Popularization of Materials about Life and Creative Work of A.I. Solzhenitsyn in the Ryazan Regional Library

Public libraries, realizing their social functions, contribute to the social and cultural development of the region. One of their main functions is education, dissemination of knowledge that forms the culture of person and worldview attitudes. The article reveals the long-term activity of the Ryazan regional universal scientific library named after Gorky on the information resources representing the pages of life and work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize laureate in literature, Honorary citizen of Ryazan, the world famous writer and publicist, educator, public and political person. The author reveals the significance of creative work of A.I. Solzhenitsyn in the public life of Ryazan and the region; analyses the experience of library work with the documents from the library holdings. As example, the author presents educational projects implemented in the partnership with organizations and institutions of the city: the Scientific and educational centre for the study of heritage of A.I. Solzhenitsyn, the Ryazan Solzhenitsyn society, as well as with writers and local historians. The article considers classification of types of resources on A.I. Solzhenitsyn, including personal documentary sources of the writer’s life, the documents of book collections of libraries, bibliographic databases, catalogues and card files, electronic resources created by librarians; provides examples of the above resource groups, including electronic ones collected through partner organizations and posted on the website of the Ryazan regional universal scientific library named after Gorky.