Libraries of Social Organizations of Kazan within the Cultural Environment of the Region in the middle of the 19th — early 20th century

The range of problems related to the research of regional features of librarianship development has not lost its significance, it urgently requires further consideration. The study of libraries as an integral part of the culture of Kazan and the results of their educational activities will allow identifying and understanding the unique experience of book veneration, national library construction and the culture of book reading in the region, in order to preserve it in the memory of further generations. Identification of patterns and contradictions in the organization of book service in the specific conditions of the national Republic will allow to see the comprehensive picture of the historical-book era from perspective of “library — society”. The author underlines the necessity to streamline and structure scientific information about the libraries of Kazan in the middle of the 19th — early 20th century with a view to its further extraction and use by local historians, librarianship historians and other humanitarian broad specialists in their scientific research.

The phenomenon of libraries of public and social institutions of Kazan is an important page in the regional librarianship. Available publications on the topic cover only some of its fragments. Meanwhile, this component of the regional historical and cultural stratum contains rich material that needs further study and introduction into scientific circulation. The following information, extracted from various sources and being only introduction to the topic, is evidence of this.

The author studied the development of library and educational activities through the prism of libraries of public and social institutions of Kazan. The research material allows concluding that before the Russian revolution there was created a very extensive, though disordered system of libraries of public and social organizations.

The research is carried out on the basis of the Collection for Library Science of the National Library of Russia (NLR), the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts and the Department of Tatar and Local Lore Literature of the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan. The author studied the information, reflected in the electronic catalogues of the NLR, the Russian State Library and the Mayakovsky Central City Public Library in St. Petersburg, materials of scientific and practical conferences, publications in professional literature and archival documents. This study summarizes the results of this work. Based on the studied sources, the author revealed the trends of pre-revolutionary library-enlightenment activities as national, cultural and informational heritage of the region.

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