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On May 11, the National Library's holiday, the memory of its patrons St. Cyril and St. Methodius is celebrated. It is well-known why in the modern times the church feast of the two saints divided from the civil and state holiday on May 24, for which the name of Day of Bulgarian Letters and Culture and the Bulgarian Alphabet was recently appropriated. Surprisingly, there is insufficient evidence about when and how the teachers of the Slavs began to be commemorated on 11th of May. Based on reference literature, thе paper represents some of the views on this event and outlines the church celebration of the saint brothers as reflected by the Slavonic manuscripts in the Library collection. At present in only one manuscript of the 18th century was detected the date 11th of May, appointed to the memory of St Methodius.
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The National Library “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” honored individuals and organizations for their donation gestures in 2021, supported in one form or another by the Library.
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In its series of exhibitions “Bulgarian Librarians and Bibliographers” the “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” National Library commemorates the contribution of remarkable scholars, teachers, public figures who connected their lives with the Bulgarian bibliography and library science. March 6 this year marks the 145th anniversary of the birth of Academician Nikola Mihov – a prominent bibliographer, economist, statistician and remarkable polymath. Valuable archival materials about and from him, stored in the Bulgarian Historical Archive of the National Library, were shown in the exhibition devoted to him.
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The object of research in this article is the women’s hair and its morbid aspects in the poetry of Kiril Hristov, Ludmil Stoyanov, Hristo Smirnenski,Ani Ilkov, and authors such as Vladimir Polianov and Georgi Raychev which are representative of Bulgarian diabolism.
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The publishing activity of the “St. St. Cyril and St. Methodius” National Library in 2021 was aimed at the realization of seven book editions related to important anniversaries and jubilees.
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The report in a maximum synthesized and concise manner clarifies the obscure in the Bulgarian historiography methodological – theoretical – practical tangle of problems of the archimodern informatization as a part of the universal processes in the biblio – info – noosphere to the third decade of XXI c. The substance of these problems is enrooted in the rationalization of the phenomenon and personality of the last Bulgarian encyclopaedist Professor Todor Borov (30 January 1901–27 May 1993) – bibliographer, man of letters and culturologist.
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Although a person of great importance for the Bulgarian scientific and social world, the life and work of Todor Borov are still not fully known to researchers. Some aspects ofhis professional career are subject to more complete and thorough research. He himself is mainly known as one of the founders of modern native bibliography and library science in the country. He is the initiator of a number of new researches, through which he helps to form modern visions for the development of the library work. He is the author of numerouss cientific publications, as well as a series of articles in periodicals. As part of the intellectual elite of the country T. Borov actively supports the development of the national work related to the community centers (chitalishta), as the main emphasis is on the construction of existing libraries as modern ones. This article focuses on the presence of T. Borov in the active work of the community centers. The object of study is part of his rich archive, which is stored in the “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” National Library (Fund 849 in the Bulgarian Historical Archive). Those documents were used which reveal his active and public benefit activity related to the construction and establishment of the chitalishte libraries presence as animportant part of the librar ynetwork of the country.
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Our colleague from the Music Department of the “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” National Library has suddenly passed away. A wonderful man is gone who dedicated his life to the service of the Library and to a devoted work for the society.
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On November 22 this year passed away Professor Milen Kumanov, historian encyclopedist, archivist, bibliographer and erudite, senior researcher at the Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, author of monographs and studies on the problems of the Bulgarian national question after the Liberation until 1944, compiler and author of encyclopedias on the history of Bulgaria based on data of the national bibliography of the Republic of Bulgaria.
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Review of the book “God Commanded Do Not Kill!” by Mariana Ecclesia. The author, a graduate of the Faculty of Theology at Sofia University with a parallel course “Fundamentals of Diplomacy”, discusses the reasons for the general cessation of the production of weapons of mass or local violence and death.
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Review of the monograph of Prof. Vera Boneva, dedicated to the archival heritage of Petko R. Slaveykov. It presents the structure of the study and its various contributions. The novel facts related to the life of this Revival public figure and his archive are indicated, which are fascinatingly presented in the first part of the book – also its introductory chapter. Particularly interesting are the documents descriptions, which include the obligatory archival attributes: reference number, bibliographic data, if the document has been published, etc. In accordance with archival theory, this part of the monograph can be determined as an “ideal inventory” of Slaveykov’s literary heritage.
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The article offers two main hypotheses about the emergence of the cult of the holy martyrs of Tiberiopolis. Following Byzantine and Bulgarian sources, the answer to the question of whether there was continuity and development of the cult is given. Moreover, how from a local it has become significant for three countries and a monastic republic.
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The article examines the information space, its genesis, elementary structure, the place of the library in it. An essential definition of the phenomenon and the concept of “information spaceˮ is offered. As a process of information development, the emergence of secondary information leads to the differentiation of the information space, to the emergence of such types as the bibliographic space of knowledge and the space of knowledge. Based on the analysis of the Russian project for creating a single digital space of scientific knowledge, it is proved that this type of space will function on the basis of secondary semantic information, the genesis, properties and functions of which are also presented in this publication.
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In 2021, “Ivan Vazov” National Library celebrated the 100th anniversary since the establishment of the Special Collections Department (1921). The significant anniversary will be marked with two events: * The exposition “100 years of Special Collections of the Plovdiv National Library” will be opened on November 15 in the lobby of the Art Library * A National Colloquium “In the Footsteps of the Bulgarian Book: Inventories. Finds. Bibliology” will be held on November 16, dedicated to the anniversary.
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“St. St. Cyril and Methodius” National Library celebrated 140 years since the birth of Stiliyan Chilingirov –writer and ethnographer, politician and public figure.
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