Cultural-leisure activities of libraries:document f ow analysis

The signif cant experience of the library as a social institution in the implementation of cultural-leisure activities is noted.The importance of cultural-leisure activities of modern library practice and the relevance of its theoretical understanding isemphasized. On the basis of bibliographic and full-text information resources (electronic catalogs, abstract journals, bibliographicindexes, specialized databases etc.), the analysis of documentary f ow associated with cultural-leisure activities of libraries wascarried out. Its dynamics, typical structure and content characteristic are revealed. It is shown that the core of publications are articles; the professional periodicals, which are the most popular platforms for the productive ref ection of the research topic,are indicated. The thematic characteristic of the documentary f ow as a whole is presented in 12 main aspects considered inpublications on the cultural-leisure activities of the library are outlined. Particularly developed aspects of the cultural-leisureactivities of public libraries have been discovered and the most promising research questions have been identif ed.