The Database “The Library of Varvara Pavlovna Adrianova-Peretz” in the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Building the database “The library of Varvara Pavlovna Adrianova-Peretz” in the IRBIS64 library automation system revealed a number of problems related to books bibliographical records. This distributed book collection is preserved in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of the State Public Scientific and Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS SB) and in the library of the Department of Old Russian Literature of the RAS Institute of Russian Literature (The Pushkin House). The database seeding based on the study of “The Adrianova” book collection de visu, enables to eliminate invalid information in the SPSTL SB RAS e-catalogue and to provide the more convenient and faster access to the books in the unique memorial library of the outstanding Russian scientist. The database is of interest to the scholars of the humanities and readers interested in the literary studies, history, culture and folklore. The author characterizes the database as the comprehensive bibliographical descriptions of the collection copies. He lists the main special reference sources used in the process. The findings of the study of Novosibirsk part of Adrianova collection are characterized. The author discusses the prospects for the studies of the two collection parts to build the aggregated database of the distributed book collection with the following publishing of V. P. Adrianova-Peretz’ library catalog.