Library named after Lermontov. Penza especially proud of the new building

Library and theater are the first institutes of culture,Born in the III millennium BC and lived to our times. The birthplace of the first libraries are the ancient civilizations of China and Egypt. On the territory of Europe, the first bookshelves include the libraries of Babylon and Kuta.

Metamorphoses of the library

Over the centuries, the library and its functionssignificantly changed. From, in fact, the book depository (namely, the term is translated from Greek), it passed a long period of service to the elite. Then, as democracy developed, it became a public institution accessible to all layers of society. Its main functions are to obtain exhaustive information in all fields of knowledge, to strengthen and preserve cultural and social ties in society.

Sow reasonable, good, eternal ...

The same high goals serve, like any other, the library named after Lermontov. Penza - a city located in the central part of Russia - is rightfully proud of it.

And no matter what revolutions occur inthe library will long remain the center of the cultural life of any city, which it is impossible to imagine without them. The conditions for servicing visitors, the arrangement of reading places will change, new technologies will replace the old ones, but the library as a focus and source of knowledge will retain its role for a long time. New technologies require new buildings or reconstruction of old ones, which, as a rule, have historical and architectural value.

The emergence of the city reading room

The new building received a library named afterLermontov. Penza built a beautiful building for its pride - the city book depository, which in 1992 turned 100 years old. At the very beginning of history, the Lermontov City Society rented the house of the wife of the provincial secretary EM Vakulenko to open here in 1892 a public reading room, now called the Lermontov Library. Penza considers the first day of issuing books to the city's population - October 2, 1892 - the date of the founding of the city book depository. Street Moscow, 7 - a place where the library lasted more than 9 years. Then there was a move to the more spacious wooden house of the junker chamber AP Dubenskiy.

The need for a separate specialized building

Given that neither an apartment nor an apartment building can notto be a city library, even if only because of the size and layout, the city Lermontov Society allocated funds from the Belinsky Foundation for the construction of a special building for the city library. To this end, funds have also gone from the jubilee edition of the book dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the death of Vissarion Belinsky, a native of these places. In 1909, the Penza City Duma decided to allocate a place for the construction of a stone house. In 1910 the project was perfected, a place was allocated for free in 472 square fathoms and 80 thousand rubles with the subsequent annual, for 10 years, an additional payment of 4,000 for the construction of the building, which until the opening of the new modern building in 2012 was the Lermontov library. Penza decorated herself with a new, beautiful, meeting all the requirements of the time the corps.

Time Correspondence

Today, for libraries, the time of trials has come. The revolution that has occurred in the communication field poses vitally important questions for them. It is necessary to develop new concepts of development, which should lead to cardinal changes. Otherwise, libraries will become archives. Therefore, in order not to lose the reader, the book depositories not only modernize, but also unite on their squares various public organizations and cultural objects with the goal of turning the library into a regional multifunctional information complex. All the time challenges are fully answered by the present regional library named after Lermontov. Penza responsibly went to the construction of a new building, which is located in Arbekovo, a crossing located in the Oktyabrsky district of the city.

New time - new conditions

New multi-storey building with a total area of ​​25 thousandsq. m. m. is a well-equipped science center and entertainment complex at the same time. The library and reading rooms, an electronic dissertations hall and a digital library, a children's information center and a huge concert complex, a cinema and a cafe are comfortably located on its territory. In the center of the city, in the old classical building on Belinsky Street, 10, there was a library for the blind and visually impaired, a computer literacy training center, a foreign library and the editorial office of the journal Sura, Lermontov. Penza could not part with the ancient building, which is associated with the lives of several generations of citizens.