CALENDAR AS A DOCUMENT AND INFORMATION SOURCE: FUNCTIONS, STRUCTURE AND CONTENT
Authors:   Volyn Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education, Demіaniuk O. , Konon N. ,   Volyn Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education
Published: January 2025

The authors consider and characterize certain facts from the history of the calendars emergence as well as their forms, varieties, use cases, and significance for various fields of knowledge.
The calendar can be viewed from different perspectives: form, structure, informational content, functions, usage context, archives, storage, and so on. It comes in a wide range of formats: by form (paper, electronic), by size (pocket, wall), and by content (general, thematic).
It is important to study its structure, which may include various sections: day of the week, month, year, holiday, and notifications. Calendars are used in different contexts, including personal, professional, and public spheres of life.
Since calendars contain information about important events from the history, socio-political, economic, and cultural life of the residents of the Ukrainian territories, they are an important source of collective and individual local history information.
The publication is accompanied by reference material on the anniversaries of natives of the region, prominent figures whose life and activities are connected with it. The peculiarities of the calendar issues, improvement of the structure, recommendations for enhancing their design are analyzed.
The importance of the “Calendar of Significant and Memorable Dates” (as a source from the field of national culture) is substantiated and attention is paid to its use in various contexts, including personal, professional and public spheres of life.
The calendar is the basis of research as a resource of collective and individual information, it is used in documentary studies as a document that reflects the organization of time, events and the life of society.
The prepared article is the authors’ attempt to analyze the features of the calendar issue as a document in the context of functions and structure of collective and individual information. Despite the fact that the study of various calendars as universal periodical reference publications and a resource of collective and individual information became the object of research by scientists in the fields of library, archive and museum affairs, there is, up to these days, a problem with their systematization, description, and introduction into scientific circulation as sources of information.
Summarizing the work of previous researchers and the experience of creating a wide variety of calendars, we can state that this work is very interesting, creative, responsible, and large-scale. Access to, first of all, “Calendars of significant (memorable) dates” could ensure their status as a national universal reference publication and consolidate their role in the network of social communications.
Key words: library, calendar, document, document studies, source information, information publication, anniversary dates, factual reference-essays, recommended bibliographic guide, innovative form, informational contents, advertising activity.