Nadraga M. Libraries of educational institutions and associations in Lviv 1918 – 1939: organization, structure, activities.

Organizational and legal principles of activities of pedagogical libraries in Lviv in 1920s – 1930s have been analyzed. The peculiarities of acquisition of public and school libraries, and libraries of Ukrainian teachers’, pedagogical and national cultural associations («Shevchenko Scientifi c Society», «Prosvita», «Ukrainian Pedagogical Association», «Mother school», «Teacher community», «Mutual aid of teachers in Ukrainian») have been defi ned. It has been proved that school and gymnasium libraries in Lviv during the interwar period were formed under the infl uence of specialization of the educational institution. These libraries played an important role in the organization of educational process. It has been defi ned that pedagogical libraries of public institutions and state libraries operated within the legal field of The Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the funds of these libraries were completed according to their own concept of development and their material and fi nancial resources. By the specifi c examples, the poor state of provision of education institutions in Lviv with pedagogical literature has been shown; governmental measures aimed at improvement of the material and echnical level of school libraries, renewal of funds, the bases of which in most libraries of Lviv were the books that had been published before the World War I have been defi ned. It has been emphasized that many textbooks that humiliated dignity of Ukrainians, distorted historical past, provoked confl icts as part of the educational process, caused natural indignation of Ukrainian youth and national consciousness of the public of the land in general.