Today, so often are complaints about the fact that young people are not the same today. And boys and girls do not read books at all. In the foreground, the modern public has a TV and the Internet. The World Wide Web allows you to draw any information from various sources, just sitting at home in front of the monitor. Artworks today can be listened to through a mobile earpiece. But is everything so critical about this book? The library for youth undertook to refute this stereotype.
Foundation History
The Russian State Library for Youth is the largest reading room in the country, aimed at working with this difficult target audience. Today in Russia there are 8 similar institutions at the federal level.
The administration classifies persons from 14 to 99+ years of age as “young”.
This institution was founded in the postwar period. In 1966, a branch of the metropolitan public historical reading room separated into an independent organization.
Autonomy has benefited. The Russian State Library for Youth has received the status of an information institution for working with applicants, students and schoolchildren. It is on its basis that today the development, study and initial implementation of modern and experimental methods of work are carried out. Only after passing a full test here, the tested methods are introduced in other public reading rooms.
Modern opportunities
The Moscow reading room works with the most advanced population. In order to keep its reader, you have to keep up with the times and even strive to get ahead of it.
All visitors are provided with Internet access, electronic readership forums have more than 1 million publications. Boys and girls can work from desktop computers, as well as from their laptops, using free Wi-Fi.
Readers can take advantage of the help of employees, but at the same time, the self-service process is well established. A round-the-clock book return window is located on the outside side, at the entrance to the reading room.
Much attention is paid to providing access for people with disabilities. Ramps, automatic sliding doors, equipped restroom, special lift. All this provides the possibility of movement not only for wheelchairs, but even for such a category of readers as mothers with young children.
For the visually impaired provided: audio books, reading scanners, electronic magnifiers. Hearing aids are given a selection of movies with subtitles.
Here everyone can find all the necessary information from a variety of sources existing in the world. And do it in the most comfortable conditions for him.
In the reading room there is even absolutely unusual for our country, but such a necessary room for feeding and swaddling babies. There is also a games room for guests with older children. Surely young parents also drop by the library for some interesting work or light reading. All this in practice proves that the library for youth is friendly and open to all.
RSLM online
The Russian State Library for Youth, whose actual location is well known (Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya, Building 4, Building 1), is also absolutely accessible for remote work on the network. Registered users can work with the resources of electronic library systems, which is called - RSLM online.
And it is very convenient. The library also has its official website and is presented on social networks. A lot of remote features for registered users are available in their "My Account".
