CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS OF ODESA NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY AS WAYS OF PROMOTION LITERATURE, BOOKS AND READING IN MODERN SOCIETY

Libraries play an important role in the system of public institutions that ensure the right of citizens to information, knowledge, education, use of cultural achievements and public access to information resources, popularization of books and reading as a way of learning about the world, education of educated and comprehensively developed individuals with critical, panoramic thinking. The introduction of systematic measures to promote books and reading in modern society remains an extremely important mechanism of cultural, professional and intellectual enrichment, and in general – the development of human capital, its sustainable economic and social progress, increasing the competitiveness of the state in global political, economic, cultural and information space. The work of libraries, which are constantly looking for innovative forms of their activity, is inextricably linked with the process of raising the level of education and culture. The aim of this work is to examine the innovative experience of cultural and educational projects of Odesa National Scientific Library, which made the library an important center for the promotion of literature, reading and books. Currently, there is no single study that would reveal the experience of unique cultural projects of Odesa National Scientific Library. Thus, the systematization and analysis of information about these innovative projects implemented by the library is incredibly relevant.