The Mayakovsky Library: 150 Years of Tradition and Innovation

In 2018, the Mayakovsky central city public library reaches its 150th anniversary. The purpose of the article is to show the library’s commitment to traditions, the desire to deeply understand its history, to identify and implement innovative ways of development. The past of one of the oldest libraries of St. Petersburg is closely connected with the history of public life of the city, with priorities of democratic intelligentsia, the activities of predecessors, the founders of the library, its owners. For many years the Mayakovsky central city public library has been studying its own history, realizing that the passed way and loyalty to the best traditions help to determine the vector directions of further development. Currently, the organization of corporate network of public libraries of St. Petersburg is one of the most productive ways of development, as it allows optimizing the various costs and rational use of the available resources. This is the unique and successful project, which united the libraries to create and use information resources on the basis of unified technological processes that considerably increased efficiency and brought the quality of the user service to a new level. The library actively develops and implements innovative forms of work related to methodical, bibliographic, publishing, cultural and educational activity. The activity of library gets positive response not only from libraries of St. Petersburg, but also the library community of the country. Numerous applications for professional training in the Mayakovsky central city public library from various regions of Russia demonstrate it. Positioning itself primarily as an information centre, the library is actively developing its own resources, such as Electronic library and Virtual reading room; the new virtual forms of service are remote joining the library, electronic library account and online consultant. These areas of service allow the library to remain the recognized leader of the library community of St. Petersburg.

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