Young keen readers’ club in Penza

On holidays pupils of the school № 9 visited Penza Regional Access Center to the Presidential Library’s resources, which is operating in Lermontov Penza Regional Library. 

The center’s staff told children about the process of manuscript making, the publication technology at the dawn of the printing era, and showed videos. Children were acquainted with various book elements and artistic means of book design.

Children took part in a quest which gave a chance to get the certificate of membership of young keen readers’ club - "KLYUCH". Participants successfully passed a number of tests. Teams worked with the Presidential Library’s electronic reading room, studied the website's features and discovered the history of creation of the first printed book in Russia - "The Apostle" dated 1564. By having successfully completed the tasks of "Word string" stage participants demonstrated good knowledge of book elements. "Living letters" gymnastics was also animated: children used imagination and physical skills to present letters and make up words.

Penza region is in spotlight of the «Penza region: Pages of history» collection available on the website of the Presidential library. The collection includes archival documents, essays, studies and statistical materials which reflect the demographic, geographic, socio-economic, socio-political and other aspects of history of Penza region between the end of the 18th century and the first third of the 20th century. The current statute of Penza region is available, too.