Zaremba O. Publishing-and-Library infrastructure of the Ukrainian Emigration of Czechoslovakia Between two Word Wars

The dissertation is devoted to the complex analysis of a publishing-and-library infrastructure of the Ukrainian emigration of Czechoslovakia in the period between two Word Wars. On a wide documentary materials, the researcher depicts main factors, which influenced library and publishing infrastructure in emigration - economical, social and political, state and cultural. This infrastructure's function was to create self-consciousness of the Ukrainian emigration. Its social activity had different levels: high (1920-1925) with intensive development of publishing houses and labraries of Ukrainian emigration; middle (1926-1929) when Ukrainian publishing houses and labraries have been closing, fewer books were published etc; low (1930-1939) when Ukrainian higher educational establishments were closed, NGOs, libraries and publishing houses seized their activities. All that led to the underestimation of Ukrainian books. The reason for that was the economic crisis in Europe and lack of financial resources of the Ukrainian emigration. It was proved in the dissertation that library and publishing infrastructure of the Ukrainian emigration in Czech-Slovakia helped to preserve its national identity as a subject of historical process. National information environment helped to create social and national entity, preserve ethnic mentality in the conditions of forced adaptation towards long staying in a foreign country. Libraries of the Ukrainian emigration as information institutions disseminated national information, influenced the social environment with its cultural, historic and local library network. Publishing houses of NGOs and private groups formed the publishing network of the Ukrainian emigration. The majority of publications made manuals for students, although scientific works in all fields of knowledge by Ukrainians researchers also have been published. In dissertation the role of Ukrainian civic institutions in developing of library and publishing activities was examined. Personal communication interactions helped to preserve the language and printed word traditions by the means of personal communication (lectures, meetings, papers) and activities, such as book publishing, book distributing, and library.