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Web Archiving as a Task of National and Local History Bibliography

The foreign experience of forming the majority of national web archives (in national libraries) and many accessible local history archives of public and university libraries has been analyzed due to the development of a model and methodology for electronic local history archives for Russian libraries.It is shown that the global activity on preserving network content is divided into national and regional segments and is national and local history in both contents. Its goals and structure fully fit into the classical forms and directions of national/local history bibliography, which turns out to be the key in all processes of selection and bibliographic processing of a new class of sources. For selection, all the criteria of connection with the country/region/territory, the place of production of the resource, its national language and content, characteristic of the national/local history bibliography; the selection itself is carried out by library specialists. The analysis has revealed the reasons why the preparation of the archived online content for use, regardless of the capabilities of automated technologies, in practice also requires the involvement of specialist in bibliography, the use of classical tools and methods of bibliographic description and indexing of content. The issue of choosing objects for archiving (sites, subdirectories, individual documents) is specially considered. The special significance, advantages and problems of treating individual documents are shown. The necessity of forming such web archiving strategies is substantiated, in which “starting points” are separate documents, and sites are evaluated and selected for productivity as their “containers”. Taking into account the global trends and the conditions of Russian libraries, a model of web archiving is proposed, the implementation of which, in the absence of a national repository and modern tools, will allow the beginning of accumulating some necessary experience and valuable network content.

The study of the scientific heritage of M. S. Bokarius is the duty of empoyees working in a scientific institution named after him

A significant part of the scientific heritage of M. S. Bokarius, including reports, overviews, and reviews of the works of leading forensic medical examiners and lawyers from around the world has no bibliographic description and has not been put into scientific circulation. Throughout the pages of "Archives of Criminology and Forensic Medicine" and the Ukrainian-language journal: "Issues of Criminalistics and Forensic Science", the scientist reviewed more than 80 research papers. The peculiarity of the Editorial Board of Bokarius "Archives…" was that a significant number of reviews, overviews, etc., was published by the edition.
 Mykolai Serhiiovych is an author of more than 70 full-fledged analytical reports; and another 10 in the journal: "Issues of Criminalistics and Forensic Science". The scientist reviewed not only articles, textbooks, monographs by domestic authors, but also research papers of many foreign forensic scientists and criminologists from all over Europe, the USA, Japan, and countries of South America. Reports of scientific articles were reproduced in the journal in French, German and English, Italian and Spanish. All this became possible due to the fact that Mykolai Serhiiovych himself was a gifted linguist and spoke 17 foreign languages.
 The Article Purpose is a scientific search for new works by the scientist and a fundamental study of 5 issues of the "Archives of Criminology and ForensicMedicine" published in 1926—1927 and 6 issues of the "Issues of Criminalistics and Forensic Science" journal for 1931.

Ways to build text collections for training classifiers

We report on solving the problem of forming a Russian-language text collection (dataset) consisting of bibliographic descriptions of scientific articles for training classifiers. Various approaches to creating such collections are considered. The expediency of using expert estimates for assigning class labels is assessed. The known datasets are analyzed, the requirements for the generated text array are formulated, and the choice of the subject area (Computer Science) is justified. We propose a technology of forming collection in conditions of the shortage of Russian-language articles. To do this we use automated translation of publications (bibliographic descriptions) from available English-language electronic libraries (ACM digital library, IEEE Xplore digital library, CiteSeerX) with additional expert quality control of the translation. The bibliographic collection thus formed was studied using methods of clustering (Latent Semantic Analysis) and visualization (Principal Component Analysis). Training and test samples were compiled and «standard» classifiers (K-Nearest Neighbor Method, Logistic Regression, Random Forest) were used. Then we calculated standard quality measures (accuracy, precision, recall). The rigid and soft classification were carried out. For rigid and soft classification all calculated measures (for the studied classifiers) ranged within [0.79; 0.87], and [0.91; 0.95], respectively. The experiments showed almost identical results for Russian and English bibliographic descriptions (the difference did not exceed 2%). The proposed method of forming text collections reduces the complexity of the labeling process compared to the expert approach, solves the problem of the lack of Russian-language documents, allows formation of sufficiently large balanced bibliographic datasets for training and testing classifiers.

Influence of the quality of the bibliographic description on bibliometric scores

The influence of the quality of the bibliographic description on the search results in bibliometric data bases is considered. Three basic levels for bibliometric assessments are proposed. The influence of bibliometric errors on the quality of assessments at each level is shown. It is noted that the level at which the work is carried out with specific authors is the most sensitive. The responsibility for the inaccuracy of bibliographic data in scientometric search engines lies on the generators of information resources of these systems.

Standard R 7.0.100-2018: from difficulties to opportunities

The article presents an overview of the problems that arise in the process of practical application of the national standard regulating the rules of bibliographic description in bibliographic activities. Special attention is paid to the features of the bibliographic description that have not received sufficient coverage in the standard. The article emphasizes that the standard is focused on a creative approach to the application of description rules. It offers various options, the choice of which depends on the specifics of a particular library, the purpose of the description and the information needs of the user. At the same time, the methodological decisions of the compilers of the bibliographic description are subjective. They depend not only on the tasks facing the bibliographic institution, but also on the qualifications of the bibliographers. It is necessary to adjust the adoption of methodological decisions by preparing normative and methodological materials that explain and detail the provisions of the basic standard.

Shortcomings of Bibliographic Description in Service of Indigenous Peoples in Canada

The marginalization of Indigenous Peoples in library catalogues and cataloguing standards is well documented. This article looks beyond Library of Congress Classification to analyze how the marginalization of Indigenous Peoples manifests in Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC) and online public access catalogs (OPACs) to the detriment of Indigenous users. The rules that govern bibliographic description either obscure the presence of materials in a collection that represent Indigenous worldviews, or do not have the capacity to accurately record demographic terms related to Indigenous Peoples. This leads to inaccurate access points and culturally inappropriate metadata. Examples of projects and institutions innovating in this domain are examined. The harms cataloguers enact through adherence to bibliographic standards deserve critical and ethical analysis. These analyses and innovative projects are first steps towards better serving Indigenous users and reconciliation in libraries in Canada.

Descriptive Bibliography. By G. Thomas Tanselle A Sample Bibliographical Description with Commentary. By G. Thomas Tanselle

Both publications distributed by Oak Knoll Books, New Castle, Delaware. ‘Descriptive bibliography, by recording and analyzing the physical features of books, contributes directly to the process of reading and is thus a crucial cultural activity.’ The links thus expressed by Professor Tanselle in 1992, between form and meaning, have been long established, if not always perfectly understood. They were expressed somewhat summarily by McLuhan, and with more finesse in McKenzie's much quoted (and much misquoted) ‘forms effect meaning’. That being the case, then a further question arises. Not just what can be seen, but also who was responsible for what, contributing in so essential a way to the process of reading: of what we extract from our reading, and how we understand it. In what exactly does this collaboration between author, manufacturer, and reader consist? Where is the common ground? So far as the printed and manuscript word is concerned, it lies in the physical object: something that can be described in terms that are neither equivocal nor ambiguous: precise within chosen parameters.

Cataloging to Support Information Literacy: The IFLA Library Reference Model’s User Tasks in the Context of the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

Cataloging practices, as exemplified by the five user tasks of the IFLA Library Reference Model, can support information literacy practices. The six frames of the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education are used as lenses to examine the user tasks. Two themes emerge from this examination: context matters, and catalogers must tailor bibliographic descriptions to meet users’ expectations and information needs. Catalogers need to solicit feedback from various user communities to reform cataloging practices to remain current and viable. Such conversations will enrich the catalog and enhance (reclaim?) its position as a primary tool for research and learning. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2021.1939828 .

Printed Blank Forms of the Cyrillic Printed Letters of 1759 from Bishop of Pinsk and Turov George Bulgak in the Collection of the Russian State Library

Printed Blank Forms are poorly studied historical sources. They were published in almost every printing house, often in large editions; however, due to the specifics of the purpose, they were poorly preserved. Many of the printed editions have not reached our days. You can learn about their existence from archival documents. A number of editions are known in a single copy. The Research Department of Rare Books (Book Museum) of the Russian State Library has two Printed Blank Forms. These are the Certificates of Ordination from the Bishop of Pinsk and Turov, George Bulgak. These are the only known copies of the editions. They were issued to priest Vasily Shemetil on July 15, 1759 in Pinsk and stamped with the Episcopal seal. They came from the Vilnius Public Library. Due to the small number of complex studies of such sources, the article provides the detailed description of them, reveals the content at the level of the edition (printed blank form) and the copy (handwritten text); for the first time there is undertaken publication of the texts of the certificates. Moreover, the authors consider the actual problems of the bibliographic description of these publications: different bibliographers (F.N. Dobryansky, A.I. Milovidov, G.Y. Golenchenko, Y.A. Labyntsev) described and attributed these editions differently (Mogilev and Suprasl were mentioned as the place of publication). Being unique sources, they attracted attention of bibliographers, but were not used at all by historians and other researchers of book culture. The authors come to the conclusion that the attribution of the publication of letters in the printing house of the Annunciation Monastery in Suprasl, proposed by Y.A. Labyntsev, looks the most convincing today. The study emphasizes the importance of the considered documents that are the only known examples of printed Greek Catholic Certificates of Ordination of the 18th century. Since the life and activity of Georgy Bulgak himself, who became the Archimandrite of the Annunciation Monastery in Suprasl, remains practically unexplored in Russian historiography, the article presents his biography, focuses on this period of his activity and his great contribution to the development of book publishing in the monastery printing house, which printed books in Slavic, Polish and Latin languages.

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Addendum to Roger E. Stoddard’s A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820

Previous articleNext article No AccessAddendum to Roger E. Stoddard’s A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820David R. WhitesellDavid R. Whitesell Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 115, Number 2June 2021 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/713873 Views: 72Total views on this site © 2021 by the Bibliographical Society of America. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Printed Blank Forms of the Cyrillic Printed Letters of 1759 from Bishop of Pinsk and Turov George Bulgak in the Collection of the Russian State Library

Printed Blank Forms are poorly studied historical sources. They were published in almost every printing house, often in large editions; however, due to the specifics of the purpose, they were poorly preserved. Many of the printed editions have not reached our days. You can learn about their existence from archival documents. A number of editions are known in a single copy. The Research Department of Rare Books (Book Museum) of the Russian State Library has two Printed Blank Forms. These are the Certificates of Ordination from the Bishop of Pinsk and Turov, George Bulgak. These are the only known copies of the editions. They were issued to priest Vasily Shemetil on July 15, 1759 in Pinsk and stamped with the Episcopal seal. They came from the Vilnius Public Library. Due to the small number of complex studies of such sources, the article provides the detailed description of them, reveals the content at the level of the edition (printed blank form) and the copy (handwritten text); for the first time there is undertaken publication of the texts of the certificates. Moreover, the authors consider the actual problems of the bibliographic description of these publications: different bibliographers (F.N. Dobryansky, A.I. Milovidov, G.Y. Golenchenko, Y.A. Labyntsev) described and attributed these editions differently (Mogilev and Suprasl were mentioned as the place of publication). Being unique sources, they attracted attention of bibliographers, but were not used at all by historians and other researchers of book culture. The authors come to the conclusion that the attribution of the publication of letters in the printing house of the Annunciation Monastery in Suprasl, proposed by Y.A. Labyntsev, looks the most convincing today. The study emphasizes the importance of the considered documents that are the only known examples of printed Greek Catholic Certificates of Ordination of the 18th century. Since the life and activity of Georgy Bulgak himself, who became the Archimandrite of the Annunciation Monastery in Suprasl, remains practically unexplored in Russian historiography, the article presents his biography, focuses on this period of his activity and his great contribution to the development of book publishing in the monastery printing house, which printed books in Slavic, Polish and Latin languages.

Capturing the Complex Histories of German World War II Captured Maps

Following the end of World War II the U.S. Army Map Service distributed maps captured from the German military to research libraries across the United States, where they have remained largely hidden collections. One focus of the University of California Berkeley’s German World War II captured maps digitization project has been the creation of detailed metadata for the German military map series. Data-rich catalog records with information about source maps and the need to do authority work for related corporate bodies provided entry points for exploring issues of provenance. The topographic map series that make up the bulk of this collection reflect the fragmentary nature of German cartographic history, with varying contributing corporate bodies, diverse source material, and a range of sophistication and technique. All of these characteristics evolved between 1936 and 1945 when the Nazi regime ramped up production of military maps. The authors make the case that it is worth the time and effort for libraries to invest in creating rich bibliographic descriptions for these map series.

Information System for Registering the Result of Scientific Institution Employees’ Intellectual Activity

The article describes a typical object-oriented WEB-system designed for storing and providing various reference and statistical data on the scientific works of employees of an institution (group of institutions), developed by specialists of the JSCC RAS. The system contains information about publications of employees and reports made by them at scientific conferences, symposiums, and seminars. The system is focused on working with objects belonged to classes connected between each other, such as "author", "organization", "publication", "report", "event". The metadata profile of objects of each class includes attributes that are necessary to get detailed information about both an individual object of this class and a group of objects associated with the specified attribute values of objects of other classes. For example, you have to get a list of articles by employees of a given organization published articles in a given journal for a given period of time. A distinctive feature of the system is the introduced concept of "equivalent" objects. Such objects are "persons" corresponding to the same author with different spellings of the last name in the bibliographic descriptions of publications; organizations with different versions of names; articles which are published without changes in different languages. This article describes in detail the features of the system, its user interface, and provides examples of performing specific queries.

Аждодларимиз орзуси рўёби

The article provides bibliographic descriptions of published materials from various periodicals of 1925–1940 of the last century. It should be noted that the published materials until 1930 were written in Arabic script and then, in subsequent years, until 1940 in Latin. For more than 100 years of existence of the IBC «TURON», the total fund is more than 400,000 book copies. Over the past time, in the reading rooms of the library, many remarkable personalities of our time were engaged and became workers of science, culture and art. Currently IBC «TURON» has modern equipment to optimize information and library services for users.

Features of Scientific and Informational and Bibliographic Description of Mass-circulation Newspapers

Features of Scientific and Informational and Bibliographic Description of Mass-circulation Newspapers

Name in the Russian Bibliography: Irina Yurievna Fomenko (1953—2020)

The article is devoted to the memory of Irina Yurievna Fomenko (April 4, 1953 — May 30, 2020), philologist and book critic, the leading researcher in the Research Scientific Department of Rare Books (Book Museum) of the Russian State Library, responsible editor of four volumes of the “Union catalogue of Russian books. 1801—1825”. The authors give brief biography of I.Y. Fomenko, summarize information about her 150 scientific publications, which reflect the domestic publishing repertoire of the first quarter of the 19th century, relate to various aspects of working with early printed books, the subtleties of bibliographic description and book annotation. I.Y. Fomenko studied the creative heritage of M.N. Muravyev and defended PhD thesis on his prose. She wrote a number of articles for the Dictionary of Russian writers of the 18th century. With her participation, there were created catalogues of books of civil press and private owner’s collections from various holdings. Biographies of Russian writers of the 18th — 19th centuries, written by I.Y. Fomenko, were included in the collection of Russian literary studies.

Media competence of an editor as a factor of the effective promotion of scientific journals in the international information environment

The article gives insights into the concept of media competence regarding the profession of an editor of a scientific journal. Currently, the media competence is gaining the same relevance as other important competencies of publishers of scientific periodicals. The ability to find the required information quickly and efficiently, the ability to work professionally with international scientometric databases, a good understanding of the process of promoting a publication in the information environment, an ability to see if the publication corresponds to the research request and bibliographic description - all these and other skills and knowledge become crucial in organizing the work of the editorial staff of a scientific journal. At the same time, it should be recognized that the editorial staff of scientific journals acquire professional media competences directly in the process of work on the basis of their own successful or less successful experience. The country does not have a training system for such personnel, despite the fact that the challenges faced by the publishers are ambitious. These challenges require an integrated approach, including the increase of the media competence of editors of scientific journals.

ІДЕЇ ГУМАНІЗАЦІЇ ПСИХОЛОГІЧНИХ ДОСЛІДЖЕНЬ У ПРАЦІ О. Ф. ЛАЗУРСЬКОГО «КЛАСИФІКАЦІЯ ОСОБИСТОСТЕЙ» (ДО 100-РІЧЧЯ ПЕРШОГО ВИДАННЯ ТВОРУ)

This article’s aim is to attract the attention of specialists to the conceptual work of O.F. Lazurski “Classification of Personalities”, its first edition having been appeared posthumously in 1921. This edition being the continuation of the O.F.Lazurki’s book “Assay on the Science of Characters” was completed and prepared for publication by his pupils, M.Ya.Basov and V.M.Miasishchev; it disappeared at once from the book market due to the greatest public interest forcing the scientists to take care for two next editions in 1923 and 1925. Our article underlines the “Classification of Personalities” to be written in an epoch known by radical social consciousness transformation induced by dramatic and tragic events due to military and political factors of global scale having been acted in 1914-1918. The World War I, events of the first Russian revolution having begun earlier, in 1905, gave to the researcher, being these events direct witness and entity, unique materials for scientific analysis and generalization. In his directives concerning any event, the scientist realized the necessity of social life reformation. Such a thesis formulates his principal task and aim having been developed under the influence of serious trials, both physical and psychical, appeared to the society of that time. The article gives more precise and supplemented biographical data concerning the development of this scientist as a psychologist; it presents also a significantly widened list of O.F. Lazurski’s papers and their bibliographic descriptions. In such a way, we have obtained a possibility to find the sequence and systematization of his researches as well as his ideas evolution and his principal theoretical approaches having become basic for creating of his own theoretical notions. The authors have used the data taken from the scientist’s epistolary inheritance permitting the reconstruction of socio-cultural conditions during his work and the understanding of this work influence on the formation of O.F. Lazurkin’s own priority tasks during his work. We have discussed separately the principle of personality active adaptation to the environment being the basis of O.F. Lazurkin’s personality classification. Such an approach concerning the psychology of each human personality permits to understand the existence of two important subdivisions: there are three subdivisions on psychic (mental) level and a lot of them according to their different types and varieties according for each person mental contents. During the scientist’s text research, we have ascertained the central conception of the O.F. Lazurski’s “Classification of Personalities” to be a holistic personality description according to principles of systematization and scientific reliability. We note the author’s critical approach in understanding and generalization of personality classification having been existed in his epoch as well as theoretical backgrounds of sign classification describing each person’s various manifestations. We have especially emphasized the priority of ideas concerning personality research humanization in O.F. Lazurski works aiming to show each individual unique properties. The personality classification developed by O.F. Lazurski takes into consideration both psycho-physiological and socio-cultural components of each personality type due to understanding of each human personality as a whole organism, both physiological and social, including all its numerous interrelations and manifestations.

Publications of Lucja Barbara Rautenstrauchowa in the V. Stefanyk NSL of Ukraine in Lviv fund, as a sample of sentimental literature of the XIX century

Purpose of research. The main task of this work is the analysis and characteristics of the Polish writer Łucja Rautenstrauchowa's lifetime publications, which are in the collection of Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv. The research methodology of the writer's fictional prose includes the general analysis of the printed writings, elaboration of typology, description of provenience symbols on copies, characteristics of the proprietary inscriptions on the researched editions. Scientific novelty. In the process of working on the article, we conducted scientific and bibliographic research of Łucja Rautenstrauchowa's writings, analyzed prose works, researched and described the origin and proprietary inscriptions, which indicate the history of the existence and preservation of copies. The presented lifetime publications are typical samples of Western European sentimental literature of the ХІХ century. The figure of the novelist is interesting from the point of view of the representative of that time. Conclusions. The articleseeks to analyze the concept of the personality of woman and woman writer of the XIX century, as well as thematic aspects of women's fiction, despite the marginalization of women's contemporary literary works. By way of example of individual writing, attention is focused on the identification of the narratrix who chose the first person narration. Łucja Rautenstrauchowa's prose is sentimental and autobiographic. All events in the writings are conveyed by the author through the prism of her personal perception. A woman writer proves her subjective, feminine perception of the world through romantic travels. The travel genre in the ХІХ century became one of the leading in Western European literature, and Łucja Rautenstrauchowa's prose phenomenon is to introduce her own works with the artistic perception of the role of a woman and the adoption of the latest concept in contemporary society. Thus, in the process of working on the article, we researched and revealed the biography of the writer Łucja Rautenstrauchowa, analyzed her prose and created a scientific and bibliographic description of printed publications in the collection of the Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv.