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The author proposes the results of her many-year research in preparation the database for a module of an interactive map of the Holodomor of the Project Mapa. Initially geoinformation (GIS) technologies began to be used in agriculture, administration, geodesy, sociology, demography. Eventually these approach began to be used in history. Ukrainian historians have been implementing GIS into their researchs and to applyit to study number of topics. These are: the projects launched by Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (was not completed), the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide (Museum), L’viv Section of the Institute of Archeography. The projects of the two latter institutions seem to be in progress (places of mass burial of the Holodomor victims; Ukrainian victims of Volhynia and towns of Belz voievodship of 15 – 17 thcenturies). Mapa project began to be elaborated from the beginning of the 2010 s. Initially it was planned to be the resource for representation of demographic and economic data. Gradually the project was broadened to include oral history. Now Mapa includesa set of interactive maps, divided into two groups: Historical atlas (the Great Famine module as a part of it) and Contemporary Atlas (includes 10 modules). The author has selected 5 thematic sections: confiscation of food and cattle; cannibalism; resistance; strategies for survival; feeding in a collective farm/village. The article provides explanations for every group and ties to them. 19 printed and online sources has become the source for the map. Considering impossibility to include into the map all data available, the module Testimonies allows seeing amount of cases in selected five groups, making estimation on higher levels.

The paper covers the activity performed at V.O. Sukhomlynskyi State Scientific and Pedagogical Library of Ukraine, which functions as a coordination, Хемчян І. Науково-методичне забезпечення діяльності мережі освітянських бібліотек ISSN 2224-9516 Наукові праці Національної бібліотеки України імені В. І. Вернадського. 2019. Вип. 56 scientific and methodological centre within the system of education libraries under the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine during the period from 2000 to 2019. Here are the main directions of scientific and methodical work performed in the library: methodical study of changes taken place in certain libraries as well as the system of education libraries in general; development of conceptual, organisational, administrative, regulatory and methodological documents; providing specialists of education libraries with methodological and advisory assistance (including remote help) on library work; expert-diagnostic visits to education libraries for the purpose of library management consulting; creation of the system of methodical publications covering all areas of activity performed by education libraries; maintaining the functioning of the system of education libraries as a single system; introduction of library innovations in the work of education libraries; improvement of professional skills of the specialists of education libraries using different forms and methods; providing access to information resource on librarianship, bibliography studies, bibliology, documentation studies, and information activity in order to meet the professional needs of librarians, educators, and students; scientific cooperation with leading libraries of other systems, departments, institutions, and organisations, regardless form of ownership (including foreign establishments), etc. In the future, the scientific and methodical work of V. O. Sukhomlynskyi State Scientific and Pedagogical Library of Ukraine will be focused on searching for, systematising and transforming progressive knowledge in the field of library science, and on generating new ideas that will further the innovative development of education libraries.