International School Library Day

International School Library Day is a fairly young holiday; it began to be celebrated in Russia in 2008. Librarians try to popularize reading books and libraries among students. In 1999, on the recommendation of UNESCO, School Library Day was organized. The goal of the project is to involve the public in the preservation and formation of literary reserves of school library funds. 6 years later, Peter Jenko, head of the International Association of School Libraries, approved the holiday. School libraries play an important role in the educational process. People come here before the start of the school year: inhaling the aroma of printing ink, they fill their backpacks with textbooks. First-graders are taken to the library for lectures about good and evil and getting to know literary heroes. In the silence of the reading room, high school students are poring over abstracts. In the back of the rows, teachers leaf through specialized literature. Despite their importance in educational and educational activities, school libraries are often not in the best condition. The lack of modern fiction, masterpieces of world classics that require replacement, and poor technical equipment are the main problems of school reading rooms. Librarian is one of the oldest professions. The first specialists appeared in 2500 BC, when the stock repositories were a warehouse of papyrus scrolls and clay tablets. Masters of storage and record keeping were then called scribes. The word “librarian” was first used in Ancient Greece, and it meant a collection of books. Slaves worked in this difficult field. In the Middle Ages, the initiative was seized by the monks. They classified books, kept order in the storage room, and rewrote church dogmas. The first large libraries appeared during the Renaissance: L. Medici and the Vatican. In Russia, the development of the profession began in 1307, when Y. the Wise gathered scribes for a painstaking census of Greek originals. The responsibilities of a school librarian of the 21st century include not only issuing textbooks and searching for books, but also: • record keeping; • classification of books; • compilation of bibliographic reference books; • control over the condition of publications. Despite the abundance of electronic media that allow you to read books, the aroma of rough leaves and the silence of reading rooms are still popular. Officially, the event is celebrated on the 4th Monday of October, but in fact, in most countries, an entire month is dedicated to school libraries. In October, they carry out such events as:• collecting waste paper;• reading aloud;• discussing literary characters;• voluntary donation of books to school;• bookcrossing. Seminars, conferences, and international congresses are organized for librarians.