Scientific Actualization of Tasks on Building a Reading Culture

On 30th December 2024, the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin approved the “List of Instructions of the President of the Russian Federation Following a Meeting of the Presidential Council for State Policy on Promoting the Russian Language and Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation on November 5, 2024”, which includes the instruction to “ensure the establishment of cultural and educational centers on the basis of public libraries of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions in order to promote and popularize the Russian language”. The authors of the article stress that cultural and educational work is inherent in the activities of a modern public library, and the creation of such centers on the basis of libraries seems to be natural and appropriate. Libraries complete their collections with the best works of Russian literature and works of the peoples of the Russian Federation in the Russian language, prepare and organize the use of bibliographic resources, arrange work with readers on the formation of reading culture, including pedagogical and educational work. The traditional direction of libraries’ activity on formation of reading culture, actualized on the content and applied methods, including pedagogical character, can be a serious basis for popularization and promotion of Russian language by libraries. Creation of modern, scientifically grounded methods of work with readers in the field of formation of reading culture is one of the most important social tasks, which are solved by libraries.