Panteleimon Kulish’s Scientific and Creative Heritage in Digital Funds of Ukrainian Libraries and Archives

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examine the activity of libraries and archives as social memory institutions in digitising process of the scientific, creative, and epistolary heritage of the Ukrainian culture outstanding figures, in particular Panteleimon Kulish, who was the most prominent representative of the "new Ukrainian intelligentsia" of the 19th century, which stood at the origins of the Ukrainian cultural regeneration. The research methodology has been based on the information-analytical method, objectivity principle, informational and complex approaches. Scientific novelty. The dissemination of biographical knowledge about P. Kulish in modern biographistical and biobibliographical studies through creating online exhibitions based on digitised information sources about the life and work of P. Kulish is available in scientific practice and posted on the websites of archives and libraries of Ukraine. These include the books published within the writer’s lifetime, publications that have long been considered as bibliographic rarities, copies of the “Osnova” (“The Foundation” journal)) recognised as national cultural property, as well as P. Kulish's correspondence with contemporaries have been impartially explored from the scientific objectivity and Panteleimon Kulish digital personal funds popularisation points of view. Conclusions. Modern perspective directions of Ukrainian libraries and archives practice related to the reproduction of information sources about P. Kulish in digital formats with the help of informational and communicational technologies in online exhibitions enable the implementation of the created integrated information resource into the global humanitarian practice space; as well as the captivation of users wide range and their involvement into the social memory institutions.
 Key words: Panteleimon Kulish, P. Kulish’s scientific and creative heritage, P. Kulish’s epistolary heritage, National Archival Fund, Ukraine. digitalisation, Internet.