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The Book in the Era of Facebook and Twitter

Author(s): Ismail Serageldin / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

We live in an era where the standard of communications is the 140-character Tweet. This is creating a culture of superficiality where celebrity replaceswell-earned fame, and where opinion is everything. Truth is treated as subjectivestatement, and the new media dominate the public discourse. Yet Books remainplentiful, and there is an ever increasing number printed and sold every year. Butwhat will the book bring to a generation of youngsters who have grown upsurrounded by the new media and whose social relations are much more defined byFacebook than by neighbourhood, school or family?

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Narrative Construction of Popularity Assessment Criteria on Weblogs

Author(s): Catalina-Ionela Rezeanu,Claudiu Coman,Angela Repanovici / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Scholars draw more and more attention on the benefits of using blogs as virtual learning environments. Because the period 2006 - 2007 was related in Romania to the emergence and unprecedented growth of blogs, we conducted anarrative analysis of online data, obtained during this period for the most popularRomanian blogs. By applying a qualitative-constructivist analysis of narrative data,we evidenced 5 popularity assessment criteria: (1) originality; (2) usefulness; (3)topicality; (4) subjectivity; (5) and coherence. Building on the identified criteria, we formulated recommendations for making blogs more efficient as virtual learning environments.

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Aspects on the Harmonization of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society in the European Union Legislation

Author(s): Cristina Mihaela Salcă Rotaru / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The influence of technological development has led to the multiplication and diversification of the creativity, production and exploitation vectors of copyright and related rights legislation, which must be adapted with economic realities and new forms of exploitation. Legislation in this area is comprehensive, addressing different aspects of copyright and related rights protection, across different regulatory levels: international, European and national. Legislative harmonization of copyright and related rights must be based on a high level of protection, should take into account all regulatory levels, for maintaining and developing creativity in the interests of authors, producers, consumers, and culture. However, legislative differences as well as legal uncertainty have become increasingly prominent with the evolution of the information society, which has already led to the intensification of the cross-border exploitation of intellectual property. This paper aims to: - examine the state of play of current legislation at EU level in the light of the interest of harmonious administration of justice, the elimination of protection differences and possible restrictions on the free movement of services and products incorporating or based on intellectual property, - to highlight, where appropriate, situations of legislative inconsistency. The research will take into account the binding EU legislation, the cases brought before the Court of Justice of the European Union and the new recommendations in the field.

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The Role and Importance of Information Sources. Case Study

Author(s): Ana-Maria Bolborici / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article is based on a case study: the analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the regional and international context by emphasizing the role and importance of information sources in writing a doctoral thesis in the field of International Relations. As far as concerns the implication of Romanian authors / researchers in the debate on the implication of the European Union in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I have come to the conclusion that, although the main theme is a rather intense addressed issue, I have not managed to identify Romanian authors who have addressed the issue from the perspective of European diplomacy.

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The Level of Awareness on Scientometrics in Higher Education

Author(s): Angela Repanovici,Manolis Koukourakis,Mihai Bogdan Alexandrescu,Diana COTOROS,Liliana ROGOZEA,Daniela Popa / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Following the plenary lecture presentation “Vision and Reality Regarding the Role of Bibliometrics in Scientific Research Evaluation” at an international conference, a new scientific research was initiated. The proposed questionnaire for gathering data was created in SurveyMonkey and was sent to all participants at the conference. The responses came from all over the world: Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and United States. The level of awareness regarding the importance of bibliometrics is high enough and absolutely necessary for libraries and research evaluation. Comments and suggestions are intriguing, interesting and represent an important source of inspiration for further approaches.

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Reading for Life

Author(s): Judit Béres / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This chapter aims to give a general overview of the theoretical and practical background of person-centred group biblio/poetry therapy, and introduces the ‘Pécs School’ (Hungary) which represents this field. The author summarizes some opportunities of biblio/poetry therapy offered to different target groups, facilitated by professionals trained in Pécs. This work is based on books and other text-like materials used as mental health tools to spark interactive and (self)reflective reading, writing, and discussion that promote personal growth, and improve positive outcomes for people of various gender and age groups in different social contexts, living with mental health and emotional wellbeing issues.

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The Role of Fairy Tales in the Self-Realization Process

Author(s): Daniela Sorea / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The core of Carl Gustav Jung’ theory is the teleological orientation of unconscious processes towards individuation. Archetypes provide psychological information regarding the way in which the individuation process unfolds. The fairy tale reflects the universal, elemental and fundamental structures of the psyche in a language accessible above cultural and ethnical differences. Each fairy tale is associated with a specific type of archetypal behaviour. The fairy tale acts as an initiatory text whose force comes from the emotional load of the hero archetype. It is the most simple and efficient means of transmitting information on the individuating process.

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The Book and the Separate Room

Author(s): Carmen Adriana Gheorghe / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Books seduce, as words distract the reader from reality, absorbing them in the imaginary of its pages and transforming them. Books offer pleasure immersed in intelligence, creativity, open-mindedness and, often times, in happiness. The experience of the book can be attained through two perspectives: that of the creator, who escapes, in a separate room, from his/her social, professional, or familial issues; and the perspective of the reader in libraries, in more complex and isolated, “separate rooms.”1 As each reader has a “Shakespeare’s sister” with her own identity (such as the sister with whose assistance Virginia Woolf pleaded that it is possible to sustain one’s own vision on life), reading is bound to become “the art of lecture.” Furthermore, the book has an interior life flow and forms a clear perspective on life, which can be poetic or even aesthetic. Apparently, the book, the word, and the library are unable to maintain a determined place anymore. But the future is born from the present in which the number of printed books raises constantly and the number of readers stays the same.

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Biomechanics in Publication

Author(s): Ileana Constanta Rosca / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The progress in biomechanics research is a basic package in the context of the dynamic development of the medicine and health dedicated sciences. As a relatively-new discipline, biomechanics started to be published in books not very long ago. Obviously, in parallel, a large volume of articles were published in different journals that are not grouped in books or monographs. The problem is: which is the best way to spread the research results in the specific domain – in journals or in books? How long is the delay to group the researches in a structured publication? In the moment of book apparition they are still new?

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Representative Publications for Medical Engineering

Author(s): Corneliu Druga / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

From the perspective of publications in the field of medical engineering, there is a great diversity which requires filtering in order to identify representative journals and papers. There are search engines which do not always provide the necessary filtering. In this direction, for example, Elsevier has a search engine in its own journals, which provides keyword filtering such as the title of the paper and the abstract. Following this search, one can obtain information on the representative journals by identifying some useful scientometrics data to disseminate one’s own research.

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The Second Life of Books from Private Collections

Author(s): Elena Harconiţa / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The key objective of the Scientific Library of „Alecu Russo” Bălţi State University (USARB) is to develop information resources and to provide access to the global information network. In this respect, many projects have been developed which attracted considerable investment and sponsorship, including the opening of international centres and private collections. A source of collection enrichment is represented by donations from known or less known personalities from Moldova and abroad. The relationship with owners and heirs of personal libraries has facilitated their donation to the University Library, as well as the diversification of valuable heritage book offers. 11 private collections have completed the collection of the Library with new and unique titles, representing a generous and useful cultural and scientific approach. The geographical area of the titles cover the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Germany, and Sweden. The university librarians manage, promote, and keep all these scientific and cultural treasures for present and future generations.

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The Progress and Development of the Digital Library of “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu Since 2007

Author(s): Rodica-Maria Volovici,Cristina Pârvu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In 2007, when the city of Sibiu (Romania) received the title of European Capital of Culture, the “Lucian Blaga” University Library was involved in its first digitization projects, the first one being SCRIBe - System for Processing and Visualization of the Old Book Fund. The main objective of the SCRIBe project was the development of an informational system offering the beneficiaries access to the old book fund, to which normal access was limited due to the scarcity of copies and due to the need of protecting documents with a high degree of wear. In the following years, we have concluded partnerships with local and county authorities developing our own digital library, which has since been growing continuously.

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Revista BIBLIOTECA [“The Library” Review]: 1948-2018 Librarians

Author(s): Elena Tîrziman,Maria MICLE / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The “Biblioteca” Journal, edited today by the National Libary of Romania, is a monthly publication best known in the Romanian library environment. It is the oldest publication dealing with library studies in Romania: in 2018, "Biblioteca" celebrates 70 years of existence. The journal first appeared in 1948, but over time, it changed its format, its periodicity, and of course its sections, but it consistently remained a standard for the Romanian journals specialized in librarianship. Furthermore, its presence in the professional community for such an extended period has had multiple meanings. Throughout time, the journal crossed various crises, and its pages bear the mark of its history. Today, the "Library" journal continues to be a binder of the professional community of Romanian librarians, although it faces the challenges of digital communication. This chapter will highlight the evolution of the Romanian Library Science as reflected in the pages of this specialized publication by analyzing the journal content with special focus on its thematic evolution.

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The Journeys of Books

Author(s): Robert Coravu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The purpose of this essay is to underline the connection between books and travelling, on concrete and metaphorical levels. Travelling is not just the distance between the starting point and the destination. The journey involves a change in the state of the traveller on an emotional, cognitive, and spiritual level. From this perspective, the book is always the fulfilled promise of a journey. It is at the same time the territory and the vehicle of an inner, exploratory travel, and a cultural object that, in order to fulfil its purpose, must walk the way to the reader, its destination. Last, but not least, the book travels over time as a form of recorded memory of mankind.

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Dzieje polskich badań nad polonikami ze zbiorów zamku Skokloster

Author(s): Maria Wichowa / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

In 1911 the Academy of Skills sent their expedition represented by Eugeniusz Barwiński,Ludwik Birkenmajer and Jan Łoś. They examined the collections in Skokloster with relatively little attention to detail. It has not been until recently that the polonica were thoroughly investigated and analyzed. The academic study of those literary texts was performed by a group of scholars under the supervision of professor Alina Nowicka-Jeżowa, forming a part of a Literary Studies Research Group of the Section of Old Polish Literature and Culture. They have published a catalogue of antique books and a few volumes of inedita (unpublished literary works).

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Rosyjskie biblioteki publiczne na terenie guberni kaliskiej. Przyczynek do dziejów bibliotekarstwa początków XX wieku

Author(s): Krzysztof Walczak / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The article provides information about the initiatives of the Russian authorities to organize libraries on the territory of the Kingdom of Poland, an act which aimed at promoting Russian language and culture within Polish society

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Sprawozdania z działalności krakowskich gimnazjów jako źródło do badań dziejów bibliotekarstwa szkolnego w 1. połowie XX wieku (na przykładzie II Państwowego Gimnazjum i Liceum im. św. Jacka)

Author(s): Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

In Cracow, in the first half of the twentieth century, worked eleven main middle schools, each of which had its own library, often accumulated already in the nineteenth century or earlier. For example, saved printed reports (55 yearbooks) management of II National Middle School and High School named St. Jack (1857-1950) in the text an attempt is made to present the activities of the school library. The content associated with it were divided into several groups: people, finance, standardization, statistics. Based on this information, we can recreate some basic processes in contemporary educational library – collections, preparation, structure, store and share collections.

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Świat książki Łodzi powojennej. Początek czy kontynuacja?

Author(s): Jadwiga Konieczna / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of this article is to present the process of organising the book system in Lodz in 1945-1950. In this period many different kinds of book institutions were created (libraries, publishing houses, printing-houses, professional organisations, didactic, scientific and research institutions connected with books), which was presented in context of,both local and outside, cultural, scientific, educational and social-political conditions. In this study the author also took into consideration the historical aspect of the analysed issue – the relations of the presented system (or their scarceness) to the world of books of the pre-war Lodz.

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Źródła do dziejów ruchu wydawniczego w spuściźnie Jana Muszkowskiego przechowywanej w Bibliotece Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Author(s): Magdalena Kwiatkowska / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

Within the manuscript resources of the Library of the Lodz University, among the materials remaining after professor Jan Muszkowski, are stored documents referring to “Czytelnik” Publishing Cooperative. The fragmented and uneven collection of preserved materials to some extend reflects the works, which professor was in charge of after 1945. It also indicates the nature of his contacts with the leadership of the institution in Warsaw, as well as its authors, co-workers and petitioners. The article presents notes (both hand-written and typed) made by Jan Muszkowski on editorial meetings, as well as addendums and comments to the lists of manuscripts being considered and sent to print, correspondence relating to the editorial work and organizational matters of the publishing house. The fragments of the archive discussed in the paper date back to the period between the beginning of April 1945 and the end of June 1946

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Andrzej Kempa jako badacz biografii ludzi książki

Author(s): Monika Sulejewicz-Nowicka / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

Andrzej Kempa (1936-2009) is the author of many works on the lovers of words. His research was concentrated on the biograms of book people (journalists, writers, bibliophiles, librarians, bibliologists, publishers, book-sellers, printers, illustrators) published in Encyklopedia wiedzy o książce, Polski słownik biograficzny and Słownik pracowników książki polskiej and small articles published in the pages of local and national press. He presented a little-known writers, publishers and booksellers. He discussed their education, career, research and teaching work. Kempa verified their biographical data (date and place of birth). He also discussed the issues of attributions of little-known writers’ works, the history of the publishing and the bookshop market and the history of local press

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