Bibliografia locală, de la tradiţie spre viitor
Local bibliography, from tradition to the future

Book. Reading. Library.

Summary/Abstract: While the political system changed fast in Romania after 1989, other changes came much slower, finally reaching the librairies, as well. In the Mureş County Library work in local studies could finally commence. This has included the research of documents in Romanian, Hungarian, German and other languages.1990 was the first year when we could work without political pressure. In 1993 we began building the current bibliographic system, and we started the series titled Mureş Bibliographies. In 1995 we published the Bibliography of periodicals Dec. 23 1989 – Dec. 31 1994. The next volume (1995-2000) appeared in 2001. The second number of the series was Bibliography of the Books Published in Mureş County, 1990-1995.Currently, we continue gathering and sorting the material, and the 1995- 2000 volume will appear in 2002. In 2001 we succeded in publishing the third number, the Bibliography of Periodicals Published in Mureş County, 1795-1972, edited by Dimitrie Poptămaş and Julia Mozes. In the same Mureş Bibliographies series we would also like to publish the Bibliography of Books Concerning Mureş County, 1990-1999, an annotated bibliography with two thousand entries dealing with all aspects of life. We selected the publications from the Romanian and Hungarian national bibliographies. The work – slated to be published in 2002 – is being done with the help of the TINLIB computer program.We also collected data for the Registry of Important Persons in Mureş County that contains data about ten thousand Romanian, Hungarian, German and people of other nationalities. This database has been continuously updated. From the same database, Ana Cosma published the Bibliography of Romanian Writers (2001) that contains more than one hundred names. The same database will be the foundation of yet another bio-bibliography that will include the Important Persons in Technical and Natural Sciences in Mureş County.My colleague Klara Ferencz and I, both retired, have started editing the Retrospective Bibliography of Local Studies from Mureş County.We explore the works of local authors, local publishing houses, and other locally relevant works. The selected works are all catalogued in the TINLIB program, given UDC numbers, keywords, and the annotations mention all that is relevant to Mureş County. A lot was written about the famous Teleki Library in Târgu Mureş. Here I would mention some important catalogues: the 4-volume catalogue edited by the founder Samuel Teleki was published between 1796-1819.This was continued by the Catalogus Incunabulorum Bibliothecae Teleki-Bolyai that appeared in 1971. These works were completed in 2001 with the Catalogue of 16th Century Printed Books Existing in Teleki- Bolyai Library of Târgu Mureş that includes more than three thousand entries. Also in 2001 the Old Ex-Libris from the Teleki Library of Târgu Mureş was published by Aniko Nagy Dee.

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