草榴短视频

May 27, 2025 marks the 230th anniversary of the founding of the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg. The thirtieth anniversary of the All-Russian Library Day is celebrated on the same day. In honor of the holiday, we are telling the story of the library of the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design.

The four main information systems of the country include the Archive Fund, the State Statistics System, the State Scientific and Technical Information System, as well as the Library Network, which includes 130,000 institutions, more than 200,000 people and is subject to the Federal Law "On Librarianship."

The first library of Ancient Russia, founded by Yaroslav the Wise, appeared in 1037 in Kiev in St. Sophia Cathedral. After 300 years, more than half of the total number of books in Russia were already stored in St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod. To this day, there is a library in the choir of this cathedral, which contains the original letters of Peter the Great, and a Bible, on the centerfold of which a topographic plan of Moscow is drawn. By the end of the 16th century in Russia, one third of the book collection was kept in churches and monasteries. Secular and specialized libraries appeared by the end of the 17th century under the influence of Peter's reforms. In 1728, the library of the Academy of Sciences allowed it to be visited by "all comers." Public libraries began to appear, libraries in educational institutions, in military units, national libraries, the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg, and the Moscow Public Library. The first director of the Public Library in St. Petersburg was Alexei Nikolaevich Olenin, and the first three library cards belonged to the poet Delvig, the poet Kuchelbecker and officer Bestuzhev (the future Decembrist). Fabulist Ivan Andreevich Krylov served in the St. Petersburg Public Library for 29 years, mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was a librarian at Kazan University for 10 years, and Vladimir Nikolaevich Zaitsev, a graduate of 草榴短视频, headed the State Public Library (now the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg) for 25 years.

The library of the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design also has a long history. It was organized in 1930. It was based on a 20,000-book collection transferred from the library of the Leningrad Technological Institute named after Lensovet during the creation of 草榴短视频, which was then called the Leningrad Textile Institute named after S.M. Kirov. The library's task was to create a fund of scientific, technical and educational literature to serve students, faculty and researchers. A room was allocated for the library on the 4th floor of the main building at 18 Bolshaya Morskaya Street. A book depository, a 170-seat reading room, and a subscription for the faculty and technical school were located here. The number of readers did not exceed 600 people.

The library expanded its work widely, constantly replenishing the funds 鈥� in 1931 the fund had 26 thousand volumes, in 1935 鈥� 135 thousand volumes. The fiction Fund began to be created in 1934, and by 1935 it had 7 thousand volumes. Since 1939, the library began receiving dissertations defended at the institute. By 1940, the book collection had grown to 160,000 copies. This growth was ensured by an annual increase in allocations from 38 thousand rubles in 1933 to 100 thousand in 1940. The number of readers has reached 2,500 people. An alphabetical and subject catalogues, a systematic file of domestic and foreign journal articles on the textile industry, a catalog of available standards, and a catalog of patents were created. There was an interlibrary subscription book exchange (IBA) with 93 libraries in the country. The library systematically organized exhibitions of new book receipts and thematic exhibitions dedicated to significant dates.

The reading room. The 1930s.

In 1941, due to the outbreak of the war, the number of readers decreased sharply. The educational process continued and the service of students and teachers of the Institute in besieged Leningrad did not stop. The library intensified its information work 鈥� book exhibitions of a military and patriotic nature were prepared, newspaper readings were held for wounded soldiers in the frontline evacuation hospital located in the institute building.

The Institute was evacuated in March 1942 to Tashkent. The library was mothballed in the main building. With the return of the institute to Leningrad in the autumn of 1944, the library continued its work, putting the book collection in order. This work is indicated by Order No. 45 of February 28, 1945 for the institute "For exceptionally conscientious work in carrying out an inventory of the library stock and preparing the library for the educational process after a three-year break, to express gratitude to the head of the library, N.A. Aksenova." The war swept across the country, and through libraries too. Whereas in 1939 there were 250,000 libraries in the country with a book collection of over 400 million volumes, by the end of the war 43,000 libraries had been destroyed, looted, and vandalized. But already in the first post-war years, everything was restored. The institute's library was also restored very quickly.

The library's book depository. The end of the 1940s.

By 1950, the book collection consisted of more than 140,000 books and 20,000 pamphlets and magazines. The reading rooms were well equipped: scientific and educational for 170 seats and social and scientific for 100 seats with free access to newspapers and magazines. Readers' conferences and literary evenings were held. By 1955, the book collection already amounted to 185 thousand copies. The library subscribed to 13 newspapers and 32 magazines. There were 24 mobile libraries at the main departments.

The reading room. The 1950s.

The reading room. The end of the 1950s.

The reading room. The 1960s.

In 1967, the library was reconstructed. This made it possible to increase the size of the book depository and increase the number of books to 400 thousand. The fiction department received an independent room. A sharp increase in the number of printed publications in the 1970s had an impact on the increase in the library's book collection. By 1975, the library had a staff of 42 people.

Librarian and readers. The 1970s.

Subscription, home delivery of books. The 1970s.

Library catalog department. The 1970s.

By 1980, literature on chemistry, the textile, sewing, knitting, leather and shoe industries, the production of nonwovens, economics and production organization were of particular scientific value. The fund of foreign literature was represented by 25 thousand books and magazines. The art department had a wide range of Russian and foreign classical literature, works by contemporary authors, and art magazines.

Mid-1980s.

The reading room. the 1980s.

In 1992, the Institute was transformed into the University of Technology and Design. The library's book collection in 1993 amounted to 591 thousand volumes. The library was one of the best university libraries in the country. However, the acquisition of the library's collection became more complicated due to the lack of professional literature in 1991-1994. The development of its own printing base has made it possible to fill the shortage of educational publications.

Subscription, book distribution. the 1990s.

In 1994, the department of automation and mechanization of library processes was organized in the library, the MARK version of the automated information and library system (AIBS) was put into operation, and readers had access to the electronic catalog on the Internet. In 1996, 154 titles of educational, methodological and scientific literature were published on its own printing base. In 1999, there were 18 cathedral libraries and one library in the dormitory. The introduction of specialized literature into the electronic catalog has begun.

By 2000, the book collection amounted to 595 thousand volumes. The introduction of books into the electronic catalog continued. In 2006, the library switched from AIBS "MARK" to a more modern AIBS "Irbis". In 2014, the library's collection totaled 570,000 volumes. The electronic catalog has 40 thousand entries.

In 2016, the retrospective entry of all literature into the electronic catalog began. In 2019, it was decided to move the library to the academic building on Voznesensky Prospekt. At the present stage, the library's collection is being completed with textbooks and teaching aids of our university, mainly in electronic form. The university library carefully preserves a collection of rare books (about several hundred copies) published before 1900. These books are on display at the permanent exhibition "Our Book Rarities" in the library's reading room. The oldest book in our library is The Art of Bleaching Linen, Thread, and Cotton Paper of All Kinds, published in Moscow in 1805. The oldest magazine in the collection is The Textile Manufacturer, which entered the library from 1897 to 1908.