The National library of Ukraine for children is a main children's library of Ukraine. It is national depositary of children's literature, scientific, reference-bibliographic, information and consultation centre for 1321 specialized children, near 22 thousand schools and nearly 18 thousand rural libraries, servicing children.
Its collections number near 440 thousand copies of books, journals, recordings, compact-disks, film-strips and movies. Important component part of the library collections is a collection of obligatory copy. Its purpose is to collect and preserve for descendants with maximum fullness the whole repertoire books for the children, published in Ukraine. The collection of rare books, in which more than 17 thousand units of keeping - booksand periodic publishing for the children are concentrated is unique.
More than 18 thousand of children and specialists in the field of children's book and children's reading use library services annually. It is an organizing centre of children's leisurein Kiev. There are a free readers' associations on interest: puppet theatre, dramatic studio "Ovation", a connoisseur of Ukrainian art circle "Source", literary studio, circles of soft toy "Fantastic needle" and folk singing, fairy-tale drawing room "Com