V monografii obobshcheny tochki zreniya na problemy dosugovoy deyatel'nosti biblioteki, rassmatrivaetsya istoriya dosugovoy deyatel'nosti rossiyskikh bibliotek. Raskryta sushchnost' i soderzhanie kontseptsii bibliotechnogo meropriyatiya, privodyatsya rezul'taty sotsiologicheskogo issledovaniya vostrebovannosti dosugovoy deyatel'nosti i problem eye organizatsii v munitsipal'nykh bibliotekakh Belgorodskoy oblasti. Monografiya prednaznachena dlya spetsialistov sotsial'no-kul'turnoy sfery, v tom chisle bibliotechnykh rabotnikov, a takzhe studentov, prepodavateley, interesuyushchikhsya teoriey i praktikoy bibliotechno-informatsionnoy deyatel'nosti.