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This article discusses the importance of building collections and the value of the information and documentation function of the university library. The library being the only academic structure that provides users with access to useful information on various information media: printed and electronic.
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The article is dedicated to the prominent personality of the Romanian culture of the first half of the nineteenth century, Petrache Poenaru (1799-1875). He was a great educator of his timer, Romanian bibliographer, inventor, founder of the Romanian school, a fighter for social and national justice, a member of the Romanian Academy.
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The essentials are reviewed in the article related to the literary activity of Victor Eftimiu, the Romanian writer and translator of Megleno-Romanian origin, the playwright, essayist, author of quotes.The author’s image in the literary community is emphasized. His work is reflected in the USARB Scientific Library collection.
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This Paper is dedicated to two english books: “Little Lord Fauntleroy” by Frances Hodgson Burnett and “The Horse and His Boy” by Clive Lewis. It is connected with the problem of raising teenagers and specific questions of university library activity: definition of book address and sigla storage.
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In this article is given a short history of the Bulletin of the Alba Fortress-Ismail Episcopate. The Magazine of our Diocese the Bulletin of the Alba Fortress-Ismail Episcopate is printed at the Diocesan Printing House and appears once a month. In this magazine are published various dispositions, circulars, the movement in the clergy of the diocese - this in the official part, and in the unofficial part are published scientific, national, religious and cultural articles, various news from the diocese and elsewhere and bibliographies.
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A list of publications by Father Benignus Wanat OCD.
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The year 2019 is especially important for Kazimierz Wielki University, because the academy celebrates its 50th anniversary. In addition to didactic and scientific tasks, the library has been conducting interesting culture-forming activities for years. At present, the library is located in a beautiful and modern building, in which there is a large exhibition space, including a professional gallery, as well as conference rooms, reading rooms and studios. The article describes what activities promoting the art, culture and knowledge were organized and are still carried out by the librarians of the university library from its beginning to the present day.
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The necessity of being informed, educated and cultivated was the reason for creating the first collections of writings. The human history confirms the existence of such collections even during the ancient times, long before Christ. The most famous ancient librairies are: The Collection of Plates from Burnt Bricks, discovered by the english archaeologist Austin-Henry Layard in 1948 at Ninive and considered to be the oldest library of the world; the Library from Alexandria, created by Ptolemeu Soter in the 4th century B.C.; the Library from Pergam, in the 3rd century B.C.; the Library Matenadaran from Erevan, in the 5th century A.C.During the Middle Ages librairies are considered to be more and more important and they are organized on scientific bases by specialists. The history of books knows a large number of librarians, educated persons, who have dedicated their lives to culture, writings and librairies. As long as people will write, there will always be people to read, take care and love books.
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L’ouvrage attire l’attention sur les métiers liés à l’écriture, aux écrits et aux livres dans une vision historique. Ceux-ci ont souffert des transformations en même temps que le changement du support sur lequel s’écrivait (pierre, tablette d’argile, payrus, parchemin, papier, bande magnétique).Les germes de la profession de bibliothécaire a existé dans le métier du scribe. Jusqu’à ce qu’il arrivât à un statut indépendent, il a accompagné les principaux artisans des écrits / livres. Avec ceux-ci, il s’est assumé le long des siècles la responsabilité de garder “la mémoire du monde” en copiant, imprimant, organisant et conservant les écrits. La profession de bibliothécaire a été accomplie par des esprits remarquables (moines, savants, philosophes, écrivants, hommes d’État) comme: Demetrios Palereus, Aristarchus, Eusebius Pamphilus, le Saint, Photius, patriarche du Constantinople, Cesare Baronius, L. Antonio Muratori, Guillaume Budé, Konrad Gesner, W. Panzer, J. A. Fabricius, Chr. G. Jöcher, Ch. J. Brunet, Richard de Bury, Gabriel Naudé, G. W. Leibniz, M. Dewey, Timotei Cipariu, Ion Bianu, J. L. Borges et d’autres.L’auteur plaide pour une nouvelle définition de la profession de bibliothécaire, pour un statut social véridique en invoquant comme arguments l’ancienneté, la noblesse, la qualification professionnelle complexe, la contribution apportée de millénaires aux société humaines, à la culture et à leur civilisation.Quo vadis bibliothecarius au passage vers une nouvelle civilisation? Tu entreras dans “le musée des cires” à coté de tes illustres précurseurs ou tu souffriras une nouvelle métamorphose par le transplant de la technique électronique dans le monde des écrits et des informations, en te gardant plus docte auprès les documents? La réponse est inévitablement à coté de la vie, de la survivance.Jusqu’au moment où le “bibliothécaire de transition” aura clarifié sa place et sa compétence, apportons des éloges au bibliothécaire de toujours.
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L’auteur surprend le portrait du bibliothécaire de nos jours, spécialiste, profesionnel, capable de satisfaire toute demande de l’utilisateur. Il y a une grande différence entre l’image de l’ancien bibliothécaire qui doit s’adapter aux nouvelles réalités sociales et culturelles.Informatiser les bibliothéques signifie aussi créer des catalogues éléctroniques accesibles même aux bénéficiaires de loin c’est à dire une „bibliothèque virtuale”.En ce qui concerne la procès de la communication, la bibliothèque suppose l’existence de trois aspects principaux: bibliothèque – livre – public.
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Out of numerous paradigmes about writer-reader relation, drawn up during centuries by various specialists in reading theories, the hermeneutical one is probably the most attractive and submitted to controversary.Beginning whit the early 60’s of the last century, philosophers and philologists have focused on reading as an act of interpretation. In this context they made difference between pasive and active reading. The semiological theory considers that the act of reading means, first of all, interpretation, and this is pre-eminently active. An active reader will accept, as such, the idea that every paper, written or printed, no matter the information it includes, is to be seen a text free of constrain and liable to many interpretations.The text is changed into a genuine teleologycal process by interpreting it and is carried out in order to find out the “captured” meaning of the text. Bringing out to light senses and secret meanings of a book or another depends both on how difficult the text we read is, and the quality of the comprehensive process and the latter one, as well, on the reader’s native intelligence and general education. We all use to read by keeping a “code of culture” inside us, desciphering trough this the familiar terms of a text and trying to get meanings of the new concepts, inaccesible to our understanding. Taking into consideration what is already known, we finaly succed in revealing the writer’s real message in the paper. As a results, the “hermeneutical” reading runs through 3 stages: firstly, we understand the text, then make it actual and finally we interpret it.A fiction work is estimated in a specific manner, a history book or a philosophical essay is estimated in a different way. By reading an aesthetical text there is a psychological connexion between the author of the book and the reader. Reading itself becomes a private matter and the one going through a prose or poetry volume discovers more convenient senses, being able this way to find another definition of reality, a definition which confers on this new aesthetical an existential values. There is a different story in case of someone interested in philosophie. This one should realise that the philosophical reading is pre-textual so it needs somehow the philosopher terminology to be know, a deep aknowledge of principles rulling the work orientation he belongs to.In conclusion, if hermeneutics shows us its own story from the inside writing and in case the act of reading is exclusively a process of interpretation, that means the reader is a hermeneutical one, always seekingafter new meanings, always being fascinated by the expresive power of words.
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L’auteur surprend en quelques lignes la présence de l’ecrivain Lucian Blaga dans les grands dictionnaires encyclopédiques du monde, précisement dans ceux qu’on peut trouver dans les bibliothèques roumaines. Livres come New Standard Enciclopedia, Great Books, Dictionnaire encyclopédique Larousse, World Book, Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopédie Bordas, Enciclopedia Universalis, ne le contient pas.L’encyclopédie Britannica souligne en deux mots seulement le fait que Lucian Blaga, poète et philosophe, a contribué, à côté de G. Galaction, M. Sadoveanu, I. Barbu etc. au dévelopement de la littérature roumaine.Grand Larousse Universel (Paris, 1977) remarque que Lucian Blaga a écrit La Trilogie de la connaissance, La Trilogie de la culture et La Trilogie des valeurs, en spécifiant que sa philosophie est une lirique et intuitive.Plus généreuse est la présentation de Lucian Blaga dans Enciclopedia dello spettacolo (Roma, 1975) qui le traite come poète, philosphe et auteur dramatique. Il est situé comme style entre l’expressionisme et le traditionalisme, ayant des nuances folcloriques et bibliques et des similitudes avec la poésie de Rilke.Dans la Dictionnaire encyclopédique Axis. L’Univers documentaire (Paris, 1993) l’écrivain roumain apparaît comme auteur des volumes des poésies: Les Pas du Prophète, Le Partage des eaux et Les Marches insoupçonnées.En fin, le Dictionnaire encyclopédique Quillet (Paris, 1990) souligne le fait que, entre les deux guerres mondiales, Lucian Blaga a formulé un language philosophique et poétique nouveau: Trilogie de la connaissance, Trilogie de la culture, Trilogie des valeurs.La conclusion est bien simple: Lucian Blaga est insuffisamment connu dans la monde et, malheureusement, les informations offertes par les dictionnaires sont, comme la travail ci dessus le montre, dans la pluspart, erronées.
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During centuries, Râmnic and other cultural centers from Vrancea, have been considered as a source of culture and romanian spirituality. The typographies from Cozia, Govora, Bistriţa, Hurezi and Râmnic are famous for their activity, for the books they have printed and all those books have created special conditions for the beginnings of the romanian religious literature. Short time after typography has been invented, the romanian voivodes became interested in endowing the churches and monasteries with books in order to assure, and increase, the acces to culture.In this way, there are some disagreements between Bistriţa and Dealu Monastery, concerning the priority about the first book printed on romanian land – Liturghierul lui Macarie (1508). On his efforts to solve the issue, P.P. Panaitescu supports the ideea of Bistriţa’s priority, that is probably because, during the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a famous school for copysts..Matei Basarab (1632-1654), a very educated voivode, has built the well-known monasteries from Arnota, Gura Motrului and Strehaia, and he laid the foundations of the typographies from Câmpulung and Govora, where a lot of religious and juridical works have been published. The most important one is Pravila Mică also known as Pravila de la Govora printed in 1640 and considered to be „the first romanian book of laws.”A century latter, during the reign of Constantin Brâncoveanu, at Hurezu Monastery a lot of famous books are printed, such as: Varlaam şi Ioasaf, Halima, Scara Sf. Ioan Scărarul, and some others books – O mie şi una de nopţi, Întrebări şi răspunsuri ale dumnealui Constantin Cantacuzino, fratele răposatului Şerban Cantacuzino – begun their diffusion.In the 18th century, one of the most interested person in romanian books diffusion was Antim Ivireanul; in 1705 he laid the foundations of a typography at Snagov; in this moment / century, Râmnic was considered to be the second romanian typography according to its activity. With him as a guide, almost 90 books have been printed, the most important being Tomul bucuriei and Antologhion.Some of the books printed at Râmnic during the 18th century – arround 1178 copies - can be found in 29 counties and 290 places.Arround 180 copies can be seen in Mureş county, according to the informations offered by Elena Mihu.The art of the typographs from Râmnic is not dissapearing; it was continuated by their disciples. In the first half of the 22th century there were 19 offices in Vâlcea county, that decided to follow and to practice this art of printing.
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While the political system changed fast in Romania after 1989, other changes came much slower, finally reaching the librairies, as well. In the Mureş County Library work in local studies could finally commence. This has included the research of documents in Romanian, Hungarian, German and other languages.1990 was the first year when we could work without political pressure. In 1993 we began building the current bibliographic system, and we started the series titled Mureş Bibliographies. In 1995 we published the Bibliography of periodicals Dec. 23 1989 – Dec. 31 1994. The next volume (1995-2000) appeared in 2001. The second number of the series was Bibliography of the Books Published in Mureş County, 1990-1995.Currently, we continue gathering and sorting the material, and the 1995- 2000 volume will appear in 2002. In 2001 we succeded in publishing the third number, the Bibliography of Periodicals Published in Mureş County, 1795-1972, edited by Dimitrie Poptămaş and Julia Mozes. In the same Mureş Bibliographies series we would also like to publish the Bibliography of Books Concerning Mureş County, 1990-1999, an annotated bibliography with two thousand entries dealing with all aspects of life. We selected the publications from the Romanian and Hungarian national bibliographies. The work – slated to be published in 2002 – is being done with the help of the TINLIB computer program.We also collected data for the Registry of Important Persons in Mureş County that contains data about ten thousand Romanian, Hungarian, German and people of other nationalities. This database has been continuously updated. From the same database, Ana Cosma published the Bibliography of Romanian Writers (2001) that contains more than one hundred names. The same database will be the foundation of yet another bio-bibliography that will include the Important Persons in Technical and Natural Sciences in Mureş County.My colleague Klara Ferencz and I, both retired, have started editing the Retrospective Bibliography of Local Studies from Mureş County.We explore the works of local authors, local publishing houses, and other locally relevant works. The selected works are all catalogued in the TINLIB program, given UDC numbers, keywords, and the annotations mention all that is relevant to Mureş County. A lot was written about the famous Teleki Library in Târgu Mureş. Here I would mention some important catalogues: the 4-volume catalogue edited by the founder Samuel Teleki was published between 1796-1819.This was continued by the Catalogus Incunabulorum Bibliothecae Teleki-Bolyai that appeared in 1971. These works were completed in 2001 with the Catalogue of 16th Century Printed Books Existing in Teleki- Bolyai Library of Târgu Mureş that includes more than three thousand entries. Also in 2001 the Old Ex-Libris from the Teleki Library of Târgu Mureş was published by Aniko Nagy Dee.
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L’auteur présente les méthodes (procédés) de populariser les publications (livres) existents dans une bibliothèque publique, c’est à dire les documents grafiques et audiovisuels. Les valorifier signifie les mettre dans le circuit publique tout en ayant comme moyens la lecture dans ou en dehors de la bibliothèque, les expositions anniversaires, les symposions etc. On présent ensuite les conditions que les utilisateurs doivent accomplir pour pouvoir bénéficier et valorifier, en même temps, les collections des bibliothèques.Tous ces méthodes et moyens téchnique propres aux bibliothèques ont comme but de promouvoir le livre et la lecture, moyens essenciels pour le développement culturel et spirituel d’une communauté.
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According to a definition given by the sociologist M. Moldoveanu, cultural animation consists on stimulating human interest for the culturalactivities and ideas arround them. Its purpose is to offer the people the feeling of being a part of a cultural community.Bertrand Calenge considers that readers can be divided into 3 groups: children, adults and old people. For each of those three categories, animation must be done in a different way.Children must come to the library at an early age. There are social programmes for them, such as: painting exibitions (with their own works), different competitions and games etc. A very important segment of public is represented by teenagers, because they represent the future adults. They have to be conscious of the necessity of culture and books in their future career.The growing-up category of readers might be divided in two main categories: women (70%) and men. Women seems to be more interested in reading. They are responsable for children education, while men preffer to watch TV or – some of them, especially graduates – to read scientific books.Old people have a lot of spare time and for them, librairies should get newspapers, should organize different club houses: bridge, checkmate etc.
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Researching the collection of works written between 1971-2002 and published by Mureş County Library, the author emphasizes the reasons, the characteristics and the purposes of the editorial activity of this institution. The achievements of the Library in this field are presented in a sistematic view. It is concluded that the editorial activity of Mureş County Library – complementing its main functions – has proved to be, along the years, a necessary, solid and useful approach as regards its greates projects as well as its smaller endeavours.
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We all know today that information is the most important element of a technological society and the progress of our society depends on the way we are able to work with it. Information is no longer treated as it was before; it begun to be treated as an economical product.After 1990, the romanian society has been radically changed. These changes can also be seen in librairies, where computer tends to replace the human’s efforts. At Mureş County Library the informational process started in 1994, when the first computer has been aquired.The use of TINLIB computer program makes the work in a library a lot easier. For example, Buletinul Cărţi Noi is automatically created on the basis of bibliographical registerings from the database. But the use of computers might also create some difficulties concerning the accuracy of the registerings. The keywords – or the CZU index – must always be the same; any mistake in introducing a wrong password may produce errors and confusion. In order to prevent this, we have to verify – periodically – the list of the computer program.In conclusion, the use of computers in librairies – with its good and bad parts – was not only a wish, but a necessity, the only way of arranging the mass of informations.
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