QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS AT THE FIRST NATIONAL CONGRESS OF LIBRARY WORKERS (1926): DECISION AND IMPLEMENTATION DIFFICULTIES (THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF CONGRESS)

• Main Author: В. Ю. Соколов
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: I.I.Mechnikov National University 2017-02-01
• Series: Vìsnik Odesʹkogo Nacìonalʹnogo Unìversitetu: Bìblìotekoznavstvo, Bìblìografoznavstvo, Knigoznavstvo
• Subjects: 1920-ті рр.; Україна; бібліотечна справа; історія бібліотечної справи; бібліотечні з’їзди; бібліотечні об’єднання; Перший Всеукраїнський з’їзд бібліотечних робітників.
• Online Access: http://vislib.onu.edu.ua/article/view/94037
• ISSN: 2304-1447; 2313-108X

The purpose of the article is to study the historical background, socio-political and cultural factors of the establishment and operation of library associations; study the meaning and essence of the presentations and discussions, the issue of development of library associations in Ukraine at the First National Congress of library workers in 1926 and studies their influence on the development of libraries in Ukraine in the second half of the 1920 years overall. In his scientific work by extensive use of  historical-comparative, historical and genetic, statistical, chronological, biographical research methods, the method of diachronic analysis. The article describes the social and cultural conditions of the library associations main stages of development and features of their operation; disclosed value of their work in coordinating the work of libraries; analyzed the characteristic shape and features of these socio-professional organizations training and retraining of library staff. The author found that the success of a development and library associations have sought to consolidate and promote professional scatter libraries in the country were limited initially counteraction on the part of trade unions, and in the future and the governing bodies of political education. The author analyzed and proved that the library association worked out and implemented in practice various forms of organizational work, a variety of means and methods of solution and implementation of professional tasks, using a rich arsenal of democratic mechanisms and raising many issues of library building that was positively evaluated by delegates from 'ride. The main areas of library associations were: formation and development of professional skills of librarians; improving the efficiency of urban libraries through the organization and coordination of their activities; establishing a system of methodological assistance to libraries of different types and species, particularly rural libraries; promotion of scientific research, cultural, and educational activities libraries. However, in the late 1920 years Party and Soviet government bureaucracy gradually established tight control over all aspects of political, social and working life of society, of course, way into the library association and forced them to give in slowly at first managerial government agencies and coordinating functions, and professional and methodical, while not stop its activities in the early 1930 years.