CULTURAL-EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE MARI ASSR LIBRARIES DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
Historic analysis of library science and cultural-educational work in the Mari ASSR during the war has been carried out; reorganization of library activities at the beginning of the war and personnel development have been shown. Special attention has been paid to the work of the libraries in giving lectures and talks, reading newspapers and Sovinformbureau reports aloud, holding readers' conferences, literary and thematic soirees, group listening to the radio programs, arranging stalls with central and local newspapers, supporting the battlefront. The work among young people has been analyzed; the arrangement of itinerant libraries has been considered.