Honouring the 100-th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding Ukrainian teacher-humanist V. O. Sukhomlynskyi, the 39th session of the General Conference of UNESCO stated the problem of study of V. O. Sukhomlynskyi's activity as a strategy of V. O. Sukhomlynskyi State Scientific and Pedagogical Library of Ukraine. The following aim of the study is realised in the article: having analysed annual reports and materials available on the Library web portal and in the reading room of V. O. Sukhomlynskyi's collection, and research papers, the author revealed organisational and content principles of the SSPL activity regarding the development of study of V. O. Sukhomlynskyi's heritage. It is argued that the SSPL being a structural part of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine carries out research, information, and socio-cultural work dedicated to the study of V. O. Sukhomlynskyi's activity as a topical direction of pedagogy. The following used forms are characterised: carrying out cultural and educational activities (excursions and thematic lectures; dramatisation of fairy tales and stories; exhibitions of children's creative works on V. O. Sukhomlynskyi's fictions; reading fairy tales and stories by children and librarians), and theoretical and practical activities (round tables, seminars, conferences, library section within the framework of pedagogical readings), and creation of information resources, databases, and bio bibliographic indexes. The information on the results in the area of study of V. O. Sukhomlynskyi's activity is available on the Library web portal. The leading role of the SSPL in the development of study of V. O. Sukhomlynskyi's activity within the information space is proved. The author considers it necessary to understand on an interdisciplinary basis the information resources created by other libraries and educational institutions in order to study and popularise the ideas of the outstanding Ukrainian teacher under conditions of the development of the New Ukrainian School.

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The article reveals the ideas of a prominent Ukrainian teacher, scientist, children’s writer, director of Pavlysh secondary school Vasyl Oleksandrovych Sukhomlynsky regarding reading as a means of forming a culture of a child’s spiritual needs (to read, to study, to work, to defend the Motherland, etc.). The system of interconnected components of the process of forming the culture of pupils’ spiritual needs (quality teaching of literature, extracurricular reading, literary and creative circles, etc.) developed by the teacher has been characterized. These ideas of a humanist teacher are promising for further study and creative use in school practice.

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