Libraries in Moscow: a new look for familiar institutions

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:44

Someone today will never part with modern gadgets, preferring electronic versions of newspapers and magazines to their paper counterparts. There are those for whom there is nothing more pleasant than the usual rustle of book pages. Oddly enough, libraries in Moscow are trying to take into account the requests of both.

New look for libraries

They not only lend out books, but also offer a lot of opportunities for a pleasant and useful pastime: language courses, interest clubs, meetings with diverse people, teaching the basics of computer literacy and even photo shoots. The library of Moscow, which is undergoing changes in the architectural appearance, has a different approach to holding events.

Such different readers

The availability of free services, individual design, comfortable furniture attract readers of different ages, social and professional status: the unemployed, students, professionals, pensioners. Each of them finds something to their liking. A separate area of work is work with special readers. Those who are not always able to lead a full life due to their he alth condition.

Libraries in Moscow are centers of cultural and social life, striving to provide their readers with a wide range of publications, access to electronic resources, legal reference systems. If necessary, library staff provide advice.

Tour of unusual metropolitan libraries

The most unusual libraries in Moscow. What are they? Let's find out together. And we will start with an institution whose main audience is young people. Modern and cozy interior, computers and free Wi-Fi, electronic libraries - all this is at the service of the readers of the Russian State Library for Youth.

Services in the RBWH are built using RFID technology. When all operations for taking books in the library and returning them are carried out by readers independently. A copier, a scanner, an information kiosk are installed in the lobby area located in the lobby. Anyone can use them, even in the absence of an entry in the library. In addition, the library is attractive due to the presence of a psychologist and active interest clubs. As for the needs of the disabled, special ramps, lifts and toilets are equipped for them.

The real treasury that stores printed manuscripts, ancient tomes, modern scientific works and publications is the Lenin Library. Moscow is the city where several branches of this library are located, which has more than 45 million publications in its fund. The participation of the RSL in programs aimed at the reconstruction and restoration ofold books. There are also places for storing the latter in compliance with the necessary conditions.

A full-fledged "third" place today is the Library. Dostoevsky. Its attractive features include the presence of a pleasant informal atmosphere, cute furniture, personal lockers with a key, coworking. The main “feature” of the library is its mode of operation: visiting the institution is also possible at night. Only subject to payment. By the way, the library was opened in 1907. Its opening after reconstruction took place in 2013. Moreover, the format of the institution has become completely different.

In the Library of Urban Stories, visitors will be offered to read books on urban topics, participate in discussions, communicate with invited storytellers, board games. From time to time, film screenings and lectures are held here.

For little readers

Seek to diversify the leisure of readers and children's libraries in Moscow. So, for example, studios, circles, clubs work in Gaidarovka. Their number is approximately 20. Chuk and Gek - that's the name of two bibliobots - help the librarians. By the way, the first library fund in "Gaidarovka" was represented by the personal library of V. O. Klyuchevsky (Russian historian). He bequeathed it to the city. Today there are a large number of fluffy and soft books, rattle and toy books, music books and bath books.

Visiting libraries in Moscow is becoming a fashionable pastime, akin togoing to the anticafe. It is unlikely that these establishments will be replaced by others in the near future. After all, just as a big movie screen cannot replace the atmosphere of a cinema, so e-books cannot replace the world of books and libraries.