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The article presents the independent Łodź publishing house “Ładne Halo”, existing since 2011. It was founded by Joanna Guszta and Maciej Blaźniak. Within the publishing house there are the graphic studio and the reading room of illustrated books. The publishing house specializes in picture books for children in pre-school age, pupils, but also for connoisseurs of beautiful illustrations and high level of editing. “Ładne Halo” conducts cultural and educational activities organizing workshops, exhibitions and meetings for children, aimed at popularizing books. The additional area of its activity is the web page and Ilustrada.pl – the social profile, providing information on distinguished world illustrators of books.
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There are ten documents from 1390–1424 preserved in the State Archives in Wrocław, issued by the Dominican convent of St. Adalbert in Wrocław. This group is unique for the entire Polish province of the Dominican Order. The subject of the article is the edition of the abovementioned documents and a presentation of their source value for the history of Wrocław’s Dominicans at the turn of the fifteenth century
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The Warsaw Model Library for Children, opened in Warsaw in November 1927, is one of the best-known institutions of this type in Poland. Its organization and methods of work have served, according to the name, as an organizational model of other children’s libraries. However, the library is not only a place and collections but also people – librarians. The article presents the characters of three managers of this library and their contribution to the development of such a single institution and its impact on the nationwide network of public libraries for children. The character and activity of the organizer and the first manager of the library Maria Gutry, then Zofia Wędrychowska-Papuzińska, and Sława Łabanowska, a long-time first post-war library manager, will be discussed. The fate of the library itself is the background to present their activity. The available biographical materials and archival documents collected in the library will be referred to.
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The article discusses current forms of work with the reader that evoke positive feelings to a book, and result in increase of reading among library users. Attention is drawn to the most popular activities, such as: nights in the library, kamishibai, booktalking, storytelling, educational games or bibliotherapy workshops, and in particular exhibitions and reading contests. The article was inspired by a long-term cooperation between the Institute of Information and Library Science at the Pedagogical University of Cracow and school and pedagogical libraries. Thanks to this project a lot of exhibitions, reading contests and theatre performances were organised, a few of them based on original scripts. They were very popular among the students. The Institute also took part in the project “An update of the training for the librarians from small municipal libraries”, in which students organized exhibitions and reading contests in five public libraries. The experience brought many valuable insights. Its results enable analysis and proposal of forms and methods ofwork with children and teenagers in future. Students’ opinions on the project were also assessed.
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(народната музика в българските радиопрограми от първите години на социализма и нейната „мека власт“)
peoples music, state socialism, people's democracy, Bulgarian radio, soft powerThe article describes the main power concepts and practices, related to music in Bulgarian radio during the first years of socialist Bulgaria – the Fatherland front period (1944-1947), when the authorities start to take possession of state radio, under the guise of “people’s democracy”; and the totalitarian period (1948-1956) – a period of “classical Stalinism”, a time of the completed control of radio and media music by the communist power. The focus is on the so called folk music in radio, which turns out to be one of the main conduits of “soft power” in the first years of Bulgarian national socialism. Its presence in the narratives of communist power, its place in radio programs, its main figures and formats, its power uses as “music for the people” and some discourses as “correct” and “incorrect” music, according to authorities, are examined.
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The concept Health promoting universities implements the World Health Organization's strategy for holistic approach towards health in the higher education system. The aim of this article is to review the development and implementation of the "Health promotion universities" initiative internationally. Methods: A review of the available literature was carried out for the period 1995 - January 2020 with the following key words: health promoting universities, healthy universities, networks, historical development. Inclusion criteria for the sources have been defined. Results: Based on the search 86 sources have been found, 51 of which comply with defines inclusion criteria. More than 300 European universities and more than 1000 higher educational institutions from the world have endorsed the principles of health promoting universities. National networks of health promoting universities exist in 6 European and more than 10 countries in North and South America, Asia, Canada, Australia and New Zealand from the start of the movement. Conclusions:The initiative is developing successfully and is proving a growing interest globally, but has not been adopted in the strategy of any Bulgarian higher education institution.
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Ще оцелее ли в стихията на информационния океан
The literary detective Rosen Tahov has been a reader of the National Library “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” for 4 decades. In his paper he raises burning issues: about the future of books, will there be reading people in the future, will our children read books.
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The article considers the relevance of the ideas of modern informational science to the study of social development phenomenon, the definition of trends and perspectives of the globalization of communicative processes. The problems have been investigated in the context of interdisciplinary ideas, the role of informational science as a general scientific program has been revealed, information parameters of the communicative environment of global society have been analyzed.Purpose. The efficiency of using different types of informational activity in the study of the society globalization has been analyzed, the role of the semantic and pragmatic essence of information, its content in the process of world information exchange have been determined.Methods. Methods used in the article are as follows: system analysis, historical method, reasoning by analogy, generalization.Results. It has been proved that the use of information science methodology in the research of social development phenomenon allows one to outline new communicative strategies and managerial guidelines, to defines tendecies and prospects of the global information society. Information modeling of communicative processes will allow increasing the level of information representativeness and reliability, predicting conditions and circumstances of the information use in different regions of the world and various spheres of social activity.
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The paper is devoted to the issue of communication processes at enterprise, the quality of which is largely determined by the organizational information culture.The phenomenon of information culture is considered as a component of mankind culture, which has peculiarities at the level of personality, society and enterprise staff as a local community. The essence of information culture is a set of material and spiritual values of person or community in the field of information activity.Information culture of enterprise is a part of its organizational (corporate) culture and interacts with it, as well as its development is influenced by the interaction of subcultures in the organization.Study of information culture at this level is important not only due to the fact that the comfort of staff, formal and informal communication depend on it, but also due to the fact that effectiveness of communication affects quality and efficiency of the of production tasks and enterprise mission implementation.Purpose. The purpose of the paper is to determine the place of organizational information culture in the system of objects of personnel management and the possibilities of managerial influence on its development.Methods. The following methods have been used in the article: critical analysis of scientific sources and results of practical experience, structural-functional analysis (used to determine the structure of the information culture in relation to its functions), modeling (to specify the methods of managerial influence on the development of information culture), systematization (for the analysis of existing definitions of the "information culture" concept), generalization (in the formation of intermediate conclusions and final conclusions).Results. Organizational information culture is understood in the author's conception as the unity of three components: 1) a set of tools and technologies for searching, producing, storing and transmission of information; 2) competencies of the staff to work with information and to implement the communication process; 3) basic principles, norms, ideas (both official and informal) about organization of communications at enterprise.It is at the enterprise level that system purposeful management of the information culture development has the greatest potential. The main ways of managing the organizational information culture development are: organizing of trainings, master classes, other forms of intensive training as a part of information work; software and office equipment upgrading; providing clear transparent system of requirements for the communication establishing, their promotion and encouragement of the staff to comply with them.
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Methodological solutions are proposed of the problems from the paper for Group B of the Forty fifth national Olympiad in Mathematics for University students in 2018. The contestants in this group are students who study Mathematics no more than 240 classes during the first year in the Bulgarian Universities.
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The process of acquainting French readers with the works written by Anton Chekhov is described in the article. The goal of this research was to determine the extent to which Russian immigrants were involved into the process. An extended period from 1893, when a few works of the writer were translated for the first time, to the 1950s, when the writer’s popularity in France reached its peak, is examined. This article focuses on the 1920–1930s, the time period when Chekhov’s works were actively popularized by the representatives of the so-called first wave emigrants (for them Chekhov’s figure had a special significance). The article analyzes the work The influence of French literature on Russian writers since 1900 (1929) written by an emigrant literary and a theater critic Y. Sazonova. The report was presented at the second meeting of the Franco-Russian Studio where special attention was paid to the works of A. P. Chekhov. Some specific aspects of the author’s biography A Life of Chekhov (1939), which was written by the emi-grant writer Irene Nemirovsky, are also studied in the article. Initially this biography was addressed to the French reader. It has not been previously studied by Russian researchers.
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The article is dedicated to one type of problems with an infinite number of nested square radicals proposed in mathematical competitions. A generalization is considered and the deduced theoretical relation is proved by the method of the complete mathematical induction.
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The researches and the university teaching on the topic of chitalishte are among the traditional but barely presented themes in Bulgarian history education. At the same time, the establishment and functioning of the chitalishta as an active element of the system, which will organize the future of the independent state (19th century), continues to focus the interest of the researchers of Bulgarian modernity.The article comments the contemporary teaching concerning the role of the chitalishta in modern Bulgarian history and culture at the University of Veliko Tarnovo, which gave rise to the necessity of realizing "Find a Treasure!" project. The results of the project and its potential for future national research are presented.
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This book collects scientific papers and reports presented on the conference ‘The Membership of Bulgaria in the EU: Eight Years Later’ organized by the International Economic Relations and Business Department at University of National and World Economy (UNWE), Sofia, Bulgaria. The conference, held on 2 October 2015, traditionally provided a stage for prominent academics, dedicated PhD students and professionals to discuss contemporary topics related to multiple aspects of the European integration, its effects on the Bulgarian economy, value chain and socio-economic environment, international business and relations, financial markets and banking.The contributors to this edition of the annual conference book reviewed the European integration and development though the perspectives of the fiscal and political measures to tackle the consequences of the financial crisis in both the Euro area and the other EU member states, implications on the banking sector, foreign direct investment, risk mitigation. The financial crisis and the results in the aftermath of it (capital liquidity imbalances, fiscal instability, banking volatility, quantitative easings and Euro area performance indicators, to name a few) are dominating among the majority of authors’ research. The contributors review issues related to the corporate management, corporate governance, sustainable education, organizational design, digital marketing, ethical PR and media, talent development in large organizations. Another group of researchers offer in-depth reviews of the current EU institutional framework, emerging questions related to the energy security and the EU energy policy as well as the environment on a global level, healthcare and business innovations. ‘The Membership of Bulgaria in the EU: Eight Years Later’ is an annually organized academic event with the vision to foster open dialogue, offer contemporary research and exchange of ideas between fellow academics, policy makers, businesses, stakeholders and the public.
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The foreign literature collections form a principal part of the structure of fonds and collections at the National Library “St. St. Cyril and Methodius”. Its development starts with the founding of the library in 1878. The first materials were acquired through donations made by individuals, universities and charities. Cultural and social change in Bulgaria had its impact on the development of foreign language collections. Ratification of Paris Conventions concerning the international exchange of publications (UNESCO) by the Council of Ministers in 1963, the use of normative documents and standards issued by IFLA, determined the objective criteria adopted in collection enhancement and development. As at end of 2016 foreign language collection comprised 808 808 volumes. To maintain and enrich a representative collection of foreign literature is not simply a matter of prestige and authority but, also, an opportunity to unfold the true potential of the National Library “St. St. Cyril and Methodius” in the formation of a literate, informed and active civil society.
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This article presents the use of foreign languages in Bulgarian statutory texts. Bulgarian law regulates the usage, knowledge, prohibition or obligation to use foreign languages in different spheres of public life. Legal stipulations concerning foreign languages are classified as obligation, prohibition, restriction, promotion and construal.
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