The Themes of Publications on Theory and Practice of the Librarianship in the Domestic Periodicals

Abstract

There are considered the results of the research of themes of publications on theory and practice of the librarianship in the domestic periodicals as the basis for study of the development trends in the national librarianship. For the analysis of the topics of publications on librarianship and library science the authors used scientometric and bibliometric methods. The key words were used for the material to identify the general trends in the development of library science and practice. The authors determine the topical themes of publications of ten domestic scientific and practical journals for every fifth year during the period of 20 years from 1995 to 2015. In the study there were identified the themes that are developed consistently and are found throughout the studied period, identified the problems prevailing in the certain time intervals, as well as the new directions emerging at each step. The change of themes of publications is primarily connected with the external conditions of library activities and tasks, put before them by the society. In general, the use of keywords for the analysis of themes of publications as a research method has the positive features (full coverage of publications from the selected sources without reference to the identity of author), and negative side (content analysis of the key words only, not full text of articles).