The Circle of Reading of the Orenburg Province Residents in the ХIХ - early ХХ Centuries
T.N. Savinova
Keywords: circle of reading in a province, library science history, the Orenburg Cossack army, libraries of the Orenburg zemstvo, сulture at the end of the XIX - the beginning of the XX centuries
Pages: 103-106
Abstract
The paper deals with questions of the Orenburg province inhabitants' demand for books and periodicals at the end of the XIX - the beginning of the XX centuries which was in direct dependence to the readers' educational level, financial condition, their literary tastes as well as to the form of book distribution - by subscription, through the book trade, libraries. Having studied the information about the library stock of the Orenburg Cossack army the author concludes that for the most part it was composed of the hardcopy fiction lacking scientific and specialized literature; stresses the fact that the demand for periodicals was driven by advertising along with political situation in the country.
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