Interdepartmental cooperation: ways of interaction
A LITTLE ABOUT THE LIBRARY
The mansion on Sovetsky Prospekt, 14 is well known to Vologda residents. On September 1, 1970, a regional children's library opened in this house, an architectural monument of the 19th century. For more than 35 years, the library has welcomed readers of all ages, trying to satisfy their diverse interests and tastes. Little ones come here with their parents to choose a book and enjoy an evening of reading aloud. Teenagers hurry in search necessary literature on a variety of topics. You can often meet entire delegations from schools and kindergartens - these are participants in events held in the library. Adults involved in teaching and educating the younger generation do not bypass us either.
A modern children's library is an open world focused on the living and changing needs of the child. Thanks to new technologies, the library’s information capabilities are increasing and interaction with various organizations and departments is being strengthened. New structures are being created in libraries, reader requests are specializing and expanding.
The Vologda Regional Children's Library (VODB) is characterized by two directions: social partnership and active project activities. Interaction of the library with government and public organizations allows you to equally successfully solve traditional issues of professional activity and actively work on the implementation of innovative projects.
In 2007, a new division was created in the library - department library innovation. Search, creativity, moving forward are the principles of his activity. We search and find non-traditional forms work, study, generalize and implement best practices into practice.
Library Innovation Department:
Studies and analyzes the experience of innovative activities of libraries in the country and region, creates programs for the introduction of innovations into the activities of the educational library;
Provides organizational and methodological support for the program and design activities of the library;
Organizes library-wide public events;
Cooperates with various institutions and organizations dealing with the problems of children and adolescents.
One of the department’s activities is building partnerships with government agencies, social services, educational institutions of the city and region, as well as with various institutions and organizations dealing with childhood problems.
Our partners have already become:
Commissioner for Children's Rights and the Service for Children's Rights of the Government of the Vologda Region.
Vologda branch of the Russian Children's Fund.
LLC "Business-Soft" is a regional representative of computer legal reference systems "ConsultantPlus".
Department of Education of the Vologda Region.
Vologda Institute for Educational Development.
Institutions of general and additional education (preschool institutions and city schools, city center of civic education, State Educational Institution “Center for Additional Education of Children”, Palace of Creativity for Children and Youth and its structural divisions).
Centers for social assistance and social rehabilitation (Territorial Center for Social Assistance to Family and Children, social rehabilitation center for minors “Phoenix”).
Medical and preventive institutions (Vologda Regional Center for Medical Prevention, Department of Medical Prevention of Polyclinic No. 1 in Vologda, Vologda Regional Center for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases, child and adolescent service of the Vologda Regional Narcological Dispensary).
Penitentiary institutions (Temporary Detention Center for Juvenile Offenders of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Vologda Region, Vologda Educational Colony of the Penitentiary Penitentiary of the Ministry of Justice of Russia for the Vologda Region).
LEGAL PROGRAMS
Finding yourself in difficult life situations, a child is often left alone with his problems and is forced to take care of his rights. Sometimes, unfortunately, choosing the wrong and not entirely legal path. In our region - one of the first - a position was introduced Commissioner for Children's Rights. And in September 2004, under the government of the Vologda region, it was created Child Rights Service.
Tasks of the Service:
Monitoring the observance of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of children living in the region;
Work to restore the violated rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of children.
It should be noted that not all regions of Russia have child rights services. The Child Rights Service of the Government of the Vologda Region works with the governor and his deputies, and therefore has administrative leverage to protect the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of children.
Children's Rights Commissioner Valentina Aleksandrovna Golovkina is a frequent visitor to the library. She helps the library with books and methodological materials on legal topics, takes part in events aimed at developing in children and adolescents respectful attitude to the law.
In 2004, the library began business cooperation with the regional representative of the ConsultantPlus company, Business-Soft LLC, within the framework of the non-profit project “Program of Information Support for Russian Libraries”, thanks to which the library has installed and weekly updated databases of the family of legal reference systems (LRS) “ ConsultantPlus". The company provides preferential access to its information resources, trains library staff to work with legal reference systems, and provides the library with the necessary educational and methodological literature on the systems of the ConsultantPlus family.
Our visitors can independently work with electronic databases (three computer places for users - in the department of documentary and information support for education). If it is difficult for them to navigate on their own, then they receive the necessary information with the help of a consultant (one computer place in the methodological department, one in the information room, one in the management department children's reading). We provide information not only to children, but also to parents, teachers, educators, students, and all interested parties.
Practice shows that guys use not only traditional printed publications: They access electronic sources easily and with pleasure.
Very large number requests account for thematic selection of official information. Requests are very diverse - from problems solved by human rights organizations to benefits provided to children with disabilities.
Library staff have developed and are conducting events for readers using the ConsultantPlus ATP. During these events, working with documents, students from city schools gain knowledge about the basics of the legal system Russian Federation, the state and economic structure of the country, international human rights legislation. All this information is useful for schoolchildren from a cognitive standpoint, as it contains many definitions and concepts relating to various aspects of the life of the state and society.
In September 2006, the library took part in I Regional competition “For the best use of legal reference systems “ConsultantPlus””, organized by the regional representative of ConsultantPlus, Business-Soft LLC. The competition was held in absentia, assessments were made according to the following criteria:
Presentation by participants of photo and video materials of the design of special workplaces;
Conducting events using the ConsultantPlus ATP, seminars on training readers to work with the ConsultantPlus ATP;
Knowledge of library specialists about the ATP “ConsultantPlus”;
Number of requests for legal information made using ConsultantPlus ATP.
26 libraries in the region took part in the competition. The regional children's library took second place in this competition.
Since 2007, our library, together with the Department of Education of the Vologda Region and Business-Soft LLC, has been conducting Regional legal competition for schoolchildren.
The purpose of the competition is to increase the level of legal culture of an individual.
Promoting legal education for students.
Promoting an understanding of the importance of law and legal knowledge in the life of society.
Development of children's independent thinking and their skills in working with information.
Formation of skills in using the ConsultantPlus ATP.
The regional legal competition is held annually in three stages:
District correspondence;
Intermediate – training winners regional stage working with ATP “ConsultantPlus” and performing practical tasks using the system (carried out on the basis of regional libraries and/or educational institutions);
Regional (final).
To participate in the first, correspondence stage of the competition, you must send written answers to two questions to the organizing committee: practical and theoretical.
In 2008, in order to attract the attention of high school students to events in the political life of our region and country, the theoretical question was formulated as follows: “Do you think participation in elections is a right or a duty? Justify your answer." A practical question required the ability to draw up a receipt legally correctly. The works of the competition participants showed the importance of legal knowledge in the life of modern society. 200 works from 17 districts of the region were sent to the organizing committee.
Based on the materials of the Regional Legal Competition, the library published a collection of creative works by students in grades 10–11 of schools in the Vologda region, “Elections through the eyes of future voters.” The solemn ceremony of summing up the results of the competition took place in May in the Legislative Assembly of the region.
We believe that the library, collaborating with the regional representative of the SPS “ConsultantPlus”, actively uses the information resources available to it.
COOPERATION WITH EDUCATION
A cooperation agreement was concluded between VODB and Vologda Institute for Educational Development. The agreement defines the following goals and objectives of joint activities:
Attracting the attention of the public and government agencies to the issues of supporting and developing reading for children and adolescents, parents, teachers, librarians;
Reviving the value of reading, increasing interest in books and literature, developing children's literary creativity;
Creation of a public information system on children's and family reading, selection and application of the most effective forms and methods of work, exchange of accumulated experience;
Participation in advanced training of school and children's librarians in the field of:
Modern technologies to support and promote children's reading,
Literary local history,
Aesthetic, patriotic, legal education, etc.;
Exchange of experience between librarians at the regional and all-Russian levels.
The library continues to collaborate with institutions of general and additional education . We provide methodological and organizational assistance to teachers in holding large city events of various types. Throughout the year, library staff conduct series of events on various library programs.
Since February 2008, VODB began to conduct for Vologda schools action "Regional Children's Library Day at School".
Objectives of the action:
Demonstrate the capabilities and information resources of the library;
Intensify cooperation and unite the efforts of schools and libraries in education, education and cultural development young citizens.
On this day, library staff, coming to the school, introduce teachers to new books on teaching methods and extracurricular activities, as well as educational materials for educational and educational activities. Literary games, library lessons, music classes, and periodical reviews are offered for students of all ages. The new form of work turned out to be interesting, relevant and in demand: new readers appeared in the library, and attendance increased. We are confident that holding such events in city schools will become a good tradition for VOSB.
CHILD WITH AND WITHOUT FAMILY
The children's library cooperates with social service institutions for families, women and children: Territorial Center for Social Assistance to Family and Children and Social Rehabilitation Center for Minors “Phoenix”.
One of the activities Territorial Center for Social Assistance to Family and Children is working with children on health, rehabilitation, preventive, correctional programs. For the rehabilitation day care group “Chance”, for teenagers who find themselves in difficult life situations, library specialists have developed a series of events on legal topics “In the Name of the Law”. Here are the main topics of conversation:
1. Misdemeanor. Offense. Crime.
2. Criminal liability of minors.
3. Stop at the criminal line!
In these classes, children get acquainted with their basic rights and responsibilities, find answers to relevant questions (What is law? What rights exist? Where are they written down?); demonstrate their knowledge in the field of children’s rights and freedoms; discuss situations related to violation of these rights. We try to help the child not to be left alone with their problems, together we look for answers to the most important questions, we try to teach them to distinguish good from evil. A serious and confidential conversation with a teenager about his rights and responsibilities within the library helps to form the right life guidelines.
Social rehabilitation center for minors "Phoenix" is another institution where children not only receive medical, psychological and pedagogical assistance: here they can also live and eat around the clock. His students are frequent visitors to the library. The guys take an active part in all the competitions that she holds. Working with the Phoenix social rehabilitation center, we made sure that there are no difficult children. There are children with “free”, unrealized energy, which is important to direct in the right direction. All events held for the children of this center contribute to the creation of a healthy moral and psychological climate, a friendly style of relationships - everything that helps in the formation of the right position in life.
The library also has experience in cooperation with special closed educational institutions for minors. This is, first of all, Temporary detention center for juvenile offenders (TsVSNP). There are children from 8 to 14 years old. It is at this age that character development and personality formation occur. And his future largely depends on how this period in a person’s life develops. Therefore, we see our task when working with this institution as creating conditions for the “entry into life” of children with behavioral disorders.
The library provides professional assistance to the Center for Library Science, using many library and information forms and methods inherent in it. The children find the puppet shows prepared by library staff especially fascinating. For example, “Lord of the Dust” - on home ecology, held for World Health Day, and “Book - The Eighth Wonder of the World” - for Children’s Book Week. Juvenile delinquents are very worried about the puppet characters and animatedly answer the quiz questions. At first, such a reaction to the performances was unexpected for us. I am very pleased that we were not mistaken in choosing this form of work. Children in this category are deprived of the warmth and attention of adults, so at such events they are grateful listeners and interlocutors.
HEALTH AND AROUND IT
For many years, VODB has been working together with medical and preventive institutions of the region and city in the field of promoting a healthy lifestyle. Acting in this direction, we managed to establish contact with the child and adolescent service of the Vologda Regional Narcological Dispensary and continue cooperation with Regional Center for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases And Regional Center for Medical Prevention. Specialists from the prevention departments of these institutions have prepared thematic booklets that we use in our work. They contain information on HIV/AIDS, drug addiction, hepatitis, and STIs 1 intended for adolescents, their parents and teachers.
Every year on June 1, International Children's Day, the library holds campaign for International Children's Day And asphalt drawing competition.
In recent years, on this day, in the children's park opposite our library, employees of the Regional Center for Medical Prevention for adults and children have opened a tent equipped with medical equipment, where everyone can measure their height, weight, blood pressure and receive individual advice. Children's librarians organize and conduct outdoor games, competitions, quizzes for the participants of the campaign, and check the children's knowledge of the rules of a healthy lifestyle and human hygiene. Everyone who attended the event is offered booklets and leaflets, prepared by the library together with doctors, promoting healthy lifestyle.
Every year, together with the Regional Center for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and the Department of Medical Prevention of Polyclinic No. 1 in Vologda on the eve of International Day to combat drug addiction and the spread of drugs, a competition of children's posters promoting a healthy lifestyle, “I choose life!” is held. Children attending summer city and school camps, social and rehabilitation institutions take part in the competition.
Since 2006, the library began collaborating with child and adolescent service of the Vologda Regional Narcological Dispensary. Joint events are held in the library in a very interesting and exciting way - trainings on developing healthy lifestyle skills.
“My Health” is the name of a group lesson for students from city schools. The main goal of the event is the prevention of drug addiction, substance abuse, and smoking. Teenagers are asked to come up with advertisements for a healthy lifestyle. The children themselves prepare advertising posters for “Healthy Eating”, “Healthy Family”, “Healthy Vacation”, “Health and Sports”. After completing the task, teenagers present their creative projects. The event ends with an advertising campaign in favor of health and an active, fulfilling life. The training also helps to develop the ability to defend one’s position in life and teaches one to overcome difficulties.
As part of the regional campaign “Quit Smoking and Win!” and the library program “Lifestyle – Health!” in February 2008, VODB and the Vologda Regional Center for Medical Prevention announced a regional competition of children's creative works “The new generation chooses a healthy lifestyle!”.
When organizing this competition, we set ourselves the following tasks:
Popularization of a healthy lifestyle;
Prevention of substance use;
Development creativity in children and adolescents.
The competition was held in two categories:
“My family is for a healthy lifestyle” – drawing and poster competition.
“Youth against tobacco” – a slogan competition (slogan is a short slogan expressing a judgment; a concise, clear and easily understood formulation of an advertising idea).
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More than 200 works were submitted to the competition in the “My family for a healthy lifestyle” category. These are drawings and posters made in the most different techniques(pencil, gouache, watercolor, pastel).
I was pleased that children of all ages (from first-graders to graduates) from 13 districts of the region and the city of Vologda took part in the competition. It was not easy to determine the winner: all the children tried very hard and strived to show the importance and necessity of observing the laws of a healthy lifestyle.
After reviewing and discussing the submitted works, the competition commission, which included representatives of the Vologda Regional Center for Medical Prevention and the Vologda Regional Center for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases, determined the winners in three age categories.
Since 2008, as part of the library program “Lifestyle – Health!” library specialists together with medical psychologists conduct on-site seminars “Health as a personal resource” for managers and employees of children's libraries in the region, workers of social and medical services. Seminar participants get acquainted with a review of the literature on the topic “Healthy lifestyle”, discuss the impact of nutrition and physical activity on human health, and become familiar with risk factors for the development of non-communicable diseases. (This work is described in more detail in the material “The Librarian and Children’s Health,” published in the same issue. – Note edit.)
We are confident that such preventive work should be carried out only in close cooperation with specialists, strictly observing the principle “Do no harm!” Only in this way, thinking about serious and non-childish problems, can children learn to appreciate and love life.
In addition to the partners already named in this article, the library’s friends include a number of bookselling organizations that act as sponsors of children’s creative competitions.
Thus, the library, working in collaboration with various organizations and departments, increases its educational and information capabilities.
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Social partnership in the activities of municipal libraries in the region for recent years has become one of the important areas. It united everyone who cares about books, who cares about the fate of libraries, and those who sincerely want to help the library in its daily affairs and development. This cooperation helps improve library services, make library events brighter and better quality, satisfies the need of users to obtain the necessary information andservices. Almost no event in the library can be done with the help of the librarians themselves; reliable partners, volunteer assistants, sponsors and patrons of the arts, and readers are always nearby. Among like-minded libraries today one can name local authorities, representatives of organizations, institutions, the business community, funds mass media, and, of course, readers.
An example of successful cooperation can be seen in many library events and promotions held in 2012.
One example of positive cooperation between the Central Bank of Pskov in 2012 was the holding of an Internet round table “Formation of statehood in the North-West of Rus'” (Pskov - Veliky Novgorod - Izborsk). Partners of the Historical and Local Lore Library named after. I.I. Vasileva, Pskov, performed by Pskov State University, Pskov Museum-Reserve, Novgorod Museum-Reserve.
The main social partner of libraries in the municipalities of the region is local authorities, who provide support in the implementation of socially significant library projects and events. Local governments are no less interested in the development of public libraries, since they are responsible for the quality of life of the local community, legal education and enlightenment of citizens, teaching them the basics of organizing life in new conditions, introducing them to culture and information.
Local governments contribute to the successful operation of libraries, take measures for their technical modernization, participate in their work, and support both innovative endeavors and everyday work. Yes, the administration rural settlements Pustoshkinsky district responded to requests from the director of the district library and provided financial assistance to libraries in conducting a subscription campaign for 2012-2013. The administration of the Alol volost financially supports the activities of rural library institutions. The Pustoshkinsky bakery provides financial support to the library, and the library has opened a book moving service at the enterprise.
Libraries, in turn, provide information support to authorities state power and local government. Many rural libraries host receptions for deputies, meetings of heads of district administrations and other events. For example, at the Plyusskaya Central District Hospital there are: “Self-Government Corner at the Library”, “Advisory Point for the District Population on HOA Issues”, “Advisory Point for the District Population on Civil Defense Issues”. Permanent exhibitions “Housing and communal services: questions and answers”, “Local government: review of official documents” have been created, which are updated with legal copies of documents prepared by local governments. In May 2012, on the basis of the educational and advisory center of the library, a training seminar “Fire safety training” was held for heads of organizations and cultural institutions together with the civil defense and emergency department. A lot of joint work was carried out by the libraries for Village Day to prepare ceremonial events dedicated to the Liberation Day of Plyussa, the 85th anniversary of the formation of the Plyussky district.
At the round table “Novorzhevskaya culture: history and modernity” in the central district library, administration workers and library specialists jointly discussed issues of the state of culture in the district. The overall performance of the institutions was assessed by the head of the department for culture, youth policy and sports of the District Administration E.E. Stepanova. Director of the Municipal Institution "Novorzhevskaya Central District Hospital" L.E. Yakovleva introduced the history of the development of librarianship. Its member M.I. spoke about the creative path of the Novorzhevskie Skobari ensemble. Golubkov. Librarians from the Makarov and Zhadritsky rural branches shared their experience of successful cooperation with clubs. A library worker from the Vekhnyansky rural branch spoke about the original exhibitions of folk craftsmen in the library. Mutual social partnership contributes to the organization of cultural leisure for the population, it is necessary to strengthen ties - this was the conclusion of the round table participants.
An example of positive cooperation in the Novorzhevsky district is the festive program for the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity, prepared jointly with the participation of the Zhadritsy rural branch - the library, the rural club, the administration of the rural settlement "Zhadritsy", and the Center for Social Services for the District Population. The holiday turned out to be solemn and kind, thanks to joint efforts.
In rural areas, librarians actively work with local governments, help hold citizens’ gatherings, notify the population about fire safety measures, congratulate veterans on holidays at home, help them collect various certificates, and participate in organizing and holding volost days. Representatives of local government bodies are frequent guests at events held by cultural institutions, incl. and libraries, and librarians are the most reliable assistants for them
In the Nevelsky district, in 2012, partnerships were established with the leaders of a family eco-camp (Moscow), which is located in a picturesque location in the village of Fenyovo on the territory of the Nevelsky district. Their concept is active and educational recreation. An example of cooperation is the holding of master classes and training seminars on the basis of rural libraries of the Nevelsk Central District Hospital. In 2012, such an event was held on the basis of Trekhalevskaya rural library. Business partnerships and interactions better reveal the capabilities of libraries and help convey information to users in a more vibrant, spectacular form.
Libraries and local administrations implement joint targeted programs and local history publishing projects. Employees of the Velikoluksky District Central District Hospital, together with the district Administration, took an active part in preparing for the publication of the book “Historical Milestones of the Velikoluksky Land” (for the 85th anniversary of the Velikoluksky District). Specialists from the Central District Library prepared and held a presentation of the book, and the library received 40 copies as a gift from the administration. books. IN Strugokrasnensky district
The Strugo-Krasnensky District Administration has been sponsoring the publication of the literary and local history almanac “Our Land” for many years; The administration of the urban settlement of Strugi Krasnye and the administration of the rural settlement of Maryinskaya Volost also provided financial support for the publication of the book “We have something to remember, someone to be proud of.”
Many municipal libraries have established strong partnerships with local branches of creative unions, political parties and public organizations. In 2012, the partnership relations of the Central City Library of the Central Library of Pskov with the Pskov branch of the all-Russian public organization - the Knowledge Society, the Pskov regional branches of creative unions: the Union of Local History of Russia, Union of Writers of Russia, Union of Composers of Russia. We developed connections with Pskov community in Moscow. Also among the partners: the public movement “PskovART”, the public organization “Zoozashchita”, the Union of Photographers and Videographers of the Pskov Region, Pskov Anime Club and others. In 2012, the Central Library of Pskov carried out joint creative projects with young photographers of the “Faces of Pskov” portal.
Permanent social partners of Velikiye Luki libraries are committees and departments of the City Administration, libraries of other departments, almost all cultural institutions: Velikiye Luki Drama Theater, Children's music schools and an art school, a House of Culture, a local history museum and a local history society, a branch of the United Russia party, a public council on issues of historical and cultural heritage, a veterans council, a society for the disabled, the media and others. All city events and holidays are held in collaboration with social partners. Thus, schools, cultural institutions, public organizations, etc. took part in the program “Dear Corner” on City Day with libraries.
INGdov district With All institutions, public and professional organizations of the city and region have established good partnerships. Last year new partners appeared: A boarding house for the elderly and disabled. Cooperation plans include holding joint events, providing library information resources, providing professional information to boarding school staff, and for the residents of the boarding house, the librarians presented a set of books at the first meeting. Cooperation between libraries and regional branches of the young public organization “Women’s Union of Russia” continues. Thus, Gdov libraries received support in the “Grow up with books, baby!” campaign; they were allocated funds to purchase books for newborn babies and their parents. We also supported the regional project of literary and youth readings “Young People Read the Classics.” The boys participating in the readings were given flash cards, and the girls were given books. Plans for joint work include creating a “helpline”, holding a “Wave of Memory” campaign about the role of Gdov women during the war, legal education, organizing legal consultations and other events.
In the Dnovsky district, on the initiative of the regional branch of the A Just Russia party, an all-Russian social movement The “Social Democratic Youth Union of Russia” in the Pskov region, cultural institutions and the central regional library held an action to collect books for the regional libraries of the Dnovsky, Dedovichi and Porkhovsky districts. During election periods, libraries cooperate with territorial election commissions and help prepare information for voters.
Libraries of the region to solve common tasks try to build mutually beneficial relationships with organizations, institutions and individuals.
Libraries MAUK "Centralized library system» The city of Pskov attracts professional specialists to cooperate in carrying out activities under the program “Comprehensive measures to combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking in the territory of the municipal formation “City of Pskov” for 2011-2014”: employees of the Office of the Federal Service for Drug Control Pskov region, prosecutor's office, drug treatment clinic. Military personnel of the 76th division and special forces, and students of the Patriot Extracurricular Activities Center traditionally take an active part in holding patriotic events. In 2012, cooperation between Pskov libraries and the Pskov City Youth Center continued. Among the partners are the Educational Center for Social Adaptation, Legal Department LLC, the State Archive of the Pskov Region, the Archaeological Center, and the Pskov Museum-Reserve.
In Velikiye Luki, the permanent good partners of the library are: schools and lyceums, colleges, technical schools, and universities. Cooperation with the “Center for Social Services of Velikiye Luki” has continued for more than 16 years. More than 30 events were held during the year. Students have the opportunity to touch the work of many poets, writers, and musicians. Partnerships with creative teams of the Children's art school and the Children's Art School allow us to regularly organize exhibitions of works by art school students, holidays, and theme evenings in the library. The sponsor of library branch No. 2 is the deputy of the Velikiye Luki City Duma, general director of Status Press LLC, A.Yu. Kornev, thanks to whom the library receives more than 30 titles of periodicals, which greatly helps in library work. Cooperation between the library and the parish of the Church of the Ascension of Christ in Velikiye Luki, Pskov diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, promotes familiarization with the knowledge of Russian history, the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and the formation of a spiritually rich personality. Sunday school is held in the library reading room.
The libraries of the Bezhanitsky district work together with shelters: in Kudevery - with an orphanage, in Chikhachevo - with a boarding house for the elderly and disabled. Good partnerships have developed with the regional Council of War and Labor Veterans and with the leaders of local primary veteran organizations. In 2012 ra the list of social partners has expanded Kunyinsky Central District Hospital: Cooperation has been established with the Kunyin branch of the Union of Pensioners of Russia and the socio-political organization “Children of War”. Partnerships and business cooperation with the Employment Center are successfully developing. During the summer holidays, eleven temporary jobs were created in the district library to employ minor citizens, incl. in the Zizhitsa and Uschitsa rural libraries, teenagers provided significant assistance to the libraries in their work.
Libraries of the Loknyanskaya Central District Hospital in 2012, we collaborated most closely with the Veterans Council. Clubs for older people were active, library gatherings, holidays, and evenings were held. Many interesting events were held. For example, the Loknyanskaya Central District Hospital took part in the festival of Kushnarenko Street and designed posters for the “Veteran Compound 2012”. As part of cooperation with the Pension Fund Administration in the Loknyansky district, a literature distribution point was organized for employees of this organization, and its specialists throughout the year provided assistance in holding events for veterans and in the work of the “Communication” club. Together with the Society of the Blind, a seminar was organized and held on the topic: “The place and role of the library in the life of people with disabilities.” Enormous methodological assistance was provided to the Loknyansk Central District Hospital by the Pskov Regional Special Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired, which provided the script for the evening and methodological recommendations for working with this group of library users.
A long-time and reliable partner of all libraries in the Palkinsky district, the Council of War and Labor Veterans and its chairman B.T. Ilyin, together with whom meetings with Pskov writers are held in the region’s libraries, presentations of B.T. Ilyin’s books are held, and events on patriotic education are organized. Administrations of rural settlements act as partners of libraries in holding events dedicated to the Day of the Elderly, Victory Day, and during the celebration of Village Days.
Cooperation with the State Department of Social Services for the Population of the Palkinsky District allowed the district library to establish close contact with the “Weekend” club, which operates under this organization. Cooperation with the club is mutually beneficial: the district library has the opportunity to expand the circle of its users, attract 23 new readers to reading, and has the opportunity to hold public events of various types.Cooperation between the children's library and the Social Service Center has been established in the region, which has expanded the range of people serveddisabled children.
In the Porkhovsky district with the participation of employees The Federal Migration Service of Russia in the Pskov region held an event “Culture of the Russian Language”, promoting the adaptation of foreign citizens in Russia. Together with the Pension Fund, a meeting was organized for members of the Evening Meetings club with the head of the department for the assignment and payment of pensions and a “Legal educational program” was held. Representatives of the Pskov regional center “Prizma”, the Union of Pensioners of Russia, and the Pskov Drug Control Department became frequent guests at the Opochetsky District Library as consultants during Specialist Days. Administration of the urban settlement "Opochka", local branch of the party " United Russia" and the library became the organizers of a competition for the best personal plot for the Day of the Elderly.
The circle of friends and partners of the Pushkinogorsk Central District Library includes more than 17 organizations and institutions of the village. The revival of the value of reading, increasing interest in books and literature, and the development of literary creativity of children and youth are helped by: the Union of Writers of Russia and the Union of Artists of Russia, many good interesting things connect the district libraries with the Children's Art School named after S. S. Geichenko, the secondary school named after A. WITH. Pushkin, sanatorium boarding school, Zaretskaya secondary school. Correspondence excursions to Holy places, hours of Orthodox conversation, dialogues - these are the events that took place within the walls of the library with representatives of the Orthodox Kazan Church and the Svyatogorsk Monastery.
The libraries of the Pechora Central Library have developed strong partnerships with the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery; with the support of the monastery, libraries are stocked with Orthodox literature. There is a Theological School in the Central District Hospital, headed by Abbot Chrysanthus. Meetings of two sections within the framework of the Corniliev Readings are held at the library. Hegumen Mark oversees the work of the Veteran club. Musical groups of the monastery (children's and youth choir, ensemble "Harmony"), members of the theater studio of the Orthodox children's movement "Vestniki" repeatedly performed in the library.
A stable partnership has been established between libraries and educational and cultural institutions, higher education institutions, including Pskov State University, the Russian International Academy of Tourism, the State University of Service and Economics, etc. The result of close relationships has been an increase in the number of participants in city Olympiads, conferences, and readings. In the practice of joint work: holding professional events, seminars, Information Days, organizing visiting reading rooms.
For 10 years, Velikolukskaya Central District Hospital named after. I.A. Vasiliev is a platform for conducting seminars, methodological associations and increasing the level of professional knowledge of teachers. As part of the program “New Technologies - New Ways of Interaction,” three seminars were held for school librarians. Rural libraries of the Velikoluksky district (Borkovskaya, Porechenskaya, Kupuyskaya libraries) are expanding the content of their activities, combining the tasks of an information institution with the functions of a museum, exhibition hall. Thus, the Porechensk rural model library is an exhibition hall for masters of applied arts. Velikolukskaya Central District Hospital together with the Information and Cultural Center, the Borkovsky Museum named after the writer I.A. Vasilyeva annually holds the Festival of Frontline Poetry “And the Muses Are Not Silent.”
Many library events are held by the Usvyatsky District Culture Center in collaboration with the youth work department. Teachers at the Children's Art Center work closely with the children's department in holding children's parties and matinees. From year to year, the connection with the schools in the area is growing stronger.
Among the permanent partners of the libraries of the Novosokolnichesky district are more than 25 institutions, enterprises and public organizations. They consider the Pskov Regional Universal Scientific Library as the main partner in their work. The POUNB website has become a daily assistant in the daily work of the district libraries. Thanks to the support of regional library methodologists, it is now possible to post information about the life of area libraries on the library portal and keep abreast of the affairs of your colleagues and neighbors. The Zonal Quality School also helps in this work.
In 2012, the partnership between the Novosokolnicheskaya Central District Hospital and the Department of Agriculture became closer and more mutually beneficial. In addition to providing information and participating in the work of the flower growers’ club, training was organized for agricultural specialists in the region by teachers from the All-Russian State Agricultural Academy. Good partnerships have developed with the regional branch of the Pension Fund. At the request of the management, transportation was opened for specialists, assistance was provided in organizing mass events and exhibitions of folk art, provision of transport.
Libraries of the Pskov region maintain contact with regional and local media and publishing houses, which help comprehensively cover the events of library life in the region.
Speaking about the popularization of books and reading, library specialists in the region also note this nuance of cooperation with regional media: it is necessary to start talking not only about the status of reading, but also about the status of reading good books that develop a person’s spiritual world, and the media can help with this.
Information support for libraries in the region is provided by Internet information agencies: Pskov Information Agency, Pskov News Feed, Business Information Center, Pskovlive.ru, etc. “Library portal of the Pskov region” ( portal. pskovlib. ru) provides an opportunity for municipal libraries to talk about their activities in the virtual space. In legal education, information partners in the work of municipal libraries are “Spetsvyaz FSO of Russia”, “Garant”, “Consultant Plus”, which regularly provide free of charge a replenished reference package legal information.
There are many such examples of joint fruitful cooperation. And libraries are grateful to everyone who helps them - both with kind words and deeds.
A new project has been developed at the Pskov Regional Universal Scientific Library - the creation Alternative club of socially responsible Pskov residents “Ideal partnership”
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The new project was prepared by employees of the sociocultural development department and is aimed at developing cooperation between the business community, volunteers and library partners. For the first time, such events as annual event “Day of Remembering Favorite Books” , Non-conference “Overcoming. I want to live!” ,
mind games tournament within festival of intellectual literature "2012: Literature without fiction". The regional library invites everyone to join the project at club website(http://klubpskov.blogspot.ru/). The “Ideal Partnership” is based on the theory that sooner or later humanity will come to the point where it will build its life not only around material benefits, but also social benefits. The club members are our contemporaries who are already working on issues of social interaction and social investment. You can get acquainted with the members of the club or join it on a specially created virtual platform - a blog "Perfect partnership"(http://klubpskov.blogspot.ru). Among their partners, sponsors, patrons of the arts, libraries in the region will always be happy to see companies from different areas of business, volunteers, creative and caring Pskov residents.
Currently, the library community of the Pskov region aims to further develop partnerships between libraries and various institutions and organizations, public associations for the implementation of socially significant events, library programs and innovative projects.
Prepared by: Levchenko Alla Leonidovna, head of the sector of the department for coordinating the activities of libraries of the region of the Pskov OUNL.
Interaction between libraries and local governments
Successful implementation public policy on legal education of citizens is impossible without close and mutually beneficial cooperation between local governments and public libraries.
In accordance with Art. 24 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, creating conditions for providing citizens with municipal information is one of the tasks of local governments. Federal Law No. 8-FZ dated 09.02. 2009 “On ensuring access to information about the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies” defines municipal libraries as centers that provide access to information about the activities of state bodies and local self-government bodies.
Acting as municipal information centers, libraries have the opportunity to actively participate in the activities of local governments by providing the information they need. At the same time, library services can be offered both to structural units of municipalities and to individual employees.
To identify ways and prospects for interaction between the library and various departments and specific employees of local government bodies, it is advisable to conduct a survey of them. It will allow you to identify not only certain requests of respondents, but will also provide an opportunity to offer them your services as an information service.
It should be taken into account that satisfying not only business, professional, information needs, but also personal requests (along with other library users) is an important principle for building relationships with representatives of government agencies.
In this regard, it is recommended to find out the range of both professional and personal interests of the respondent, determine what information and from what sources should be accumulated for him, and also establish what useful information for the library he has, on what issues he should be consulted , what events can be involved in. (Sample questionnaire for studying the information needs of municipal employees - Appendix No. 2)
Based on the results of the analysis of the data obtained, card files of requests from municipal service employees can be generated and their individual services can be organized. The study will allow us to establish the most optimal forms of information services for respondents (individual information, consultations, analytical reviews, book exhibitions etc.).
The survey of local government employees can take the form of either a questionnaire or an interview. As a rule, questionnaires are used when the task is to obtain information from a sufficiently large number respondents.
During the interview, special forms are used, consisting of the same (or approximately the same) questions that are in the questionnaire, but the interviewer himself enters the respondent’s answers into the form.
Studying the information needs of employees municipal authorities In addition to the survey, it also involves the implementation of an observation method. It can be used when analyzing the work of readers with the reference and bibliographic apparatus of the library (catalogues, card indexes), as well as during meetings of local government bodies, meetings of local government representatives with the population. The observation method can be used when holding exhibitions, opening days, anniversaries and other events to which representatives of local authorities are invited.
In addition to surveys and observations, you can resort to analysis of documents provided to the library: plans, reports, statistical materials, certificates, as well as letters from residents of the local community. This makes it possible to clarify the areas of activity of local government specialists and, to some extent, predict their requests.
Sufficiently accurate data on the information needs of specific individuals are contained in documents located in the library: reader forms, records of refusals, data on the results of individual information.
Based on the results of the study, in order to organize individual and collective information for municipal employees, it is recommended to create file cabinets of requests, thematic folders, information lists of literature about laws, regulations, decisions, regulations of federal and regional authorities, press folders for publications in local periodicals.
Informing local government employees can be done by telephone, fax, mail, e-mail, or courier. In this case, the wishes expressed during the survey should be taken into account.
Acting as consumers information services, municipal employees, at the same time, are themselves a source of information about the activities of local authorities. They can provide the library with materials about their work (plans, reports, documents about meetings of committees and commissions) to ensure their storage and access to members of the local community.
Information exchange of materials can be carried out both in paper and electronic form.
Thus, published and unpublished documents of local government bodies, along with reports from local and regional media about the life of a municipality, are one of the sources for the formation of a library collection on local government issues.
Constantly updated electronic information can also be obtained from the websites of municipal authorities (administration, government, departments of the Federal Migration Service, Federal Tax Service, Internal Affairs Directorate, Traffic Police, Arbitration Court, Prosecutor's Office, cultural departments), from the websites of public organizations and Internet portals of legal information.
The following magazines can serve as printed sources of municipal information:
– "Head of local administration". The publication publishes practical materials on implementation Federal Law No. 131-FZ dated October 6, 2003. “On the general principles of organizing local self-government in the Russian Federation.” Problems are discussed on its pages financial security housing and communal services reforms, activities of educational, medical, club institutions, issues of attracting extra-budgetary funds for road maintenance and landscaping. Attention is also paid to the legal aspects of managing municipal property and land resources, and legal support of municipal orders.
– "State power and local self-government." The main topics of the publication are issues of state building, the relationship between regional and federal legislation, problems of organizing local self-government, information about parliamentary hearings, conferences, and round table meetings.
– "Local law". On the pages of the magazine, bills related to local government issues are published and discussed, comments are given and practical recommendations on the application of current legislation, samples of local government documents are published.
– “Local self-government: organization, economics and accounting.” The magazine is devoted to issues of organization and main directions of activity of territorial public self-government, the procedure for holding municipal elections, the formation, approval and execution of the local budget, the organization of accounting, problems of calculation and collection of taxes.
– "Municipal authority". This illustrated scientific, methodological and journalistic publication contains legislative news, discusses the problems of legal construction in the field of local self-government, issues of implementing municipal programs of socio-economic development and the functioning of a modern municipality.
– "Municipal service". The magazine covers the legal regulation of the activities of local government officials, methodological and legal support for holding referendums, elections, voting, discusses issues of hiring, dismissal, certification of municipal employees, publishes materials of conferences, seminars, meetings on issues municipal service. You can view individual articles of the journal in open access on the website http://emsu.ru/ms/ ;
– "Municipal Economics". The publication is devoted to the problems of ensuring the socio-economic development of municipalities, tax policy and the budget process, the problems of effective use of municipal lands and property, issues of theory and practice of municipal management, features of the investment climate, housing and industrial construction in municipalities. The magazine is accompanied by a brochure “Arbitration Disputes” with a thematic selection of new arbitration practice with the participation of local governments, municipal enterprises and institutions.
–"Municipal Law". The publication prints full texts decisions of the Constitutional, Supreme and Supreme Arbitration Courts of the Russian Federation, as well as other courts on issues of the activities of local government bodies, publishes documents and articles on the history of Russian municipal law, annotated lists of new regulatory legal acts of federal, regional and municipal levels. Each issue of the magazine is accompanied by a brochure “Judicial Precedent” with a thematic selection of new judicial practice with the participation of local governments, municipal enterprises and institutions.
– "Practice of municipal management". The magazine publishes model regulations on the administrative and economic activities of municipalities, talks about the progress of municipal reform using the example of specific urban and rural settlements, covers financial and interbudgetary relations, issues of land use and delimitation of municipal property.
Therefore, libraries should use a variety of acquisition sources on local government issues that meet the information needs of both local government leaders and ordinary members of the local community.
Informing the population about
activities of local government bodies.
Forms of holding events
Of great importance for the population is the openness of information that is of public interest and allows, according to Federal Law No. 131-FZ of October 6, 2003. “On the general principles of organizing local self-government in the Russian Federation”, take part in resolving issues local significance. In this regard, it is recommended to bring the following information to the attention of library users:
– the charter of the municipality, regulatory legal acts of the representative body of local government, the head of the municipality, other bodies and officials of local government;
– draft normative legal acts of local government bodies and officials, including those submitted by way of people’s law-making initiative, to provide citizens and their organizations with the opportunity to discuss projects and make proposals on them;
– information on the formation of local government bodies (executive and administrative, control, advisory, territorial, etc.), on the filling of municipal positions in the municipal service;
– on the conduct and results of elections (who was elected, the percentage of those who took part in voting, the percentage of votes cast for candidates (lists of candidates), violations identified, data on elected candidates, etc.);
– programs of the head of the municipality, elected deputies, parties and public associations that received mandates in local government bodies;
– annual information on the state of development of the municipality, projected results and tasks facing local governments;
– orders from voters received during the election campaign;
– reports of elected officials, including on the implementation of their programs and orders of voters;
– work plans of local government bodies, including plans for rule-making work;
– main tasks, functions, rights and responsibilities of local government bodies and elected officials, as well as contact information for citizens (telephone numbers, addresses, place, hours and days of reception of citizens);
– comprehensive programs of socio-economic development (in terms of goals, objectives, implementers, expected results), forecast plans and implementation results;
– on the place and time of meetings of local self-government bodies, the proposed agenda, work regulations, the procedure for exercising the rights of citizens to participate in the implementation of local self-government;
– general plan of the city, development plans, zoning of the territory, information on the placement of new facilities on the territory of the municipality;
– public works programs, municipal employment programs;
– about municipal vacancies, about holding competitions for filling municipal positions;
– information on the placement of municipal orders;
– local budget, including a breakdown of the budget in accordance with the items of the budget classification;
– reports on budget execution;
– on the privatization of municipal property, including the planned one;
– on the creation (reorganization, liquidation) of municipal enterprises and institutions, on the participation of the municipality in business societies and non-profit organizations;
– resolutions, announcements of tenders, competitive selections
participants of various organizations in ongoing tenders;
– about taxes and fees;
– about the general situation and current events in the territory of the local education;
– about emergency situations;
– municipal environmental programs.
For the most convenient and efficient search for this information in a systematic catalog, it is advisable to highlight the headings “Local self-government”, “Local self-government: problems and prospects”. The local history card index of articles may also contain the headings “Local self-government”, “Elections to local government bodies”, “Decisions and resolutions of local authorities”, etc.
In accordance with reader requests and the wishes of municipal employees, it is recommended to formulate the materials available in the library on local government issues into problem-thematic dossiers, press folders “District programs”, “District budget”, “Municipal employees. Rights and responsibilities."
The greatest efficiency of information services for library users can be achieved by combining traditional and innovative forms of work, active implementation and use of digital technologies.
A promising direction of modern library activity is the formation of a specialized reference and search complex: the creation and maintenance of an electronic catalog, the organization and filling of electronic databases reflecting regulatory legal acts adopted by local authorities, factual information and media publications on local government issues.
The innovative potential available in libraries can be realized by posting on the library website a variety of information covering the activities of local governments and the community. This can be historical information and statistical data about the locality, information about the structure and powers of the local administration, the most important legal acts adopted by local governments, information about people's representatives, data on the distribution of budget funds for social needs. In addition, a library website can become a platform for the promotion and implementation of state, regional and municipal targeted programs and projects. Regular and information-rich updating of the library website will help attract a wider readership, and especially young people, as well as increase the status of the library and strengthen its influence in the local community.
The successful informing of the population about the work of local authorities will be facilitated by a constantly operating and regularly updated information stand (bulletin board) “Local self-government: yesterday, today, tomorrow”, “Russia: local power”, “In the corridors of power”. The headings “Attention! Important document!”, “Laws: federal, regional, local”, “Local government bodies: addresses, telephone numbers, reception hours”, “Information about meetings of local government leaders with the population”, “Information about decisions made and the progress of their implementation " In these specialized sections, it is recommended to acquaint residents with current legislative and regulatory acts at the federal, regional and local levels, post schedules for reception of citizens by deputies and officials, and post press digests on local government issues.
For greater clarity and attracting the attention of users, the stand can be supplemented with photographic material. These could be photographs of events with the participation of local government representatives (for example, the opening of a school, hospital, kindergarten, gasification of a facility, etc.).
Informing the population about the activities of local governments can be considered most effective if a channel of mutual communication is established between citizens and local authorities. To ensure its operation, it is advisable for municipal libraries to organize the collection of suggestions and comments from residents on the information provided and their prompt transfer to local governments.
For this purpose, information stands and notice boards can be equipped with pockets (bins, boxes, etc.) for written requests from citizens. This kind of “mailbox” can be called “Questions to the authorities”, “Conversation with the authorities”, etc.
It is recommended to use documents received from local governments when the library conducts various public events. For example, an exhibition shelf “Your Prosperity is in Your Hands” can be dedicated to a fair of local commodity producers and a review of the documents available on it can be carried out. The provisions on markets and the rules of trading on them, as well as provisions on local taxes, fees and other payments and benefits thereon.
special information value represent systematic, permanent universities of knowledge, lecture halls, discussion clubs, holding events on the topics “Problems social development region”, “On the budget of the city (district)”, “City (district) on the eve of elections to local government bodies”. Such forms of work allow the library to become a center for the expression of public opinion and ensure that the general public is informed about the work of the local administration.
In order to increase the effectiveness of library activities, it is recommended to conduct a preliminary survey of the target audience on the topic “What do you understand by local government?” In this way, gaps in the information knowledge of the interviewees can be identified and more attention can be paid to this when preparing exhibitions, meetings, discussions, reviews, etc.
One of the effective forms of establishing strong interaction between local authorities and the population is the organization by library staff of regular meetings of residents with the heads and specialists of the local administration. Discussion current problems local community - about social services, healthcare, assistance and social support young families, about environmental safety, gasification, leisure activities, etc. - is one of the types of citizen participation in resolving issues of local importance.
An effective way of communication between the population and the legislative authorities at the regional level is “meeting with a deputy”, “deputy hour”, organized and conducted by the library. At such meetings, the population is expected to evaluate the activities of people's representatives, and freely discuss bills under consideration in the local Duma. Participants in the event can express their opinions, make comments, clarifications, propose their own wording of laws, appeals, etc. Such meetings develop legal literacy and legal awareness of citizens, increase their civic activity and responsibility.
Thus, the organization and conduct of these events contribute to the growth of the library’s prestige and lay the foundation for attracting the attention of local governments to libraries as assistants and conductors of policies implemented by local authorities. In this regard, the activities of library employees should be aimed both at helping local governments and the population, because an enlightened leader and municipal employee is an important condition for the survival of the library, and an enlightened resident is a guarantee of its stability.
Improving the forms and methods of library work, expanding the range of services provided, increasing competitiveness in the specialized market, on the one hand, and the need to develop resources, on the other, create objective prerequisites for the participation of libraries as one of the full-fledged partners of social cooperation.
A modern library is an institution that accumulates the interests of almost all segments of society. Gradual formation of the foundations of the rule of law, ensuring transparency of the activities of government structures in different levels, improvement of the legislative system, widespread reliable information to citizens to ensure their informed political choice, development of the non-state sector of the economy create the opportunity to implement long-term library initiatives as opposed to short-term changes in the situation. This determines the need for professional cooperation between libraries and various institutions, organizations, and movements.
The multifunctionality of library activities makes it possible to create multilateral partnership projects that combine the efforts of several partners to solve common problems. Social partnership with the participation of the municipal library today can rightfully be considered as a sociocultural phenomenon, which objectively acts as one of the important conditions for the development of territorial library services.
But it should be noted that in order to obtain a significant economic and social effect from social partnership activities, their organizational and legal aspects should be clearly defined. Theorists and practitioners have not yet fully identified the subjects of social partnership in relation to librarianship. The subjects of partnership are primarily considered cultural, educational, and recreational institutions. The essence of social partnership as a socio-political democratic institution, replacing the social practice of the undivided dominance of state property, is to create such conditions of interaction under which the combination of interests of all social groups and communities will be realized on the basis of mutually beneficial cooperation and not competition.
Social partnership has undeniable prospects for the development of all forms of library activity and deserves closer study with a view to applying it in the practical activities of municipal libraries.
The fundamental organizational aspects of the creation and development of social partnership are: determining one’s place in the socio-cultural space of the serviced territory; implementation of the development strategy; establishing stable relationships with various structures of territorial entities on the basis of legal regulation.
It is impossible to present a complete picture of the emergence, functioning and development of social partnership as one of the factors in improving territorial library services without classifying its types. Adapting the approach of a prominent researcher of the problem, American sociologist A. Diamond, we propose the following classification of types of social partnership, developing in the practice of library work in municipal settings.
Civil partnership. It is implemented on the basis of the “first sector” of civil society, which includes: government structures, legislative structures, etc. Partnership with municipal authorities is of paramount importance for municipal libraries, the possibility of establishing which is determined by the fact that (with all the differences between these social institutions) during this period of formation of civil society in the country, a transformation of their activities is taking place.
Social modernization of libraries puts forward the tasks of changing the content of information and library work, developing new social functions, adapting to the new socio-political and economic environment at the municipal level. The above circumstances predetermine changes in relationships and behavioral stereotypes, and the creation of fundamentally new models of interaction. The process of formation of a social institution of local government library services based on social partnership. The legislative model of the relationship between the library and the authorities is enshrined in the first part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (1994), the federal law “On Librarianship” (1994), and regional legislative acts. Authorities are the founders of municipal libraries, and libraries are institutions formed for the purpose of implementing the tasks delegated by society to the authorities. The founder determines for the library a list of functions and areas of its activity, which he correlates with the needs of the population. In turn, the library must perform the functions assigned by the founder, making proposals for their addition and development.
The most important innovation for libraries associated with the reform of local self-government was their actual transition to the direct and undivided jurisdiction of local authorities, including in part resource provision. Basic provisions of the Federal Law “On General Principles of the Organization of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation” dated October 6. 2003 No. 131-FZ, establishing legal, territorial, organizational and economic standards for the functioning of local self-government in the Russian Federation, come into full force on January 1, 2009. In this regard, the primary task of municipal libraries is the formation of a system of relationships with authorities and other subjects of municipal formations from the standpoint of a social institution. In this context, libraries should be considered as an active subject, and not a passive object of municipal policy, which is important to fix in the regulatory framework formed in accordance with the above-mentioned federal law.
Considering social partnership as a condition for an effective territorial library strategy, one should not lose sight of such an important aspect as economic cooperation with authorities. With a significant reduction in government funding, one of the priority tasks of library policy is to prove to local administration officials the need for active assistance in the development of the library, additional (program-targeted) funding for its activities to solve the problems of free access to information, and spiritual development of the individual. At present, when the local community is increasingly expressing its interests, the demand for the library by the population, the correspondence of the level of tasks being solved to the level of user needs directly influence the attitude towards the library on the part of local authorities. The effectiveness of the library as the main information resource for a municipality, without which the normal functioning of public spheres is impossible, is largely determined by the volume of budget funding. In the practice of municipal libraries, such a mechanism of social partnership with local authorities as targeted financial support for project activities should be fully used. In a number of regions, one of its types is municipal grants in the field of culture, provided on a competitive basis, as well as investment in targeted library programs to provide additional social services to the population.
Partnerships with information organizations. This partnership option includes organizations that contribute to the development of civil society through the dissemination of various types of information. Partnerships with information organizations allow libraries to develop library marketing policies, create a positive image of the library and its employees among the population, government and public structures, and position the library’s ability to meet the needs of the local community. Among the potential participants in such a social partnership, first of all, the media should be highlighted. Information support for library events from the media helps promote books and motivate reading, attracting new people to the library. This type of library partnership has been most actively used by municipal libraries in recent years.
Partnerships with book publishing and bookselling companies are promising. There are many examples of developing cooperation between libraries and bookselling organizations. The active participation of the library in the formation of the municipal book market allows us to introduce elements of organization into its spontaneous state. The basis for this kind of partnership is the fact that library specialists are professionals in the field of book business, are constantly connected not only with products, but also with their consumers from various social strata, and are free to navigate the range of publications and the conditions of the book market.
One of the areas of this type of modern partnership is the innovative activity of libraries in the field of development information technology. The implementation of an integrated approach to the problems associated with the formation and development of the external territorial information space, the information system of the municipality, involves not only solving the issues of acquiring traditional documents, but also the development of technologies that expand the capabilities and efficiency of information and bibliographic services. In this regard, partnerships are being developed with distributors offering modern information products and technologies.
Satisfying the needs of a modern library user involves creating a comfortable library environment. In this regard, the latest achievements in ergonomics, design art, and the possibility of a highly efficient internal information system should be used. All of the above requirements cannot always be met through the efforts of library staff alone, which is why partnerships between libraries and outdoor advertising studios and design agencies, which can also be classified as information disseminators, have become widespread.
Partnership with cultural organizations. Partnership interaction in the field of culture is traditionally common in library practice. But here, too, new trends have been observed in recent years. Libraries act as a guarantor of the preservation of traditional book culture, the development of general cultural trends, and ensure accessibility cultural values to all social strata of the population. Most active everywhere in last decade Partnership between libraries and museums is developing, which is largely due to the coincidence of the memorial function performed by both museums and libraries.
Partnership with educational institutions. Partnerships in the field of education are quite widely represented in the practice of municipal libraries and are based on many years of cooperation between libraries and organizations and institutions related to the library in terms of the goals and objectives of their work. This type of partnership is altruistic, develops on a non-profit basis and solves, first of all, the problems of the local community related to the widest range of information requests in the field of education and upbringing.
The role of the library is to provide information support to the curricula of basic and additional education, to promote the expansion and deepening educational process, study, accumulation and dissemination of information about regional educational resources. Institutions of all types of education traditionally coordinate activities with information and library institutions in matters of education.
Partnerships with public organizations and associations. Democratic transformations, the formation and development of civil society in the Russian Federation presuppose the expansion and strengthening of public structures, the most important of which are public associations. Opportunities for collaboration between libraries and local non-profit organizations predetermined in their initially socially oriented activities. Public associations include political parties, mass movements, women's youth and children's organizations, creative unions, communities, associations and other voluntary associations of citizens.
Involving public (non-governmental) organizations in cooperation seems especially important for positioning the library as a center of the local community; it assumes the active functioning of the library as a component of an information and communication network that unites the activities of the third sector of civil society and library institutions at the municipal level.
Social partnership developing between the library and public organizations can be divided into the following subtypes: partnership with creative informal organizations; with environmental organizations and movements; human rights organizations; with women's, children's and youth organizations, etc.
Economic partnership. The acquisition of legal and economic independence by libraries marked the beginning of the development of partnerships based on economic cooperation, mutually beneficial to both libraries and organizations entering into economic relations with them. The empirical material obtained during the study allows us to conclude that economic cooperation is often perceived not quite adequately by the library community. An economic approach to the problem of reproducing and increasing library resources should take into account the original social essence of the library and provide for a priority solution to the social problems of the population served. Obtaining material benefits for the library in the process of economic cooperation is not an end in itself, but an intermediate result, one of the conditions for further solving a social problem.
The central vector of social partnership should be socio-economic cooperation. The amount of funding is directly related to socially significant and economically viable projects that consolidate the efforts of various forces in the local community to achieve the goals. Moreover, sources of financing can be not only the local budget, but also funds from various funds, as well as commercial structures. It is the social significance of library programs aimed at meeting consumer demand that creates the basis for extra-budgetary additional funding.
Libraries' partners are often economic associations and networks of commercial and industrial organizations, as well as entities engaged in independent economic and business activities. These include industrial production structures.
Departments of industrial literature and other structures are being created in libraries to provide information services to industrial enterprises. Areas of cooperation that have become widespread in library practice have become: fulfillment by libraries of social and creative orders for participation in sociological research, packaging information on customer topics, providing regulatory documents, including standards, norms and rules, holding information days and days of quality management specialists, etc.
The modern period of development of libraries as independently operating entities, the expansion of the rights and economic opportunities of work collectives provide the opportunity to expand the choice of partnership entities. Partnerships in the economic sphere also include partnerships with small and medium-sized businesses, which most often develop in two directions: information and library services for small and medium-sized businesses, co-financing of library projects by business structures.
Thus, the search for social partners is an important area of activity for a modern library, directly related to the success and purposefulness of its activities.
The revival of local self-government as the most important institution of community self-government is one of the pressing problems of modern Russia. The importance of the development of local self-government is determined by many circumstances. First of all, it can and should contribute to the gradual “growing” of Russia into a democratic political regime, initiating it “from below.” It is intended to help citizens realize that democracy is not only a formal institution, but also a social partnership, the personal participation of everyone in the affairs and concerns of the society of which they are a part. It is also important that the abstract right to freedom is also realized in the concrete right to exercise local self-government. As A. De Tocqueville wrote, “communal institutions play the same role in establishing independence as primary schools for science: they open the people to freedom and teach them to use this freedom."
The reform of local self-government in the Stavropol Territory has its own characteristics; it is fixed at the level of the village, town, and district administrations are a state vertical. In Russia, only 5 subjects of the Federation have a similar structure, and it takes time to develop common approaches to the practical implementation of local self-government.
In the Andropovsky district, the issue of consolidating local self-government at the level of the district administration has now become acute. The population, due to lack of competence, is wary of this problem. The authorities are in a wait-and-see mode. Local media are making weak attempts to explain the current situation.
Libraries have at all times been conductors of the culture of society and state policy, and have been sensitive to changes occurring in the socio-economic and political life of the region. No one can deny that in at the moment The library has become the most necessary part of the infrastructure of the municipality, especially its information. Experience shows that the municipal library has become “visible” to local authorities and is considered the most convenient channel of information. The issue of creating a system for informing about the activities of municipal authorities is most important today for small municipalities, which has objective reasons. In large cities, there are other sources of municipal information, in particular information centers at local administrations with public receptions. In small towns and rural areas, libraries are truly the only publicly accessible institutions that are capable of working with information.
The goal of local self-government is to promote the construction of civil society and its information openness. Civil society is based on the right of every citizen to have a free view of government policies. People just need to know about the affairs of their chosen ones. They need to understand that local self-government is their own activity for their own life arrangement under their own responsibility.
The intensification of the work of the Andropov Central Database in collecting, storing and making available for use information on local self-government began with the publication of a Letter from the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of Russia, sent to the heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation (No. A4 - 10002 Pk dated September 23, 1997). Along with federal and regional laws, decrees, resolutions, regulations, and various publications relating to issues of local self-government, it was recommended that library collections include statutes of municipalities, decrees, decisions, orders of regional authorities, which had not been done previously. Until this time, the libraries of the Central Library carried out work on local history, where a fund was formed containing material about the life of the local community, about the activities of government bodies; positive experience has been accumulated in this aspect of work.
In recent years, librarians have observed an increase in the number of readers in libraries, indicating increased information needs among the population, including on local government issues.
In September 1998, the head of the district state administration of the Andropovsky district signed a Resolution “On the organization of the collection, storage and provision of information on local government issues in the libraries of the Andropov Central Library”.
Central Library Service specialists prepared a draft program for supporting local self-government “Library - information center municipal community", the main goals of which are stated to be:
- provide users with access to sources and means of information collected in district libraries;
- create the most favorable and comfortable conditions for everyone to use library services;
- provide the opportunity to access the resources of other libraries and information organizations through modern communication channels.
To achieve these goals, the following tasks are defined:
- create a fund of published and unpublished documents accepted by local governments, organize their systematization and storage;
- organize an information and advisory center on the problems of local self-government on the basis of the Central District Hospital, which will concentrate bibliographic information on the main area of work, allowing for targeted information to the heads and employees of local government bodies and services, residents of municipalities;
- introduce modern technologies to increase the flow of information in the library and improve methods of delivering information to users.
In 1999, this project received a grant from the MONF and the Ministry of Culture, through which computer equipment was purchased, and the automation of the central bank was started.
Since the Central Regional Library has the most complete reference and bibliographic apparatus, local history catalogs reflecting documents on the Stavropol Territory, Andropovsky District, and has also stored the main regional and regional periodicals in its collections for many years, the Information Department was allocated in its structure and modern technologies”, designed to work with authorities and the population in this direction.
In October 2001, the Head of the Andropov District State Administration signed an Order on the opening of the Legal Information Center (LCI) on the basis of the department of information and modern technologies of the Andropov Central Library.
In order to justify the choice of priorities in the work to promote the formation of local self-government, the information needs of the population and municipal employees were studied. These studies revealed the topics of requests: legislative, sociological, production potential and raw materials, agricultural, economic information. Collective and individual consumers of information were identified, information about them was entered into the information support file. According to the previous mini-study “Computer Literacy of Rural Residents” (2000), it was found that there is a very small percentage of users trained to work with information resources and technologies, which made it difficult to quickly deliver information. At the moment, the number of people using computer tools has increased significantly, including many organizations and enterprises that have access to the Internet and their own postal address.
The CPI accumulates information at three levels: federal, subject of the Federation, municipal. And provides information on the basis of such information resources as:
- Global Internet.
- FAPSI server. Our Central Bank is not the only one that has the opportunity to use the FAPSI database. Several regional libraries also have mailboxes on the agency's server, which allows us to access their database.
- IPS "Consultant Plus", "Garant", "Your Right".
- Electronic versions magazines "Encyclopedia of Russian Law", "Legislation and Economics".
- Fund of printed official publications.
- Collection of publications on local history.
- The fund of primary sources is formed on the basis of regional and district newspapers, as well as documents and materials that are transferred from departments of the district and rural administrations. From the general department we receive normative acts of the district administration. Documents from the economics department make it possible to familiarize the population with the socio-economic situation of the region. The employment service provides information on the state of the labor market, education and training opportunities. Publishing products of local governments, as well as materials published municipal institutions, public organizations (unions, communities, etc.).
- Secondary information resources, i.e. a set of sources of library, bibliographic and factual information. In the system catalog, the heading “Local self-government: problems, contradictions, prospects” is highlighted. The local history card file of articles also has the headings “Local self-government in the Stavropol Territory”, “Social protection”, “Disabled. Law. Society", "Law", "Lawyer Consults", "Elections to Local Government Bodies", etc. A card file of official materials "Documents on Local Self-Government" and a card file "To Help a Businessman" have been compiled, containing information about companies.
Over time, the collection of primary sources on local self-government will move into the archival part of local history.
The main directions of informing the population about the organization of local self-government and the activities of its bodies are:
- Resolutions and decisions of district and rural administrations;
- Socio-economic development of the Andropovsky district;
- District budget;
- Production development;
- Development of non-production areas, including communications, consumer services;
- Security environment;
- Statistics, etc.
The center's staff systematically monitors new information trends and topics in the media. The most pressing requests are recorded, analysis is carried out and promising directions are predicted, the SBA is adjusted, and the corresponding headings are introduced.
The public information system involves the organization and formation of two information flows. The downward flow of information is informing the subject of local self-government - the population.
Our library has long recognized itself as a social institution and a center for social protection of the population. Residents of the region turn to libraries for help on issues of pensions, social protection, rights and benefits. The Legal Information Center not only collects and systematizes documents relating to the organization and activities of local government, but also explains the need for the development of this new direction. As a rule, citizens do not realize that they should become the driving force in the formation of local self-government, that they are the builders of their own life, and the authorities only coordinate their actions. People need to understand that democracy is not only a formal institution, but also a social partnership, the personal participation of everyone in the affairs and concerns of the society of which they are a part. For many years, people were brought up on a different ideology, now it is psychologically difficult for them to perceive what is happening. Therefore we believe that special attention, explanatory and educational work should be carried out with high school students and students. Meetings with representatives of the district administration are organized for them. In addition to speeches, active methods are used - round tables, seminars, role-playing games, which clearly contributes to better assimilation of the material and increased productivity of the event.
Along with primary sources, users are provided with information in the form of bibliographic lists, photocopies and printed documents. Press dossiers on the stated topic are provided on a contractual basis.
In the Central District Hospital and branch libraries there are information stands and notice boards, for example, “Village: day after day,” “In the corridors of power,” where information about decisions made, orders, and materials on social protection issues is regularly posted.
The library actively cooperates with the media (radio, newspapers).
In today's conditions, the library has become a link between the population and authorities, helping them find and understand each other. The upward flow of information is the library's information support for local governments. Libraries have always been conductors of the culture of society and the policies of the state that created and maintain them. Therefore, they always provided information support to power structures.
The most important task of today is to increase the efficiency of management activities of local governments at all levels. The quality of management is, of course, influenced by factors such as the quality of information and the competence of the consultation. These factors make it possible to make decisions that change the situation on the ground for the better, influence the fate of social problems, and improve social status population.
All previous activities of Andropov Central Banking Center are experience of joint work with the administration, experience of partnerships. Since the creation of the department, local authorities began to listen even more carefully to the library as an organization capable of coping with serious problems. Cooperation between the center and the district administration is carried out on a contractual basis. The agreement outlines the following obligations of the parties:
- Local government bodies (LGUs) undertake to provide LGUs with published and unpublished documents about their activities in order to organize their storage and ensure access to them by members of the local community.
- OIST undertakes to promptly inform the compulsory medical authorities about laws, regulations, decisions, regulations of federal and regional authorities, as well as material systematized on the stated topics.
- OIST is committed to informing the local community about CHI activities.
Agreements were also signed between branch libraries and rural administrations. Through branch libraries, documents of rural authorities are transferred to the Legal Information Center. The department provides branches with the necessary information for their consumers. Thus, a mechanism for disseminating information on local government issues has been established.
Experience working with municipal employees suggests that they need information on time (preferably “yesterday”) and with maximum completeness. CBS employees work in exactly this mode, otherwise our work will be unclaimed.
The main areas of information support include informing the bodies of representative and executive power, the statistics department, the Department of Culture and Art, and the Committee for Nature Protection. For example:
- legislative documents of the Russian Federation;
- monitoring of public opinion. In particular, the collection and analysis of responses to questionnaires developed by the district state administration “Attitude of the population towards local government bodies of the Andropovsky district of the Stavropol Territory”, “The role of state authorities and local government”;
- providing information about the experience of government in other municipal communities;
- information on social problems, ecology, etc.
Information is provided in the IRI, DOR modes, and reference services are carried out in the “question-answer” mode. And not only in the form of bibliographic information (analytical reports, bibliographic lists of new acquisitions), but also in the form of a press dossier. Information is transmitted both by telephone and by e-mail, and copies of documents are sent or issued directly to the department.
Systematically, the center's employees organize specialist days for municipal employees, for example, "Operational Information - the Path to Success", round tables - "Municipal Law: Questions and Answers." Heads of rural administrations, municipal specialists, deputies of rural Dumas, and librarians participate in the events.
The Legal Information Center provides information support for the work of deputies and deputy commissions.
The work of the department in establishing the facts, which formed the basis of the “Encyclopedia of the Andropovsky District,” was interesting and informative. At the request of the administration, the center’s employees set dates for awarding titles to honored industry workers national economy, culture, healthcare, education.
Informing municipal employees is the main task in the interaction between the library and government bodies. However, the Information and Modern Technologies department provides a number of non-traditional services for district administrations. For example: restores old photographs of historical value; processes material about veterans and participants of the Second World War; makes booklets (to anniversary dates villages of the district), various diplomas, certificates of honor, business cards. Last year, department programmer S.V. Kulikov made computer layout for the publication of a booklet about the Andropovsky district. With the participation of department specialists, the district's coat of arms was developed, as well as a model of orders of 3 degrees "For contribution to the development of the district."
New forms of work require constant updating of the practical knowledge of specialists working with government agencies. On the basis of the Central Regional Library, seminars and round tables are held both for librarians of the Central Library and for library workers in the region. The staff of the entire Central Bank receives knowledge on organizing work with information on local government issues. It is mandatory for everyone to undergo vocational training in the use of personal computers.
Technical equipment plays an important role in organizing work to help establish local self-government. However, there are no computers in any branch of the Central Bank, and accordingly there are no electronic databases. But libraries are the only source of information in rural areas for more than 36 thousand residents of the Andropovsky district. So far, only the Legal Information Center has computer equipment and Internet access. Therefore, the Central Library System faces a strategic task - ensuring effective access to information resources based on the latest computer technologies, developing network interaction between libraries and telecommunication networks.
In the future, joint activities of the Center for Legal Information and local governments are planned within the framework of the Federal Target Program "Electronic Russia (2002-2010)".
