Municipal libraries in Krivosheinsky district in Tomsk region: history and contemporary state
The first rural libraries appeared on the Tomsk area with the activity of the public figure, patron P. I. Makushin at the beginning of the XX century. In 1934, the first library of Krivosheino situated near the former Church of the Saviour. The first Krivosheinsky regional children's library was founded on July 1, 1951 which in 1999 was transformed to children's office of the Centralized library system. Thanks to the work, done by the staff of municipal libraries, who collected information about opening of rural libraries in Soviet period in the Krivosheinsky area. The first rural reading room appeared in the village of Ishtan in 1935, it was in one building with club. The reading room was open in the village Krasniy Yar in 1938. The reading room was open in Belostok in 1948. The library in Elizarovo started to work 1946. In 1954 was open the library in the village Malinovka,and in the same year was opened the Petrovsky rural library. The library from the village of Novo-Aleksandrovskaya was transferred to the village of Pudovka in 1960. The library in the village of Novoislambul was opened in 1961. The first books appeared in the village of Voznesenka as mobile library in 1961. Centralization became an important stage for rural libraries. All libraries of the Tomsk region created the centralized library systems (CLS) with uniform book fund, the help and bibliographic device and uniform staff. The purposes of working in CBS completely answered to ideological tasks and public inquiries in Soviet period. The service of library and information was directed on workers of agricultural industry, on assistance to labor education of the population. The main readers were cattle breeders, machine operators, experts of agricultural industry, lumberers, teachers, youth and pupils. The CBS in the Krivosheinsky area is kept at the moment, it includes in the network of 14 public libraries. Since 2000,there is an electronic catalog in the Central library. All Libraries carry out cooperation with regional department of education, department of social protection, job center of the population, with schools and so on. Nowadays the important kinds of work in libraries are: formation of information, legal, ecological culture of the population; esthetic education; studying of the native land and revival of national traditions and customs and social work. The libraries of the Krivosheinsky area were and remain keepers of cultural heritage, also, they are informative, educational and leisure centers for different social national groups.