“Orthodox Christian libraries” course in the system of education for librarians-information technicians (based on experience of the Institute of Arts and Culture of Tomsk State University).

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2. Original titleУчебный курс “православные библиотеки” в системе подготовки специалистов библиотечно-информационной сферы (из опыта института искусств и культуры томского государственного университета)
3. Language term Russian
4. lemma author Asliturk, Miriam
5. lemma category Ecumenism and dialogue > Education - Ethics - Modes of interaction > Integration
6. Publication date 20-01-2017
7. lemma work Кузоро, Кристина Александровна [Author]. Учебный курс “православные библиотеки” в системе подготовки специалистов библиотечно-информационной сферы (из опыта института искусств и культуры томского государственного университета
8. lemma manifestations Вестник Томского государственного университета. Культурология и искусствоведение
9. Keywords Libraries - Library Sciences - Higher Education - Russian Universities - Russian Orthodox Church - Historiography
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    1. <p>Кузоро, Кристина Александровна (2015). Учебный курс «Православные библиотеки» в системе подготовки специалистов библиотечно-информационной сферы (из опыта института искусств и культуры Томского государственного университета). <em>Вестник Томского государственного университета. Культурология и искусствоведение. </em>Retrieved from: <a href="http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/uchebnyy-kurs-pravoslavnye-biblioteki-v-sisteme-podgotovki-spetsialistov-bibliotechno-informatsionnoy-sfery-iz-opyta-instituta">http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/uchebnyy-kurs-pravoslavnye-biblioteki-v-sisteme-podgotovki-spetsialistov-bibliotechno-informatsionnoy-sfery-iz-opyta-instituta</a> <br /><br /><br /></p>
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    1. The author poses the question of the organization of libraries with Orthodox Christian literature. She explains that Orthodox libraries have always been an important part of Russian culture. At the moment, the desire to open libraries in churches and monasteries meets with a number of questions: how to organize the space in the library, form its foundation and create a reference and search tools. There is also often the requirement to work with the funds of the literature on religion in secular libraries. Therefore, there is a need for specialists to be able to give competent answers to all these questions.

       The author thus looks into the issue of the special education that librarians require to work in such libraries. Professor S.P. Funtikova at the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts was the first to develop a course on Orthodox Christian literature for librarians in 1997. Currently the course is also taught in the Tomsk State University. The aim of the discipline is to teach how to organize Orthodox Christian libraries that would emphasize the historical value of the Russian Orthodox Christian heritage.

       In the framework of this course the following themes are studied: different types of religious libraries and sources; types of Orthodox Christian literature; classification technics; methods of work with readers; history of Orthodox Christian libraries (from Russian medieval monastery libraries to the present time); history of the destruction of Orthodox Christian libraries after the Revolution and their revival in the 1990s. The course studies Siberian libraries, old believers, Russian Orthodox publishing houses and necessary characteristics for Orthodox christian libraries employees. Tomsk Orthodox metropolitanate has a special place in the course as well as questions relating to public relations and the role of the clergy and Orthodox christian libraries.

       Students also have excursions to the Bogoroditse-Alekseevsky monastery, Church museum at Tomsk religious seminary and the Tomsk regional museum as part of the curriculum. The role of Internet for libraries increases every year and students study how to work with electronic Orthodox libraries. Therefore new Orthodox Christian libraries are able to guide readers in the currently available vast field of religious literature. The author concludes that these courses help save the ages-old tradition of Orthodox Christian libraries in Russia and encourage the moral and ethic progress of the society.