On May 26, a new meeting was held on the television platform of the Saryarqa TV channel for college students of the city with an artist, graphic designer from the city of Nur-Sultan Aigerim Karibayeva. The talented artist is also the winner of the 100 New Faces of Kazakhstan project, an illustrator, a brand designer for the products of the Rakhat confectionery factory, an author of the Expo-Dubai-2022 merch partner, and the creator of the ART-AIKA project.
In a conversation with children, the guest of the TV program “Formula of Success” told that she has been drawing all her life. She began to work, while still in her second year at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts. T.K. Zhurgenov. The first major success and first fame came after she drew the image of the ancestress of Umai for the women’s entrepreneurship forum Umai Global Summit. Then she was invited to the exhibition for the first time, and the artist realized that her work does not leave people indifferent.
The social network Instagram helped Aigerim gain people’s love and popularity, here she keeps a personal diary, all her new works appear. They intertwine different eras of the life of the people, national flavor and modernity. “Ethnomodernism is a mix of everything that I love: our traditions, my thoughts, emotions, experiences,” the artist explained.
The illustrator’s paintings are about the main thing – about the family, about the female share in this world, about maternal happiness, which the girl herself was able to experience twice already.
The guys were interested in the first works of the artist, her idols in the field of art, difficulties in the profession, family relationships and many others. Aigerim frankly told the children about her childhood and advised: “Find people who inspire you, show great willpower in achieving your goals. Life will test you more than once, so do not back down and find something that you will cherish.
Work – always and everywhere, no matter what, under any conditions – this is the formula for Aigerim Karibaeva’s success. And she advises young people, first of all, to develop the habit of working. A professional does not wait for inspiration, his creativity is a continuous process, and inspiration comes only during work.
At the end of the program, each participant in the filming received a memorable gift from the illustrator, and the best question, according to the guest, was from a student of the Karaganda Vocational College Victoria Parakhina, for which the author of the question received posters from the artist and candy from the Rakhat factory with design by Aigerim Karibaeva .

The library hosted an evening-requiem “Victims of Repression”, dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression with the participation of students of the Karaganda Higher Humanitarian College.
The political repressions of the 20th century are one of the saddest pages in our history, shedding the blood and tears of thousands and millions of innocent people. In the tragic years, thousands of innocent people became “enemies of the people” and died.
It is important for the younger generation to know about the sad, tragic fate of man, so that the tragic events of the past days will not be repeated in the future.
During the event, documentaries “Kaigydan kalangan karlag”, “Kazakh kasireti” were shown, books and periodicals about the victims of repressions were presented.
Tursynbek Albina, a researcher at the Museum of Victims of Political Repressions in Dolinka, shared invaluable facts from the lives of political prisoners.

On May 20, within the framework of the library laboratory «Funny Science», an experiment «Secrets of the Magnet» was conducted. The children learned what secrets a magnet holds in itself, what force attracts objects to a magnet. In a fascinating way, we studied the properties of a magnet and the ability to influence other objects, found out how people use magnets in their lives.
At the end of the exciting lesson, the children were reviewed books on the topic «Amazing experiences at home».

On the Day of Cultural and Art Workers of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the head of the department for acquisition, processing of documents and storage of the main fund Musina Oral Maratovna was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the akim of the Karaganda region and the librarian of the department for servicing middle and high school students Ibraim Zhaina Ibraimovna was awarded a letter of thanks from the Department of Culture, Archives and Documentation of the Karaganda region .
The Karaganda regional branch of the Public Association “Kazakhstan branch trade union of workers of culture, sports, tourism and information” awarded the deputy head of the library Kaliyeva Kalkatai Magievna with a Certificate of Honor for her contribution to the development of culture and the preservation of spiritual heritage.
Congratulations to colleagues on well-deserved victories!

May 19 in the regional children’s library named after Abai had a meeting with the famous children’s writer, laureate of the International Literary Prize “Alash”, Cultural Worker of the Republic of Kazakhstan Tolymbek Abdraim. The event was organized within the framework of the regional library project “We create for you, children!”, dedicated to Children’s Day in Kazakhstan.
The aim of the project is to introduce children and adolescents to reading modern Kazakhstani literature through acquaintance with its authors. As part of this project, it is planned to organize a series of meetings with famous children’s writers, poets, playwrights and illustrators of children’s books.
One of the first guests of the project was a children’s writer, holder of the badge “Ybyray Altynsarin” of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, laureate of the International Literary Prize “Alash” Tolymbek Abdraim. The writer’s Peru owns 10 collections of short stories and novellas, most of which are addressed to children. One of the collections – “Alabuga aulagan kun” in 2021 was included in the list for general reading as part of the republican action “Bir el – bir kitap”.
Meetings with the writer were held not only in Karaganda, but also in the Abai and Bukharzhyrau regions. In total, more than 100 people took part in the events – students of the middle classes of urban and rural schools of the region.

The library coaching center “I am a person” continues its trainings.
The next training “Omir sure bіlgenderdin barlygy, tym talantty adamdar” was held with the participation of a teacher of Karaganda University named after academician E.A. Buketov, psychologist Saltanat Smagultegi.
During the training, the guest told the participants about the mechanisms of creative thinking, offered a number of practical tasks, asking many interesting questions. The children took an active part in the event and received answers to many questions.
At the end of the event, the coach-trainer S. Smagultegi handed over her books to the actively participating children.