The bibliometrical analysis of publications on school libraries in library and education serials in the years 1945 – 1999

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Abstract The bibliometrical analysis of publications on school libraries in library and education serials in the years 1945 – 1999 considers 739 bibliographical units. All written records on school libraries are included, as well as those which deal with the topic of school libraries and those whose topic includes other areas, such as librarianship and education system. 511 (69.15%) articles, which are taken into consideration deal with school libraries, 110 (14.88%) of them have citations. The results show that school librarianship is relatively young and is still in the process of development. This is confirmed by the following: low number of scientific articles (3 or 0.40%), low number of articles with citations (110 or 21.25%), low number of citations per article, high number of citations in monographies (393 or 48.8% of all citations).