Ideology and libraries

This article deals with the influence of ideological attitudes on librarianship. Here the questions of libraries ideologisation in the Soviet period and participation of libraries in the formation of a communist view are discovered. The questions of deideologization librarianship and rejection of ideological attitudes in the post-Soviet period are considered. Negative consequences of the educational and cultural institutions refusing in participation of youth upbringing are mentioned. Questions about the concept of “the mission of the library” are arised. The transition from the “work with the reader” to the concept of “library services” is analyzed. The facts of nowadays Ukrainian libraries ideologization and the participation of Ukrainian children and youth libraries in the formation of a nationalist view are given. The problems of Russian libraries need in participation of citizenship are identified.