarantee”, full-text databases on economics and law, professional orientation of youth.

In the 1970s, the library became the center of enlightenment, participated in the creation of Universities of Culture, lecture halls, arranged musical evenings in the Hall of Columns Home Unions- formerly the Russian Noble Assembly, the place of the balls of the old noble Moscow. In 1981, the Youth Library named after. M. A. Svetlova became a laureate of the Moscow Komsomol Prize in the field of literature and art.

On the basis of the Order of the Department of Culture of the City of Moscow dated January 25, 2013 No. 37, the State Budgetary Institution of Culture of the City of Moscow "Central City Youth Library named after M. A. Svetlov" was renamed the State Budgetary Institution of Culture of the City of Moscow "Central City Youth Library named after M. . A. Svetlova", the abbreviated name of the GBUK of the city of Moscow "TsGMB named after M. A. Svetlov". books, audiovisual documents and musical publications includes over 86 thousand records, an electronic catalog of bibliographic descriptions of articles from periodicals - more than 56 thousand. The library is open to everyone: the studio of literary creativity of youth "I and Everything", a musical workshop of young authors and performers "Orpheus", dialogue youth Orthodox club "Dominant". The library contains an extensive collection of documents dedicated to the life and work of the poet Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov. TsGMB them. M. A. Svetlova is a coordination and methodological center for working with youth and youth for the libraries of the city, the publisher of the information collection “Libraries of Moscow for Youth”.