A presentation of Vitebsk libraries will be held on City Day

June 18, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Presentation of city libraries will be held in Vitebsk on City Day, the Culture Department of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent. In the Year of the Book, the library system of the regional center has launched extensive activities to attract readers, and on the holiday of Vitebsk's 1038th anniversary, it decided not to interrupt this work, planning to meet with its current and potential readers. On the first day of the festivities, June 23, the adjacent pedestrian streets of the regional center will become one "Street of Knowledge and Talents." The city's libraries will present stands here and talk about their activities in organizing leisure for readers. Libraries-centers have been created on the basis of three of them: the I. Krylov Library is an information and leisure center "Golden Age," where work is carried out with the elderly; the V. Korotkevich Library is known for its local history center "With the Ancestors' Heritage into the Future"; the L. Tolstoy Library houses an environmental education center. In addition, 14 hobby clubs and interest groups operate at the libraries. However, the main goal of the library is considered to be the popularization of books, so writers and poets of the city have been invited to participate in its presentation. Also here on the "Street of Knowledge," a charity event "Take a Book - Help a Child" will be organized to collect books for orphanages and shelters. The centralized library system of Vitebsk unites 21 libraries, including 14 public libraries, among them a youth library and a library of foreign literature, and 7 children's libraries, with a book fund of over 835 thousand copies. The city's centralized library system serves more than 95 thousand readers. Vitebsk's birthday will be celebrated from June 23 to 25. -0-