On March 28, an online meeting was held with a writer, poet, member of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan, former editor-in-chief of the Republican children’s magazine “Moldir bulak”, laureate of the youth award “Serper”, author and translator of books from Bashkir, Uzbek, Tajik and other languages – Sayat Kamshiger.
During an online meeting, young readers recited the poet’s poems, he answered questions about his work, and a dialogue about Kazakh children’s literature was conducted.

        On March 26, within the framework of the Children’s Book Week, a presentation of the promo videos “A Book in My Life” was held.
In the reading room the territory of recommendations and interviews was organized with the participation of the artist, activist of the anti-nuclear movement Kuyukov K. journalist, radio host Strokova A .; director of “Ecomuseum”, ecologist Kalmykov D. and schoolchildren of secondary school №63.
In support of the national action “Reading Generation of Kazakhstan-2021”, the topic of conversation was books and reading.
The children were shown promotional videos of interviews with famous people of the city of Karaganda from various fields of activity, who talked about the most significant books in their lives, and were recommended to read, in their opinion, the most exciting and useful books for children and teenagers.
Based on the results of the interview-poll, a book exhibition-recommendation from the older generation was arranged for readers.
The main message of the event was the attraction to reading as the main tool for achieving personal success and prosperity, enriching your inner world, the formation and development of an active life position.

       As part of the library laboratory “Funny Science” on March 18th, a master class on conducting the experiments “Vulcan” and “Pharaoh’s Serpent” was held in the library.
Experiments with chemicals were spectacular. Children and adults got acquainted with the distinctive features of each of the substances.
These experiments of obtaining reactions in the form of pharaoh’s snakes and a volcano are simple and safe to perform, contribute to the development of children’s ability to observe, analyze, and make a comparative analysis.
Students with their parents were asked to conduct experiments at home – in compliance with all safety rules.
At the end of the library laboratory session, a literature review on entertaining chemistry was conducted.

On the eve of the celebration of International Women’s Day, girls, pupils of the 9 “A” grade of the Al-Farabi School-Gymnasium, gathered at a round table in the library to talk about proper skin and hair care. Masters-make-up artists Aziza Sakhigyzy and Akmarzhan Surapova from the beauty salon “Azizas AS” were invited to the event.
Instilling healthy lifestyle habits, proper body, skin and hair care habits are extremely important in the transitional age. The girls were interested in recipes for homemade face masks, asked about different types of cosmetic procedures.
The conversation with young cosmetologists made it possible to voice the problems of adolescents in the field of hygiene and find the right solution.

2021 marks the 155th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding historical personality, political and public figure, encyclopedic scientist, brilliant publicist and journalist, ethnographer and founder of Abai studies, leader of the Alash party, Alikhan Nurmukhamedovich Bukeikhanov (1866-1937).
As part of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the library prepared a video lecture entitled “A look towards the future”, dedicated to the leader of Alash orda
Alikhan, being a participant in large-scale historical events that took place in our country at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, did a lot for future independence. By his actions and ideas Bukeikhanov predetermined the main vectors of the historical development of Kazakhstan. His gaze was always directed to the future.
The video lecture was organized with the participation of the candidate of historical sciences, associate professor of the department of the history faculty of the Karaganda University named after E. Buketova L.K. Shotbakova.
The lecturer told about the main stages of A. Bukeikhanov’s life, his activities in various spheres in a very exciting way. Special attention was paid to the political fate of the leaders of the Alash movement.
The readers have an opportunity to look at Alikhan in a new way, as a prominent scientist, publicist, ethnographer.
Everyone can get acquainted with the materials of the video lecture on the pages of the library in social networks.

        On March 2nd , within the framework of the week of reading literacy, students of the 5th “A” class of the school-lyceum №57 named after S. Sattarov visited the library.
An excursion “Library without Borders” was held for the children, during which they learned about the history of the creation and activities of the modern children’s library, its diverse fund, reading preferences, and new publications for schoolchildren.
In the halls of the library, children could get acquainted with such book exhibitions as: “Tauelsizdik – elimizdin erlik zholy”, “Tugan olke-tungan tarikh”, “Bir el – bir kitap”
Librarians advised to read popular books among teenagers and talked about how to choose an interesting book, how to behave in the library, shared their knowledge about the correct handling of books.

        Every month, on the second and fourth Sunday in the library, traditional loud readings are held, for little users and not only …
Reading aloud is a popular form that attracts listeners with a special atmosphere of comfort in the “reading room”, with the participation of children and parents not only in the event, but in attracting them to reading and the library.
Another hour of fairy tales and stories “Chitalochka” took place on 28th of February.
Children and adults got acquainted with the work of the children’s writer Boris Zakhoder. They listened with pleasure to the kind, instructive fairy tale “Rusachok”.

        In order to revive national values among young residents of the city of Karaganda, the library continues to conduct cycles of master classes on assembling the dwelling of steppe dwellers – YURTA, which is popular not only in Kazakhstan, but also abroad.
The yurt is one of the centuries-old relics of the Kazakh people, the form and essence, which has been preserved to this day. The whole life of Kazakhs was connected with the yurt. Shanyrak was a family heirloom, passed down from generation to generation. The round shape and mobility of the yurt reflect both protection from the weather and the economic way of life of a nomad.
Children, having familiarized themselves with the history of the invention and its main elements, took part with great interest in its assembly with the help of the ethno-constructor “Yurt”, made from ecologically pure raw materials.

     On the eve of the “Day of Gratitude”, the staff of the Karaganda Regional Children’s Library named after Abai spent an hour of gratitude “A Thousand Thanks”, in which children and parents took part.
They talked about the historical significance of the holiday and the preconditions for its occurrence, that it is a holiday of mercy, friendship and love of all Kazakhstanis to each other.
The event ended with the reading of poems about friendship, mercy and words of gratitude to each other.

On February 22, a live broadcast took place with a young composer, kuishi, a laureate of republican and international competitions, 13-year-old Sagatbek Nurdaulet. Nurdaulet has a talent for creating musical compositions. The young composer already has 10 compositions for performance on dombra.
Nurdaulet, a 7th grade student of the regional special boarding school # 1 for children with visual impairments, he is very interested in the history of the emergence of dombra, the origin of the kyui. He Likes to listen to various legends. During the broadcast, users of the social network Instagram heard from Nurdaulet stories about the history of folk kyuis “Kobik shashkan”, “El aiyrylgan”, “Balbyrauyn”, “Toibastar”, “Aksak ulan”.