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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 86 (2013) 162 – 164

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Kazarinova Irina N.*
St Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts (SPbGUKI), 2-4 Palace Embankment, St Petersburg, 191186, Russia

Abstract

The author, the guide of bibliotherapeutic sessions, comes out with a unique tool which would help the reader to
control his/her reading activity and stimulate his/her self-knowledge. If applied to analyzing free-
autobiographies, this se
personal life and his/her reading activity.

Keywords: bibliotherapy, stimulation of reading activity, reading in normal and stressful situations, strategy of
the acmeological approach.

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of focusing on the criss-cross influence of major events which the person considers important and which are

autobiographies.

Principles for analyzing variants, principles for studying major events of a

normal and

In library science s
library science researcher, the founder of library psychology N.A. Rubakin, made unique descriptions of
common-folk readers when he employed for the first time these principles along with other scientific
approaches. [1] In 1920s, the theoretical substantiation of principles for studying readers was made by N.A.
Rybnikov, Ia.M. Shafir, E.M. Khlebtsevich, A.M. Toporov. In 1970s, G.M. Goreva sought bringing to light the
opportunities which these principles gave to researchers; she also pointed out their advantages and
disadvantages. [2
following major studies: The Soviet Reader, The Book and Reading in Small Towns.

autobiographies when she guided bibliotherapeutic sessions, and also later, starting from late 1978 and on,
when she studied bibliotherapeutic cases. The author has been employing this approach during a long period
when she conducted research and guided bibliotherapeutic sessions, and she came out with a unique tool for
making research, The Principles of Focusing on Key Moments in 3]

th fellow-
readers, the circle of reading friends whose opinion the person values; the key moments or events which altered

of ways (it may be either a selective kind of reading or a cover-to-

motivation, areas that attract, principles, need to read at different stages of his/her life; the choice of texts which
the person reads professionally, for leisure, rest, compensation, and bibliotherapy.

basis of principles
pon the
Abulkhanova-Slavskaya [4
strategic guideline f

At the initial stage of a bibliotherapeutic session the reader is requested to point out and assess events of
his/her life which resulted in changes in his/her reading activity. At a later stage, the reader is requested to
forecast potential changes in his/her reading activity which a stressful situation might cause. This approach
allows the session guide to map out a strategy which the reader might employ in order to control his/her reading
acti
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between principal stages of his/her personal life and his/her reading activity, as well as the key events which
produced the strongest impact on both. This provides a picture of interrelation between the key events of a

motivation of reading, areas that attract him/her, and later on the entire strategy of his/her reading activity. At
the next stage the respondent is requested to draw a mental picture of potential changes in his/her personal life
and reading activity. This technique stimulates the r -esteem.

Comparison of the obtained data provides a better view both of the whole picture and its details the picture of
actual and forecast reading in the situation of discomfort, the influence of interpersonal communication and
communication with fellow-readers, and the influence of the persons whose opinion on what to read is
important. The obtained empirical material reveals the reading patterns of ordinary and elite readers who find
themselves in a stressful situation or situation of discomfort; the reading may be real-life or forecast.

The principles above may be employed both for collecting empirical data on readers and as a model for
-form autobiographies. When these principles were applied to the
-knowledge, which means that they go together well
with the strategy of the acmeological approach.

The data on the potential forecast reading when the reader finds himself/herself in a stressful situation
which the author obtained plainly show that they mostly coincide with the data on the real-life reading in a
t of this approach during the
process of learning not only revealed changes in the reading activity of high school students of St Petersburg
State University of Culture and Arts, St Petersburg State University of Servicing and Economics, and Russian
New Un

References

[1]Rubakin N.A. Seleted Works. In 2 volumes. Vol. 1. M.: Book, 1975. 224 p. (in Russian)
[2]Kreidenko V.S. Library Studies: Teaching and methods Aid. .: Russian school library association, 2007.
352 p. (in Russian)
[3]Kazarinova I.N. The influence of group activity of public-access libraries on self-
activity/ ng for the degree of candidate of pedagogical sciences. St
Petersburg.: 1997. 15 p. (in Russian)
[4]Abulkhanova-Slavskaya K Life Strategy M., 1991. 320 p. (in Russian)