Bibliographic Resources Research Articles

Specific Features of the Development of Modern Bibliography (using the example of Publications of the Russian State Library)

There is an overview of the specific features of creation of bibliographic publications in the Russian State Library, based on synthesizing of the statistical data and review of their subject matter over the last twelve years. In the study carried out in the course of execution of the major research project “General Universal and Local Lore Bibliographic Resources as the Source for Creating the National Bibliographic Repertoire of Russia”, on the basis of qualitative and quantitative analysis of the bibliographic resources of 2006—2017, there were revealed the regularity patterns and preferences in the preparation of different types of bibliographic publications. The essential component of the research was exploration of data on the imprint of bibliographic resources of various formats, which arbitrarily were divided into printed, digital and duplicated. Aside, there was an overview of issuing of the publications on general and special bibliography, as their creation was based on the alternative approaches. The two main tendencies were revealed in the research process: drastic decrease of the amount of bibliographic resources of the Russian State Library and alteration of their publication structure due to the reduction of special bibliography resources, which are characteristic to the vast majority of the Russian libraries, reflecting the adverse development trends of bibliography and librarianship in our country. The results obtained during the research allow making the preliminary conclusions about the trends and tendencies of the development of bibliography at the current stage. It is hoped that further implementation of the project “General Universal and Local Lore Bibliographic Resources as the Source for Creating the National Bibliographic Repertoire of Russia” will provide more thorough image of the status of bibliographic resources in the Russian Federation, but above all, will bring them closer to the user.

Terms with the component “biblio” in the branch term system of bibliography studying

In the term system of bibliography studying, its construction and structuring the term with the component “biblio” is the most wide-spread, it originates from Greek and means “book”. The research outlines language peculiarities of bibliography studying terms with this component taking into account their structure and meaning. Term dictionaries were the source base for the research. 80 terminological collocations were studied, they contain the words bibliography and bibliographical. Every block of such terms has its lexicalsemantic groups and their structure can be the following: one-word terms (7), or they can consist of several lexemes (73). Thus, among the collocations with the words bibliography there were revealed seven semantic groups that denote the name of people according to their professional activity or other work they do, a scientific division, a subject, a process, a type and sort characteristic, a functional purpose of the term and names that inform about something (7 one-word terms and 12 terms as constituents of collocations). Only 3 three-component collocations with the noun bibliography were revealed. And the word bibliographical is the constituent of 34 two-word collocations, they were grouped into six lexicalsemantic groups as follows: totality of something, titles of course books, an analysis of an edition, specification of something, an action or a process, an activity or studying and a search type; and up to 24 three-word terminological collocations grouped into five groups, namely: totality of something, ordered totality, an activity or studying, a search type, kinds of bibliographical course books. Thus, terminological word family with the word bibliography shows its peculiarity as for term meaning as being its core, and the adjective bibliographical supplement or concretize other terminological word families (bibliographical course book, bibliographical resource, bibliographical record, bibliographical indicator, bibliographical systematization)

The Reading Hall of Bibliographic Services of the Russian State Library: Model of Service

Escalating competition in the information services market, the emergence of the effect of a shortage of users and simultaneous increase of their expectations put the libraries in front of the need to search for innovative approaches to servicing, which is manifested, in particular, in conducting structural and functional transformation of library services. The author considers the model of reference and bibliographic services using the example of work of the Reading Hall of Bibliographic Services of the Russian State Library. Its main characteristics are: complex servicing of readers with reference and bibliographic resources; expanding range of information services, the use of methods of personalization in service (customer-oriented). For many years, the reference and bibliographic service in the form of oral inquiries in the Russian State Library was developed on the basis of service differentiation — sector-specific and functional. The new model is based on a complementary and mutually enriching mixture of functional and sectoral areas of this type of activity. Important conditions for enhancing the effectiveness of reference and bibliographic services are the spatiotemporal concentration of services and combination of the resource elements. Universalization and personalization of services, creative approach of staff of the Reading Hall of Bibliographic Services to their work, sincere desire to help readers in their search for information yield positive results.

Research and Publishing Activities of the Russian State Library in the Mirror of Bibliography and Scientometrics

Research and publishing activity is an essential part of functioning of the Russian State Library (RSL). Scientific activity of the Library includes three components: scientific-research, scientific-methodical and scientific-information activities, each of them results in the documents of certain types. Personnel scientific potential of the RSL is compound by the staff of four scientific departments, scientific workers from some other departments, as well as Doctors and Candidates of Sciences — professionals holding other positions. They publish books, articles in journals, as well as reports and papers in conference proceedings. RSL is one of the leading publishing centers in the field of librarianship. Currently there are published five periodicals; the publishing house “Pashkov Dom” publishes monographs, collected scientific papers and conference proceedings. Creation of RSL bibliographic Indexes since the mid-2000s is one of the main activities of the Department of bibliography. The most complete is the updated electronic Index “Russian state library. Publications and electronic resources. Publications of employees”. Another specific form of bibliographing of the RSL publications and its employees is their reflection in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) on the portal eLIBRARY.RU. RSCI is both a scientometric tool and bibliographic resource. RSL provides to RSCI the bibliographic descriptions of all materials published in the journals “Bibliotekovedenie” (Library and Information Science) and “Observatory of Culture”, and selectively adds and corrects the descriptions of the RSL publications and publications of its employees.

Bibliographic Repertoire of Russian Books of 1826—1917: Sources and Ways of Formation

There are described the main results of the work on creation of the “Union catalogue of Russian books, 1826—1917” as bibliographic repertoire, which lasted from 1976 to 2003. By the end of the 1990-ies, the card database of “Union catalogue” was reconciled with the catalogues of all six libraries-participants. Bibliographers of the Russian State Library carried out the rework and editing of bibliographic records in accordance with the normative documents being in force on that time, formed the data to create additional access points for the future database (names of people who took part in creation of the book, names-personalias, names of institutions and organizations, to which the books are devoted, titles of series). There had been done a tremendous job with use of modern reference and bibliographic sources, viewing of publications (de visu), that allowed to clarify the forms of several hundred names and titles, to reveal many of cryptonyms and pseudonyms, to clarify the modern spelling of names of foreign authors. But revision and editing of the card mass of catalogue remained unfinished. On its basis the Corporation “Electronic archive” created the “Electronic Union catalogue of Russian books of the 19th century”, but due to a number of drawbacks it will not be considered as a full-fledged national bibliographic repertoire. The task on creation of an intrinsic repertoire and bibliographic resource remains relevant. It should be kept by separate chronological periods on the basis on the integrated use of bibliographic records for electronic catalogues of the Russian State Library and National Library of Russia, and electronic and card consolidated catalogues of 1826—1917. The priority work shall cover the period of 1826—1830, which is closely associated with the efforts on formation of the All-Russian Register of book monuments.

Annotated bibliographic index "Symon Petliura on Pages of the Ukrainian Newspapers of 1917-1920: Materials for Biobibliography" in the system of bibliographic resources of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine.

Annotated bibliographic index "Symon Petliura on Pages of the Ukrainian Newspapers of 1917-1920: Materials for Biobibliography" in the system of bibliographic resources of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine.

Facilitating Scientometrics in Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining – the LAK Dataset

The Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) Dataset represents an unprecedented corpus which exposes a near complete collection of bibliographic resources for a specific research discipline, namely the connected areas of Learning Ana- lytics and Educational Data Mining. Covering over five years of scientific literature from the most relevant conferences and jour- nals, the dataset provides Linked Data about bibliographic metadata as well as full text of the paper body. The latter was enabled through special licensing agreements with ACM for publications not yet available through open access. The dataset has been designed following established Linked Data pattern, reusing established vocabularies and providing links to established schemas and entity coreferences in related datasets. Given the temporal and topic coverage of the dataset, being a near-complete corpus of research publications of a particular discipline, it facilitates scientometric investigations, for instance, about the evolution of a scientific field over time, or correlations with other disciplines, what is documented through its usage in a wide range of scientific studies and applications.

СЕРВІСИ ЕЛЕКТРОННИХ КАТАЛОГІВ ЯК ЗАСІБ РОЗВИТКУ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ КОРИСТУВАЧІВ НАУКОВОЇ БІБЛІОТЕКИ

The author of the article raises a question about library users; she is concerned that they are not well aware of modern library information technologies and how to use electronic reference and bibliographic resources, in particular databases of articles and materials taken from periodicals. In order to improve user information competence the author of the article presents functional and information retrieval features of the subject “Periodicals” bibliographic database of the electronic catalogue of V. Sukhomlynskyi State Scientific and Pedagogical Library of Ukraine, a coordinating and scientific methodical centre of the system of education libraries of Ukraine. The forms of propagating the resource to users in particular using Internet information services are described.

Bibliographic Information Resources on the History of Siberia and the Far East

ABSTRACTThe article shows the complex of information-bibliographic resources generated by Gosudarstvennaia publichnaia nauchno-tekhnicheskaia biblioteka Sibirskogo otdeleniia Rossiskoi akademii nauk (GPNTB SO RAS) [State Public Scientific-Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences], which is the largest research library in Asian Russia, to support historical investigations in Siberia and the Russian Far East. This complex consists of electronic bibliographic and full-text databases, bibliographic retrospective and current indexes of literature. A brief bibliometric analysis of History of Siberia and the Far East (topical, chronological, quantitative, type-species content of documents, etc.) is discussed.

Historical development of linguistics’ bibliography in Russia (1860-2013)

The interdisciplinary character of the science of language causes great difficulties in bibliographic support in this field. The object of bibliographing in linguistics is not only literature on the language, but also a variety of linguistic resources, which represent a special object to study a branch of linguistics - lexicography. Bibliography of linguistics is the least studied field by specialists among humanitarian bibliographic complexes. The paper first studied the array of domestic bibliographic sources for more than 150 years; the most significant of them are shown. The subject of research is national bibliographic resources in the linguistics field. The objective is to characterize the historical development of the linguistic bibliography in Russia. To achieve this goal we had to solve a number of tasks: identify existing sources for ongoing historical research; to trace the history of forming bibliographic sources, bibliography of bibliographies of linguistics; to form and analyze the body of bibliographic materials; to characterize the problematic areas in the bibliographic software of linguistics. Using the bibliometric analysis it was studied an array of bibliographic products published between 1860 and 2013, the dynamics of bibliographic resources formation was determined, the degree of bibliographic support of some topics and issues in linguistic science and prior directions of their development were revealed. The main results of the study should be considered: 1. The nuclear of fundamental indices on general and applied linguistics is singled out in analyzed literature sources covering the period 1918-1977, as well as in Slavic linguistics for 1825-1981. The complex of current and retrospective bibliographic products was formed and replenished in the country in 1963-1988. 2. The largest share of bibliographic sources in linguistics is presented by book and article bibliography (over 70%), many of which remain bibliographically unrecorded and unused. 3. The following subject areas of linguistics are considered to be bibliographically supported: inter-linguistics, culture of speech and language norms, lexicography, linguistic geography, linguistics regional geography, onomastics. 4. An obvious need to continue the index or database of bibliographic aids in the field of linguistics over the past 50 years is marked. 5. Further development of the linguistics bibliography is impossible to imagine without creating an electronic guide on the bibliographic resources of linguistics, which would reflect the diversity of bibliographical resources and provide their rich information potential for professionals and remote users

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AS CATALYZER OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF COOPERATION NETWORKS IN CLUSTERS

Professional training, with knowledge spreading, promotes the fruitful actions for local development within the context of networks among organizations or clusters that constitute an organizational form able to be identified in several productive and innovative sectors. In the training for human resources, diverse educational and training actors seek to connect knowledge offer to local economical need. This article aims to describe the professional education in Brazil, in the scope of networks present in clusters which cooperate for local development, based on the main Brazilian economical activities, with a focus on the Federal District. For the development of this research, concerning the methodological aspects, the research was descriptive and for data collection documentary and bibliographic resources were used, on the basis of an analysis on the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicilio , from IBGE, with the aid of SPSS program. The results highlight the main activities that need labor force in the Federal District and compare with what is really being offered in Brazil, whose service sector shows higher relevance.

Herbert Haviland Field (1868–1921): Bibliographer of Zoology

EDITOR'S SUMMARYBefore the field of bioinformatics was imagined, zoologist Herbert Haviland Field advanced the Concilium Bibliographicum, a comprehensive bibliographic resource for zoology. Born in New York to a wealthy family, Field pursued his early interest in science and earned multiple degrees but was frustrated by the difficulty of searching publications. Field developed a vision and plan for the Concilium, garnering financial support from donors and his family's resources and implementing the young Universal Decimal Classification for the project. Despite contacts with scientists throughout Europe, reliable funding for the Concilium eluded him. At the start of World War I, Field shifted his attention to relief missions, eventually using his international social position and language skills in commerce, the intelligence field and ultimately peace efforts. Attempts to rebuild the Concilium after the war failed, and Field died of influenza in 1921 at age 53, falling short of his goal to use the best technology of the day to improve information access.

REGIONALIZMO RAIŠKA ŠIUOLAIKINĖJE LIETUVOS KNYGŲ LEIDYBOJE: TARMINĖS KNYGOS

The development of publishing activities, focused not only on the Lithuanian liter­ary language but also on Lithuanian dialects, testifies to the spread of values of liberal pluralism in our society, dynamics of regional information needs and spontaneously expanding self-expression fields of ethnographic communities. Modern Lithuanian dialectal publishing is an extremely fragile and poorly commercialized phenomenon of culture. So far, neither the authors nor publishers and developers of bibliographic resources have fully understood the exclusivity of a dialectal book. As a result, accounting of dialectal books has not yet been formalized; the addressee of such books has not yet been well identified; linguistic features not always established in the publication titles. A suc­cessful life of a dialectal book is closely related to the national and regional cultural policy. The matu­rity of regional self-awareness of communities established on the ethnographic regional level and a positive attitude of a community toward its dialect is the main driving force of dialectal publishing. The tradition of publishing dialectal books is consistently continued by the Žemaiciai (Samogitians, or Lowland Lithuanian). Their quantitative and qualitative achievements can be illustrated by the fact that in 1990–2014, 77 book titles were published in the Samogitian dialect. New traditions of publishing are being developed by the Aukstaiciai (Highland Lithuanian) – 34 titles, and the Dzūkai (12 titles), whereas the Suvalkieciai, due to a great influence of the standard Lithuanian lan­guage, do not feel inclined to develop dialectal publishing. The ethnographic region of the so-called Mažlietuviai (from Lithuania Minor) is not numerous enough to have the capacity of developing dialectal publishing. The success of projects aimed at developing dialectal publishing can only be ensured by public organizations which act in accordance with the model of normative communities and thus engage community members into the processes of creating, publishing and disseminating the book content. Self-publishing authors usually use the services of cheap printing houses rather than show interest in developing local poligraphic industry or support local publish­ing companies. There are cases of successful dialectal publishing projects. However, these are more happy exceptions to the common practice. Given the situation, it is difficult to anticipate the involve­ment of big commercial houses in dialectal publishing. Due to the prevalence of network-based book­stores, the current system of distribution is not favourable to the dissemination of dialectal books.

Estado actual del banco de germoplasma de pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes), Guápiles, Costa Rica.

<p class="Resumen">El objetivo del presente estudio fue determinar el estado actual del banco de germoplasma de pejibaye en la Estación Experimental Los Diamantes (BGPLD). Se cuantificaron las accesiones perdidas y se obtuvo la información faltante en las boletas pasaporte para las accesiones sobrevivientes. Los datos de pasaporte se obtuvieron en parte del diario elaborado por Jorge Mora Urpí, fundador del BGPLD en el año 1972. Para aquellas accesiones sin datos se utilizaron fuentes bibliográficas para complementar la información. Se realizó un censo en el año 2013 para determinar la cantidad de palmeras en pie. El banco estaba originalmente compuesto por 7286 palmeras representando 837 accesiones de nueve países. Se identificaron 1471 individuos pertenecientes al grupo occidental y 1271 al grupo oriental. Actualmente solo sobreviven 805 individuos (11,1%). Se observó una menor mortalidad en las palmeras del grupo occidental (62,2 ± 41,5%) que en el grupo oriental (81,5 ± 19,6%). El BGPLD se encuentra en un estado crítico de deterioro. Se deben llevar a cabo políticas concretas y urgentes para rescatar este importante recurso fitogenético.</p><div> </div>

Review of Rickford, Sweetland, Rickford & Grano (2012): African American, creole, and other vernacular Englishes in Education: A bibliographic resource

REVIEW : African American, creole, and other vernacular Englishes in Education: A bibliographic resource. By John R. Rickford, Julie Sweetland, Angela E. Rickford & Thomas Grano. London/New York: Routledge. 2012.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DECORATED ARRAIES WITH GEOMETRIC AND PLANT MOTIFS IN ARCHITECTURE OF THE GRAND MOSQUE OF YAZD AND THEIR DEVELOPMENTS

The decorations used in traditional and Islamic arts have always had a special place. These decorations in a way reflect the ideas of the artists, the customs and traditions of each region. The expression of these ideas happens in such a way that they are not separated from each other, but we see the effects of one over the other in various arts. In the meantime, Yazd region, in turn, has been the scene of various arts which have been formed together with the impact of specific thoughts of the region. One of the distinctive features of Islamic art are its decorations that reaches its peak at a certain stage of development and becomes especially important, as each has an effect on the others and some sparks of this effect is evident in the samples of art. This issue can be significantly observed in the artwork a certain area whose artists have the same ideas. The architectural decorations in various parts of the country, especially in desert areas are of particular importance and are directly related with attitudes and needs. That's why the mosque in Yazd, Yazd is one of the oldest examples of religious architecture with a variety of geometric and plant tiling with beautiful and unique structural and decorative elements of the array. Thus, the present study study is a comparative analysis of the decorated arraies with geometric and plant designs in architecture of the Grand Mosque of Yazd and their developments. This study with historical analysis method examines the historical documents, bibliographical resources and field studies to collect data, and after analysis and summarizing, it is concludes about the changes in the method of implementation (the Brick molding and color Tile) and a form of semantic content (natural plant motifs and arabesques and complex geometric shapes). Further, the decorative structure changes with calligraphic lines used in the mosque is used in the course of their analysis.

Disambiguating Author Names: Part Two

ABSTRACTAuthor identity is a challenging problem for automation systems working with bibliographic resources. ORCID author identifiers are perceived as a simple and effective way to address this problem, but in order to accomplish this, ORCID identifiers need widespread adoption by researchers, organizations, and bibliographic automation systems. This column, the second of two, surveys how some libraries, publishers, and other research organizations are using ORCID identifiers to address the problem of author identity across different systems and workflows.

A Latin Renaissance in Reformation Scotland? Print Trends in Scottish Latin Literature, c. 1480–1700

The full extent of the large body of Latin literature produced by Scots in the early modern period has long eluded scholars. However, thanks to a growing range of research in this field, and particularly to the appearance of several major new bibliographic and electronic resources, it is possible for the first time to map out one aspect of its broad contours. This article uses a database comprising all currently known published first editions of Latin texts by Scots between 1480 and 1700 to examine the extent of Scottish Latin culture in print in the early modern period; how this related to the rise of printed texts in Scots and English; and the major genre types in which Scottish Latin authors published. The database reveals several major trends: firstly, that the publication of Scottish Latin texts reached its zenith in the reign of James VI and I, bolstered by the arrival of a domestic print market but also in part by an increased focus on literacy and education after the reformation; secondly, that by far the largest genres of printed Scottish Latin were poetry and academic theses, and not religious or political texts as might perhaps be expected; and thirdly, that the use of Latin as a literary and academic language in Scotland declined rapidly and irrevocably in the second quarter of the seventeenth century. The article concludes that the production of Latin literature by Scots was unique as an aspect of renaissance culture in Scotland because it had no strongly-defined presence before the reformation of 1560 and only became fully manifest in King James's later reign. It offers potential reasons as to why this may have been the case, and examines some implications the data has for understanding Scotland's developing intellectual and linguistic relationship with England after the union of the crowns. However, the article acknowledges the limited picture provided by print evidence alone and ends by calling for further research to assess how far this trend applies to all Latin literature produced by Scots, particularly the surviving corpus of Latin manuscripts.

Bibliographic Information Online: Capabilities and Prospects (Experience of the Russian State Library)

The article reviews the role and place of electronic bibliographic information, provided online, in the structure of modern informational society. There is discussed the question of reduction of libraries’ involvement in search and retrieval of information, required for readers’ professional activities and personal development. The Internet ability is assumed to reduce the role or even entirely replace the libraries not only in providing information on printed and electronic publications, but also in providing publications themselves to the users. One of the solutions to this problem may be an innovative approach to the information bibliographic activities of various types of libraries. To take a worthy place in the system of information search and retrieval, the libraries need to turn into the actual mediator between the readers and the book. To implement this goal the libraries need to not only timely post in open access the high quality information bibliographic resources and provide online services, but to make them comfortable and attractive to contemporary users. On the example of the Russian State Library there are discussed the possibilities of creation of electronic bibliographic resources and, primarily, the new ways of their representation in Internet. It is shown that the use of online technologies in creation of the bibliographic information allows the bibliographer to communicate directly with readers, getting feedback, considering the requests, discussing the topics, interesting for the users. There are determined the prospects of joining the efforts of libraries on creation and reflection in Internet of bibliographic resources, available in common access.

Remembering Lynn Steen: A Steen-Numeracy Citation Index (2008-2015)

This editorial memorializes Lynn Arthur Steen (1941-2015) with a bibliographic resource that indexes all of his writings (papers, books, edited volumes, and papers contained therein) that are cited in papers in Numeracy. The citation index contains 67 cited works, each accompanied with a list of linked Numeracy papers that cite them. All told, there are 68 such citing papers (called sources); they cite the 67 cited works a total of 290 times and are listed alphabetically in a source index with links. The paired citation and source indexes provide a vehicle for easy browsing by which those familiar with Lynn Steen’s works can easily be refreshed and reminded, while those who are new to QL can quickly come to an understanding of the importance of the concept and get an appreciation of Lynn Steen’s impact on the field. It is worth emphasizing that all of the source papers and many of the cited works are open access. It is hoped that this resource will facilitate hours of happy and thought-provoking reading and a deeper understanding of quantitative literacy.