Abai and Library: online lecture

On August 3, 2021, cultural workers of East Kazakhstan Regional Universal Abai Library held a ZOOM online lecture entitled “Abai and Library” for the Akmola regional television.

The event was timed to the birthday of the great Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbayev. Workers of the Akmola regional television got acquainted with an overview of books stored in the rare fund of our library, which served as spiritual food for the poet, and also learned about Abai's social activities, a special emphasis was placed on the rules of “Karamola erezhesi”, compiled by Abai Kunanbayev.

The library specialist also spoke about the “Spiritual Center of Abai” opened in our library in 2013, on the eve of the 130th anniversary of the poet, as well as the book series “Abai Alemi”, which has been published since 2018 within the framework of the Rukhani Zhangyru Project on the initiative of Akim of East Kazakhstan region Danial Akhmetov.

The participants of the meeting also got familiar with the catalog of rare editions “All wisdom in books”, which the library staff published in Kazakh, Russian and English languages, dedicated to the 175th anniversary of Abai Kunanbayev.

Following the lecture, the library specialist familiarized the audience with the events to be held within the framework of promoting the poet's creativity.