Other Challenges

Children at the Marakiv Children's Library sit around a u-shaped table. 

In Marakiv, the constituents of the Marakiv Children’s Library dealt with constant air raids, destroyed homes and apartments, distance learning, the terrible memories of the occupation, and the trauma of having relatives at the front.

Three children sit with a puzzle and stuffed animals at the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Library for Children. 

The Dnipropetrovsk Regional Library for Children has been wracked with blackouts, loss of heating, and the threat of mass shelling. The library also lost librarians due to the war.

A wooden cutout of a woman wearing a vyshyvanka, whose skirt is made of books, at the Cherkasy Village Library. Unlike real librarians, this wooden librarian is immune to the emotional toils of war. 

In the Cherkasy Village Library, librarians’ lives and wellbeing were heavily impacted by the loss of loved ones and other people they knew.

Programming at the Central State Scientific and Technical Library of the Mining and Metallurgical Complex of Ukraine, including dancing, food plates, and painting. This programming has persisted despite power outages. 

Due to the Russian army’s bombing of Kyiv’s vital infrastructure, the Central State Scientific and Technical Library of the Mining and Metallurgical Complex of Ukraine experienced power outages.

Children holding tote bags painted at the Mrynska Public Library, standing in front of a Ukrainian flag. These programs have persisted despite staffing challenges created by the war. 

The Mryn Public Library for the Nizhyn District of the Chernihiv Region’s work has been hindered by the fact that many librarians have fled the country due to the war.