БІБЛІОТЕКИ ХМЕЛЬНИЧЧИНИ У ПЕРЕБУДОВНІ 1980-ті РОКИ

Abstract

In the presented article, the development of library affairs in the Khmelnytskyi region in the 1980s was analyzed on the basis of specific material, and a number of features of their development were determined. The authors drew attention to a number of stagnant phenomena in social life in the first half of the 1980s, the peculiarities of Soviet propaganda, and provided examples of the work of regional libraries in the conditions of the unfolding of perestroika, glasnost and socio-political transformations in the second half of the 1980s - democratization, revitalization of national life, renewal of book funds at the expense of previously banned literature, local history and Ukrainian-language publications, formation of national consciousness of its readers, strengthening of centrifugal processes that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the declaration of Ukraine's independence. The purpose of this article is a thorough study of the history of library development in the Khmelnytskyi region at the end of the Soviet era in the 1980s, with the determination of the essential features of the development of libraries in the Khmelnytskyi region during the specified period with an analysis of their main components. In the process of working on the article, the authors used a number of methods of historical research, in particular: the method of periodization, historical-comparative and historical-systemic methods. Among the positive achievements of the development of the library system of the Khmelnytskyi region at that time, the development of the mechanism of interaction between trade union and branch libraries to meet the needs of readers was singled out. With the beginning of reconstruction and glasnost, books by previously banned authors were introduced to library collections, the regional and national component was strengthened, thanks to enlightenment, reader interest in oral folk art grew, libraries began to occupy their niche in the formation of the national consciousness of their readers.