The State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting, which is placed in charge of the publishing business in Ukraine, has a special program under which all books published within the Ukrainian Book Program are transferred to state libraries free of charge.
At the same time, The Day’s editors continue to receive letters with requests for books from The Day’s Library Series free of charge. One letter says: “We appeal to you, as those who care about our children’s education, with a request to give us books from The Day’s Library Series as presents.” Libraries don’t have money to buy them, and the government’s program is not fulfilled to the full extent. We have already reported that last week the Orlov Children’s Library, the central library of the Crimea, received a collection of books from The Day. On Nov. 20, The Day’s books were donated to such children’s libraries in Kyiv as the Shevchenko Central Library for Children and Ukraine’s State Library for Youth.
The head of former liberary, Nadia Bezruchko, is sure that these books will gain adherents among the young readers, because a history club for children is operating within the library. “The Day’s Library Series should be studied by all Ukrainians if they want to know who we are and where we come from,” says Nadia, who has worked as a librarian for 30 years. Five years ago this library received Ukraina Incognita, the first book published in The Day’s Library Series. Since then it has been regularly reading and taking constant interest in The Day’s publications. “We have implemented the municipal Reading Day that involves public figures. We also tackle the problem of family reading, because Ukrainian aristocratic families used to have a tradition of reading in the family circle and holding literary soirees,” the library’s head told The Day with gratitude.
Heorhii Saprykin, head of Ukraine’s State Library for Youth, says that his library’s website is much more popular with the young people than the library itself. “Figures indicate the number of the website visitors is higher than those who come to the library in person: 30,000 readers vs. 600,000 visitors of the website per year.” “Therefore the books from The Day’s Library Series are very important to us, because they are high-quality historical and journalistic material. The young generation should know true historical facts and learn from the mistakes of their grandfathers in order to build a decent future for themselves. Our duty as librarians is to provide the best and newest literature,” the head of the library noted.
The libraries have received copies of Ukraina Incognita, Dvi Rusi (Two Rus’es), the Album of Antalolii Kazansky’s Sketches, Moi universytety (My Universities), The Day and Eternity of James Mace, Apokryfy Klary Gudzyk (Klara Gudzyk’s Apocryphal Writings), KRAShChi FOTO. Po slidakh vystavky (BEST PHOTOS. Following the Exhibit), James Mace: Your Dead Chose Me, and the most recent publication in two volumes Extract-150.
