IMPACT CONTROLS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NETWORK OF LIBRARIES OF THE TAMBOV PROVINCE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF SOVIET POWER

Abstract

A description of the network of libraries’ development in the Tambov province in the first years of Soviet power is presented. The analysis of the Soviet government authorities’ activities, aimed at the reorganization of librarianship is made. It is noted that the most pressing issue of library construction in the Tambov province was the creation of a network of public libraries, designed to become agents of the Communist Party’s policy. After the revolutionary events of 1917 librarianship is becoming an important element of cultural development. State management bodies created library science for the first time in Russian history, public library network is formed, corresponding to the administrative-territorial division of the country, put under state control libraries of other departments. The species composition of the libraries in Tambov province is transformed: the commercial public, church, private libraries that existed before the revolution of 1917 were nationalized. In the province of the state library network includes a central provincial library, the creation of which was an entirely new phenomenon in the organization of library services in Tambov province, since pre-revolutionary (zemstvo) projects of library network libraries of such status were not included; central county, city, township, village libraries and children’s libraries and mobile. The statistical information on the number of different types of libraries is given.