The Library Development Department of the S.Baishev OUN carries out informational and methodological activities in order to improve the efficiency and quality of library services to the population of the region.
           Currently, there are 236 libraries of the state system in the region, including 4 regional, 16 city, 12 district, 12 district children's and 192 rural libraries, including 74 model rural libraries and 24 coworking centers.
            The Library Development Department oversees and provides methodological assistance to the libraries of the region, coordinates and directs the work of libraries.
            In order to improve the professional qualifications of librarians, regional conferences, seminars, trainings, workshops, cluster and field seminars, competitions, festivals, promotions are held.
           The department is engaged in publishing activities. Every year, in order to provide methodological assistance to the libraries of the region, methodological manuals are published for the anniversaries of famous Kazakhstani and local figures of literature and art, poets and writers, public and historical figures.
            Since 2022, the Reading Nation project, aimed at increasing the reading activity of the population, has been collecting and statistically monitoring information on the coverage of the population by reading.

The main tasks of the department:
- formation of the library policy of the region;
- analytical research and statistical monitoring of the state and development of librarianship in the region;
- planning, analysis, forecasting of activity of libraries of the region

Head of the department:
Gulya Istleuovna Seitova
tel.:8 705 480 00 65
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