The experience of municipal district libraries of the russian federation in creating literary maps

The article deals with the experience of creating specific electronic literary and local history resources in the libraries of the Russian Federation literary maps as a form of literary local history. They allow modern and visual representation of the literary heritage of the region. The article objective is a systematic description of the experience on creating literary maps in libraries in rural municipalities, the most numerous ones in the Russian Federation. To achieve the research purpose, the author selected the most popular resources via search engines Yandex, Google, Rambler. The study of 12 literary maps of the highest demand on a number of criteria allowed the following conclusion: in most cases, the literary and local history resource of the municipal district has a geographic map, which indicates the preference of visual navigation in geographic space; all resources provide information on local writers and poets including photos, bioand bibliographic data; resources contain news feed; more than half of the literary maps contains bibliographic information on local literary publications; all special sites on literary and local history resources contain full-text literary collections; half of the resources contains information on literary awards and competitions. The study has shown that the library community of municipal districts is working on creating literary maps and looking for the best way to preserve and provide literary and local history information. The revealed problems are typical for the majority of unprofessionally designed sites (redundancy and incompleteness of information, unformalized texts, lack of internal links, settlement on free hostings and, as a result, lots of aggressive advertising, etc.).

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