Zaporizhia Region Universal Scientific Library

History

The history of Zaporizhia Region Universal Scientific Library begins in January 1904 with the adoption of the Charter of the Alexander City Public Library of Ekaterinoslav province, and the first user of newly formed library was adopted on 15 January 1905. History of the library at all stages of its development is closely linked with the main stages of social and political life of the country:

Now Zaporizhia Region Universal Scientific Library - is an information and cultural-educational complex, the center of intellectual development of the region.

Administration

Stepanenko, Inna Pavlovna

Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine

Deputy directors:

Kupreeva Natalya Anatolyevna

Izyumova Lyudmila Fedorovna

Zhavoronkov Gennady Eugenievich

Structure

Performs users recording, acquaints users with the rules of library use, its structure and mode of operation. For services to parents with children - children's room.

Helps users to find literature through directories and files, creates thematic inquiries and provides information on the availability of documents in library's collections, including the virtual bibliographer, establish list "Zaporizhia on the pages of the central press."

Gives users literature for home use, visitors have opportunity of self-selection documents in public domain.

Library has an Internet center created with the assistance of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. Users service is provided under the pre-registration records, and according to established rules of the Internet center.

Contains a collection of rare books and periodicals, amounting to over than 10 thousand copies. The oldest document - "Edicts of Catherine the Great" (1764), there is a facsimile edition of "Юности честное зерцало или Показание к житейскомy обхождению" (1717 г.), first editions of famous writers of XIX - early twentieth centuries, natural history, documents, books with autographs, giant books, tiny books, unusual gift editions. Staff working on compiling bibliographies separate section of the collection of valuable and rare documents.

Its priority is industrial production professionals and professionals in management areas of business and entrepreneurship service. Widely represented literature on economic, financial, banking, marketing, IT-technologies. Here you can find club of inventors.

It offers a complex literature humanities from auxiliary funds and core libraries. The components of the department are the Canadian-Ukrainian Library Center, an exhibition hall, conference hall.

If the necessary book is not represented in the collections of our library, department staff will request and obtain the necessary documents by mail from other libraries of Ukraine and abroad. Enterprises and organizations of the city are served by the interlibrary loan by the paid contract. It employs electronic document delivery service.

It offers users publications of natural history, ecology, resource management, mathematical sciences, physics, chemistry, geography, medicine, agriculture. Here landscape club is represented.

Serves users by books and periodicals of the near and far abroad. Assists in solving training in foreign languages means a diversified library collection, in particular, handbooks, manuals, electronic media. Here is represented a regional resource center for teachers of English.

Has a great fund of music and musical literature, art literature, criticism, which contains more than 15 thousand copies and is constantly updated with new books, documents on non-traditional media. The department has its own reference search engine, creates scenarios. It has exposition hall, where are represented products of national applied art, paintings of amateur and professional artists, music room with modern multimedia equipment.

Gets information sources, periodicals from Ukraine, Russia and CIS countries (over 1000 titles of newspapers, magazines). In the hall of the new acquisitions users can read new literature.

Collects publications on the history and modern development of Zaporizhia region, receives the legal deposit of local publications, organizing services users with reference and bibliographic apparatus of local history of literature. Engage in publishing activities of the region ("Streets of Zaporizhia - the mirror of history", a series of pointers bibliography – "Researchers of Homeland", "Writers of native land", "Heroes of Ukraine - our countrymen", yearbook "Remarkable and memorable dates of Zaporizhia and others").

Format of Zaporizhia Region Universal Scientific Library

Average attendance at one reader a year - 7 times.

The average number of publications read by one user per year - 46 ind.

Average attendance at the library every day - 722.

Average distribution of literature every day - 3680 copies.