Penza, 15 August 2017. PenzaNews. The cultural and educational project "Literary bivouac", which is being implemented in Penza, occupied the first place in the 6th open All-Russian contest of professional skills "Inspector-2017" in the nomination "Reading of 21st century. Best projects of municipal libraries" as a result of Internet voting.

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The second place in the category was occupied by the project "Present books with love!" from Rostov, and the third – by the project "Reading without rules" from Angarsk.

As it was reported on the website of a centralized Penza library system, during the voting period – on August 3-13 – "Literary bivouac" gained over 6,000 votes.

The nomination "Reading of 21st century. Best projects of municipal libraries" featured 12 projects altogether.

The next stage of the contest is voting of experts. They will make a decision studying the whole list of the participants.

A short-list, which as it is expected will be made public on August 18, will be defined with the help of the experts' opinion and the Internet audience.

The contest "Inspector" was organized by the Federal Press and Mass Communications Agency, the Russian Book Union, the general directorate of the Moscow international book exhibition, and the magazine "Book Industry".

In 2017, the contest is conducted in 16 nominations including a new one – "Blogger of the Year".