Bibliotecarul – un posibil proiect de cercetare
The Librarian – a Possible Research Project

Summary/Abstract: This evocation deals with the position of the librarian as seen by others – from the outside. A simple definition describes the librarian as ”a person that administers and runs a library”. With this paper, we try to put the librarian in the place he has occupied in history as the one who has always stood between the reader, the book and the library space, as the one who has mediated knowledge, information to the reader/researcher. We call for the creation of an encyclopaedia/dictionary of libraries and librarians in Transylvania, because we are convinced that such a work would complete the history of culture in this multi-ethnic and multicultural area. The large number of libraries with historical book holdings urges such future research. Librarians in these libraries have played an essential role in developing social life and scientific activity, especially since the Enlightenment.

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