Bibliographical Guide Research Articles

Electronic Guides on Websites of Russian Libraries: Types, Topics, Structure

The problem of a user orientation in modern information resources is raised. The role of electronic guides as a means of multidimensional information search is noted. The authors of the article translate the previously proposed definition of the concept of “electronic bibliographic guide” and reveal its significant features as a polystructural phenomenon. The authors analyze electronic bibliographic guides presented on the websites of federal and central libraries of the subjects of the Russian Federation. Their multidimensional classification is proposed. It takes into account 19 division bases. The results of the proposed study of these resources are presented. The characteristics of electronic guides on the following features are given: the method of access to reflected objects; access mode; language; the breadth of thematic coverage; belonging to a certain field of knowledge; a storage medium; the presence of a printed analogue. The three-part structure of electronic guides is considered, including an introductory article, the main part and auxiliary pointers and/or a search bar. The results and key findings can be used to improve the creation of electronic guides and improve the quality of electronic information resources created in libraries.

Frank Russell’s Diverse Writing and Speaking Career: A Bibliographical Guide

Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell (1865–1931), was a man of rational thought and social conscience who, released from his early imbroglios, embarked on a controversial career, throwing his name and political weight behind a range of desperate but often successful causes. This bibliographical guide acknowledges his labours, illustrates his diversity and demonstrates why Frank Russell deserves to be taken seriously.

Carnival, Calypso and Steel Pan: A Bibliographic Guide to Popular Music of the English-speaking Caribbean and its Diaspora by John Gray

Carnival, Calypso and Steel Pan: A Bibliographic Guide to Popular Music of the English-speaking Caribbean and its Diaspora by John Gray

A Curator-General: N. N. Golovin and the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace

ABSTRACT This article describes the contributions of General Nikolai Nikolaevich Golovin (1875–1944) to the fields of bibliography and archives. As an agent and later the Russian military curator for the Hoover War Library, Golovin helped acquire a large number of singularly important collections for the Hoover Institution, laying the groundwork for its stellar Russian holdings. He also created a number of bibliographic guides, especially to articles in the Russian émigré periodical press, that continue to retain their significance for researchers.

In Memoriam of Lambros Comitas (1927–2020)

In Memoriam of Lambros Comitas (1927–2020) Ellen Schnepel Lambros Comitas’s anthropological career began in the mid-1950s in the British Caribbean and spanned over six decades. His initial study of the sociocultural effects of mechanization of the fishing fleet in the Barbadian coastal community of Bathsheba was followed by an investigation of the impact of government-sponsored fishing cooperatives on five coastal settlements in Jamaica. From this research, he formulated the concept of “occupational multiplicity,” a framework to describe the complex lives of workers who were involved in multiple economic activities for survival. Click for larger view View full resolution Lambros Comitas-in his office/library at Teachers College. With Dr. Vera Rubin, he co-authored Ganja in Jamaica: A Medical Anthropological Study of Chronic Marijuana Use (1975). While the work was heralded, the authors’ conclusion that marijuana was a medically safe substance and should be decriminalized was considered controversial for its time. Comitas’s [End Page 167] research expanded to diachronic and synchronic variations of cannabis use among East Indians in Trinidad and Tobago and hashish users as a stigmatized group in Greece. Most recently, he was engaged in a study of First Nation hashish dealers in New Brunswick, Canada, with filmmaker James Hamilton. Along with the American geographer and historian David Lowenthal, Comitas co-edited four books under the rubric “West Indian Perspectives”—Slaves, Free Men, Citizens; Consequences of Class and Color; Work and Family Life; and The Aftermath of Sovereignty (1973). Biannually from 1973–2006, he wrote the article “Ethnology: West Indies” for the Handbook of Latin American Studies in which he documented the development of social science scholarship in the region. One of his most important contributions to the field of Caribbean Studies was the 1977 compilation, The Complete Caribbeana 1900–1975, a four-volume bibliographic and topical guide to the scholarly literature, which was later edited as The Digitized Caribbeana 1900–1975: A Bibliographic Guide to the Non-Hispanic Territories (2005). One of his last publications, Education and Society in the Creole Caribbean (2011)—a study of the impact of education in three post-colonial societies (Trinidad, Barbados, and Grenada)—was co-edited with his lifetime friend, mentor, and frequent collaborator, the Jamaican anthropologist M.G. Smith. For 41 years he was affiliated with The Research Institute for the Study of Man, a leading center in New York City founded by Dr. Rubin for the study of the Caribbean. After her death, he served as its director from 1985 to 2001. RISM sponsored research projects and training programs and organized multi-disciplinary conferences focusing on problematics across the geolinguistic and political boundaries of the region. After leaving RISM, Lambros founded the Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study in 2003. With a focus on the environment, natural disasters, and indigenous resistance, it hosts an annual field school for ethnographic research. Lambros was also a gifted photographer, and he considered visual anthropology as important as note-taking in ethnography. CIFAS remains an enduring legacy to the breadth of his scientific research in the Caribbean, Bolivia, Greece, the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia, Spain, Andorra, and Canada. Lambros was born in New York City on September 29, 1927, the son of Greek immigrants from the island of Ithaca. He had a 76-year association with Columbia University. Entering Columbia College at age 16 in 1943, he received his B.A. in 1948 following service in the US Army, and his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Political Sciences (Anthropology) in 1962. For 56 years he was a member of the faculty at Teachers College, the educational arm of the university, where he helped create doctoral programs in Applied Anthropology and Anthropology and Education, [End Page 168] shaping these fields to address societal issues of the day. He also served in a variety of administrative positions: Director of the Division of Philosophy, the Social Sciences, and Education; Director of the Institute for Latin American and Iberian Studies; and Director of the Institute for International Studies. Lambros had a profound and nurturing influence on his students. A strong proponent of training students for careers of applied research in domains somewhat distant from traditional academic pursuits, he...

Bloomsbury Design Library

Bloomsbury Design Library (BDL) provides information, much of it scholarly, on art, artists, and architecture from 1500 BCE to the present. It offers access to books published by Bloomsbury Publishing, and also information about certain museums and their exhibits and some images of items in these collections. The site also offers tools for educators, such as lesson plans and bibliographic guides. The site has a clear layout that is consistent across most pages and the content seems to be abundant. However, on closer inspection the content is less robust than it appears; it is repeated in various forms throughout the website. On the plus side, this makes things more discoverable; for example, someone looking for Southern African design can find it more easily in the “place” category than by searching through the entire Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. On the downside, the redundancy makes it difficult to remember where one is on the site, as the same thing can be seen multiple times and there is sometimes a lack of sufficient breadcrumbs to show users how they got to a particular page. In addition, some of the topics have only one to three items on their pages. Though it is valuable to have access to entire scholarly books such as the abovementioned encyclopedia and the overall design of the website is clear and pleasing, the lack of varied content and the insufficient use of breadcrumbs keep BDL from reaching its full potential.

“Whate’er These Words Cannot Express”: In Memory of Michael O’Neill

“Whate’er These Words Cannot Express”: In Memory of Michael O’Neill

Русскоязычная художественная литература в переводах на польский язык (2007–2017 гг.)

Artykuł przedstawia charakterystykę aktualnej kondycji rynku przekładów rosyjskojęzycznej literatury pięknej dla dorosłych wydanych w Polsce w latach 2007–2017, dokonaną na podstawie danych bibliograficznych wyekscerpowanych z wydawanego przez Bibliotekę Narodową Przewodnika Bibliograficznego. W omawianym okresie na polskim rynku wydawniczym pojawiły się 422 przekłady rosyjskojęzycznej literatury pięknej dla dorosłych, głównie współczesnej, zdominowanej przez powieści kryminalne oraz literaturę fantastyczną. Analiza zebranego materiału wykazała dysproporcję między liczbą przekładów współczesnej i klasycznej literatury rosyjskojęzycznej na język polski. Do artykułu dołączono wykaz bibliograficzny przekładów na język polski rosyjskojęzycznej literatury pięknej dla dorosłych za lata 2007–2017.

Carnival, Calypso and Steel Pan: A Bibliographic Guide to Popular Music of the English-speaking Caribbean and its Diaspora, by John Gray

Carnival, Calypso and Steel Pan: A Bibliographic Guide to Popular Music of the English-speaking Caribbean and its Diaspora, by John Gray

R. J. KEPPLE & J. R. MUETHER, Reference Works for Theological Research. An Annotated Selective Bibliographical Guide, University Press of America, Lanham 1992, 250 pp., 13, 4 x 21, 8.

R. J. KEPPLE & J. R. MUETHER, Reference Works for Theological Research. An Annotated Selective Bibliographical Guide, University Press of America, Lanham 1992, 250 pp., 13, 4 x 21, 8.

Bibliographic Guide to the Terrestrial Arthropods of Michigan: Supplement 1

Bibliographic Guide to the Terrestrial Arthropods of Michigan: Supplement 1

Bibliographic Guide to the Terrestrial Arthropods of Michigan

Bibliographic Guide to the Terrestrial Arthropods of Michigan

Zasoby informacyjne Biblioteki Narodowej jako źródła do badań rynku książki elektronicznej w Polsce

INFORMATION RESOURCES OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY AS A SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE ELECTRONIC BOOK MARKET IN POLANDThe aim of the article is to present publications and databases based on legal deposit copies sent to the National Library as potential sources for the study of books on electronic media. The authors carry out a critical analysis of, above all, the statistics provided by Ruch Wydawniczy w Liczbach [Polish Publishing in Figures] 2001–2014 as well as inventories making up the national bibliography system, Bibliografia Dokumentów Elektronicznych [Bibliography of Electronic Documents] 2001–2015 and Bibliografia Dokumentów Dźwiękowych [Bibliography of Sound Documents] 2009–2011. The data obtained as a result of the analysis have been confronted with information contained in the basic component of the national bibliography system — Przewodnik Bibliograficzny [Bibliographic Guide]. The analysis has demonstrated that the statistics provided by the National Library’s publications are not useful to the study of the electronic book market owing to the fact that the data overlook the aspect of the medium. The analysis has also shown that the bibliographic information about the current production of e-books and audiobooks is incomplete. Drawing on the results of the analysis, the authors have concluded that the incompleteness of the National Library’s sources stems partly from the methodology used in their compilation and partly from problems with obtaining legal deposit copies from publishers. In addition, other National Library resources — the main catalogue, digital repository or e-ISBN service — do not, in their present form, constitute alternative sources of information about electronic books published in Poland.

Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature by Robert A. Taylor

Reviewed by: Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature by Robert A. Taylor Courtney Joseph Wells Taylor, Robert A. Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2015 566 pp. 978-1-58044-207-7. $169.00 In the past five years, there has been a surge in bibliographical studies in the fields of Old Occitan literature and linguistics. In addition to the annual bibliographies published in the pages of journals such as Tenso and The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, and those published yearly by Miriam Cabré and Sadurní Martí on the website of Narpan (<www.narpan.net>), there have been three major bibliographies published. Wendy Pfeffer’s and Robert A. Taylor’s Bibliographie de la littérature occitane: trente années d’études (1977–2007) (reviewed by François Pic in Tenso 28) was published in 2011. Just afterwards, in 2012, the Bibliographie linguistique de l’occitan médiéval et moderne (1987–2007) of Kathryn Klingebiel (reviewed by Thomas Field in Tenso 30) appeared. And now, in 2015, we have a third substantial bibliography published by Robert A. Taylor: the Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature. Whereas the bibliographies of Klingebiel (544 pp.) and Pfeffer and Taylor (652 pp.) are “aussi inclusive[s] que possible” (Pfeffer and Taylor 7, n. 5), Taylor’s 2015 bibliography is “selective” and “critical” (ix). While the two previous bibliographies accomplish the Herculean task of providing a “somme” (I borrow the term from François Pic) of the existing scholarship dating from the periods surveyed, the Bibliographical Guide provides a representative sample of the vast body of critical work available on Old Occitan literature. The majority of these entries include a concise and accurate description of the article’s interest, methodology, and argument, along with the occasional additional comment containing insights, objections, background information, cross-references, or counterarguments. Add a helpful and concise preface and a well-compiled index and this makes the Bibliographical Guide a must-have for the student or researcher of Occitan literature. The Bibliographical Guide serves, by and large, as a continuation of Taylor’s previous book-length bibliography, [End Page 47] La Littérature occitane du moyen âge, published in 1977. The period surveyed, 1975–2011 (with some entries from 2012), picks up right where La Littérature occitane du moyen âge left off; however, since Taylor wishes to provide a guide to “essential publications” (xx), there is some overlap. A number of works, such as the Bibliographie der Troubadours of Pillet and Carsten, for example, can be found in both volumes; the references that propose corrections and updates to this essential bibliography published first in 1933 have been expanded and updated with the most recent scholarship. Apart from the change in language (Taylor writes in English here, rather than French), the largest difference between the two books is their scope: La Littérature occitane du moyen âge contains 885 entries over 155 pages, while Bibliographical Guide has 3099 that extend over 539 pages (not including the preface or index). The resulting impression, pointed out by Taylor in his preface, is of Occitan studies as a “vigorous and continuing” field (ix) steadily alimented by the work of scholars from around the world. A glance at the Bibliographical Guide’s table of contents helps the reader orient him- or herself quickly and efficiently. For more specific searches, the index includes names, topics, and concepts that direct the user to the desired reference, which, in turn, frequently contains helpful cross-references. The volume is organized into six sections: “I. Reference Works” (1–26), “II. Texts” (26–44), “III. Literary Criticism (Lyric)” (44–164), “IV. Literary Criticism (Non-Lyric)” (164–295), “V. Related Fields (Diffusion, Influences)” (296–315), and “VI. The Troubadours, Trobairitz” (315–539). Each section is divided into chapters (represented by arabic numerals) that are then divided into subject headings (differentiated by decimal numbers). So, to give an example of the book’s structure, the section “Texts” contains the chapters “6. Manuscript Sources,” “7. Anthologies,” and “8. Attribution Studies,” and the subject headings listed under “Manuscript...

Bibliografia zalecająca w Polsce

Teza/cel artykułu – celem artykułu jest przedstawienie rozwoju bibliografii zalecającej w Polsce w okresie powojennym, jej założeń teoretyczno-metodologicznych i realizacji praktycznej oraz przyczyn jej zaniku. Metody – zagadnienie przedstawiono na podstawie analizy piśmiennictwa, przykładów bibliografii zalecającej oraz tematyki poradników bibliograficznych, wydawanych w Bibliotece Narodowej. Wyniki/wnioski – Bibliografia zalecająca w Polsce opracowywana w okresie powojennym, a zwłaszcza w latach 40. i 50. wzorowana była na bibliografii zalecającej radzieckiej, w kolejnych dekadach pełniła rolę raczej bibliografii wyborowej, głównie jako pomoc w bibliotekach publicznych i szkolnych. Na zanik bibliografii zalecającej w Polsce w latach 90. XX w. złożył się splot różnych okoliczności, takich jak: niski poziom zainteresowania społecznego tym typem bibliografii i niewielkie jej wykorzystanie, pracochłonność, zwłaszcza przy znaczącym wzroście produkcji wydawniczej, dostęp do bibliograficznych baz danych, a także rezygnacja Biblioteki Narodowej z jej opracowywania.

Lectures de Zola: ‘La Fortune des Rougon’ . Sous la direction d’Émilie Piton-Foucault et Henri Mitterand

One way of measuring Zola’s fortunes within the academy is to track those of his novels prescribed for the agrégation, starting with Germinal in 1952 (marking the half-century since his death) and followed, thirty-five years later, by La Curée. Overcoming their mild surprise that La Fortune des Rougon is a set text for 2015–16, publishers and specialists have not been slow to provide candidates with unprecedented illumination of this opening novel of the Rougon-Macquart series, in the shape of colloquia, special issues of journals, and bibliographical guides. This collective volume, however, signals a pedagogic context only in its ubiquitous referencing of the officially sanctioned 2007 Folio version of the text rather than David Baguley’s more recent, and expensive, edition (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015; see French Studies, 70 (2016), 121–22). For its fourteen essays open up critical perspectives that are both original, in relation to a novel seldom read other than as the introductory frame of the series, and with implications for approaches to Zola’s work as a whole. Corinne Saminadayar-Perrin, in highlighting Pierre Rougon’s role as quasi-surrogate novelist, concludes that ‘l’épopée burlesque des Rougoléon prouve la puissance intrinsèque de la fiction dans la fabrique de l’histoire’ (p. 27). Françoise Gaillard overlays the exhumed corpses of Zola’s Saint-Mittre on the 1786 relocation of those in the Cimetière des Saints-Innocents to detect behind the somewhat curious topography of La Fortune des Rougon the originating parricide of the French Revolution. Adeline Wrona offers a penetrating study of the role of the press within the novel, enhanced by cross references to Zola’s own newspaper articles of 1869. Éléonore Reverzy’s focus is that of the ‘discours-image’ (p. 65) of contemporary caricature, which informs the text’s own ‘ménagerie impériale’ (the title of Paul Hadol’s 1870 development of Grandville’s famous template). Marie-Ange Fougère’s essay demonstrates how dramatic irony works at the level of the characters’ knowing smiles as well as that of author and reader endowed with the wisdom of historical hindsight. Grounded in a familiarity with socio-linguistic analyses of everyday speech, François-Marie Mourad’s study of whispers, gossip, indistinct utterances, and telling silences argues that ‘ce roman de la loquèle’ (p. 91) is presciently modern. Véronique Cnockaert and Marie Scarpa look, respectively, at Silvère and Miette in the light of psychoanalytical and ethno-critical criteria. In the section of the volume devoted to mythical scenarios, Clélia Anfray’s focus is that of Pyramus and Thisbe (as visible in Madeleine Férat as in the writer’s domestic decorations), and Émilie Piton-Foucault adds Millais’s Ophelia to Romeo and Juliet in the mirroring surfaces in which Zola’s young lovers play out their tragic idyll. While Olivier Got details the symbolic value of spatial transgressions, his exploration of doors and thresholds can be juxtaposed with Philippe Hamon’s brilliant consideration of the novel’s incipit and the literal and metaphorical frames initiating the ‘pacte de lecture générique’ (p. 190). Sophie Guermès’s equally incisive reflections on ‘les caprices de la Fortune’ (p. 199), in its emphasis on luck, chance, and accident, liberate Zola from deterministic cliché. And Patricia Carles and Béatrice Desgranges, in their characteristically two-handed piece, evoke the visual dynamics of theatrical loges and pictorial viewing to conjure up the spectral outlines of paintings far less well known than Delacroix’s oft-cited La Liberté guidant le peuple. This intelligent collection of essays is not for agrégation hopefuls alone.

Book review: An Island’s Law: A Bibliographical Guide to Ireland’s Legal Past, The Law School of University College Dublin, The Irish Stage: A Legal History

Book review: An Island’s Law: A Bibliographical Guide to Ireland’s Legal Past, The Law School of University College Dublin, The Irish Stage: A Legal History

Polskie ślady we współczesnym martyrologionie rosyjskim

Russian Orthodox Church through its numerous organizations and unities, including the scientific ones, for many years gathered and published materials concerning people oppressed during the period of Soviet rule because of their faith. One of the new publications on the subject is edited in 2015 by the St Tikhon’s Orthodox Humanities University in Moscow They Suffered Injustice for Christ’s Sake. Persecutions of the Russian Orthodox Church 1917-1956. Bibliographical Guide. Book One. A. It contains information concerning several thousands of people with their names starting with letter “A”. Amongst them there are names of nine persons connected with Poland, including three saints canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. The article introduces us to their life and activity.

Afro-Brazilian Music: A Bibliographic Guide by John Gray

Afro-Brazilian Music: A Bibliographic Guide by John Gray

From Vodou to Zouk: A Bibliographic Guide to Music of the French-speaking Caribbean and its Diaspora Jamaican Popular Music from Mento to Dancehall Reggae: A Bibliographic Guide Afro-Cuban Music: A Bibliographic Guide

From Vodou to Zouk: A Bibliographic Guide to Music of the French-speaking Caribbean and its Diaspora Jamaican Popular Music from Mento to Dancehall Reggae: A Bibliographic Guide Afro-Cuban Music: A Bibliographic Guide