Бібліотечна справа як складова культурно-просвітньої та національно-політичної діяльності Української Галицької армії на Правобережній Україні (липень-грудень 1919 р.).

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to find out, based on the analysis of sources and historiography, the place and role of library management in the cultural-educational and national-political activities of the Ukrainian Galician Army in Right-bank Ukraine in July - December 1919. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism and objectivity. The use of such methods as analysis, synthesis, as well as systematic, descriptive, statistical, and comparative methods made it possible to realize the set goal. The scientific novelty lies in an attempt to comprehensively study library management as a component of the cultural-educational and national-political activities of the Ukrainian Galician Army in Right-bank Ukraine in July - December 1919. Conclusions. During its stay in Right-bank Ukraine in July - December 1919, the UGA paid great attention to cultural-educational and national-political work among the Galician riflemen and the Podolians. One of the important tools of this process was library management. The main coordinating bodies of such activities were the "Department for Education under the UGA Stage Command" and the "Propaganda Bureau," reorganized in the fall of 1919 into the "Press Apartment." The Halychyna inhabitants took the use of the library quite seriously in cultural-educational and national-political activities. It was regulated by a number of instructional materials and covered both the rear and front areas. The existing difficulties, of an objective and subjective nature, prevented us from fulfilling what had been planned. But, despite this, it was possible to significantly improve the cultural-educational and national-political level of Galician riflemen and the population of Right-bank Ukraine, to raise the level of national consciousness, first of all, among the latter, as well as to lay the foundations for the awareness of the unity of Naddnistrianshchyna and Dnipro Ukraine.