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“Chernihiv Regional Children’s Library” municipal institution is the oldest special institution of its kind providing library services for children and adolescents. Starting with 5th May 1898 and to this day, the library has undergone a complex path from a children’s department at the Chernihiv municipal library to a regional library for children – the biggest collection of children’s literature in the region, the center for organization and promotion of children’s reading in the region, and the center for provision on methodical, consulting assistance to the children’s, rural and school libraries of the Chernihiv region. In 2018, the library will mark 120 years since its birth. During this time, it had changed its name, status and its address. In 1941, the library had fully burnt down during the bombardment of Chernihiv; in 1970, it was flooded – but the library had revived again and again, like a Phoenix – due to the generations of concerned Chernihiv residents, who had donated their books to the library. In 1949, the library was assigned the name of Nikolai Ostrovsky, the Soviet writer, and on 20 July 2016 the name of Nikolai Ostrovsky was removed from the name of the library under the laws of Ukraine on the de-communization by the decision of the Chernihiv regional council no. 42/VII. On occasion of its 90th anniversary the library was granted new premises in the building 22a onRokossowskiStreet. It is a two-story semi-attached building with beautiful works by well-known Chernihiv painters: ceramic panels with themes based on works by LesyaUkrayinka (painter T. Fedorytenko), artistic metalwork on the staircase (master blacksmith of the Artistic Foundation V.V. Omelyanenko), stained glass for two floors with themes based on the “Tale of Igor’s Campaign” medieval poem (Artistic Foundation). Currently, the library’s structure is comprised from the administration and 7 departments: collecting and processing of printed works; storage and restauration of library books; servicing of preschoolers and of the 1-4 graders; servicing of the 5-9 graders; arts; information and bibliography; methodology of library interaction with children; property department. The amount of the library stock is more than 175 thousand items, of them books comprise more than 146 thousand items; periodicals –more than 24 thousand items; electronic media – around 800 items. Visitors can use: three reading areas (for preschoolers and 1-4 graders, 5-9 graders, and in the arts department). The library services more than 17 thousand visitors; more than 242 thousand books are dispensed annually; the library receives more than 190 thousand visits per year (including 90 thousand visits to the library web site); more than 16 thousand visitors attend its creative and mass events. Under the initiative of the Chernihiv regional children’s library, the educational and training center “Children’s Library of the XXI century: Universe of Information and Culture”, the “Biblio-profi” creative laboratory are active in the Chernihiv region; and for children and rural librarians, the “Children can’t Wait” professional contestants are organized. The library organizes and promotes large-scale city-wide creative events connected with books and children’s reading, in particular such contests as “The Reading Family”, “Let the Children of Mother Ukraine Surprise the World”, “Reading Children are the Future of Ukraine”, “We Learn to Live on Earth”, and such creative initiatives as “Biblio Oscar”, “Book Tasties” library café etc. The volunteer movement has emerged in the library – “Reading to a Friend” project for visually impaired children; the participants of the project “We Help the Protectors of the Motherland with Words and Deeds” collect books, gifts, paintings for the participants of the Anti-Terrorism Operation; the library was one of the first to collect and send to the children of the town of Severo-Donetsk more than 3 thousand books. Introduction of the new information technologies had started in 2000 with the first donated computer. In 2003, the website of the library was created. In 2013, the library had won a grant under “Bibliomist (“Library Bridge”) program and had obtained 10 computers equipped with internet access, and an Internet center was created; and “Children for a Safe Internet” project is being implemented in the region’s libraries. Since 2010 the library is a member of the Corporation of Children’s Libraries of Ukraine (CORDBA). The biggest contribution to the development of the library was done by its directors, who had headed it over various periods of time: U.P. Kravchenko (in 1955-1971), O.I. Kotsyubynska (in 1976-77), N.I. Lysenko (in 1977-2012), T.M. Klyuy (head of the library since 2012); employees of the previous time periods: G.O. Dobrovolska, N.G. Zotova, V.G. Derkach, G.V. Bondarenko, and modern specialists: T.V. Tyanutova, G.M. Vecherska, O.G. Tashlyk. Library address is: Rokossowski Street, building 22a, city of Chernihiv, 14032, email: ostrovskogo@online.ua; website: http://ostrovskogo.com.ua