Kemerovo Regional Scientific Library

On June 15, 1920, at a general meeting of members of the Russian Communist Party, the Bolsheviks decided to transfer fiction to the general education library ^[1] , which was called from 1920–1925. - Shcheglovskaya city library (until 1932 - the city of Kemerovo bore the name Shcheglovsk). The initial fund of the library was about 300 books, and it consisted of 2 people ^[2] . The library is located in the Palace of Labor.

1925 - the library was renamed Shcheglovskaya central city library named after Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov . The library fund consisted of 3000 copies of books.

1926 - to solve methodological issues, a city association of librarians was created on the basis of the central library. In order to maintain the status of the central library, the county department of national education, upon receipt of literature, was obliged to transfer one copy. In turn, the Moscow Association of State Book and Journal Publishers replenished the library fund.

1932 - is named Kemerovo City Central Library. Ya. M. Sverdlov

1943 - the library received the status - regional. From this year the library was included in the list (according to the order of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR ) to receive a paid copy of the book. The library fund was 32 thousand copies. Due to the lack of space for evacuated factories, the entire library fund was moved to the outskirts of the city to a small wooden house consisting of three rooms, which corresponded to the size of the district library ^[3] . In the same year, the cataloging department was created in the library.

1957 - the department of patents and standards is opened.

1959 - a local history division was created at the bibliographic department. The library begins to publish a quarterly bibliographic index "Literature on the Kemerovo region."

1960 - library book collection amounted to 378448 copies.

1963 - the construction of a new library building was completed. The building has 400 reading rooms, a hall for reading mirkofilma , a ligaphone study, and also 11 specialized halls and departments, including an art department with a music library .

1965 - the library book collection is more than 600 thousand copies.

1967 - the library publishes annual calendars of significant and memorable dates ^[4] .

1972 - the library is assigned a category - a scientific library.

June 10, 1987 the library was named after Russian poet Fedorov Vasily Dmitrievich

1992 - transition to automated information processing and the creation of a local history database "Kuzbass".

2010 - the library collection numbers 2.35 million copies, of which 2.33 million are printed publications. 1,8 thousand - electronic, 16,1 thousand audio and video and 48,4 thousand copies in foreign languages ​​and languages ​​of peoples of the Russian Federation.

There are rare books in the library, such as: handwritten by Mesyatselov , the volume of the complete collection of all works of L. Sumarokov (1781), the book “Description of the Land of Kamchatka” ^[5] - Krashenikova S. P. , the book “Siberia. Nature. People, life ”- P. Golovacheva (1786). Creations of Adam Smith , first volume (1802). Yadrintsev N. M. “Siberia as a colony” (1882).

• The official site of the Kemerovo Regional Scientific Library. V.D. Fedorova