On 24 December, the final event of the creative workshop ‘Creativity Without Limits’ took place in Donetsk Oblast, with the theme for 2025 being ‘Book Blogger in the Library’. The workshop was initiated and organised by the Donetsk Oblast Library for Children.
Twelve video works were presented for the final screening, in which participants demonstrated different approaches to book recommendations: from personal reading stories to creative video formats. The works showed that librarians are confidently mastering new communication tools and looking for their own style of communicating with readers in the digital space.
During the event, the participants' videos were screened and a brief discussion of the works took place. In addition to the jury's evaluation, the audience was also involved in determining the best entries. All those present were able to vote via Google Form in the audience choice category ‘The Book That Spoke’. Through joint efforts, based on personal preferences, two works were selected (two due to an equal number of votes): Valentina Smirnova, a specialist with the project ‘The Book That Found Me’ (Girnytska City Library - a branch of the Kurakhiv City Council's Centralised Library System), and another winner - Lyubov Ivanivna Babakova, a specialist at the Drobyshevskaya Village Library - a branch of the Public Library of the Lyman Territorial Community, who presented a creative work: a book poster ‘Who I Live With’.
Based on the jury's evaluation, the winner of the creative workshop was Olga Volodymyrivna Shuman, a leading librarian at the Kostyantynivka Central City Public Library, with a video review of Tamara Gorikha Zernia's book ‘Dotsia.’
In 2026, the new theme of the creative workshop will be ‘The Media Face of the Library,’ which will involve further work on shaping the modern public image of the library through the personality of the librarian.