BIBLIOTECA CENTRALĂ UNIVERSITARĂ CLUJ ŞI SPAŢIUL CULTURAL GERMANOFON ÎN PERIOADA INTERBELICĂ
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF CLUJ AND THE GERMANOFON CULTURAL AREA IN THE INTER-WAR TIMES

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to analyze the circuit of reading between the Romanian and German areas in the university Cluj during the inter-war times. Libraries inside the Carpathian arch got a long lasting tradition, with a complex mission, from satisfying the large public needs of reading, to ensure the young generation education, spreading of scientific and technical information, and facilitating the access to the values of the universal culture. A large share of libraries running during the inter-war times, connected to the German cultural and linguistic area, have a history of many decades as having be set in the 19th century. As a city of education, the University of Cluj may be a solid reference point in what concerns the circuits of the exchange of publications. The University library was set at once with the University setting in 1872. A well set prioritizing of acquisition started with the library opening, in order to realize the collections continuity and to satisfy the readers’ interests through books solicitations. Four are the ways to enrich the fond of books and revues: acquisition, donations, respecting of law in what concerns the legal store, and exchange of publications. The Great Union changed the history of that institution of Cluj, by its reorganization according to the Romanian educational laws at the time. The exchange of publications between the two German areas, from the center of Europe and from Romania, went functionally on, based on the aspiration of the Germans living in Romania to stay in contact with their native world, with the linguistic and cultural area they originated from. So, the channels of the publications circuits have been preserved in and from the two cultural areas, for the good of both of them.

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