Libraries and Culture

The museums, libraries and archives of the 21. century have to face various challanges, to prove their instititional legitimity among the rapidly changing social conditions. This conference paper aims to give a common model for the three different types of public collections, based on the ideas of a travelling exhibition in 2019. The author mentions some methodological recommendations, according to relevant case studies from Helsinki and Dublin.

ABOUT THE EDUCATION OF BULGARIANS IN ADRIANOPLE AND THE IMPACT OF THE „BROTHERS OF THE RESURRECTION“

Аt the end of 19th – the beginning of 20th century the Bulgarians in Adrianople had four secondary schools – one for boys and one for girls, respectively for the Orthodoxies and for the Eastern Catholics (Uniats) . After a short introduction in the history of the Bulgarian Uniat secondary school for boys in the Thracian city, run by the “Brothers of the Resurrection”, that school is shown in the light of documents, held in the Bulgarian historical archives of the St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia.

Lucrarea îşi propune să ofere o serie de date concrete care completează informaţiile despre starea bibliotecilor şi bibliotecarilor în perioada pandemiei de coronavirus. Comparativ cu alte ţări, în România, există mai puţine date care să servească ca punct de plecare pentru diverse analize sau studii. Deoarece perioada de pandemie este una specială, încă nemaiîntâlnită, este necesar să cunoaştem care au fost provocările, aşteptările şi dificultăţile cu care bibliotecarii publici români s-au confruntat.
Studiul are la bază o cercetare empirică care vizează aspecte legate de influenţele pe care constrângerile aplicate în perioada stării de urgenţă şi alertă le-au avut asupra mediului de lucru şi calităţii activităţii profesionale desfăşurate. Concluziile pot constitui plus valoare care poate fi preluată, utilizată în proiectarea serviciilor noi de bibliotecă, în creşterea competenţelor angajaţilor şi pentru a evita situaţiile care conduc la demotivarea personalului de specialitate şi la scăderea performanţelor în muncă.
Cuvinte cheie: Biblioteci publice româneşti, bibliotecari, pandemie, managementul resurselor umane, servicii de bibliotecă.

The paper aims to provide a series of concrete data that complement the information on the state of libraries and librarians during the coronavirus pandemic. Compared to other countries, in Romania, there is less data to serve as a starting point for various analyzes or studies. Because the pandemic period is a special one, still unheard of, it is necessary to know what were the challenges, expectations and difficulties that Romanian public librarians faced.
The study is based on empirical research that addresses issues related to the influences that the constraints applied during the state of emergency and alert had on the work environment and the quality of professional activity. The conclusions can provide added value that can be taken, used in the design of new library services, in increasing the skills of employees and to avoid situations that lead to demotivation of specialized staff and decreased job performance.
Keywords: Romanian public libraries, librarians, pandemic, Human Resources Management, library services.

The present doctoral thesis aspires to produce a portrayal of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries’ Portuguese literary culture. It was based on the study of the main cultural agents of the time and on the analysis of the libraries formed by the clerics and by the main monasteries and cathedral churches settled in the kingdom. In the first part of the work, guided by a sociological approach, it has been attempted an identification and characterization of the group composed by the scholars supported in a prosopographic study. This study was conducted over individuals who exhibited a master or doctor degree in the sources, when those titles seemed standing for contacts with advanced studies.n the second part of the work, it has been attempted to reenact the cultural substract of those individuals. This was based on the surveillance of the manuscripts gathered in the shelves of monastic houses, church cathedrals and clergymen, in order to understand their intellectual interests, their favorite authors and their  affiliation to the main cultural trends of the time.

Fue el Tribunal del Santo Oficio el que se ocupó de la vigilancia de los libros para mantener la ortodoxia religiosa en los territorios de la Monarquía Española. Una actividad, entre otras, justificada por el efecto que tenían los libros en todos los espacios sociales, culturales, económicos, políticos y religiosos en cualquier territorio. Tal vigilancia, derivada por las preocupaciones sociales de su tiempo, fue instrumentada con diferentes mecanismos de control inquisitorial con atención especial sobre libros prohibidos y los que se debían expurgar. Este texto analiza uno de esos controles denominado como “visita a las bibliotecas” a través de un expediente del Archivo General de la Nación, fechado entre 1716 y 1720. Este testimonio permite reconstruir y explicar numerosos aspectos de esta visita que se realizaba en la Nueva España cada vez que se publicaba un nuevo índice inquisitorial, y cuyos efectos se encuentran todavía en numerosos libros antiguos conservados en diferentes repositorios nacionales e internacionales.

Este ensayo es un intento por explorar las relaciones entre el trabajo de los intelectuales peruanos del siglo XX, sus posiciones dentro de las esferas de prestigio y poder institucional y académico, y la formación y peripecias de sus respectivas bibliotecas privadas.

Jerónimo Pizarro, "Pessoa and Philosophy: Texts from the Archive". pp. 325-356.

This contribution includes several texts by Fernando Pessoa which contain explicit references to philosophical problems and subjects, and to specific philosophers like Spinoza, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kant, Aristotle, Bergson, etc. It is a dossier of editions and studies on a series of documents from Pessoa’s archive which may be useful for comparative research and for a better understanding of Pessoa’s readings, interests and dialogs with philosophy. The existing edition, from 1968, of the Philosophical texts of Fernando Pessoa is a partial edition, even though it includes two large volumes, because the transcription of the documents is not always complete and accurate, and some documents are missing. A panoramic edition of the philosophical forays of the Portuguese writer may be useful to imagine the complete picture that, someday, may occupy four volumes, or more, and to understand the intrinsic diversity of those forays, which are not only from his younger years as a university student, even many of the documents were written at that time. The dossier includes facsimile of original manuscripts of the author.

Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy
Countless Lives Inhabit Us
EDITED BY BARTHOLOMEW RYAN; GIOVANBATTISTA TUSA AND ANTONIO CARDIELLO

This pioneering volume, for the first time, explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) and his relationship to philosophy. On the one hand, this book reveals Pessoa’s serious knowledge of philosophy and playful philosophical explorations and how he has the gift of synthesizing, appropriating and subverting complex ideas into his art; and, on the other hand, the chapters shed new light on central aspects and problems of philosophy through the prism of Pessoa’s diverse writings. The volume includes sixteen new essays from an international group of scholars, analyzing Pessoa’s multifaceted poetic work alongside philosophical themes and movements, from conceptions of time, ancient aesthetics, philosophy of language, transcendentalism, immanence, nihilism; to Islamic philosophy, Indian philosophy, philosophy of religion, neo-paganism, the philosophy of the self. The breadth of his work provides a springboard for new thinking on the aesthetic and the spiritual, the logic of value and capitalist modernity, and ecological thought and postmodernism.

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538147504/Fernando-Pessoa-and-Philosophy-Countless-Lives-Inhabit-Us
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 416 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-5381-4749-8 • Hardback • October 2021
978-1-5381-4750-4 • eBook • October 2021
Series: Global Aesthetic Research
Subjects: Philosophy / General, Literary Criticism / Poetry, Philosophy / Continental Philosophy

Table of Contents

Introduction. An Encounter between the Poet and the Philosopher

by Bartholomew Ryan

Exordium

by Fernando Pessoa & Co.

Notes for the Memory of My Master Caeiro

by Álvaro de Campos

Essays on Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy

Spiritual Traditions

1. Antonio Cardiello – Fernando Pessoa’s Vision of Neopaganism as Life’s Supreme Art

2. Paulo Borges – Fernando Pessoa, Daoism and the Gap:Insubstantiality, Emptiness, Vagueness and Indetermination

3. Jonardon Ganeri – Pessoa’s Imaginary India

4. Fabrizio Boscaglia – Pessoa and Islamic Philosophy

Metaphysics and Post-Metaphysics

5. João Constâncio – Nihilism and on Being Nothing in ‘The Tobacco Shop’

6. Pedro Duarte – Pessoa and Time

7. Benedetta Zavatta – Pessoa and American Transcendentalism

8. José Gil – Bernardo Soares’ Becoming-Landscape

Philosophies of Selfhood

9. Bartholomew Ryan – Voicing Vacillation, Logos and Masks of the Self: Mirroring Kierkegaard and Pessoa

10. Maria Filomena Molder – The Difference between Othering Oneself and Becoming What One is

11. Gianfranco Ferraro – A Hermeneutics of Disquiet: Approaching Pessoa through Foucault

Contemporary Problems and Perspectives

12. J.D. Mininger – Pessoa’s The Anarchist Banker and the Logic of Value

13. Bruno Béu – For Your Eyes Only: The Logic of Seeing in Alberto Caeiro’s Poetry

14. Michael Marder – Where does Fernando Pessoa Dwell? The Economy and Ecology of the Heteronyms

15. Giovanbattista Tusa – The ‘Pessoa’ Event: Notes on Philosophy and Poetry

Appendix

16. Jerónimo Pizarro – Pessoa and Philosophy: Texts from the Archive

Critical Bibliography

Index

About the Authors

Harvard’s Dante Collection was the first such collection to be established at an American institution and the one that gave rise directly or indirectly to those that would follow. It sprang up from the roots laid down during the course of the nineteenth century by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and especially Charles Eliot Norton. Those roots nourished the reading and collecting of works by and about Dante, and brought forth translations, commentaries, and interpretative essays. These activities, in turn, were nurtured through the foundation of the Dante Society, which provided the impetus and the means to form a distinct Dante Collection in the Harvard College Library designed to support the burgeoning American interest in the poet’s works, life, and influence.

Der Versuch, den überlieferten Buchbestand der 1803 aufgehobenen Erfurter Kartause zu erfassen und den Verbleib der im mittelalterlichen Standortkatalog verzeichneten Bände zu ermitteln, wurde von Paul Lehmann 1928 zum ersten Mal unternommen. 60 Jahre später präsentierte Sigrid Krämer eine aktualisierte Dokumentation des erhaltenen Buchbestands der Erfurter Kartause, die im ersten Teil des von Krämer erstellten Nachschlagewerks „Handschriftenerbe des deutschen Mittelalters“ 1989 erschienen ist. Der von diesen beiden Verzeichnissen erfasste Buchbestand bildet den Grundstock der vorliegenden Übersicht, die eine nach Möglichkeit korrigierte, nochmals aktualisierte und bibliographisch fundierte Dokumentation über den Verbleib von Büchern (Handschriften und Inkunabeln) aus der Kartause Erfurt bietet. Die Dokumentation beruht vor allem auf der Auswertung der einschlägigen Forschungsliteratur (Beschreibungskataloge mittelalterlicher Handschriften, Werk- und Autor-orientierte Repertorien, Monographien, Editionen, Aufsätze etc.), berücksichtigt aber auch neuere und ältere Auktionskataloge, von denen der Eislebener Versteigerungskatalog der Bibliothek des Stiftsregierungsrates Friedrich Gottlieb Julius von Bülow (1760–1831) von 1836 besonders hervorzuheben ist.

I am pleased to invite you to join the online conference The Catholic Reformation and the Book. The proceedings will take place on 16-17 September 2021 via Zoom. Sessions will be held according to the schedule attached (all times are given according to CEST, i.e. UTC+2).
All those interested in joining the meeting are kindly requested to contact Magdalena Komorowska (magdalena.komorowska@uj.edu.pl) by 14 September 2021.

"Während der Bestand der Bibliotheca Batthyaneum in Karlsburg/Alba Iulia als relativ gut erforscht gelten darf, weiß man über die deutschsprachigen Codices in den Bibliotheken
und Archiven in Heltau/Cisnǎdie, Hermannstadt/Sibiu und Bukarest relativ wenig. Einige Bestandslisten kann Nemes durch Handschriftenfunde ergänzen, die er im Zuge eines eigenen Projekts, einer rumänischen Literaturgeschichte, und
durch Hinweise von Kollegen (wieder-)entdeckt hat

Proiectul enunţat îşi asumă obiectivul de a reuni într-un catalog manuscrisele medievale de limbă germană aflate în bibliotecile şi arhivele din România, o lucrare pe a cărei bază se conturează – dintr-o perspectivă regională axată asupra Transilvaniei – istoria literaturii germane medievale de pe teritoriul actual al României. Din punct de vedere metodologic este esenţială racordarea la direcţiile actuale de cercetare promovate în cadrul medievisticii cultivate de germanişti, tendinţe, care opun conceptului de istorie a producţiei literare, concept organizat exclusiv în jurul autorului şi operei, o viziune literar-istoriografică circumscrisă regional şi orientată pregnant în sensul identificării transmiterii textuale, modalitate prin care poate fi cuprinsă producţia literară dintr-o arie geografică determinată. O istorie a literaturii din perspectivă regională, cu o atenţie sporită îndreptată asupra Transilvaniei, nu se va opri exclusiv asupra expresiei germane, ci îşi va lărgi orizontul într-un efort interdisciplinar, prin cooptarea în analiză şi a producţiei, respectiv a receptării scrisului în limba maghiară, dar în special în latină, ţinând seama astfel de eventualele interferenţe literare. Avantajul unei astfel de perspective asupra istoriei literaturii, netributară unei anumite „literaturi naţionale”, este faptul că se deschide calea în direcţia unor concluzii care privesc producţia literară a unui areal (multi)cultural în ansamblu său."

Stefan Savov Bobchev was a chairman of the Slavic Society in Sofia for nearly 40 years (1903-1940). A university professor, he was a member of the Academies of Sciences of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, and of the Polish Scientific Society in Lvov. Nikola Savov Bobchev graduated from a high school in Nikolaev and got a PhD in philosophy at Leipzig. He worked as a teacher, director of the National Library in Sofia and editor of the Slavic Society in Bulgaria. Both brothers have large archival funds in the Bulgarian Historical Archives at the St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library (CMNL-BHA). There is an interesting red book “The Justice of Old Poland. Lectures of S. S. Bobchev”. Prof. Petar Dinekov wrote letters from Warsaw to Dr. N. Bobchev about the literary and political life in Poland. The documentary heritage of S. Bobchev and N. Bobchev paints a vivid and rich of details of the relationship between the intellectual elites of the two European nations.

La dir. UE del 17 aprile 2019, n. 790 introduce alcuni principi ed eccezioni al diritto d’autore di particolare interesse per l’attività ordinaria di archivi, biblioteche e musei: l’art. 14, in particolare, punta a promuovere la diffusione e il riuso delle riproduzioni fedeli di opere delle arti visive in pubblico dominio. Per una migliore armonizzazione della direttiva con le norme nazionali si rende necessario un intervento sull’art. 87 della legge italiana sul diritto d’autore, che definisce i diritti connessi sulle fotografie semplici di opere d’arte figurativa, e auspicabile una modifica degli artt. 107 e 108 del Codice dei beni culturali e del paesaggio, liberalizzando il riuso, per qualsiasi finalità, della riproduzione fedele di beni culturali pubblici non più protetti dal diritto d’autore.

La pandemia in corso ha del resto fatto emergere prepotentemente il tema del riuso delle risorse culturali digitali nell’era di internet e del digitale. La digitalizzazione del patrimonio culturale pubblico, se si accompagnerà a un ampliamento delle condizioni di riutilizzabilità delle immagini del patrimonio culturale, potrà dispiegare sino in fondo il suo potenziale a sostegno della creatività, dell’editoria, dell’imprenditoria culturale e del turismo, tutti settori oggi piegati dalla pandemia che potrebbero trovare nuova linfa vitale dal libero riuso, anche a fini commerciali, delle immagini del patrimonio. Il dibattito in corso, di recente entrato nelle aule parlamentari, rappresenta non solo un tema di attualità ma anche un nodo politico di primo piano, in quanto investe direttamente la natura della relazione tra società, patrimonio culturale e istituzioni pubbliche di tutela.

Ημερίδα 200 Χρόνια Επανάστασης – Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη ΕΜΠ - Η εκδήλωση θα διεξαχθεί ηλεκτρονικά και θα μπορείτε να την παρακολουθήσετε μέσα από το κανάλι της Βιβλιοθήκης & Κέντρου Πληροφόρησης ΕΜΠ στο YouTube.
Πρόγραμμα:
http://lib.ntua.gr/?page_id=2180&fbclid=IwAR2LEmowEhqY6F446YMAuVfCzn-5MIfvQ-H6xVS89k-JrpXOmJIhiwG5ppU
Η ομιλία μου («Η συμβολή του προεπαναστατικού τύπου στην πνευματική και ιδεολογική προετοιμασία του 1821») στην ανεπτυγμένη μορφή της:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcIw-o7NfaQ&t=21s

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the strategic factors of Internet of Things usability in Iranian libraries and to provide a model. Methodology: The research was conducted with a qualitative approach and grounded theory. To collect information, documentary method and interview with the statistical sample of 13 professors of information science and science in the country was used by snowball sampling method. Data were analyzed in three steps of open, axial, selective coding and interpretation of interview propositions and paradigm model. Responsive method was used to assess validity and double coding method was used for reliability. Findings: After analyzing the findings, 8 main categories of 35 subcategories and concepts were obtained. The main categories were classified into 8 categories: control and supervision, service development, accessibility, intelligent management, security, innovation and development, information literacy training and motivation and success, and a paradigm model and a theoretical model were presented. In the theoretical model extracted, the main phenomenon is the usability of the Internet of Things in Iranian libraries, and it has been linked from the discovered classes and the main phenomenon to the main class of strategies. Findings show that the interviewees or the actors viewed the strategies as a mechanism and measure with the phenomenon of Internet of Things usability in libraries, which by adopting them, the consequences of the main phenomenon are realized. Therefore, based on the results, the strategic factors affected by the use of the Internet of Things in libraries can be considered.

Proteger una cultura y no sus recursos parece el lema de un movimiento contrario a la cosificación de los bienes culturales o, en otros términos, a su trivialización.  No es difícil argumentar que la cualificación de las cosas o, lo que es lo mismo, su conversión en objetos medibles y pesables –contrastables, como dirían los modernos-,  es la antesala obligada para su conversión en objetos alienables. O, dicho con otras palabras, el establecimiento de las propiedades de un objeto es la autopista que conduce a su posterior patrimonialización, tanto pública como privada. Pero en el tránsito se produce una triple metamorfosis: la primera consiste en convertir algo que pertenece a un contexto y a un territorio en un objeto pulido, transmundano y sin raíces. La segunda transforma algo que ha sido elaborado colectivamente, y que además es secular y anónimo, en otra cosa ya con autor.  Y la tercera, quizás consecuencia de las dos mencionadas, tiene por efecto insertar el objeto en las redes de valor que configuran la economía de mercado. Así las cosas, poner tanto énfasis en los objetos, como hacen nuestros museos, archivos y bibliotecas, nos acostumbra a la idea de que sólo son valiosas, en el sentido de constituyentes, las cosas que fueron autorizadas por la alquimia que los desancló, los atribuyó y luego los propiertizó.

Los libros europeos cruzaron el Atlántico con regular frecuencia acompañando a misioneros, religiosos, profesionales y funcionarios de la Corona española que se establecían en las ciudades americanas. Esos libros fueron transportados por mercaderes interesados en el nicho comercial que representaba la sociedad colonial, alimentando así bibliotecas particulares e institucionales durante todo el periodo colonial. Tales colecciones, formadas para satisfacer diversas finalidades, han sido estudiadas con ciertos testimonios históricos. Entre estas, está la memoria de libros de Domingo Valcárcel entregada a la Inquisición por sus herederos en cumplimiento de una normativa de 1632. Valcárcel es un funcionario peninsular en la Nueva España del siglo XVIII, relacionado con ciertos eventos importantes de la época. Esa lista, elaborada a su muerte en 1783, contiene centenares de libros que muestran el impacto de la producción bibliográfica europea y americana en el territorio novohispano. Este trabajo analiza dicho testimonio para comprender la circulación de saberes durante el periodo colonial.
https://puz.unizar.es/2537-bibliotecas-de-la-monarquia-hispanica-en-la-primera-globalizacion-siglos-xvi-xviii.html

The aim of this discourse study has been to analyse how the concept of bibliotherapy in connection with hospital librari-ans’ work is presented in theses written in the field of library and information science. The theory is based on the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. The main picture pre-sented is that bibliotherapy is difficult to define. Most of the hospital librarians have heard about bibliotherapy, and they strongly believe in the concept. At the same time, the respond-ents are hesitant to label their work ‘bibliotherapy’. Biblio-therapy is presented in the research mainly as a practice. Among hospital librarians, bibliotherapy is associated with the reading of fiction. There is no consensus among them on how to define the term. A number of descriptions of how biblio-therapy can help patients with mental issues, bring joy and even save lives are mentioned, but no hard evidence is pre-sented for this. Two central subject positions are discussed in this study. Hospital librarians are described as a group who need to claim their rights in the large hospital organisation. At the same time they are seen as a highly competent and reliable resource. The patient is scarcely represented in the empirical material.

The article illustrates the importance and the role that Community Planning methods can play in defining
innovative functional program of public libraries, also reporting the experience of the project
of a branch library to be built in the Lorenteggio district of Milan. In fact, the author has drawn up
the project guidelines of this library, starting from the local community consultation work (carried
out by ABCittà). The focus of the article is the idea that it would be useful to move from designing
public libraries for the users to design public libraries together with the users.

This article aims to prove the active role played by artisans as consumers (readers, owners, copyists) of literature besides elite and court circles, and links it to the strategies of social promotion launched by that dynamic social group. The analysis is based on two types of sources: on the one hand, on an extensive sample of the presence of literary works in the libraries of the medieval Catalan lower middle classes, derived from the main documentary collections on history of the books produced to date; and, on the other hand, on some literary codices copied by individuals belonging to that social sphere, which have been re-examined. In addition, some individuals are identified regarding the transmission of some works of Francesc Eiximenis (Llibre de les dones and Llibre dels àngels) and the Catalan translation of La Queste del saint Graal, as well as regarding the origin of Jaume Conesa's translation of Guido delle Colonne's Historia destructionis Troie.

Le but de l’ouvrage est de mettre en lumière certains aspects du rôle multimodal qu’a joué le livre depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Autrement dit, ce volume se concentre sur le livre en tant qu’objet patrimonial, objet rituel, vecteur de connaissance, document historique, lieu d’interaction entre texte et image, entre patrimoine matériel et patrimoine immatériel, où les révolutions technologiques rencontrent les courants historiques, théologiques et artistiques, mais aussi en tant que source perpétuelle d’inspiration pour la création artistique.