Kugarchinskaya central library - model libraries. Theoretical aspects of the model library as a promising form of rural library development Experience in creating model libraries

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A model rural library is a multifunctional information, cultural and educational center that meets the norms and requirements of the “Model Public Library Standard” adopted by the Russian Library Association in 2001. In the context of ongoing socio-economic and demographic changes in Russia, the modernization of library technologies and resources, taking into account comments and suggestions received during a wide professional discussion of the document, on May 22, 2008, the “Model Standard for Public Library Operations. New edition” was adopted.

A model library is more than just changing a sign. These are completely new areas of work that will qualitatively change the lives of villagers and their psychology. First of all, this is a reorientation of the library’s activities towards the interests of the local community. You need to learn to be useful not only to your immediate readers, but also to the entire population. A rural resident should have wide access to information, regardless of whether he lives in a small village or in a large populated area.

Purpose of creation model libraries: qualitative increase in the level of information security rural population.

Tasks:
- introduction of new information technologies and strengthening of the resource base rural library
- activation of human resources, improvement of qualifications of library workers and their adaptation to new requirements
- Creation positive image libraries.

The main provisions of the model standard for public library activities:

1. The presence of a model library in each settlement of the territory (municipal entity) is mandatory.

2. The public library is publicly accessible to all categories and groups of citizens, ensures and protects their rights to access knowledge, information and culture, constitutes one of the most important prerequisites for lifelong education and self-education and cultural development.

3. One of the most important activities of the library is to provide users with all types of information to support education and self-education, for competent participation in the discussion of important problems and decision-making.

4. The library participates in organizing meaningful leisure time for citizens, promotes the development of their creative abilities, and introduces them to cultural heritage. Independently or jointly with other organizations, the library implements educational, information and other programs and projects, conducts cultural events(evenings, meetings, concerts, lectures, festivals, competitions, etc.).

5. In the absence of a local history museum public library acts as an initiator in collecting material items (works of folk crafts, household items, photographs, etc.), which become the basis of museum exhibitions at the library.

6. The volume of the public library collection is based on the average book supply per resident Russian Federation, including 5–7 volumes in the city; in rural areas 7–9 volumes. However, average fund volumes may be adjusted depending on needs local residents, the specifics of a particular library, the proximity of other libraries, access to external resources, financial opportunities.

7. In the universal collection of a public library (if there is no specialized children's library in the service area), literature for children under the age of 14 inclusive makes up at least 30% of the total library collection and contains documents on various media, including educational and developmental ones programs, games, etc.

8. The library collection must contain special formats for the blind: books in raised dot font, “talking” books, audio books, relief aids, tactile handicraft publications, publications in digital format, as well as audiovisual materials with sign language translation or accompanied by printed text for the deaf and hearing impaired.

9. In any accessible form, the library provides services to those who, for one reason or another, cannot visit it as usual, socially excluded groups of citizens or those at risk of such exclusion: visually impaired, hearing impaired, and those with musculoskeletal disorders , disabled people of other categories; elderly people; persons with poor command of the Russian language; patients of hospitals and special medical institutions; children kept in orphanages; prisoners.

In these cases, together with special libraries, they are used various shapes services: literature lending points, home service, remote access service, interlibrary loan, etc.

10. Each public library is located taking into account its maximum accessibility (no more than 15–20 minutes in which a local resident can get to the library).

11. A public library can be located in a separate building, in a cluster-type building under the same roof with other institutions and organizations, as well as in a special extension to another building (residential or public).

12. With any option for locating a public library, a convenient and free approach for the public and access for the production purposes of the library itself and fire transport must be provided.

13. The public library should also be accessible to that part of local residents who are at risk of social exclusion, primarily, groups with limited mobility: people with disabilities with musculoskeletal disorders, people with visual and hearing impairments, elderly people, as well as people with baby strollers, pregnant women, etc.

14. Children need a library space that they can perceive as their own childhood. The children's area of ​​a public library should be an easily recognizable, friendly, attractive and comfortable place for children, distinguished by its functionality and unusualness: special furniture, color and decorative design, etc.

15. All public library employees must clearly understand the goals and objectives, problems and prospects for the development of their library. Each employee should have the opportunity to participate in the development of their library strategy, including project activities, make proactive proposals to improve library services.

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A model library is an exemplary library, located in a well-equipped premises, with a well-stocked, diversified collection, equipped with modern computer equipment, using the latest information technologies in its work.

In 2002, the Ministry of Culture of Russia and the Interregional Association of Business Libraries with funds from the Regional Public Organization " Open Russia”, as well as regional and local authorities and sponsors, the project “Creation of model public libraries in rural areas” began to be implemented. Since 2006, the project has been included in the Federal Target Program “Culture of Russia”.

Since 2009, with the support of the Federal Target Program “Culture of Russia (2006–2011)”, the National Library of the Udmurt Republic has been implementing the project “Creation of Model Libraries in the Udmurt Republic”. As part of the project, in 2009, 2 rural libraries received model status. The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation provided computer equipment and office equipment worth 140 thousand rubles for each of the libraries, paid for training library staff to work with information technology, and stocked the collections with new printed and electronic publications worth 250 thousand rubles. Renovation of library premises and provision of fire and security safety was carried out at the expense of municipal budgets.

In 2011, with the support of the republican target program “Culture of Udmurtia (2010–2014)”, within the framework of the project “Creation of model rural libraries in the Udmurt Republic”, 1 model library was opened on the basis of rural libraries. The library received computer equipment worth 75 thousand rubles. and replenished the fund with printed and electronic publications by 225 thousand rubles.

In 2012, 2 more model libraries were opened. Each received computer equipment and office equipment worth 75 thousand rubles. and replenished the fund with printed and electronic publications by 100 thousand rubles.

In 2013, 2 model libraries were opened - in the Kiyasovsky and Yarsky districts. Each library received 175 thousand rubles from the RCP funds, including 61 thousand rubles. to equip the library with office equipment and 114 thousand rubles. to replenish the fund with printed and electronic publications.

IN last years A new concept has appeared in library practice - a model library, which is understood as a library that meets the norms and requirements of the “Model Standard for Public Library Operations”.

The model standard covers almost all the main aspects of library work:

• - placement of libraries and organization of library networks;
• - resource provision (funds and equipment, premises, personnel, financing).

The concept of “model library” has a broad meaning. First of all, this is the desire to approach and comply with the international model standard of public library activities. All work, information resources, and technology are being restructured. New functions are being developed in the model library: automated information processing, provision of resources to users on electronic media.

Rural residents now have access to catalogs from leading libraries and resources from information centers in Russia, Europe, and America. Anyone can watch legislative act, presidential decrees, government resolutions, heads of district and rural administrations. Those interested will be taught how to search for information on the Internet and databases, work with electronic encyclopedias and reference books, use e-mail, and scan necessary documents.

As a result, each of the model libraries gets the opportunity to work as a multifunctional cultural institution providing new forms of information services - as a center for municipal and legal information, a center for education and self-education, social and everyday information, a cultural and leisure center.

Conditions for opening a model rural library:

The number of readers in the village is at least 500 people. Availability of existing agricultural and processing production. The presence of a developed infrastructure of a secondary school, post office, kindergarten, etc., a good road.

The library must have good room at least 70 - 100 sq. m, separate telephone, book stock of at least 6 - 10 thousand copies. The necessary physical components of the building (premises) of a model rural library should be:

• - attractive interior and exterior design;
• - maintaining during operation a condition that complies with established standards (lighting, temperature regime, Fire safety, security);
• - provision various fields library activities (receipt and movement of documents, access to the library, routes of movement of users and staff).

Support is needed from both village residents and the head of the rural population.

So, a model library is a library that has an optimal standard set material and information resources, which is the necessary minimum for providing high-quality library and information services to the population. It is created with the aim of providing residents of municipalities with unlimited access to information and qualitatively improving the level of library services to the population.

The main goal of creating model libraries is to change the quality of life of rural residents, develop new intellectual needs in them by providing high-quality information and legal services and thus contribute to the adaptation of rural residents to modern conditions life, help them find their niche in the labor market.

Without exaggeration, it can be noted that this is a serious social program to combat poverty, protect people with limited opportunities for acquiring knowledge, and enter new labor markets, including intellectual ones.

Thus, a model library is a multifunctional information, cultural and educational center that meets the norms and requirements of the Model Public Library Standard adopted by the Russian Library Association. In essence, a model library is a standard of activity for other libraries. Its goal is to qualitatively increase the level of information security of all segments of the population, providing residents with equal access to knowledge, information, and global intellectual resources.

Practice shows that today a rural library is often the population’s only window into the world information space. The presence of Internet access in the library adds to the real resources of the library many times larger global information resources and creates conditions for expanding and facilitating interpersonal and professional communication.

Transformation of existing libraries in Russia into modern ones (in in every sense this word) libraries are not only, and perhaps not so much an organizational, as an investment project.

Considering the library as a system consisting of 4 main elements: material and technical base, information resources, personnel, users, we will analyze the impact of the project on these components of the library.

At the first stage, it radically changes the material and technical base. The most obvious thing, noticeable to the population and the authorities, is the appearance of computer equipment in the library. Availability modern technology requires the modernization of the library space: the acquisition of new furniture, repairs, and the creation of conditions for the safety of the received equipment. The interior of the library is being transformed, and the library grounds are being landscaped.

Thus, the transformation of the material and technical base as the most visible part of the library for the population and authorities is an important and most noticeable result.

The project transforms the funds. In conditions when 70% of library collections consist of outdated publications (and therefore do not meet the needs of users), the receipt by the library of books on current topics, videos, audio cassettes, CD-ROMs attracts to the library those readers who have not been found in recent years in libraries necessary literature, and new users. In each model library, the number of users increased by 30-40% during the year. The circulation of books, cassettes, and disks received under the project is 5.6 times.

Technical and resource support becomes the basis for changing the quality of library services and, ultimately, changes the very concept of library services. The library, having such opportunities, becomes attractive, necessary not only for readers, but also for the entire population.

Having qualitatively transformed its services and expanded their range, the library is becoming in demand by agribusiness specialists, municipal employees, teachers, part-time students, farmers, and private entrepreneurs.

In addition, the library becomes useful for solving many social and everyday problems (issues), and therefore the range of its users has expanded to include non-reading groups of the population.

So, the model library becomes a center of legal, social and everyday information, a center information support authorities, agro-industrial complex specialists.

The main principles that determine the content of the activities of a model rural library are:

• - providing all citizens with equal access to information;
• - availability of various types of services;
• - ensuring freedom of reading;
• - provision of library documents and information to all categories of the population in accordance with their needs;
• - access to knowledge and information in close proximity to the place of residence.

Modernization of a rural library provides for the following conditions:

• - organization of a modern comfortable environment ( major renovation premises);
• - improvement of the adjacent territory;
• - updating the main core of the book collection, based on the standards of the “Model Standard for Public Library Operations”;
• - current acquisition of the fund on all types of media;
• - subscription to periodicals;
• - automation of library processes;
• - access to information resources of the Internet and regional libraries;
• - training staff in practical skills in using new technologies in library and information services to users.

The creation of model libraries in the Russian Federation began with the implementation of the all-Russian project “Creation of model public libraries in rural areas” by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Interregional Association of Business Libraries and the public organization “Open Russia”.

The high efficiency of the project was largely determined by the active participation of local and regional authorities. They carried out the renovation of library premises, equipped them with additional library equipment and furniture, ensured the safety of installed computer equipment and other equipment and information resources from theft and exposure to adverse weather, climatic and man-made factors.

The participation of local authorities in the work on the project was initiated in the process of active actions of the library department of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, taken during trips to the regions covered by the work on the project, speeches at conferences and meetings, individual work with representatives of local administration and leaders regional departments culture.

It is extremely important that the process of modernizing rural libraries caused a very strong response from the local business community, which took an active part in the work necessary for the successful functioning of the updated rural libraries.

So, for the effective implementation of this project, the participation of regional and local authorities is necessary. It is they who are entrusted with such tasks as repairing library premises, equipping them with library equipment and furniture, ensuring the safety of installed computer equipment, other equipment and information resources.

The implementation of the project “Creation of model public libraries in rural areas” became a catalyst for modernization processes in rural libraries in many regions of the Russian Federation.

The leading role in the implementation of the project was played by those regions that over the past ten years have not only supported and developed initiatives aimed at preserving and supporting rural libraries, but have independently developed and implemented regional programs for their modernization. Most a shining example can be considered a program for creating model rural libraries in the Chuvash Republic.

In 2003, the President of the Republic signed the Decree “On the creation of rural model libraries in the Chuvash Republic.” In this document, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Chuvash Republic was to ensure “the opening during 2003 - 2004. 100 rural model libraries equipped with a basic set of computer equipment, reference and legal systems, electronic publications, and the best books from domestic publishing; connecting rural model libraries to the republican telecommunications network.” When forming the republican budget of the Chuvash Republic for 2004, it was planned to allocate funds for the creation and opening of rural model libraries as part of co-financing for the pilot project “Creation of computer public libraries in rural areas" And the self-government bodies of the regions of the Chuvash Republic were recommended to “create the necessary conditions to open rural model libraries, ensure repairs, reconstruction of buildings and premises, purchase of furniture, telephone installation and safety of equipment; organize training computer technologies cultural workers."

In a speech at a meeting of the Council at the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in Privolzhsky federal district President of Chuvashia N.V. Fedorov said: “Exclusively at the expense of the republican budget, we began a somewhat unprecedented action to create a network of model libraries - 500 modern and equipped instead of 500 of yesterday’s wretched and dull ones. That was our goal."

The experience of the Chuvash Republic was highly appreciated by the President of the Russian Federation D. A. Medvedev and suggested using it to other regions. Thus, at a meeting with the President of the Chuvash Republic D. A. Medvedev noted that spiritual life has always “concentrated around libraries,” where “there must be a digital component, access to the global network and a normal selection of books so that people do not lose reading skills.” In this regard, in his opinion, “the model libraries of Chuvashia seem to be correct in their structure,” and “this experience could be used in other regions.”

The project to create model libraries within the framework of the Federal Target Program “Culture of Russia (2006 - 2010)” was implemented in the Udmurt Republic. Based on the results of consideration of applications for participation in the “Model Rural Libraries” project, it was decided to open two model rural libraries in Udmurtia in 2009 in the Malopurginsky (Bobya-Ucha village) and Zavyalovsky (Podshivalovo village) districts.

In November 2009, the All-Russian Congress of Rural Libraries took place in Bryansk. Its organizers were the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Pushkin Library Foundation, the Administration of the Bryansk Region, the Bryansk Regional Scientific Universal Library. F. M. Tyutcheva. Representatives of rural libraries from 42 regions of the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus took part in the congress.

At the congress, the interim results of the “Model Rural Libraries” project were summed up. The leaders (regions with model rural libraries) are Chuvash Republic(all five hundred rural libraries are model), Belgorod region(116 model libraries), Kursk region (41), Stavropol region (31), Tambov region (28).

Within the framework of the federal target program “Culture of Russia 2006 - 2010.” in 2006 Chelyabinsk region with co-financing of the Pushkin Library Foundation and regional budgets, the first 5 model rural libraries were opened (the first in the Urals Federal District - the Selezyanskaya model Pavlenkovskaya library of the Etkul municipal district). The following libraries were opened with co-financing from the regional and district budgets. Today, 38 model libraries have been opened in the Chelyabinsk region (in Russia there are only 184 in 40 regions) (Appendix 1). The project, unfortunately, could not be fully implemented. By 2010, 52 model libraries were to be opened.

It would be very correct to resume the project to open model libraries. Work in this direction does not stop: using municipal funds, model libraries are being prepared for opening in Troitsky MR (N.-Sanarskaya), Sosnovsky MR (Mirnenskaya and Kremenkulskaya), V.-Uralsky MR (Mezhozernaya).

The “Model City Library” project is being implemented in the city of Zlatoust. In the Association of Magnitogorsk City Libraries, out of 12 libraries, 5 have the status of “standard library”.

Thus, the concept of “model library” has a broad meaning. First of all, this is the desire to approach and comply with the international model standard of public library activities. All work, information resources, and technology are being restructured. New functions are being developed in the model library: automated information processing, providing users with resources on electronic media.

Rural residents now have access to catalogs from leading libraries and resources from information centers in Russia, Europe, and America. Everyone can view any legislative act, presidential decrees, government resolutions, heads of district and rural administrations.

As a result, each of the model libraries will have the opportunity to work as a multifunctional cultural institution providing new forms of information services - as a center for municipal and legal information, a center for education and self-education, social and everyday information, and a cultural and leisure center.

So, a model library is organized with the aim of creating conditions for realizing the information, cultural and leisure needs of the population of the serviced settlement, ensuring free, prompt and most complete access to information by modernizing resource provision and library activities.

The main objectives of the model rural library are:

• - organization of library services to the population based on the use of the latest information technologies, providing users with access to corporate and global information networks, serving users in local and remote access modes.
• - preservation, systematization and replenishment of funds;
• - studying the needs of users in order to ensure the rights of the population to be introduced to the values ​​of culture and science;
• - widespread promotion of reading as a factor contributing to the development of a comprehensive developed personality, fostering a reading culture;
• - organization of meaningful leisure for users;
• - implementation of social-preventive, social-rehabilitation and other social tasks.

From the first days of the creation of model rural libraries, an important feature is the choice of the main area of ​​activity and the specialization of each library. Today, among them there are specialized local history, environmental, information and educational centers, library-museums, youth and children's libraries, centers for supporting small businesses and local governments, family reading, etc. Thus, the Usen-Ivanovskaya model library of the Belebeevsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan is an information center for creative heritage Marina Tsvetaeva. The main goal of the center is to create an optimal model of informing and educating village residents, guests of Tsvetaevsky holidays, tourists on issues of local history, local government, ecology, literature and culture. The Yanaul model rural library of the Belebeevsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan positions itself as an information, cultural and aesthetic center. It houses the only doll museum in the republic.

The model rural library of the Krasnoyarsk district of the Astrakhan region was the first in the region, ahead of reader demand, to create a system of environmental education, and became the authors of the first regional program “Environmental Education and Library”.

The fact that the model rural library is the main information center of the village is indisputable. With the acquisition of a set of technical equipment - computers and copying equipment - the services of rural libraries have expanded. Searching for information needed by villagers in electronic reference and search systems is much faster and the fulfillment of requests is more complete. Thus, the presence in the model library of a reference and legal system such as “Consultant Plus” allows you to quickly find the document the user needs using various parameters and receive an electronic copy of it or print it (or a fragment of it) for further use. For example, since 2002, at the Model rural library. Shchelyayur, Izhemsky district of the Komi Republic, operates a Legal Information Center that provides legal information to the entire population. With the help of the reference and search system “Consultant Plus”, the Center holds information days “CPI in the library: goals, opportunities, prospects”, “All about pensions, benefits, benefits”, question and answer evenings “Protect yourself”, a series of conversations and reviews on local radio “New Legal Literature”, etc. .

The population should gradually understand that the library contains or is capable of searching for information on any request relating to the life of village residents: work, study, everyday life, leisure, etc. The librarian will find information from various sources, documents of all types and types, databases and data banks.

The library can provide invaluable information assistance to workers in all fields: education, business, agriculture, etc.

Teachers will receive information in the library to help teach various educational subjects, farm managers will receive information to help them sell agricultural products, purchase agricultural machinery and equipment, seeds and new breeds of farm animals.

The presence of an Internet connection in the model rural library will be of great help in this. A farm manager who profitably sold the products of his enterprise in the capital's markets using the information provided to him rural librarian, will undoubtedly support the model library and help it financially or in other ways.

Employees of local government bodies are the category of users on whom the activities of the library often depend. Librarians must be able to work with representatives of local governments, identify their information needs and quickly and fully satisfy their requests.

The library can become an intermediary between local governments and the population: broadcast decisions of local governments to village residents, as well as collect and transmit orders and wishes from village residents to local governments.

Forms and methods of operation of model rural libraries in in this direction a bunch of:

• - creation of information centers and information corners in the library; design of special stands on which information on the life of the village is placed (gasification, utility bills, taxes, decisions of local governments, ...),
• - organizing meetings between representatives of local government bodies and village residents, etc.

Set of forms and methods information work diverse. With the use of technical means, it expands significantly, since the library can use not only its own information resources, but also the resources of other libraries and information centers and systems. For example, in the model rural library of the Cheboksary region of the Republic of Chuvashia, information stands “Local authorities day by day” are being created. The library works with representatives of local governments, identifies their information needs and promptly satisfies their requests: Resolutions adopted by local governments are collected in folders: Healthcare. Ecology; Military service. civil defense; Transport; Agriculture; Land affairs; Construction; Improvement. housing and communal services; Education; Culture, etc. The library strives to satisfy all the information needs of its users, as well as to transform the library into a center for reading and information, to develop the world information space via the Internet, as well as to provide additional services based on computer technology

Electronic document delivery (EDD) for public library readers in rural areas should be the same reality as for readers of capital libraries. For a rural library, EDD is often the only way to deliver the document a reader needs from the library. federal level. If residents of the capital can get Required documents directly in libraries, then for a rural resident a trip to Moscow is a problem. And EDD is quick and relatively simple. To do this, you must have access to the Internet and the ability to receive the document via the library’s email address.

For schoolchildren, the library is no less important than school. In the library you can prepare for classes by obtaining complete information for writing essays, essays, reports, etc.

The library can provide information for future applicants and help in choosing educational institution, provide a “tutor” (on CD-ROM) for exam preparation.

Thus, in the work of a model library there is an optimal standard set of material and information resources, which is the necessary minimum for providing high-quality library and information services to the population.

The basic principles that determine the content of the model library’s activities are:

• - Providing all citizens with equal access to information.
• - Availability of various types of services.
• - Ensuring the protection of freedom of reading and information.
• - Providing library documents and information to all categories of the population in accordance with their needs.
• - Access to knowledge and information in close proximity to the place of residence.
• - Free service.

The basic requirements and characteristics for resource provision and the organization of library services should be interpreted in the context of the functions and goals of a specific model public library and adjusted to take into account changes occurring in the process of development of library activities.

model rural library

The model of a modern public library, which meets the requirements of the information society and meets the needs of today's users, to which every library should strive, is presented in the “Model Standard for Public Libraries”, approved in May 2001 at the VI Annual Conference of the Russian Library Association. In the new edition of the document, adopted at the XIII Annual Conference of the Russian Library Association (Ulyanovsk, 2008), the emphasis shifts to the modernization of library services based on the introduction of information technology into library practice.

In the Pskov region, a “Model standard for the activities of the municipal library of the Pskov region” has been developed.
The creation of model libraries in the Russian Federation began with the implementation of the all-Russian project “Creation of model public libraries in rural areas” by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Interregional Association of Business Libraries and the public organization “Open Russia”.
As part of the federal target program “Culture of Russia (2006-2010)”, 70 model rural libraries have been created to date.
In our region, the modernization of public libraries began in 2006, when, with the support of the Interregional Association of Business Libraries, rural computer libraries were created in Velikoluksky and Pechora districts. As part of the federal target program “Culture of Russia”, a model reading room in the central district library and the Polyanskaya model library were opened in the Pushkinogorsky district. Projects for the modernization of rural libraries are being developed in Gdovsky, Ostrovsky, Pskovsky, Sebezhsky and other districts of the region.
A model public library is a modern universal information and cultural institution capable of effectively performing information, educational, cultural and educational functions. To solve this problem, it is necessary to increase and diversify library collections, including, in addition to printed publications, electronic and audiovisual products. It is necessary to carry out a radical technical re-equipment of the libraries themselves and train librarians to work with modern information technologies
The main goal is to change the quality of life of rural residents, develop new intellectual needs in them by providing high-quality information and legal services and thus contribute to the adaptation of rural residents to modern living conditions, and help them occupy their niche in the labor market. Without exaggeration, it can be noted that this is a serious social program to combat poverty, protect people with limited opportunities for acquiring knowledge, and enter new labor markets, including intellectual ones.
Practice has shown that a model library can be successfully created only under the following conditions:
presence of creative workers on staff;
strong professional community in the area;
sustainable traditions of supporting libraries by local governments;
meeting standards of premises and library equipment;
developed rural infrastructure.

The concept of “model library” has a broad meaning. First of all, this is the desire to approach and comply with the international model standard of public library activities. All work, information resources, and technology are being restructured. New functions are being developed in the model library: automated information processing, providing users with resources on electronic media.
Rural residents now have access to catalogs from leading libraries and resources from information centers in Russia, Europe, and America. Everyone can view any legislative act, presidential decrees, government resolutions, heads of district and rural administrations. Those interested will be taught how to search for information on the Internet and databases, work with electronic encyclopedias and reference books, use e-mail, and scan necessary documents.
As a result, each of the model libraries will have the opportunity to work as a multifunctional cultural institution providing new forms of information services - as a center for municipal and legal information, a center for education and self-education, social and everyday information, and a cultural and leisure center.

These recommendations contain questions on creating a model library in a municipality: opening conditions, creation procedure, minimum requirements for technical equipment and information resources, personnel and services of a model library. The appendices provide advice on organizing the presentation of the model library and proposals from the Pushkin Library National Foundation for acquiring library collections for 2008.

A model library is a library that has an optimal standard set of material and information resources, which is the necessary minimum for providing high-quality library and information services to the population. It is created with the aim of providing residents of municipalities with unlimited access to information and qualitatively improving the level of library services to the population.
The main principles that determine the content of the model library’s activities are:

• providing all citizens with equal access to information;
• availability of various types of services;
• ensuring freedom of reading;
• providing library documents and information to all categories of the population in accordance with their needs;
• access to knowledge and information in close proximity to the place of residence.

Modernization of a rural library includes the following components:
Organization of a modern comfortable environment (major renovation of the premises);
Improvement of the surrounding area;
Updating the main core of the book collection, based on the regional model standard;
Current acquisition of the fund on all types of media;
Subscription to periodicals;
Automation of library processes;
Access to information resources on the Internet and regional libraries;
Training staff in practical skills in using new technologies in library and information services to users.

Selecting a base for creating model libraries.

A rural settlement in which a model library can be created must meet the following requirements:
Approximately from 0.5 to 1.5 thousand people should live in a settlement.
Expanded social structure: secondary school, kindergarten, post office, paramedic station, etc.
Availability of a developed system of transport communications between the regional center and the rural settlement
The principle of accessibility of library services to the population is implemented by placing a model library taking into account maximum spatial accessibility (the distance from the library to the place of residence of the population served should not exceed 3 km or 20 minutes), as well as the convenience of its location (at the intersection of pedestrian routes, near transport links) .
The library must be located in a special, separate building, or an extension to a residential or public building, or in a specially adapted room in a residential or public building.
The area of ​​the library premises must be sufficient to accommodate technical equipment and information materials on separate tables and shelves, at least 70-100 sq. m.
The library must be provided with fire protection equipment (1 fire extinguisher per 50 sq.m. of floor, but not less than 1 for each room, fire alarm).
It is also necessary to achieve a stable power supply of 220 V/50 Hz and a well-functioning system for post-emergency power restoration and reliable heating of the room for the entire heating period to maintain the temperature for the normal operation of technical equipment.
The library must have at least one telephone number.
Ensuring the safety of equipment and funds is achieved by installing bars on windows, metal doors with reliable locks, and an alarm system directly in the library premises or at the control panel of the security structure.
The necessary physical components of the model library building (room) should be:

• attractive interior and exterior design;
• maintaining during operation a condition that complies with established standards (lighting, temperature conditions, fire safety, security);
• ensuring various areas of library activity (receipt and movement of documents, access to the library, routes of movement of users and staff).

The daily operating hours of a model public library are established taking into account the needs of local residents and the intensity of its visits and should not completely coincide with the working hours of the main part of the population.

Requirements for personnel: the presence of two staff positions, a chief library manager (head), generally responsible for the library and at the same time conducting ongoing computer technology training courses for all categories of village residents. The second person of the library is the administrator, who implements e-mail service functions, registers and controls readers' access to the Internet, and at the same time performs traditional library services. The basic professional training of library staff should be sufficient to master working with technical means and modern information resources.

Creation and financing of a model library.
Model libraries are created based on municipal libraries by decision of the local government authority. Financing of model libraries is carried out by municipal authorities, investing in: renovation, repair of the building, ensuring safety conditions and preservation of funds and equipment; formation and further development of information resources: telephone installation, connecting the library to the Internet, acquisition of library collections on all types of media; purchasing licensed software; acquisition of video-audio equipment, duplicating equipment; organizing library space (creating a comfortable environment for employees and users): purchasing furniture and equipment, design items, etc.
Funds are allocated for training staff to work with computers, methods of performing “virtual help”, and the creation and distribution of information resources.

Information resources of the model library.
The policy of forming a model library collection is focused on the strategy of access to all information available in the library and information space of Russia, and not just to its own resources.
The Model Public Library provides access to a wide range of documents in a variety of formats (books, periodicals, audio-video documents, electronic documents, CD-ROMs, databases, including Internet databases, voiced books, etc.), presented in sufficient quantities.
The main characteristics of the model public library collection are:

• reasonable volume;
• information content;
• constant updating.

The acquisition profile of a model public library takes into account real needs local community. The basis of the fund is modern encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference books, new editions of domestic and foreign classics, children's literature, modern publications on history, psychology, philosophy, economics, law, art, technology and agriculture, medicine, leisure activities.
The book fund of the model library should be cleared of outdated and dilapidated literature, especially in its branch part.
The one-time (initial) purchase of new documents must amount to at least 10% of the available fund.
To update the contents of the collection of a model public library, it is necessary to maintain its updating at a level of at least 5% of the total volume of the collection per year or at the rate of 250 books per 1000 inhabitants.
Subscription to periodicals and ongoing publications - at least 10-16 titles of newspapers and magazines.
The formation of a fund of video publications is carried out with educational videos, film adaptations of works of domestic and foreign classics, cartoons, and recordings of the best domestic theatrical productions.
The audio document fund includes recordings of classical Russian and foreign music, popular jazz compositions, recordings of popular contemporary performers.
Contents of the collection of electronic publications of the model library:
educational discs on the main subjects of the school curriculum;
educational CDs on computer technologies;
educational discs for studying foreign languages taking into account the specifics of teaching at school;
multimedia publications on the history of Russia;
multimedia publications on the history of religions of the main confessions of Russia;
educational multimedia publications for children and youth;
universal and industry-specific multimedia encyclopedias;
multimedia publications on domestic and foreign art, famous museums in Russia and foreign countries;
electronic books with collected works of classics of domestic and foreign literature;
e-books with albums of famous Russian and foreign artists
Legal information centers are being opened in model libraries to serve the population with legal information. To ensure public access to legal information, legal information systems must be installed in the library.

Requirements for minimum technical equipment and facilities
model library

Items of library furniture (shelves, lending chairs, chairs, etc.) must meet the requirements of durability, be comfortable and functional.
Technical equipment includes:
2 sets of computer equipment;
1 photocopier;
1 scanner;
1 printer;
1 set of audio-video equipment (TV, VCR, stereo system; multimedia projector);
Internet connection
means of communication (telephone, fax, modem or dedicated communication channel to provide access to the Internet)
Software:
licensed office software, including MS Office 2000 with MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point and MS Photo Editor ABBYY Fine Reader, subscription to an anti-virus kit;
legal database, released on CD-ROM and including all documents of Russian legislation necessary for the population
The configuration of the computer complex must meet modern requirements for quality and reliability, as well as the characteristics required of it by modern software products.

Model library services

The model library provides citizens with the most complete range of services that should be accessible and convenient for all groups and categories of users.
The model library has the ability to offer users various types and purposes of services, including document, reference and bibliographic, information, educational, communication, leisure, and service.
The model rural library independently chooses the specialization of its activities, taking into account the needs of the village residents. This could be an information and legal or information and leisure center, an information and national center, a library-museum, etc.
Mandatory free services of the model library include:

• providing information about the presence of a specific document in the funds;
• receiving complete information on the composition of the collection through the catalog system and other forms of library information;
• providing consulting assistance in searching and selecting sources of information;
• providing information about the possibilities of satisfying the request using other libraries;
• issuance of documents from the library collection for temporary use in accordance with the Rules for Use of the Library;

The Model Library provides a wide range of reference and information services, including:

• compiling thematic bibliographic lists and manuals, issuing address and factual information, including by telephone and e-mail;
• preparation and provision of problem-analytical reviews, information-analytical and thematic packages;
• consulting services on various issues.

The model library uses the latest information Technology to provide users with access to corporate and global information networks, expanding the range of services and serving users in local and remote access modes.
Having become a model, the rural library becomes creative laboratory for subsequent training on its basis for regional librarians and heads of rural administrations.
Rural model libraries should be considered as an integral part of the overall library system countries. Its first and main characteristic is its integration into Internet technologies. Model libraries, created in the same organizational and technological format, have their own “personality” and, as a rule, differ in their content, style, and design, which helps them maintain a high status in the local community. A model library is not an easy change of sign and interior: it is a reorientation of the library’s activities towards the interests of the local community, completely new areas of work that qualitatively change the life of the rural population and their psychology.

Annex 1.

Some methodological tips for organizing a presentation of a model rural library.

Organizational matters
Library administration:
Initiate the consideration and opening of a model library at the level of the municipal administration with the adoption of a resolution (order, appeal) of the head of the administration on the opening of a model library in the district.
Develop and approve regulations on the model library in local governments.
Invite to the opening ceremony the head of the district administration, the head of the village administration, representatives of the state universal scientific library, regional and local media, creative intelligentsia, famous fellow countrymen, active readers, the general public.
Find financial resources(local budget, sponsorship) for the presentation.

CBS employees, together with interested organizations, institutions, and individuals, are recommended to organize widespread advertising of the upcoming opening ceremony, for this purpose:
Design and place advertising posters and announcements in all libraries, organizations, institutions, public places (clubs, schools); distribute small advertising means: booklets, leaflets, bookmarks with information about the procedure for the ceremony, place and time.
Prepare and distribute invitation cards for the opening ceremony.
Provide information about the upcoming ceremony to the local press and radio.
Design an external sign for the model library.
Develop form style(logo and other symbols) of the model library.

Some tips for writing a script.

Include in the script:
Detailed information about the concept of the model library, goals, tasks that the library will solve in its new status;
Demonstration of the capabilities of technical equipment installed in the library - the use of electronic resources (legal, business, educational information, e-books, etc.), Internet resources;
Oral review of the exhibition of acquired documents, audio-video cassettes, multimedia CDs;
Speech by local residents and readers about the importance of the model library in the life of the village;
Ceremony of ceremonial registration of new users in the library with presentation library card, memorable gift;
A letter of thanks on behalf of local residents to the organizers of the model library;
Participation in the event creative people area (artists, musicians).

Appendix 2.

For the formation of a model library fund, book sets are very important, the NF “Pushkin Library” provides assistance in purchasing them.

"Pushkin Library" presents: proposals for 2008
on acquisition of library collections

1. January 2008 - Catalog “University Book”. Issue 7 with applications from the BHV publishing house, specializing in computer literature, and the Omega-L publishing house. More than 1,500 publications are presented in 28 thematic sections of the catalogue;
2. March 2008 - Catalog “Pushkin Library” Issue 19. The catalog will contain more than 2000 titles of books and multimedia publications, as well as an application from one of the leading Russian publishing houses. The catalog will feature 28 thematic sections, including educational, business, reference books in social and scientific-technical sciences, children's fiction and educational literature, fiction for adults, etc.;
3. March 2008 - Thematic set “Family Reading Library”, about 80 - 85 book titles, selected by experts specifically for reading by adults to children and discussion with the whole family;
4. May 2008 - Catalog memoir literature. More than 150 best books from various publishers;
5. July - August 2008 - Catalog "Pushkin Library" Issue 20. The catalog will contain more than 2,500 titles of books and multimedia publications, as well as an application from one of the leading Russian publishing houses. The catalog contains 28 thematic headings, including educational, business, reference literature on social and scientific-technical sciences, children's fiction and educational literature, fiction for adults, etc.;
6. July - August 2008 - Catalog "The best books for children and teenagers" - more than 1000 titles of books with the application of publishing houses specializing in the publication of literature for children and youth;
7. August 2008 - Electronic catalog of multimedia products will contain more than 700 titles electronic encyclopedias, reference books, educational and training programs, audio books and popular science films;
8. October 2008 - Thematic kits « Literary awards» for adults and children 2008;
9. From February to November 2008 - Special offers on thematic sections of publications produced in 2006-2007 for the preparation and conduct of competitive procedures. More than 25,000 current titles presented on the book market for current acquisition. funds various types libraries. Information will be provided upon request from libraries in electronic form.

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