The event will be held at the Volyn Pchilka Regional State Universal Library. Its head Liudmyla Stasiuk said that two Den-published series would be put on display at the same time: “Armor-Piercing Political Writing” and “Subversive Literature.” The presentation will be supplemented by a large exhibition of works by journalists, authors, and scholars who contributed prefaces to every issue of Den’s book series.
“We are deliberately holding this presentation on the Unity Day,” Stasiuk said. “Using this collection of quality journalism as an example, we want to convey to young people who ought to attend the event the importance of knowing one’s own history, and being able, so to speak, to use it. We aim to hold more than a usual empty talk about state-building and independence, as these books should become a strong argument in favor of these concepts’ relevance for every people that wants to have its own state.”
Den’s book series presenters will include not only regional library staff, but also students of the Stravinsky Culture and Arts College. They are future librarians and will determine to a great extent whether such books and such newspaper as Den will get on libraries’ shelves, especially in rural areas. After all, while Den is available in oblast and raion libraries, it just does not get to villages. Stasiuk sees the lack of funds as the reason, since public funding pays for most additions to rural libraries’ collections currently, while private charity is almost unheard of there.
However, the regional state universal library offers not just Den and The Day, but all the books published by our newspaper as well, and in multiple copies, too. They are in demand among readership, so library looks for funding and sponsors to buy these books, obstacles notwithstanding. In particular, the presentation to be held on January 21 should see deputy chairperson of Ihor Palytsia’s Charity Foundation New Lutsk Irina Konstankevych in attendance. The foundation purchased for the library a set of “Armor-Piercing Political Writing” while the library acquired another one on its own. It hopes that the intellectual-friendly foundation will allocate funds for another set of “Subversive Literature,” for these two book series are not only a pearl of social thought, but also a guide for development of Ukrainian intelligence, Stasiuk maintains.
