Vernadsky National Library Research Articles

Remote Services of Libraries of Ukraine of National Significance

The purpose of the article is to research and conduct a comparative analysis of the services with which libraries of Ukraine of national significance provide their users remotely. The research methodology consists in the application of the following methods: analysis, synthesis, comparative analysis, generalisation, and benchmarking. The scientific novelty consists in the study of remote services with which libraries of Ukraine of national significance, as leading institutions, provide their users in the conditions of a pandemic and martial law. Conclusions. The following libraries of national significance were found, which provide a wide range of remote services online in the conditions of martial law and lockdown restrictions: National Library of Ukraine named after Yaroslav Mudryi, V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv, the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine, and Odesa National Scientific Library. A comparative analysis of remote services of these libraries has been carried out, which allows to give preference to the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine, since it offers its users the following services: remote registration to the library; ordering the necessary documents and receiving an electronic copy of the document or its excerpt to the user's e-mail; the "online request" service, with the help of which users can get operational information about information resources, services, the availability of documents in the library collection; systematic informing of users on the selected topic about new arrivals to the funds of the State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine; formation and editing of bibliographic lists; organisation and holding conferences, seminars, workshops, and thematic exhibitions. Key words: national libraries, libraries of national significance, website, service, online services, lockdown, martial law.

Polonica in Ukrainian printed poster of 20th century from collection of Department of Fine Arts of Institute of Book Studies of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine

Polonica in Ukrainian printed poster of 20th century from collection of Department of Fine Arts of Institute of Book Studies of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine

Conservation measures for preservation of especially valuables documents of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine: examination, research, implementation

Conservation measures for preservation of especially valuables documents of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine: examination, research, implementation

Skovorodiana in fonds of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine. To 300th anniversary of birth of outstanding Ukrainian philosopher

Skovorodiana in fonds of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine. To 300th anniversary of birth of outstanding Ukrainian philosopher

Church music at fond 177 of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine

Church music at fond 177 of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine

Scientific and epistolary heritage of Rymma Semenivna Kharabadot (according to materials of fond 426 of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine)

Scientific and epistolary heritage of Rymma Semenivna Kharabadot (according to materials of fond 426 of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine)

Library of Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences: history and current state (According to publications from fond of Foreign Ukrainika of Institute of Book Studies of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine)

Library of Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences: history and current state (According to publications from fond of Foreign Ukrainika of Institute of Book Studies of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine)

Library and bibliographical classification of literature from Judaica Collection in Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine

Library and bibliographical classification of literature from Judaica Collection in Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine

Archival heritage of Ivan Krypiakevych in fonds of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine

Archival heritage of Ivan Krypiakevych in fonds of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine

Church-singing collection of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery from fonds of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine: results of scientific observations

Church-singing collection of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery from fonds of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine: results of scientific observations

Community Based Music Information Retrieval: A Case Study of Digitizing Historical Klezmer Manuscripts from Kyiv

In this article we provide a case study in the datafication of historical handwritten manuscripts, which diversifies the repertoire, approaches, demographics, and institutional partnerships of MIR. The Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project (KMDMP) is a community-based project to digitize music and text, teach, and make music from facsimiles of manuscripts held by the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. The corpus comprises 850 high-resolution photographs of handwritten music manuscripts and catalog pages, with a total of around 1,300 melodies. Much of the music was collected by pioneering Belarusian ethnographer Zusman Kiselgof among Jewish communities in the ‘Pale of Settlement’ (mostly in modern Ukraine and Belarus) during the An-Ski Expeditions of 1912–1914. The repertoire is mixed, combining typical Jewish dance and non-dance genres, European society and folklore dance music, and a relatively small quantity of songs and liturgical chant settings. The project simultaneously encodes music in formats accessible to computational musicology and enhances a creative musical community and deeply valued heritage. We introduce the project in dialogue with a recent article by Georgina Born on diversity in the field of MIR; present the material, issues for datafication, and results thus far; describe project elements that enhance musical community; demonstrate the diversity of participants with respect to age, gender, nationality, and profession; outline implications for MIR and computational ethnomusicology; and suggest new funding models and partnerships in support of cultural heritage documentation, preservation, continuity, and analysis.

Partes Concerts of the 1730s–1740s from the Kyiv Collection: New Assets

Relevance and current status of research. The Kyiv collection of partes music, which is kept in the Institute of Manuscript of V. Ι. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, is the largest in Ukraine. It includes about 700 choral works, and only a few dozen of them have been decoded, edited and published. In 2020, within the Musica sacra Ukraina project the author of this article decoded and prepared for performance three new partes concerts from the Kyiv collection. These are twelve-part anonymous concerts of the 1730 s – 40 s “The troubles of my heart”, “O sing unto the Lord a new song” and “Come, o people”.
 The purpose of the study is to describe the Kyiv partes collection and the current status of its research; to outline the main steps of working with partes manuscripts: deciphering, score compiling and editing; to present deciphered concerts in the context of current research problems of European baroque music, such as the aesthetics of oddity, as well as musical symbolism and rhetoric, which allow us to reveal the inextricable connection between the verbal and musical text of the works.
 Methodological framework. The work is based on proven methodologies of decoding and scientific editing of handwritten musical text, and methods of musical theoretical analysis are also used.
 Results and scientific novelty of the work. Three anonymous twelve-part partes concerts of the 1730 s –1740 s from the Kyiv collection “The troubles of my heart”, “O sing unto the Lord a new song” and “Come, o people” were deciphered, edited and analyzed. A comprehensive approach to studying Ukrainian baroque music is presented. It involves deciphering, editing (preparation for performance) and musicological interpretation of the work. The proposed musicological analysis, which is based on modern approaches to the analysis of baroque music, updates the European context of the Ukrainian baroque heritage

Biochemical markers of connective tissue in the pathogenesis of gastroenteritis in dogs and cats

The aim: to analyze and establish the pathogenetic role of biochemical markers of the state of connective tissue in diseases of the stomach and intestines in dogs and cats.
 Materials and methods. The research was carried out by the method of analysis of sources of scientific literature (PubMed, Elsevier, electronic resources of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library), because of which a scheme of the pathogenesis of gastroenteritis in dogs and cats with the participation of connective tissue biopolymers was created.
 Results. In dogs and cats, the issue of the use of biochemical markers for the diagnosis of diseases of the stomach and intestines has not yet been fully clarified. It is known, that in dogs and cats, lymphocytic-plasmacytic enteritis is histologically determined by fibrosis of the intestinal wall, but biochemical tests for the diagnosis of this condition are not given. Among the biochemical markers of inflammatory bowel disease, tumor necrosis factor, C-reactive protein and microalbumin were identified. Although C-reactive protein was elevated in a greater number of diseased animals, this increase was insignificant. Other tests also did not show high diagnostic informativeness. Several stages can be identified in the pathogenesis of alimentary gastroenteritis in dogs and cats. First, the irritating components of food act on the mucous membrane of the stomach and disrupt its secretory and motor functions, which causes gastritis. Thus, the use of indicators of the state of connective tissue in the diagnosis of intestinal diseases in dogs can be used to assess the degree of the inflammatory process.
 Conclusions. According to the results of the analysis, it was established, that the development of the inflammatory process in the stomach and intestines causes an increase in the content of glycoproteins in the blood serum of cats and dogs, and a decrease in synthetic processes in the liver is accompanied by a decrease in the concentration of glycosaminoglycans (GAG) in the blood serum of sick animals. It should be noted, that this decrease has peculiarities: in dogs, the content of total chondroitin sulfates remained at the level of clinically healthy animals, while the concentration of total GAG decreased. In cats, on the contrary, the content of total chondroitin sulfates decreased, and the fractional composition of GAG remained unchanged. The level of excretion of oxyproline and uronic acids in the urine of animals with gastroenteritis did not change, which indicates the absence of catabolism of collagen and proteoglycans with gastroenteritis

Libraries in the processes of distance scientific communication: the experience of V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine

The demand for electronic information resources of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine at the current stage is substantiated. International databases of scientific information, access to which was provided by the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine for domestic scientists during the quarantine and martial law in Ukraine, are given. The projects of the Library, created to ensure the information needs of internally displaced persons, were considered. The advantages and disadvantages of remote work of librarians are analyzed. Special attention was paid to the replenishment of electronic resources of libraries. The important library resources of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine are characterized, in particular the portal "Science of Ukraine: access to knowledge", "Library portal of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine" and the electronic library "Ukrainika". Emphasis is placed on the value of such information services for remote users under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic and martial law in the state. It is emphasized that library knowledge portals play an important role in promoting scientific knowledge in Ukraine and beyond; provide extended access to them due to the use of library and information resources of scientific domestic library institutions and the latest web technologies. Attention is paid to the national DB "Ukrainika scientific", which is one of the important and significant electronic resources of the Library. Various types of remote work of library employees of individual domestic scientific libraries of Ukraine during 2020—2022 are considered. Statistical data of the WebLogExpert web server log file analysis program regarding visits to electronic resources of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in recent years are presented. It has been noted that the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine has significantly increased its online participation in international, all-Ukrainian scientific and scientific-practical conferences, scientific seminars and other scientific-organizational events. The effectiveness of remote work of library workers under the conditions of quarantine and martial law in Ukraine was determined. It was emphasized that the organization of remote work of library institutions made it possible to preserve the country's intellectual potential under today's difficult conditions.

Distance learning of library employees of the National academy of sciences of Ukraine: theoretical and methodological principles

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the theoretical and methodological principles of distance learning as a component of the system of professional development of library workers of scientific institutions of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The methodology of the article was formal-logical and social-communicative approaches; methods of analysis and synthesis, cognitive and generalization method, which have allowed to accurately realize the purpose of the study. Scientific novelty is the substantiation of the theoretical and methodological principles of distance learning of employees of scientific institutions of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The author's definition of the term «distance learning of librarians» is offered. Conclusions. Distance learning of librarians of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is a form of learning to acquire new professional knowledge, learn innovative professional competencies, increase intellectual level, develop creative abilities and reveal cognitive potential using computer and telecommunications technologies that provide interactive interaction of participants through various educational activities. (seminar, lecture, webinar, course, consultation, etc.). Important for professional development are industry webinars, which conduct library practices of both national and regional libraries. Distance education of librarians is a form of education aimed at acquiring new professional knowledge, mastering innovative professional competencies, increasing intellectual level, developing creative abilities and revealing cognitive potential using computer and telecommunication technologies that ensure interactive interaction of participants through various educational activities (seminar, lecture, webinar, course, consultation, etc.). Industry webinars, which are conducted by librarians of both national and regional libraries, are important for improving professional qualifications. Keywords: distance learning, advanced training, librarian, V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

«Автобіографія» Федора Шимченка як джерело дослідження життєвого шляху (за документами особового архівного фонду Інституту рукопису НБУВ)

The aim of the work. On the basis of archival sources, fi rst of all «Autobiography», from the personal fond of Institute of Manuskripts of Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (VNLU) (F. 385, C. 11) is to carry out reconstruction of a way of life of Fedir Shymchenko (1922–1989) who worked for 40 years (1947–1987) in the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now – VNLU). He began his career as a librarian, in the result of the accumulation and enrichment of professional experience, professional growth, training F. Shymchenko was approved as fi rst deputy director of the scientifi c organization of library and bibliographic services, and later as an acting director of the Central Scientifi c Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The methodology is based on the principles of historicism, objectivity, as well as on general historical methods – chronological, retrospective, problem-thematic. Particular attention was paid to the biographical method, which managed to reproduce the picture of a person’s life in a particular microsocial environment. The scientifi c novelty of the study lies in the reproduction on the basis of archival sources of little-studied periods from the biography of F. Shymchenko and the presentation of a comprehensive study of life, including a detailed review of years of study in military aviation institutions. Conclusions. On the basis of primary sources from the personal archival fond, fi rst of all «Autobiography», a chronological sequence of F. Shymchenko’s positions for the years of work in VNLU is built and documented. F. Shymchenko’s personal contribution to the activity of the Library, its role in the development of the institution as the main all-Ukrainian book collection and the national complex library and information center are presented.

Документи про реформу українського правопису в особовому фонді Василя Німчука

The article considers little-known and previously inaccessible archival documents on the reform of Ukrainian spelling from the personal fond of the corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Philology Vasyl Vasyliovych Nimchuk (1933–2017), stored at the Institute of Archival Studies of V I Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. The purpose of the study is to analyze V. Nimchuk’s opinion on the reform of Ukrainian spelling in the 1990s, highlight the positions of like-minded people and opponents, recreate the course of events in preparation for this reform and reveal the role of the Ukrainian National Spelling Commission. The research methodology is based on methodological principles related to the general scientifi c principles of analysis and synthesis, historicism, scientifi c objectivity, systematic and interdisciplinary approaches. The study of archival documents was based on archival heuristics, archeographic methods, as well as historical criticism of sources. During the consideration of the materials of V. Nimchuk’s personal fond, special methods of historical-biographical and historical-social research were used, which made it possible to study archival sources on the problem. Scientifi c novelty. The documents on the reform of Ukrainian spelling from the personal archival fond of linguist V. Nimchuk were put into scientifi c circulation for the fi rst time. Conclusions. The analyzed archival documents on the draft Ukrainian spelling of 1999 signifi cantly supplement the information on the scientifi c, organizational and public activities of V. Nimchuk in his preparation. Epistolary documents deposited in the personal archives of the scholar reveal the peculiarities of discussions in Ukrainian society around spelling reform. V. Nimchuk’s archival heritage is an important source base for studying the role of scientists, other linguists and scientifi c institutions in preparing the reform of Ukrainian spelling in the 1990s. Prospects for further studies. The considered documents showed a signifi cant source and information potential of the archival heritage of the scientist, which will contribute to further research of his scientifi c work by historians and linguists.

The bassoon as a monument of musical culture: source studies

The article for the first time in Ukrainian historiography, museology and monumentology considers works of European fine art, where there is an image of a wind wooden musical instrument bassoon. Works of painting, graphics, works of monumental art (sculpture) are analyzed. This is a characteristic of the collections of bassoons in museums in Western Europe, the USA and Canada. Publications stored in the funds of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Yaroslav Mudryi National Library Of Ukraine, the National Historical Library of Ukraine, the National Scientific and Research Restoration Center of Ukraine were used. The expositions of the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts (Kyiv), the Museum of Theatrical, Musical and Film Art of Ukraine (Kyiv), the State Yagotynsky Historical Museum (Yagotyn, Kyiv Region), as well as Internet resources of collections of wind instruments of a number of museums in Europe, the USA and Canada are analyzed. Materials from the personal archive and musical collection of the bassoonist, teacher in the class of wind musical instruments, soloist of orchestra V. Kepin (Kyiv) were involved. Based on the analysis, it was concluded that the Flemish artist Dеnis van Alsloot can be considered one of the first in European painting, which brought to our time the composition of wind musical instruments characteristic of the musical culture of Western Europe of the XVII century. In Ukraine, one of the oldest copies of the bassoon (1730s) is stored in the Museum of Theatrical, Musical and Film Art of Ukraine (Kyiv).

Physical culture in the context of modern philosophical anthropology

Background and study aim. Prerequisites and purpose of the study. Today, philosophical anthropology (in the context of physical culture) occupies an intermediate place between the biological sciences and existential philosophy, elements of which it uses to explain the problems of physical existence. In the deep spheres of the physical state of a man (in the continuum of his/her spiritual-moral, physical, subconscious-rational, irrational and anthrobiological subjectivity) one can find the true foundations of personal physical culture and give them an immanent-subjective expression of human strength (as a creator of culture globalized world). The purpose of the study is to characterize the physical culture of the individual in the context of philosophical anthropology. Material and methods. Sources of information were the authoritative database Web of Science Core Collection, Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine. Extraction of data from documents was carried out by means of a search query. In total, data on 102 documents containing such keywords as philosophy, anthropology, physical culture, sport were removed from the Web of Science Core Collection. Accordingly, 18 documents were found in the catalogues of the Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine. Further analysis was performed with these 120 documents. The results of the search query were recorded in the form of tables and a special text file, which was processed in VOSviewer. The requirements of dialectical logic, comparative method, method of phenomenological reduction, hermeneutic methods are chosen by research methods. Results. The most significant and popular thematic categories, journals, authors, articles, keywords are identified. The connection between the elements of bibliographic description of articles and individual groups of publications has been established. It is established that from the second quarter of the XX century among philosophers there is opposition to the understanding of human nature on the basis of the acceptance of some one of its essence (spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional and volitional, etc.), which determines the existence of any person. This was a denial of the approach to a man, which was called essential (from the Latin essentia – essence). The result of this transformation was to establish an existential understanding of a man (from the Latin existentia - existence). However, a self-contained existential approach is capable of producing a worldview distortion of personal physical culture, especially in conditions of restriction of freedom (for example, during a pandemic, war). Therefore, in modern philosophical anthropology it is necessary to adhere to a balanced combination of essential and existential understanding of a man in general and his/her physical culture in particular. In this way, philosophical anthropology is able to actualize various structures of worldview, including the values of physical culture. Conclusions. From the point of view of modern philosophical anthropology, athletes, in the broadest sense of the term (all those who purposefully engage in physical and sports exercises), are carriers of a set of socio-cultural values (moral and volitional qualities, morpho-functional properties, psychophysical abilities, etc.). These values, in the context of the globalization of civilizational development and the main axiological concepts (quality and standard of living, social order, well-being), should be considered as a means of activating planetary socio-cultural development.

Investigation related to teachers’ attitude towards inclusive education

The article substantiates the impact that teachers have when the state policy meant to reform and / or modernize education is being implemented, Consequently, it is of great importance for the policymakers to understand preservice and in-service primary (elementary) teachers’ attitude to educational reforms. Today, general secondary education schools need to create an inclusive educational environment that is safe for all students, regardless of the severity of their disability. It is extremely important to prevent the social isolation of children with special educational needs (SEN); to promote the realization of educational potential during the implementation of the individual curriculum and other functions regulated in the teacher’s job descriptions. So, it is necessary to investigate teachers’ attitude towards inclusive education as an innovative paradigm that reforms teaching and learning in modern schools. The article analyses published research findings that Ukrainian researchers who explore the topic of teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education (see the website of the Vernadsky National Library). It is concluded that researchers in Ukraine are unlikely to have investigated questionnaires that help to identify teachers’ attitude and concerns about inclusion. The authors presented research findings of foreign researchers, who describe approaches to studying the features of teachers’ attitudes to inclusive education, methods and steps in collecting and processing information. The term «attitude» is clarified, its component structure, which serves as a basis for the development of questionnaire, is explained. The factors that form the positive and negative attitude of teachers towards inclusion of children with special educational needs in the general secondary education setting are highlighted. The further study is likely to investigate preservice and in-service primary school teachers’ attitude towards inclusive education using questionnaires developed by American and British researchers and adapted to the peculiarities of education in Ukraine.