READERS' INTERESTS AND VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF TEENAGERS

This article attempts to identify the interests and values of modern teenagers who live in a large peripheral city and attend events that are regularly held in municipal libraries. The main possible types of work of a modern library and secondary school are not only the recommendation of educational and extracurricular literature, events, Olympiads and competitions, but also the education of library culture among schoolchildren. The library is forced to infiltrate the school to keep up with school education. To do this, it is necessary to organize joint work with representatives of specific schools (their principals, head teachers, interested teachers and parents), as well as with higher-level organizations of municipal and regional levels. It was supposed to find out what is the basis of the attitude of adolescent schoolchildren to reading as a process and as a value. The article is based on the eponymous research conducted by the Izhevsk city libraries in 2019. The study showed a fairly high degree of interest of modern schoolchildren in the services that can be provided in municipal libraries. The main topics of information needed by respondents were identified. We also managed to determine the preferred genres of books. Respondents named their favorite authors and expressed their attitude to reading and reading people. Thanks to the results obtained, librarians are able to improve the culture of library services for library visitors of different socio-demographic groups and plan their professional activities more carefully.

Smart Libraries in the Google Glass Era for Millennial Users

The motivation behind this chapter is to talk about the rising and imaginative advancements which coordinate to shape savvy libraries. Smart libraries are the new age libraries, which work with the amalgamation of shrewd advances, brilliant clients, and savvy administrations. The literature search compared different watchwords like smart libraries, internet of things (IoT), data mining, artificial intelligence (AI), etc. Now the time has come that libraries need to adopt the “smart library” culture due to changing demands of the patrons and the different services offered by the libraries to the patrons. The chapter features the developing new cool latest technologies that are used in different brilliant libraries and how they impact the productivity of libraries as far as patrons, administrations, and innovative coordination. The chapter attempts to feature the present advancements in the shrewd library set-ups for the productive working of library set-ups.

Developing Library Culture in Rural Areas by strengthening Community Information Services in Karnataka State: A Study

The public library has performed this role effectively and now it has penetrated into villages in the form of village libraries, rural information centres or grampanchayat libraries. There are 5766 numbers of gram panchayat libraries working in the state. As against 5766 number of grampanchayat, gram panchayat libraries have been established. But not much has happened in the grampanchayatlibraries , the library confined in one room in most of the gram panchayats and reading materials are only local language books , serials only magazine and newspapers, recent initatives by the public library dept. and rural development and panchayat raj to develop library culture among rural mass is gaining momentum and also a better result for this initative is coming up. This paper overviews the development happened and gap found and how to overcome with suitable measures.

A Unique Development Road of Urban Public Libraries of China

Since its debut seven years ago, Pudong Library of Shanghai has been committed to promoting reading and providing services that benefit that all. It provides new reading experiences, explores institutional building and communication platforms in public library circles, while intensifying efforts at team-building and cultivating library culture. Moreover, Pudong Library devotes itself to exploring, on a micro-level, restructuring practices and innovative developments of urban public libraries. In doing so Pudong Library constructs its own paradigm of library management. The exploration and practice of Pudong Library is a fresh case and vivid example for the development of urban public libraries in China.

Silent Bones and Singing Stones

This chapter investigates the relationship between materiality and textuality in the Hellenistic period, by focusing on real and imagined tombs of poets. At a time not only of feverish activity when literary texts were being collected, copied, catalogued, canonized, and archived, but also when contemporary poetry was carefully situating itself in relation to an emerging library culture, and, what is more, when texts were being reframed and circulated in the context of anthologies, the tomb as inscribed marker of the poet’s literal corpus offered a rich analogy to the physical objects that sustained his or her surviving corpus of work.

Hellenistic Hesiod

This chapter uses Callimachus’s Aetia, Aratus’s Phaenomena, and Nicander’s Theriaca to explore the intense engagement with Hesiodic poetry in the Hellenistic period. Informed by statistics for explicit references to Hesiod at this time, it asks: Why is this the only period of antiquity in which the Theogony and the Works and Days are considered equally important? Questions of genre and didaxis, of inspiration and knowledge, are set against a backdrop of learned library culture, in order to determine what it really meant in the Hellenistic age to be a scholar-poet. This chapter draws on a recent wave of interest in the ancient reception of Hesiod and considers not only how Hesiodic poetry was used, but also how the potential for that use is embedded in the archaic poems themselves.