Penza's young readers learned how books are printed

Late May, employees of the Penza Regional Center of Access to the Presidential Library’s resources for third-graders of school № 64 held a book publishing lesson.

The guys were shown videos about the process of creating a handwritten book and the technology of making publications at the dawn of the era of typography, told what a bookmark and flyleaf, cover and binding, letters and capitals are.

Then the pupils became participants in an unusual quest. Before the start of the game, the guys broke up into two groups with the help of a secret note, which was used to encrypt the names of the teams “Knigochei” and “Iskateli”.

The "Knigochei" studied the possibilities of the electronic reading room of the Presidential Library, looking for materials about the first printing court in Moscow. Thus, the rare publication “Ivan Fedorov” reflected the first printed book “Apostle” emerged in Russia in 1564.

The “Iskateli” have guessed all the parts of the book, encrypted in the task “A string of words”. This gave them the opportunity to work with the letters of the first Slavic alphabet and solve the phrase, encoded by a verb.

After completing the tasks, the teams collected all the parts of the "magic" key from the "secret room", where a surprise was waiting for them - the children's encyclopedia of the beginning of the 20th century.

All the participants of the cognitive game joined the Club of inquisitive young readers and received colorful certificates.

The Presidential Library’s portal features the collection “Penza Region: Pages of History”. It includes archive documents, essays, studies and statistical materials covering demographic, geographical, socio-economic, socio-political and other aspects of the history of the region of the late 18th - first third of the 20th century as well as the current Statute of Penza Region.

Based on materials of http://liblermont.ru.