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Vologda Regional Universal Scientific Library named after I.V. Babushkin
Location
Meeting	Collection items
books, periodicals, sheet music, sound recordings, graphic publications, cartographic publications, electronic publications, scientific works, documents, etc.
Access and use	Number of readers
350 thousand readers annually
Other information	Director
Bukhantseva Tatyana Nikolaevna

Web site

Story

Individual copies of books arrived in Vologda from the Totemsky Spaso-Sumorin Monastery, the library of the Veliky Ustyug Seminary, the St. Michael the Archangel Monastery (Veliky Ustyug), local church parishes, and the gendarmerie administration. The collection was significantly expanded by publications received from Petrograd (the so-called Petrograd Fund). By the time of opening, the collection of the Public Library amounted to about one and a half thousand volumes.

The intensive work of librarians in collecting, recording, classifying books, and compiling catalogs allowed readers to use a fund consisting of fifteen thousand volumes within six months. From the moment of its organization, the library begins to engage in methodological work and becomes a library of provincial significance.

The original library staff consisted of twelve people. The employees considered their task, along with the accumulation of rich book materials, to be cultural and educational activities. The library's reading room was open until 11 o'clock in the evening, and on holidays - until 12 o'clock at night. During the first year of operation, 2,608 readers signed up for the library, and more than 20 thousand copies of books were issued. About fifty readers visited the library every day.

For the 80th anniversary of the library, the Governor of the Vologda Region V. E. Pozgalev decided to transfer to the library a beautiful building built in the Art Nouveau style at the beginning of the 20th century.

Building of the Vologda Regional Library st. M. Ulyanova, 7

We can say that from this period the third stage in the life of the library began. The building itself has a very rich history.

Great Hall of VUNB

The hall, which has been restored to its original splendor, was bustling with activity in times past. Townspeople gathered here for performances by the famous singer A. Vyaltseva, ballerina O. Preobrazhenskaya, famous tenor A. Alexandrovich, concerts of the imperial orchestras of St. Petersburg, Milan, Warsaw, students of A. Duncan, performances by K. Balmont, F. Sologub, and educational lectures by Pitirim Sorokin. In the post-revolutionary years, rallies, congresses, and conferences were held here. And today this is a favorite place for many library visitors.

The new library building houses some of the specialized departments serving readers and a conference room equipped with modern acoustic equipment. Scientific conferences, seminars, meetings, exhibitions, presentations, concerts and literary evenings are held here. Currently, the library's holdings amount to more than 1.2 million books, periodicals, patents, audio and video recordings, “talking books”, microfilms, sheet music, and databases on electronic media. The library provides its readers with access to some paid full-text Internet resources, including the RSL resource “Dissertations of Russia”; its own full-text databases are being actively created, primarily local history databases, which are combined into the “Memory of Vologda” resource.

Today, the number of virtual readers even exceeds the number of real library visitors: about 350 thousand readers come to the library a year, and the website is visited by more than 550 thousand users. In accordance with the requirements of the time, the structure of the library has changed: a small virtual reading room has been opened, where you can work with the full-text electronic database of “Dissertations of Russia” and the information and analytical agency “Integrum”. In the information and service department you can obtain legal, social, economic and other information using computer technology. The Arts and Media Resources Department receives the best videos, music CDs, and audio books. The department of educational programs, opened with funds from the Presidential Grant, actively promotes the book and organizes cultural and educational events. The department of intraregional book exchange is implementing the “Library on Wheels” project to deliver books to the population of the region. At the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries, international contacts began to expand. Foreign information centers have opened. Internships for regional library employees in the largest libraries in the world have begun. Colleagues from abroad come to exchange experiences.

Today the library has become multifunctional. There is a training center that teaches the basics of computer literacy. The Vologda Society for the Study of the Northern Territory and a branch of the Russian Genealogical Society are active at the library. Consultations are held for those wishing to compile their pedigree. Work is underway to publish conference materials, teaching aids, and bibliographic indexes.

Department employees advise users on working with information technologies and organize training for various groups of the population in the use of Internet technologies. Requests from readers to search for information of various profiles on the Internet are accepted.

The department maintains a remote access reference and information service on the website of the regional scientific library “Virtual Help”

At the information and service center there is an electronic reading room that provides access to the electronic library of Dissertations of the Russian State Library, which contains electronic versions of scientific works defended in Russia for the academic degrees of candidate and doctor of science.

There is an “Internet Center” that performs two main tasks: providing computers for free access to the Internet and conducting free courses and seminars on the basics of computer literacy.

The hall operates with the direct support of the non-profit corporation Project Harmony Inc. (USA) and on its basis implements the Information Dissemination and Equal Access (IDEA) project. The project is aimed at developing information literacy and culture of the population of Russian regions, improving the quality of education and the level of social and cultural development.

The IDEA Training Center has been created on the basis of the Internet Technologies Hall - this is a computer class in which methodological, educational and consulting work with the population is carried out, and free access to information resources on the Internet is provided. The IDEA Training Center provides training using the Microsoft Unlimited Potential curriculum, as well as its own community-based training programs. The IDEA training center conducts classes, trainings and seminars on the “World of Limitless Possibilities” training program, developed by Microsoft Corporation specialists, which offers users a wide range of training courses from “Computer Basics” to “Database Basics”.

Sector of intrasystem book exchange of the department of methodological work

The substantive side of the sector’s activities is focused on the formation of a fund of publications for book exchange with regional libraries, cooperation in completing the department’s fund with leading publishing houses of the country and region. To do this, sector employees select publications for subsequent acquisition, form an order for the acquisition of selected publications, and, finally, send books from the collections of scientific and children's regional libraries to regional libraries.

In this way, a project is being implemented to promote books in the Vologda outback - “Library on Wheels”. Together with books, methodologists from the regional scientific library travel to the regions and help in word and deed. The project raises the prestige of district and rural libraries, intensifies their leisure and educational work, and most importantly helps residents of Vologda villages and villages feel attention to themselves and not feel isolated from the centers of education and culture.

The sector also performs the functions of a collector of municipal libraries through the established and established tradition of donating book products between publishing houses and libraries of the Vologda region.

Sector of natural science and technical literature

This sector presents natural science, medical, economic, scientific and technical literature on all areas of production activity. The department's fund contains more than twelve thousand publications (books, reference books, methodological literature, technical bibliography), about three hundred thousand descriptions of inventions, about one hundred and fifty titles of periodicals.

The department has an extensive collection of patents dating back to 1974. Remote access to the Russian Patents database is provided. The full texts of GOSTs of the Russian Federation are located in the electronic database “Standard-plus”. Consultations on the use of patents and GOSTs are provided by an experienced patent specialist.

Department employees maintain fruitful long-term contacts with the Vologda Center for Scientific and Technical Information, Vologda Technical and Pedagogical Universities, industrial enterprises and small businesses of Vologda and the region in the development of investment and scientific and technical projects.

The department's specialists provide information on various fields of science and technology and carry out thematic selection of information materials.

Local History Sector, Bibliography and Local History Department

Sector employees are engaged in identifying, collecting and disseminating knowledge about the Vologda region recorded in printed works, identifying local history documents and local publications from bibliographic sources, forming a system of local history bibliographic aids and indexes of local publications, and providing library users with information on local history topics.

A collection of local history literature on economics, ecology, history, art, literary criticism and other branches of knowledge is concentrated here.

The local history reference and bibliographic apparatus reflects all the identified material about the Vologda region from the 19th century to the present. An electronic local history catalog has been maintained since 1994.

Fixed asset storage department

The oldest department of the regional scientific library, its opening took place in 1919. At the same time, the department is the largest and most significant department in the library (as of January 1, 2009, the total fund of the department amounted to 56,9523 items, including: 335,676 books, 228,062 magazines, 5,246 annual sets of newspapers, as well as other types of publications).

The main task of the department is to organize, store and provide basic storage funds for use in the reading room and other departments of the library, as well as providing methodological assistance to regional libraries that have basic storage funds.

The department is located on five tiers, two of which are occupied by periodicals. The fund contains 1,630 magazine titles since 1918 and about 600 newspaper titles since 1898. The department is a regional depository of local history literature and local press. The department’s collection also collects copies of pre-revolutionary local history publications identified in libraries and museums in the region.

Carrying out its main functions, the department maintains topographic catalogs for all auxiliary collections of the library departments, ensures the safety of collections, organizes bookbinding works, and works to select collections verification publications for depository storage.

The department's collections contain more than eighty thousand volumes of rare books, the general chronological framework of which is outlined in the 16th centuries. The collection of rare publications is reflected in the bibliographic reference book “Russian book of the 16th-18th centuries in the collections of the Vologda Regional Library”, prepared in 1980 by E. A. Soboleva.

Rare books are stored according to the collection principle: handwritten and lithographed editions of the 18th-20th centuries, Western European editions of the 16th-20th centuries, Cyrillic editions of the 16th-20th centuries. Among the old printed books, the collection includes publications from the first decades of Russian printing, books by students of Ivan Fedorov.

There are editions from the first quarter of the 19th century. Among them are lifetime editions of N. M. Karamzin, K. N. Batyushkov, M. N. Muravyov, A. S. Pushkin and other writers; translated French, German and English literature.

Of particular interest are books from the Russian illegal and prohibited press of the 19th-20th centuries, including London editions of the Free Russian Printing House by A. I. Herzen and N. P. Ogarev, the almanacs “Bell” and “Polar Star”.

The regional scientific library is especially proud of its collection of books with autographs of outstanding public figures, scientists, and writers of the 19th-20th centuries. Among them are the autographs of Matvey Mudrov, St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Vsevolod Garshin, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, Pavel Savvaitov, Alexander Yashin, Vasily Belov and other figures of science and culture.

Selected into special collections are publications that are rare in their artistic design, facsimile and reprints, limited editions, examples of printing, bookbinding art, books from the Academia publishing house (1922-1937), miniature and small-format publications, publications of the revolutionary democratic and Marxist press 1905-1907 years, satirical magazines of 1905-1907.

Department of Arts and Media Resources

The regional scientific library has long lived not by “books alone.” The library purchases music CDs, videos, and audiobooks. In 2003, a media room was created where anyone could listen to music, watch a movie, or borrow a CD or video cassette as collateral.
In 2012, through the merger of the Media Hall and the Music and Music Department, the “Department of Arts and Media Resources” was formed. The department has an extensive collection of Russian cinema and music on CD. The department's collections are constantly updated. The main principles of selection are high artistic quality and relevance. The department is especially proud of its collection of the most famous performances from the best theaters in the country. The department also has an extensive collection of sheet music and is equipped with the latest literature on all branches of art.

Every year, employees of the department organize a reading competition “Vologda Reading” to promote reading and books.

The department has a permanent exhibition and an express library of new Russian prose. Here you can find information about modern Russian writers and poets, literary awards, associations and unions of writers; about all upcoming literary events and anniversaries.

“MEETINGS WITH VOLOGDA BOOKS” is popular among Vologda residents - a series of presentations and books that are published in Vologda publishing houses.

Department employees coordinate the “Results of the Literary Year” project. The project started in the year. The project includes creative reports from poets and writers from the outback of the region, meetings with professional poets and writers, and creative seminars.

Since 2012, employees of the department have been preparing and conducting the annual socio-cultural event “Library Night”.

Literature

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Vologda Universal Scientific Library named after. I. V. Babushkina. - Vologda, 1989.

Guardians: From the history of book culture of the Vologda lands: dedicated to the anniversary of the Vologda Regional Universal Scientific Library, 1919-2009 / ed. S. A. Tikhomirova. - Vologda: Book Heritage, 2009. - 320 p. With.

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The Vologda Regional Universal Scientific Library is the largest public library in the region, a regional information and cultural center that provides the population with access to domestic and world information resources.

The official opening of the library took place on February 9, 1919: only 1.5 thousand books were provided to readers, but the intensive work of librarians allowed readers to use the fund consisting of 15 thousand volumes within six months. During the first year of operation, 2,608 people signed up for the library.

From the moment of its organization, the library begins to engage in methodological work and becomes a library of provincial significance. Since 1923, it has been entrusted with the functions of the central library. City and county libraries come here for help. To serve the rural population, a mobile collection is being formed in the library. In 1937, the department of interlibrary services for readers was opened. In 1938, the library was reorganized into a regional one.

During the Great Patriotic War, VOUNB continues to work with readers: it serves evacuation hospitals, ambulance trains, and defense enterprises. In the post-war years, the library remained a major cultural, organizational and methodological center.

In January 1964, the library was named after I.V. Babushkin. The standard charter of regional libraries approves it as a state scientific library of a universal profile.
In 2009, the regional library celebrated its 90th anniversary. In May 2009, the All-Russian Library Congress was held here with the participation of more than 700 people. The guest of honor was the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Avdeev.

Currently, the library serves more than 27 thousand readers per year. Its holdings include more than 1.2 million books, periodicals, patents, audio and video recordings, “talking books”, microforms, sheet music, and databases on electronic media.

VOUNB resources are actively used both in Russia and abroad (requests from users from the USA, Austria, etc. have been registered).

VOUNL is a participant in all-Russian projects: LIBNET (creation of the Union Catalog of Russian Libraries), ARBIKON (participation in the MARS (Interregional Analytical Listing of Articles) and EDD (Electronic Document Delivery) projects. As part of the project to create an All-Russian corpus of book monuments, the Vologda Regional Scientific Library is working on a regional collection “Book monuments of the Vologda region”.

VOUNL is developing a system of mobile library services to the population through the implementation of the “Mobile Library” project using a complex of information and library services developed on the basis of a car.

In January 1964, the library was named after I.V. Babushkin. The standard charter of regional libraries approves it as a state scientific library of a universal profile.

In May 2009, the All-Russian Library Congress was held here with the participation of more than 700 people. The guest of honor was the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Avdeev. In 2014, the regional library celebrated its 95th anniversary.

The regional universal scientific library has introduced a service of providing access to the resources of the Presidential Library. B.N. Yeltsin, a service for issuing electronic books from the collection of the liters electronic library, processing online orders for electronic copies of documents and compiling thematic lists of references, contextual search in a full-text electronic library, providing the ability to quickly retrieve data from large volumes of information, six new full-text electronic resources have been created , project “Library in 3D”.

In 2014, the Center for Automated Book Lending was created in the regional universal scientific library with the introduction of an electronic library card. The project was implemented as a result of the Department attracting federal funds from the state program of the Russian Federation “Development of Culture and Tourism”, as well as the library’s victory in the All-Russian competition “Optimization of library activities based on new technologies.”

Library workers have repeatedly been winners of the regional competition “Star Lace of the North”. In 2007, a group of specialists was awarded the State Prize of the Vologda Region for educational activities, and in 2012 - for participation in the project “Collected Works of Vasily Belov.”

Postal address: 160000, Vologda, st. M. Ulyanova, 1 Working hours: Monday – Thursday from 10.00 to 20.00, Saturday – Sunday from 10.00 to 18.00. Friday is a day off. The last Wednesday of each month is a sanitary day. Opening hours of the library branch (Koneva St., 6) Monday - Friday from 10.00 to 19.00, Saturday - from 10.00 to 18.00. Sunday is a day off The last Wednesday of each month is a sanitary day The library is closed on holidays officially declared by the Government of the Russian Federation as non-working days

History of the library.

The urgent need to open a library arose in the first post-revolutionary years. The population of the city was more than 100 thousand people. The city had a Proletarian University, an Institute of Public Education, a Dairy Institute, and ten second-level schools. New industrial enterprises opened.

To create the library, a special commission was elected, which began to develop procedures and plans for organizing the library, charter, cost estimates for its maintenance, as well as the removal of books from abandoned landowners' estates: the families of the nobles Brianchaninovs, Mezhakovs, Andreev-Rezanovs, Eremeevs, etc. In October In 1918, the building of the former Assembly of the Nobles began to receive books from estate and monastery libraries, libraries of the theological seminary, gendarmerie administration, part of the library of the men's gymnasium, private book collections - the Minister of Transport of post-reform Russia S. V. Rukhlov (village Novoe), doctors Zolotilov with books belonging to the writer V. M. Garshin (Kraskovo village), A. A. Mozhaisky (Kotelnikovo village) and others. They laid the foundation for the library fund.

The official opening of the library took place on February 9, 1919. The management of the library was carried out by a board consisting of a chairman and four members. The first chairman of the library was Vladimir Konstantinovich Eltsov, later the director of the library. Regardless of the board, a library council was created, which included one representative from all cultural and educational organizations that existed in the region. The city's public greeted the opening of the library with great enthusiasm, dozens of people donated their personal libraries, and private monetary donations were made. At the time of the opening of the library, only 1.5 thousand books were provided to readers, but the intensive work of librarians in collecting, recording, classifying books, and compiling catalogs allowed readers to use a fund consisting of 15 thousand volumes within six months. The initial staff of the library was 12 people. The employees considered their task, along with the accumulation of rich book materials, to be cultural and educational activities. In 1922, a department for lending books to homes was opened, and the “Society of Friends of Books” operated at the library. In 1924, a reference desk was opened, which in 1927 became an independent reference, bibliographic and local history department. An archive of completed certificates is being accumulated. A bibliographic commission is being created at the library to study literature on the northern region. In 1926, the first literature index “Bibliography of the North” was published. A decree was issued by the provincial executive committee on mandatory free delivery to the library of all publications published in Vologda and the Vologda province.

The library's reading room was open until 11 pm, and on holidays - until 12 am. During the first year of operation, 2,608 readers signed up for the library, and more than 20 thousand copies of books were issued. An average of 43 people visited the library every day.

From the moment of its organization, the library begins to engage in methodological work and becomes a library of provincial significance. Since 1923, it has been entrusted with the functions of the central library, and the need to unite library workers is recognized. City and county libraries come here for help. To serve the rural population, a mobile collection is being formed in the library. In 1937, the department of interlibrary services for readers was opened. In 1938, the library was reorganized into a regional one in connection with the formation of the Vologda region.

During the Great Patriotic War, the library continued to work with readers: it served evacuation hospitals, ambulance trains, and defense enterprises. Librarians help collective farms and work in logging. During the war years, librarians collected funds for 62 libraries in the liberated areas, and 37 thousand books were transferred.

In the post-war years, the library remained a major cultural, organizational and methodological center.

On December 24, 1963, the grand opening of a new building, built according to a standard design for 500 thousand volumes, took place. In January 1964, the library was named after I.V. Babushkin. The standard charter of regional libraries approves it as a state scientific library of a universal profile.

In 2000, the library was given a building on the street. M. Ulyanova, 7, which houses some of the specialized departments serving readers, and a conference room equipped with modern acoustic equipment. Scientific conferences, seminars, meetings, exhibitions, presentations, concerts and literary evenings are held here.

In 2009, the regional library celebrated its 90th anniversary. The event of 2009 for the culture of the Vologda region was the All-Russian Library Congress (XIV Annual Conference of the Russian Library Association), which took place from May 17 to 22 in Vologda, declared the library capital of Russia in 2009. For the first time, the region hosted more than 700 participants in the largest forum of Russian library specialists to discuss a wide range of professional issues. Within the framework of the Congress, dedicated to the theme “Russian Libraries in the Knowledge Society: Dynamics of Integration,” 54 events were held, more than 400 reports were read and discussed. The guest of honor of the Congress was the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Alexander Avdeev.

Currently, the library serves more than 22 thousand readers per year, the number of visits is 240 thousand, book lending is over 900,000 documents. The library's holdings include more than 1.2 million books, periodicals, patents, audio and video recordings, “talking books”, microforms, sheet music, and databases on electronic media. The electronic catalog, which has been maintained in the library since 1994 and by the beginning of 2014 includes 1,119,727 records, helps to greatly expand access to information about the composition of library collections.

The library provides its readers with access to the RSL resource “Electronic Library of Dissertations”, legal reference systems, and actively creates its own full-text databases, primarily local history databases, unique in completeness and depth of chronological coverage. Thus, local pre-revolutionary and Soviet periodicals have been digitized and presented on the library website for free access. These are complete sets of the newspapers “Vologda Provincial Gazette” (1838-1917), “Red North” (1917-1955); magazine “Vologda Diocesan Gazette” (1864-1917), etc. Multimedia full-text database “Memory of Vologda” is our special pride. Here you can find information about the leading Vologda brands (Vologda oil, Vologda lace, Vologda forest, etc.), outstanding people of the Vologda region, unique places in our region. These information resources are in great demand, and the geography of requests is constantly expanding. The library has expanded beyond the Vologda region; our resources are actively used both in Russia and abroad (requests from users from the USA, Austria, etc. have been registered).

Information and communication technologies also have a significant impact on the innovative development of the library in terms of serving readers. The VOUNL website is developing successfully; it is adapted for the needs of the visually impaired. The site serves as a virtual platform for posting up-to-date information about the activities of the library, providing access to electronic information resources generated by the library, providing online services, and communicating with users.

The library has a free WI-FI zone, an on-line system for renewing documents taken home and pre-ordering books, a virtual reference service and on-line consultations, and is introducing electronic recording of visits and book lending. The Computer Literacy Center is successfully operating, where more than 6.5 thousand people have received free training and received certificates, these are elderly people and people with disabilities.

VUNB is a significant link in the country's unified information system. Its cooperation with other large Russian libraries and participation in international cultural projects expands the information space for our readers. VOUNL is a participant in all-Russian projects: LIBNET (creation of the Union Catalog of Russian Libraries), ARBIKON (participation in the MARS (Interregional Analytical Listing of Articles) and EDD (Electronic Document Delivery) projects. As part of the project to create an All-Russian corpus of book monuments, the Vologda Regional Scientific Library is working on a regional code “Book Monuments of the Vologda Region”. In accordance with the regional law “On the Legal Deposit of Documents of the Vologda Region”, the VOUNL carries out the functions of the regional book chamber. The Library is the center for the corporate creation and use of library and information resources of the region, in particular the Union Catalog of Libraries of the Vologda Region.

VOUNL is developing a system of mobile library services to the population through the implementation of the “Mobile Library” project using KIBO, a complex of information and library services developed on the basis of a car. The complex has the latest technical means for accessing the Internet, conducting lectures and video conferencing. Internet access is provided via a satellite communication station.

Being a methodological and coordinating center for libraries in the region, VUNL promotes professional cooperation, the development of innovative experience, acts as a conductor of state library policy and professional standards at the regional level, and serves readers of the region through the interlibrary loan system and electronic delivery of documents.

VOUNB is not only an information and educational center, but also one of the favorite places for leisure, cultural and spiritual communication of Vologda residents. Many of them are attracted here by the opportunity to meet people with similar cultural interests at meetings of various clubs that constantly work here: the creative association “Objective”, a discussion club, a film lecture hall, etc. The Vologda Society for the Study of the Northern Territory and the Vologda Branch of the Russian Genealogical Society operate at the library, Meetings of the “Vologda Assembly” are held.

The library carries out targeted work to support the high status of books and reading: it organizes festivals, competitions (“Vologda Reading”, “Vologda Book of the Year”, etc.), exhibitions, meetings with writers, presentations of new books. Information about everything that happens in the library is posted on its website and in the media, and an SMS mailing service is available. The library has opened its virtual representation on social networks and runs a VKontakte group.

The library owes its success to the high professionalism of its staff. Library workers have repeatedly been winners of the regional competition for cultural workers “Starry Lace of the North.” In 2007, a group of specialists was awarded the State Prize of the Vologda Region for educational activities, and in 2012 - for participation in the project “Collected Works of Vasily Belov.”

VUNB strives to find public support for its development: it gains new friends and partners every year. Creative contacts connect her with journalists, cultural, artistic, political, and business figures. There is a tradition of community and cultural events involving donors, sponsors and business partners whose support helps the library move forward.

Address: 160000, Vologda, st. M. Ulyanova, 1
Opening hours: Monday – Thursday from 10.00 to 20.00, Saturday – Sunday from 10.00 to 18.00. Friday is a day off. The last Wednesday of each month is a sanitary day. Opening hours of the library branch (Koneva St., 6) Monday - Friday from 10.00 to 19.00, Saturday - from 10.00 to 18.00. Sunday is a day off The last Wednesday of each month is a sanitary day The library is closed on holidays officially declared by the Government of the Russian Federation as non-working days Participant