Sokolov Viktor

The Activities of Library Associations in Ukraine in the 1920-s – Early 1930-s Years

Abstract: In his article the author explored the historical prerequisites, socio-political and cultural factors of the establishment and functioning of library associations in Ukraine, studied the content and essence of their activities, as well as the importance in the development of the library business in this period. The author showed that the authorized to solve some organizational and administrative issues, library associations were gradually deprived of their independent status, legal rights and material resources for the implementation of library management tasks, as a consequence of the regulation of their activities and control by the political authorities, whose requirements for unification forms, methods, work plans and organizational structures of library associations, as well as centralization of library management scrap inhibited the creative initiative and professional activity of library workers. The development of associations was also hampered by the inadequately defined functional orientation of their activities, which often caused them to duplicate certain functions of the bodies of political education and trade unions. The author analyzed that library associations developed and introduced into practice various progressive forms of organizational work, various means and methods for solving professional problems, and used a rich arsenal of democratic mechanisms for setting and solving many issues of library construction. The main areas of work of library associations were: the formation and development of professional skills among librarians; Improving the efficiency of urban libraries by organizing and coordinating their activities; Establishment of a system of methodological assistance to libraries of various types and types, in particular rural libraries; Assistance in the organization of research, cultural and educational work of libraries. However, in the late 1920 s the partybureaucratic apparatus of the Soviet government established strict control over all spheres of the political, social and professional life of the society, which forced the library associations to gradually give state institutions first administrative and coordinating functions, and then professional and methodical, until they stopped their activity in the early 1930 s years.

Keywords: 1920 years, Ukraine, librarianship, history of librarianship, professional NGOs, library association.

  Full-text PDF    https://doi.org/10.15407/np.47.054     Citation

• Sokolov Viktor (Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine, Kyiv)

Cite:
Sokolov Viktor (2017). The Activities of Library Associations in Ukraine in the 1920-s – Early 1930-s Years. Academic Papers of The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, (47) 54-69. (In Ukrainan). doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/np.47.054

References:

1. Vugman, I. (1925). Bibliotechnye obedineniia i assotciatciia bibliotek (po povodu stati t. Bazhanova) [Library associations and the association of libraries (concerning the article of Comrade Bazhanov)]. Krasnyi bibliotekar, 6, 57–59. [in Russian].
2. Dobler, F. (1927). Pokhod protiv bibobedinenii [Going against bibassociations]. Krasnyi bibliotekar, 5, 57–61.[in Russian].
3. Zvezdin, V., Poliakov, V. (1926). Izuchenie knigi v bibliotechnykh obedineniiakh [Studying a book in library associations]. Krasnyi bibliotekar, 2, 1–11 (Attachment). [in Russian].
4. Zvezdin, V. (1925). K metodike raboty bibliotechnykh obedinenii: itogi i perspektivy [To the methodology of library associations: results and prospects]. Krasnyi bibliotekar, 3, 42–48. [in Russian].
5. Kazakevich, A., Permskii, A. (1926). Rabota derevenskikh sektcii uezdnykh bibobedinenii [The work of village sections of district bibassociations]. Krasnyi bibliotekar, 4, 1–16 (Attachment). [in Russian].
6. Kohan, L. (1926). [Odeske bibliotechne obednannia] [Odessa Library Association]. Bibliolohichni visti, 3, 90–91 (Chronicle). [in Ukrainian].
7. Kogan, L. (1926). O bibliotechnykh obedineniiakh [About library associations]. Krasnyi bibliotekar, 7, 51–55. [in Russian].
8. Kunich, O. P. (2005). Metodichna robota KhDNB im. V. H. Korolenka: stanovlennia, tendentsii rozvytku [Methodical work of V. H. Korolenko CDNB: formation, trends of development]. Metodychna diialnist bibliotek: tradytsii, innovatsii, perspektyvy. Mat. rehion. nauk.-prakt. konf., prysviach. 100-richchiu viddilu bibliotekoznavstva, 02.11. 2004. Kharkiv, 3–38. [in Ukrainian].
9. Lukashenko, P. (1927). Narodna osvita na Kyivshchyni na 10 richnytsiu Zhovtnia [Folk education in Kyiv region for the 10th anniversary of October]. Biuleten Kyivskoi okruzhnoi inspektury narodnoi osvity, 6, 5–13 [in Ukrainian].
10. Maimistov, A. R. (1927). Pochemu my protiv bibliotechnykh obedinenii? [Why are we against library associations?]. Kultrabotnik, 6, 10–19. [in Russian].
11. O podgotovke i perepodgotovke bibliotechnykh rabotnikov: Instruktsiia (1925). [About training and retraining of library workers: Instruction]. Programmnye materialy o podgotovke i povyshenii kvalifikatsii likvidatorov negramotnosti, bibliotekarei i klubnykh rabotnikov, Moscow, 27–31. [in Russian].
12. Pashkova, V. S. (1997). Natsionalni bibliotechni asotsiatsii: vynyknennia ta evoliutsiia diialnosti [National Library Associations: The emergence and evolution of activities]. Kyiv, 184 p. [in Ukrainian].
13. Rabichev, N. (1927). Bolnye voprosy bibliotechnoi raboty profsoiuzov: Doklad na Vseukrainskom bibliotechnom soveshchanii [Sick issues of library work of trade unions: Report at the All-Ukrainian Library Meeting]. Kharkiv, 128 p. [in Russian].
14. Rezoliutsii ta postanovy Pershoho Vseukrainskoho zizdu bibliotechnykh robitnikiv, 1–6 chervnia 1926 r. (1927). [Resolutions and resolutions of the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Library Workers, June 1–6, 1926]. Kharkiv, 91 p. [in Ukrainian].
15. Rubanova, T. D. (1991). Bibliotechnye obedineniia 20-kh gg.: uroki istorii [Library associations of the 1920s: history lessons]. Sovetskoe bibliotekovedenie, 2, 59–63. [in Russian].
16. Rubanova, T. D. (1991). Professionalnye bibliotechnye obedineniia v SSSR: istoriia formirovaniia i sovremennoe sostoianie: avtoref. dis. ... kand. ped. Nauk [Professional library associations in the USSR: the history of formation and the current state] Extended abstract of candidate’s thesis. Moscow, 16 p. [in Russian].
17. Smushkova, M. (1924). K voprosu o bibliotechnykh obedineniiakh [On the issue of library associations]. Krasnyi bibliotekar, 2/3, 11–14. [in Russian].
18. Smushkova, M. (1926). Metodicheskie konferentsii o rabote bibliotechnykh obedinenii [Methodical conferences on the work of library associations]. Krasnyi bibliotekar, 9, 3–10. [in Russian].
19. Soloidenko, H. (2006). Istoriia stvorennia ta orhanizatsiia diialnosti bibliotechnykh obednan ta asotsiatsii v Ukraini [History of the creation and organization of library associations and associations in Ukraine]. Naukovi pratsi Natsionalnoi biblioteky Ukrainy imeni V. I. Vernadskoho: Biblioteky Natsionalnoi akademii nauk Ukrainy: istoriia i suchasnist. Kyiv, issue 15, 48–63. [in Ukrainian].
20. Stupak, V. L. (1995). Diialnist Kyivskoho bibliotechnoho obednannia u 20-kh rokakh XX st. [Activities of the Kyiv Library Association in the 20’s of the XX century]. Istoriia bibliotechnoi spravy v Ukraini: Zb. nauk. pr. Kyiv, issue 1, 24–29. [in Ukrainian].
21. Trach, Iu. (1998). Fakhovi tovarystva ta ikh rol u profesiinomu rozvytku bibliotekariv Ukrainy v 20-ti roky [Professional associations and their role in the professional development of librarians in Ukraine in the 1920s]. Visnyk Knyzhkovoi palaty, 12, 26–29. [in Ukrainian].
22. Ukrainska sektsiia pry Odeskomu bibobednanni (1925). [Ukrainian Section at the Odessa bibassociation]. Bibliolohichni visti, 1/2, 164 (Chronicle). [in Ukrainian].
23. Frideva, N. (1925). Kabinet bibliotekaria v Kieve [Cabinet of the librarian in Kiev]. Krasnyi bibliotekar, 12, 71–76. [in Russian].
24. Fridieva, N. (1926). Kyivske bibliotechne obednannia [Kyiv Library Association]. Bibliolohichni visti, 4, 89–91. [in Ukrainian].