Open AccessWork of Libraries with the Older Generation: Experience of Germany, Canada and Australia
Author(s) -
Ольга Леонидовна Чурашева,
Ekaterina Leonidovna Sharonova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bibliosfera
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7931
pISSN - 1815-3186
DOI - 10.20913/1815-3186-2021-3-83-90
Subject(s) - work (physics) , work abroad , face (sociological concept) , population ageing , covid-19 , population , quality (philosophy) , capital (architecture) , economic growth , older people , political science , geography , sociology , gerontology , social science , medicine , demography , engineering , economics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , disease , archaeology , epistemology , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The article highlights the experience of libraries working with older generation users in certain foreign countries faced with the modern demographic problem - the aging of the population: Germany, Canada and Australia. The modern forms of work of libraries of these countries with the elderly, which are of interest to Russian libraries, are identified and characterized. Difficulties in the work of foreign libraries with the older generation during the COVID-19 pandemic are separately noted. The authors come to the conclusion, that despite the differences in location, size, departmental affiliation, quantity and quality of the fund, and so on, many libraries in developed countries face the same problem - the increasing number of elderly readers and reconstruct their work in accordance with the new demographic and socio-cultural situation, which requires libraries to develop special services to save the cultural capital of older generations.