Kharkiv Korolenko State Scientific Library
Kharkiv State Scientific Library of Vladimir Korolenko (Ukrainian: "Kharkhiv'ska derzhavna naukova biblioteka im. V. G. Korolenka") – second by book fund after the Library of Vernadsky in Kyiv, Ukraine. There are 12 reading rooms for 524 places. Annually, to library comes up to 70 thousand documents (books, magazines, newspapers, databases and electronic documents on CD-ROM, etc.) An extensive system of reference – HDNB bibliography contains more than 60 directories and files including electronic, bibliography fund computerized database, printed catalogs and consolidated fund made references. History. Established in 1886 as Kharkiv Public Library. The founders of  the library were: A. Ruhr, Professor A. Kirpichnikov, M.F. Sumtsov and others. Library kept on donations and charge readers for using books. In the first year of operation of the library in the three wing of Nicholas Square (now Square. Constitution) readers served by five employees, the fund totaled 1 700 copies of publications. It published "The first public library catalog Kharkiv (H., 1886.-89s.). These directories published in 1913. Each year the library receives 250 thousand units (up to 1917 received 5 thousand). The library saved 25 thousand rare books: lifetime editions of works of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, ages  15–18 books in foreign languages and the languages of the USSR, among them: "The Apostle", printed by Ivan Fedorov in 1574, "Anfolohion" print. Kyiv Cave. Lavrov, 1619; Shevchenko T. "Haydamaky, SPB, 1841, AS Pushkin and Taras Shevchenko," New Poems ", Leyytsih, 1859. The library is a Republican and educational kult. n.-d. institution in the field of library science and bibliography. In addition to 30 thousand regular readers, the library serves a large number of reader correspondence and mizhbibl. subscribe. Library conducts n.-d. work, methodological issues and bibliographic materials. International relations. The library has extensive international links. The partners HDNB – Library of  Congress, National Library of Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal, Turkey, Cuba, the library of the University of Sapporo (Japan), Sofia (Bulgaria), Lublin and Poznan (Poland), Austrian Institute for the southern and south-eastern Slavs Yang (Vienna), the Goethe Institute (Munich, Germany), Institute of Electrical and electronics engineers (USA), US-Ukrainian Foundation "Saber-Light", International Renaissance Foundation, Friends of Ukraine (Canada), etc. When the department of literature in foreign languages open the Austrian Library, the German reading room and library, the Council of Europe on Human Rights at the Department Ukrainika – Ukrainian-Canadian library with scientific-methodical department, an office library. Kharkiv Korolenko