Local history information project of civic and patriotic focus of the Brest Central City Library named after A. S. Pushkin «In stone, and in bronze, and in the memory of the heart»

The article is devoted to the local history information project of civic and patriotic orientation of the Brest Central City Library named after A. S. Pushkin «In stone, and in bronze, and in the memory of the heart». It substantiates the relevance of the development of virtual space by the library in order to promote and popularize local history knowledge. The described section "Brest" of the official website of the library is a block of local history resources of its own generation in the form of factual and bibliographic data on local historical and contemporary realities, fellow countrymen and personalities connected with Brest, which has been accumulated and systematized by the library and its branches for several decades. The main attention in the work is paid to the analysis of the library project "In stone, and in bronze, and in the memory of the heart", created in 2020 and currently operating, which is reflected in a separate section of the site "Projects" and includes only a few thematic blocks of the section "Brest". Local history information resources of the project "In stone, and in bronze, and in the memory of the heart" are analyzed, its structure is described in detail. It is shown that the project is a kind of solution to the search for optimal forms and methods that effectively promote knowledge about the historical and cultural heritage of the native land, promotes interest, satisfies numerous increasing requests of a wide range of users concerning historical knowledge about the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 in the Brest region.

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