No. 9/2005 - 10/2006

Education in Library and Information Science

The author makes a survey on the evolution of the library education, beginning with the 19^th century until today, pointing out the contemporary developments and their consequences on the library profession. The author pays a particular attention to the American library education, given the development of the new modern information technology and the ever growing number of digital publications.

Keywords: History of library education; American library education; Accreditation of the library schools

A quantitative survey of the literature pertaining to the study of public libraries, covering the period of 1986-2005, was pursued applying bibliometric methods. The survey aimed at the arrival of descriptive data that would inform about the features and development of the field’s base literature. It was found that the monographic form of cited references was more common than cited references of the journal form, but over time, the tendency to cite articles published in journals increased on behalf of monographs. In addition, the intellectual import from other fields than Library and Information Science was approximated and found more than marginal.

On different levels of citation aggregations, frequency distributions and rank orders indicated a fragmented base literature. Cores of the more cited authors and journals were identified and illustrated by bibliometric mapping techniques. The exploration of a presumed shared intellectual focus on the earlier literature showed that approximately half of all papers were isolated in terms of not sharing references with any other paper, though a weak tendency of increased consensus was noted. Finally, though somewhat more than half of all citations were more than five years old, a tendency over time to cite more current literature was notable.

Keywords: Bibliographic Coupling, Citation Analysis, Co-citation Analysis, Intellectual Base, Public Libraries.

The article approaches the theme of libraries - organizations that passed through many transformations over the centuries - in the context of changes generated by globalization and continuous development of information and communication technologies and underlines the fact that in these conditions libraries must reform their management, adapt permanently the services and products they provide to their users in order to maintain and stenghten an important position on the information delivery and knowledge transfer market.

Keywords: Libraries, Change, Globalization, Knowledge Transfer

This paper is an attempt to determine whether the Romanian public district libraries use their websites as marketing instruments. It is based on a study conducted during February-March 2006. The study consists of the analysis of a questionnaire that was completed by 20 of the 26 district libraries that owned a website at the time and offers information about the evolution of the number of libraries that developed their own website, the users they target, the services they promote online, their plans for developing the websites and the advantages they have for the library and its users.

Keywords: Library, Website, Marketing

The article reports on a study of the Swedish Classification system, the SAB-system and its ability to reveal certain social and ideological structures in Swedish society in the beginning of the 20^th century. Methodology is based on critical hermeneutics and ideological analysis. Results show that the classification system shows significant correspondences between the structure of its disciplinary hierarchies and ideals in the surrounding society.

Keywords: Classification, Public Libraries, Hermeneutics, Ideology, Sweden

The informational explosion, especially the one from the last decades, represented an incontestable challenge for the diversification of the possibilities to structure and to find the information, regardless of the interest field. In this context, it is extremely useful the corroboration of the traditional biographies, including those regarding Romanian literature, stored on paper - no matter how well done, but that can’t keep up with the requirements of the current information and documentation - with the bibliographic databases.

From the succinct analysis of the old and new literary bibliographical phenomenon - mentioning the significant moments - it becomes obvious the dynamics of the “bibliography” concept, taking into account the variety of the informational store capacity and the diversity of the presentation form of the bibliographies.

Thus, the conclusion is clear, that in the present it became necessary the fast access to the online data banks of the Romanian critics, theoreticians and literary historians, in this electronic era, constituted in an impressive diversity of bibliographical resources which contain also information specific to their activities.

Keywords: Bibliography, Romanian Literature, Bibliographical Databases

In the general context of the Cyrillic European print, the print from Wallachia is placed to leader place, reflecting a high cultural degree of development, a level and a tradition which is worth a special attention. A fact of culture, as the establishment of the typography, can't be studied apart from the society needs from that time. The appearance of Cyrillic print in Wallachia constituted a part of an European phenomenon, the reflect of it on the local plan and not at all an singular appearance, broken by the European culture.

Keywords: Printing, Prints, Printer, Printing House, Publishing House, Ornamental Art, Book’s Spread, Trasylvania, Moldavia, Wallachia.