Staff
Serving Vorotynets readers, shaping their tastes and fulfilling their requests are the head of the reader services department Lidia Vyacheslavovna Artashina, and librarians Marina Vladimirovna Fomicheva and Larisa Petrovna Pugacheva.
Thanks to the support of the District Committee for Culture and the district administration, in 2008 the library became home to the District Public Center for Legal Information (RPTsPI), staffed by Tatyana Pavlovna Doronina and programmer Yekaterina Petrovna Borisova.
Leadership
The library has built a capable team under the leadership of Galina Sergeyevna Kostyunina. The methodological service is headed by Nina Aleksandrovna Koroleva, who runs seminars and professional-development workshops and organizes district events; information and bibliographic services for the public are organized by Yelena Nikolayevna Lushneva.
Thanks to the chief librarian of the acquisitions department, Nina Nikolayevna Pchelintseva, and librarian Irina Aleksandrovna Khrycheva, the book collections of the MUK MTsBS libraries are replenished with new titles.
Leading Areas of the Library's Work
- patriotic education;
- literary and aesthetic activities;
- local-history (kraevedenie) work;
- promotion of a healthy lifestyle;
- family upbringing.
For several years now, interest clubs have been running for readers: "Parus" (Sail) for students of the Vorotynets Agrotechnical College, aimed at popularizing fiction, and "Sobesednik" (Companion) for retired readers. While young people seek out books and information, older readers above all seek company. They enjoy talking about beautiful things and recalling their youth. For them the library holds themed evenings, literary and musical programs, electronic presentations, and gatherings over a cup of tea:
"What Music There Was, What Music Played," "Native Nizhny Novgorod Land, Vorotynets Land," "On the Wide Volga, on the Distant Point" about the composer Mokrousov, and others.
In 2010 the library launched an "Orthodox Lecture Series," with sessions led by Archpriest Andrei Samsonov, dean of the Vorotynets district, together with Central Library staff L.V. Artashina and Ye.N. Lushneva. Sessions have included: Orthodox Book Day, timed this year to the anniversary of Ivan Fedorov's "Apostol," the first printed book in Rus; "The Patterned Weave of Slavic Words" for the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture; "Patrons of Family Happiness" for the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity; and others.
Achievements
The Central Library actively cooperates with local self-government bodies and departments of the district administration: the department of culture and sport, the department of education and youth policy, and the civil registry office (ZAGS). Joint events are held together with the District House of Culture, the Children's Art School (DShI), the House of Children's Creativity (DDT), the Vorotynets Agrotechnical College (VATT), the Vorotynets secondary school, the Center for Social Assistance to the Population, the Employment Center, the district veterans' society (VOI), and the editorial office of the "Vorotynskaya Gazeta." These include: a Ten Days of Military Glory marking the 20th anniversary of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan (2009); the campaigns "A World of Young People's Reading" (2009) and "Time to Read!" (2010-2011); district correspondence quizzes "Alexander Pushkin and the Nizhny Novgorod Region" for the 210th anniversary of Pushkin's birth (2009), "A Writer Beyond Time" for the 200th anniversary of Gogol's birth (2009), and "Reading Chekhov" (2010); the Demidov local-history readings (2009-2010); the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture (annually); the district readers' conference "Books in Memory of Our History" for the 65th anniversary of Victory; the amateur poets' festival "Living Spring"; "Live On, Sacred Date"; and many other events.
Future Plans
The library is actively working to implement district programs:
- "Preservation and Development of the Culture of Vorotynets District" for 2007-2010.
- "Patriotic Education of Citizens of Vorotynets District" for 2008-2010.
- "Vorotynets Family" for 2007-2010.
- "Comprehensive Measures to Counter Drug Abuse and Illegal Drug Trafficking for 2007-2009."
It is also working on its own program, "My Native Land — To You, My Heart" (a development program for the Central Library as a center for the revival and preservation of the cultural and historical traditions of the native land, for 2007-2011).
The Central Library's staff do everything within their power to make the library comfortable and welcoming for readers, so that visitors leave not only with a good book but also with plenty of useful and necessary information on all kinds of media.
History of the Vorotynets Central Library
A free public library and reading room was opened in the village of Vorotynets, Nizhny Novgorod Province, on 24 August 1898 by order of the Governor of Nizhny Novgorod, N.M. Baranov (disambiguation), and belonged to the Society for the Promotion of Elementary Education in Nizhny Novgorod Governorate.
According to surviving archival documents, in 1914 the Provincial Zemstvo established the Alekseevsky libraries, named in honor of Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich. There were 44 of them across the Governorate, four per uyezd (district). Such a library was maintained entirely at the expense of the Provincial Zemstvo. Before 1914 they were classified as third-category libraries, since they had no separate premises and were housed within various institutions. There were two such libraries in Vasilsky Uyezd, one of them in Vorotynets.
The library was housed at a two-grade school and received an allowance of 25 rubles, of which 15 rubles were spent on purchasing books and 10 on the librarian's pay. As of 1 January 1917 the library held 850 books. There were 99 readers, of whom 52 were men and 44 women. Due to the revolution the library was closed for a time and reopened in 1918, belonging to the cultural and educational society "Narodny Dom" (People's House). The library was housed in a stone building in the volost council premises, had a separate entrance, and occupied one room, but also served for various kinds of gatherings. The library maintained a systematic catalog, with literature arranged by section: religious-moral, historical, geography, natural science, hygiene, fiction, social improvement, and periodicals.
The books were mostly bound, and the newspapers "Gorkovskaya Kommuna (newspaper)" and "Pravda," and the magazine "Niva," were subscribed to. The library was open to readers on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays from 17:00 to 20:00, and the reading room daily. A record of book loans was kept in a notebook, with a separate sheet for each reader, and books were returned on time. As of 1 January 1918 there were 57 male and 42 female readers, mostly children under 13. Aleksei Kudrin, a political-education student, worked at the library and received a salary of 150 rubles, with 50 rubles allocated for purchasing books. The library was funded from the budget of the Vasilsky Department of Public Education.
By 1923 the number of books had grown to 1,954 copies. In 1929, with the formation of Vorotynets District, the library received district status. By the mid-1930s the general state of library work in the district improved: money was allocated for buying new books, and in 1937 the library received new premises on Maxim Gorky Street on the second floor of a semi-stone building, where it remained until 1947, and a library council was formed. In 1936 the library held 5,000 books, had 530 readers, and employed 3 staff. During the war the library became a center of wartime agitation. As reader Fyodor Ivanovich Kamnev, who at the time worked as an inspector of the district education department (RONO), recalled: "A large map hung in the library, with flags marking the front line, since this concerned everyone.
The library instilled in us confidence in a swift victory." In the postwar years the library came under the culture department of the Vorotynets district executive committee, changing location several times until, in the mid-1960s, it moved into the building of the district executive committee (the former house of the merchant I.M. Ryabov, built in the late 19th or early 20th century).
In 1977, as part of centralization, it received the status of the Vorotynets Central Library. At this time the library's staff grew, and new departments appeared: the services department, which included the lending desk and the reading room, the methodological and bibliographic department (MBO), the acquisitions and processing department (OKiO), and the interlibrary loan department (MBA). Library patrons gratefully remember all the librarians who worked there over the years. These include: Antonina Vasilyevna Shchigoreva, Antonina Fyodorovna Matveyeva, Pavel Stepanovich Doronov, L. Morozova, Lidia Maksimovna Moskvina, Vera Petrovna Kuritsyna, Vera Sergeyevna Antipenko — a WWII veteran, Olga Vasilyevna Abramova, Galina Viktorovna Nefedova, Natalya Aleksandrovna Chuyeva, and many others.
Address
- Nizhny Novgorod Region, the settlement of Vorotynets, Svobody St., 2
Phone
- 8(831)64 20001
Official Website