LIBRARY - CULTURE - SOCIETY
INFORMATIZATION - RESOURCES - TECHNOLOGIES
- Many scientific documents that do not have a printed form are published on the websites of scientific institutes and in open information systems
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis of unpublished scientific documents created in social and humanitarian institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences was carried оut.
- It is proposed to organize information and library services for unpublished documents using the information and reference system
- The efficiency of methods used for online subject searching has been of interest for library community for a long time.
- The most important issue seems to be the functioning of classification systems in the complex of linguistic tools of the online catalogue. It is necessary to use all fragments of classification indices as independent search terms.
- The subject search in the online environment occurs in different directions. It is necessary to develop approaches allowing the combination of different information retrieval query languages, key words, thesauruses, subject headings, and the languages of hierarchical classifications.
- The most promising approach is to form a common space of related open data from different libraries.
BOOK - READING - READER
For a long time, various programs about books and reading appeared on TV and then disappeared. They were lost in the TV broadcasting and programs among other programs, cinema films and TV movies. And when programs were closed, they were quickly forgotten. The purpose of this article is to reveal all such TV programs. The author studied the period of more than 50 years. The article gives the names of TV shows about books and reading, belonging to certain channels, and the time of airing. As possible, the author discloses their intent, concepts, content and the names of TV presenters. The sources for the article were weekly bulletins about TV programs, and in the last 30 years — also articles, notes, interviews in professional and general periodicals.
In Soviet times, there were TV programs “In the world of books”, “Bookshop”, “Reading circle”. In 1978—1979, the TV presenter of the “Reading circle” was N.M. Sikorsky, then Director of the V.I. Lenin State Library of the USSR. In post-Soviet Russia, there got more broadcasts of that kind. These were both educational programs (“Book yard”, “Graphoman”, “Exlibris”, “Book storehouse”) and numerous commercial ones (“Bookstore”, “Home library”, “Bibliomania”, “World of books with Leonid Kuravlev”, “Book news”, “Book world”). The author gives more details are tells about the program “Graphoman”, which was invented and presented by A.N. Shatalov, the poet, critic and publisher. The program originated in 1994 and was broadcast on various channels for more than 10 years. Programs of the recent years are “Book for breakfast”, “Various Readings”, “Words order”, “Figure of speech”, “Pro-Reading”, “Book measurement”, “What to read?”. For over half a century, television actively supported the initiators and creators of various programs that promoted books and reading. This activity has slightly declined in recent years. But viewers continue to learn from the TV screen about new books and watch events in the book industry.
IMAGES - PEOPLE - DESTINIES
The scientific legacy of Emilia Konstantinovna Bespalova, well-known Russian bibliographer, theorist and historian of bibliography, includes more than 200 works. She laid her own line in theoretical and methodological understanding of bibliography science and activity. “Formation of Bibliographic Thought in Russia (Up to the 60s of the 19th century)” is the last fundamental work of E.K. Bespalova; it describes the philosophical and methodological explication of bibliography as a naturally occurring phenomenon of information nature. There was formed unique method of analysis that considered historical and bibliographic facts in the context of professionalization of bibliographic activity. The analysis of bibliographic phenomena applied by E.K. Bespalova can be generally described as combination of modern theoretical knowledge on bibliography, methodology of system-activity approach and philosophy of historical process. The historical-theoretical method of studying bibliographic activity at different stages of its development allows a modern researcher to see the institutional significance of bibliographic processes as one of the full-fledged components of the global information picture.
Analyzing the initial, original object of bibliographic activity — a book, the scientist proves that it was the process of replication and therefore the need to create the secondary structure of a book in a form of title page, which made a book to be the “book”. Through the concept of “book” E.K. Bespalova also traces interaction and sequential connection of three systems — “knowledge”, “book” (“document”) and “bibliographic document”. From the point of view of cognitive potential of the history of bibliography, bibliographical guide is of historical and theoretical interest being the result of activity and the object of desobjectivation in it of the conceptual theoretical-methodological and historical representations of authors, composers and doers of the history of bibliography. As the main differentiation of bibliographic products, Bespalova puts forward the division into timer bibliographic subsystems (reflection of current, retrospective, prospective primary flow) and chorographic subsystems that restrict documentary flows by the territorial and linguistic principle. The historical method by E.K. Bespalova reveals a wide range of theoretical foundations that enrich modern bibliography science.
HISTORICAL PRACTICES AND RECONSTRUCTIONS
- The educational activities of pre-revolutionary Russia, viewed through the prism of libraries, and the culture of reading books are topics that are of particular research interest in the 21st century. Each book, manuscript catalog or surviving reporting document of that period is a living priceless cultural monument, not erased pages of a bygone time.
- As enlightenment dominated the cultural intellectual space of the city in the 19th — early 20th century, the boundaries of the book environment “expanded”, capturing people of different class status and professional characteristics.
- The 19th century occupies a special place in the history of Kazan culture, because it was accompanied by the rise of national education and scientific achievements, the flourishing of the arts. The transformation of Kazan made it a major center on the outskirts of European Russia, with unique "imperial spirit" and "cultural dualism" as the intersection and fusion of two cultures, two religions.
The range of problems related to the research of regional features of librarianship development has not lost its significance, it urgently requires further consideration. The study of libraries as an integral part of the culture of Kazan and the results of their educational activities will allow identifying and understanding the unique experience of book veneration, national library construction and the culture of book reading in the region, in order to preserve it in the memory of further generations. Identification of patterns and contradictions in the organization of book service in the specific conditions of the national Republic will allow to see the comprehensive picture of the historical-book era from perspective of “library — society”. The author underlines the necessity to streamline and structure scientific information about the libraries of Kazan in the middle of the 19th — early 20th century with a view to its further extraction and use by local historians, librarianship historians and other humanitarian broad specialists in their scientific research.
The phenomenon of libraries of public and social institutions of Kazan is an important page in the regional librarianship. Available publications on the topic cover only some of its fragments. Meanwhile, this component of the regional historical and cultural stratum contains rich material that needs further study and introduction into scientific circulation. The following information, extracted from various sources and being only introduction to the topic, is evidence of this.
The author studied the development of library and educational activities through the prism of libraries of public and social institutions of Kazan. The research material allows concluding that before the Russian revolution there was created a very extensive, though disordered system of libraries of public and social organizations.
The research is carried out on the basis of the Collection for Library Science of the National Library of Russia (NLR), the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts and the Department of Tatar and Local Lore Literature of the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan. The author studied the information, reflected in the electronic catalogues of the NLR, the Russian State Library and the Mayakovsky Central City Public Library in St. Petersburg, materials of scientific and practical conferences, publications in professional literature and archival documents. This study summarizes the results of this work. Based on the studied sources, the author revealed the trends of pre-revolutionary library-enlightenment activities as national, cultural and informational heritage of the region.
The article considers organization of information and library services for scientists of the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences during the formation of academic science in the Urals in 1932—1940. The author discusses the activities of the Library of the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Central Scientific Library of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Central Scientific Library of the UB RAS) against the background of the development of the Branch, which experienced repeated attempts to reform and eliminate in the first years of its existence. Financial and personnel difficulties of those years affected both the activities of the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences as a whole and the development of the Library. The turning point in the history of the Library of the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences was its integration in 1939 into the Ural Institute of Physics and Technology, which had considerable material resources and personnel potential.
Based on the library and previously unknown archival documents, the author makes the conclusion on the simultaneous formation of both collections — the Branch library and the Institute library, which later formed the unified library stock of the Library of the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The article studies the development of each of these collections during 1932—1940. The author describes contribution of individual scientists to the development of the Library, the history of the appearance of some private collections in its holdings. The article provides information about the first employees of the institution.
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