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KIŠENINIŲ KNYGŲ LEIDYBOS SITUACIJA LIETUVOJE
Authors: KAŠĖTAITĖ RASA
Published: January 2019

Paperbacks take an important place in Western publishing culture and the life of book readers. However, the same cannot be said about Lithuania’s publishing situation. There is a lack of information and research concerning this field. Taking notice of the experience of Great Britain and USA in publishing paperbacks, the main body of this paper examines the situation and possibilies of publishing paperbacks in Lithuania.A historical overview showed that publishing smaller size and softcover books in Lithuania was caused by a difficult political and economical situation. Hardcover long-lasting books were always preferred by Lithuanian readers. The increase of paperbacks in 2008–2009 was caused by the economic crisis. A need for cheaper books was felt, and numerous publishing houses offered a bigger range of pocketbooks; they were examined by themes and statistical analysis. Also, the main positioning and marketing startegies were investigated.To find out book readers’ opinion, workers of publishing houses and book shops as well as book users were interviewed. Lithuanian book buyers were found to accept detectives, love stories and popular literature produced in paperbacks. Other types of fiction literature encounter some difficulties: the distribution system of paperbacks is not suitable for this type of books – they are harder to notice and lose the advantage of a lower price at book auctions. Therefore, Lithuanian book buyers still prefer hardcover books, although accepting the fact that such factors as a lower price and a comfortable format when reading outside are important.
LDK ANKSTYVOJI KNYGOS VISUOMENĖ: GENEZĖ IR RAIDA (iki XVI a. vidurio)
Authors: CICĖNIENĖ RIMA
Published: January 2019

Relinquishing the linguistic criterion in the cultural history of the GDL in order to better understand the cultural processes in the state (in its geographical and ethnoconfessional entirety) expanded the scope of research in manuscript book history. The subsequent inclusion in the research of books in the Latin, Ruthenian and Church Slavonic languages, written and read in the GDL, offered a possibility to focus on the social purpose of the book. The aim of this study was to establish the social context and transformations of the manuscript book phenomenon in the GDL from the 14th to the mid-16th century. For this purpose, we attempted to determine in which social strata the new cultural phenomenon – the book – took hold and to determine what forms of book functioning developed in these strata. The research combines several methods: source study, analysis, synthesis, the descriptive method, and the prosopography method (which is still new in book science). An analysis of 215 manuscript books (177 de visu and 38 descriptions in printed catalogues) as well as of archival documents and historiographical works enabled us to collect information about 163 persons in whose environment manuscript books functioned. Based on the present research, it may be suggested that early manifestations of book society in the GDL occurred already in the 14th century. In the middle of the 15th century, this society encompassed not only the rulers, princes and priests, but also the nobles, part of the townspeople and students. By the end of the century, the communication of the manuscript book acquired features of the full cycle. In the late 15th – early 16th century, the completely formed book society already encompassed diverse social strata. Meanwhile, the active spread of books, printed in Western Europe, interfered with the manuscript book existence.
ESTIŠKŲ LEIDINIŲ RAUDONOJI KNYGA, 1535–1850: PATIRTIS IR PAMOKOS
Authors: REIMO TIIU , KONSA KURMO
Published: January 2019

Preservation of objects that have social, scientific or cultural significance for the future has become one of the most challenging problems of the society. The establishment of preservation priorities is one of the most complicated tasks facing the information institutions. The whole procedure entails a lot of responsibility as decisions that are made will determine the amount of information available to future generations. The article demonstrates experience and lessons gained in the project “Red Book of Estonian Publications, 1535–1850” that was conducted in 2003–2006. Growing out from the need to make decisions for preservation strategies and to establish principles for future digitization of Estonian book heritage, the project drew attention to the importance of having distinct methodology and coherent criteria for the assessment of culturally valuable objects. The project team stressed the importance of preservation quality, especially when using reformatting technologies like microfilming and digitization. Preservation of informational integrity of a document is one of the key questions of the digital future.
LIETUVOS KNYGOS PAMINKLŲ STANDARTO RENGIMO GALIMYBĖS IR PERSPEKTYVA
Authors: BLIŪDŽIUVIENĖ NIJOLĖ
Published: January 2019

Each individual library or other institution pos­sessing bibliographical or typographical rarities, old books, outstanding books within the Litu­anica collection, iconographic or cartographic documents or other valuable printed materials in their holdings make their own decisions on selection of these materials for conservation and restoration, as well as take the responsibil­ity of preparing methodical recommendations for preservation, cataloguing and use of old publications and archival documents. Lithuania has a long-standing concept of the old or rare (antiquarian) book, and identification criteria as well as preservation requirements for such a book have been established. However, there is no generally accepted method of the protection and registration of printed heritage objects.Therefore, it could be assumed that adop­tion of a national standard for Lithuanian book monuments would enable to generalize the ex­isting practice and to institute the concept of a book monument which is not covered by legal acts and official terminological sources. It must be underlined that the concept of the book monument is limited to objects with the status of state protection and registration.The standard for Lithuanian book monu­ments would include general provisions on objects of printed heritage at every level to be designated as book monuments, identifica­tion and selection criteria, categories of book monuments, also requirements for their state registration, preservation and use. The standard would provide the background for drafting a list of Lithuanian book monuments, which could constitute part of the State Register of Cultural Objects.Drafting the standard for Lithuanian book monuments should be guided by legal acts regu­lating the activities of libraries, museums and archives as well as by the Law on Protection of Moveable Cultural Objects; advantages of a close cooperation with book researchers, res­toration professionals and government officials should be also taken into consideration.The Technical Committee LST/TC 47 “In­formation and Documentation” and LST/TC 81 “Conservation of Cultural Property“ of the Lithuanian Standards Board could serve as a foundation for general requirements and rules concerning Lithuanian book monuments to be adopted as a national standard. This, in its turn, would facilitate assignment of the state registra­tion and protection status to the most valuable printed and manuscript heritage objects.
KNYGŲ BRAILIO RAŠTU ILIUSTRAVIMAS LIETUVOJE (IKI 1963 m.): SĄSAJOS SU EUROPOS PRAKTIKA
Authors: RAUDONIENĖ DIANA
Published: January 2019

The subject of the article is the history of publishing Braille books with raised-line illustrations for blind readers in Lithuania. The vast majority of illustrated Braille books were published by the Publishing House of the Lithuanian Society of the Blind during the period 1963–1989. Professional Lithuanian artists, among them well-known graphic artists and illustrators, were commissioned to create raised-line illustrations for the Braille books. A completely unknown area was waiting for illustrators. Their task was to find new methods of conveying information so far considered to be accessible only to the sighted.The first book with rise-line illustrations for Lithuanian blind readers was published in 1958, five years before the Publishing House of the Lithuanian Society of the Blind was established. The illustrated Braille primer as well as a few other illustrated textbooks were published by the State Publishing House of pedagogical literature. Members of the Editorial Board for Textbooks for the Blind, whose responsibility in this publishing house was to prepare Braille books for printing, visited the Riga State Publishing House in Latvia in order to get acquainted with methods of printing illustrated books for blind readers. Latvians already had a five-year experience in publishing illustrated Braille books, since they started this work in 1953. So, Lithuanian illustrators were not the first to “invent” raised-line illustrations. Beside such quite a direct connection, there existed also not so evident or distinct links with the experience of other European countries in this area. Teachers who had worked in the Kaunas Institution for the Blind and the Vilnius School for the Blind in 1928–1940 were in touch with the up-to-date European educational practice, so the idea of using graphical material as teaching resources for blind students was not new at all in Lithuania. Relief maps as well as other educational material were used at the Kaunas Institution and Vilnius school. Thus, there was a certain context for publishing illustrated books for the blind at the time when the Publishing House of the Lithuanian Society of the Blind started doing this. Whether professional Lithuanian artists commissioned to create raised-line illustrations took this European experience into consideration is another question which is not discussed here. The aim of this study was to ascertain what was the context for publishing illustrated books for the blind in Lithuania at the beginning of the 1960s. This context is explored taking into account two main aspects: (1) history of organized education of the blind in Europe and in Lithuania, emphasizing the practice of creating and using raised-line graphical material for teaching purposes, and (2) the history of publishing illustrated books for the blind in Europe.
KNYGŲ LEIDYBA LIETUVOJE NACIŲ OKUPACIJOS METAIS (1941–1944)
Authors: KOSAKOVSKAJA JEKATERINA
Published: January 2019

Scientists have devoted substantial attention to the period of the second occupation of Lithua­nia. However, the issue of book publishing, printing and distribution during the period hereinbefore mentioned was covered in outline until now. The purpose of the article is to com­prehensively highlight different aspects of book publishing in Lithuania, including Nazis’ illegal actions and high-handed behaviour towards Lithuanian publishing and printing houses and the brave attempts of the latter to protect and maintain the publishing of books. Particular at­tention is given to social, cultural and political processes involved in book publishing, printing and distribution. The Nazi controlled the whole process of publishing, from the check of a book’s contents to the distribution. Nonetheless, there were published many books important for the Lithuanian culture, owing to the courage and wit of publishers, printers, readers and others who cherished books and realized their value for the coming generations. The chronological limits of the research were fixed between the second half of 1941 and the sec­ond half of 1944 inclusive, and the territory cov­ered the Vilnius region regained in 1939, but did not cover the Klaipėda region annexed the same year. The bibliographical periodical “Bibliografijos žinios” published in 1941–1943 as well as a signif­icant collection of different administrative docu­ments belonging to the publishing house “Valsty­bine leidykla” and books published in 1941–1944, kept in the National Martynas Mažvydas library, should be considered the most valuable sources of the printed heritage of the period. It is exactly these sources that were mainly used to make a compre­hensive bibliographical listing of books published during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, an accu­rate statistical analysis due to which it was possible to assess the publishing tendencies.
RANKRAŠTINIS PAVELDAS KLAIPĖDOS UNIVERSITETO BIBLIOTEKOS RINKINIUOSE
Authors: ČESNULEVIČIŪTĖ DANUTĖ , STEPONAVIČIŪTĖ DANUTĖ
Published: January 2019

This paper presents a collection of manuscript heritage which is kept at the Department of Rare Books, Collections and Manuscripts of the Klaipeda University Library. At present, a total of 8 funds are already formed there. They are: Ansas Lymantas (f. 1), Kazys Pemkus (f. 2). Vilius Pėteraitis (f. 3), Ieva Jankutė (f. 5), Vytautas Strolia (f. 8), and others: score manuscripts (f. 4), single documents (f. 7), musicians in exile (f. 6). The collections of A. Lymantas (f. 1) and K. Pemkus (f. 2) could be regarded as the best analyzed ones. The content of the personal archives (K. Pemkus collection, f. 2), heritage of manuscripts in the archives of Lithuania Minor and the briefly described material placed in other collections and funds of the Department are reviewed in the paper.There are several groups of archives in the collection of K. Pemkus (a well-known bibliophile and therapist in exile): manuscripts of writers and linguists; historians; therapists; pedagogues; lawyers; artists; public figures; priests, etc. There are presented original texts (manuscripts and typescripts), corrections of texts, translations, notes, original letters or their copies, iconography, scraps about their creative work, personalities, programs of literary events, invitations and other small printings.The fund (f. 2) of Ansas Lymantas (representative of the press, journalist, a former citizen of Klaipėda), containing documents of organizations of Lithuania Minor in exile, materials of the „Lietuvos pajūris“ newspaper, biographical and public work documents is reviewed in more detail.The content of such funds as these of Vilius Pėteraitis (a public figure, lexicologist, KU doctor of Honour), Ieva Jankutė (a granddaughter of the well-known “Aušra” publisher Martynas Jankus), musician Vytautas Strolia, score manuscripts, musicians in exile, and the fund of single documents are briefly described.Information about this heritage could be found at the web site of the Department of Rare Books, Collections and Manuscripts at the Klaipeda University Library’s home page: http://www.ku.lt/libr/structure/retu.php
ARCHYVINĖ MEDŽIAGA APIE XX A. PIRMOSIOS PUSĖS VILNIAUS DRAUGIJAS BEI JŲ VEIKĖJUS LIETUVOS MOKSLŲ AKADEMIJOS VRUBLEVSKIŲ BIBLIOTEKOJE
Authors: ILGIEWICZ HENRYKA
Published: January 2019

In this paper, a brief overview of the archival materials concerning the Society of the Science and Art Museum (1907–1914), Society of the Library of Eustachy and Emily Wróblewski (1912–1922), Society of Eustachy and Emily Wróblewski Science Fund (1922–1939) and Society of Wróblewski Library Friends (1936–1939) is presented. These materials are kept in the Wróblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The first one of the mentioned above societies gathered a valuable collection of rare printed matter and archival documents (the remaining part is kept now in the Wróblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Science); the other three societies have taken part in founding the library and in the proliferation of its funds.After an overview of archival sources, a conclusion is made that the archival material concerning various societies that acted in Vilnius in the first half of the 20th century are of the same character. The majority of them are statutes of the societies, lists of members, the minutes of meetings, activities and financial reports, cash books, statements of inspections and various official papers. These documents enable to restore in essence the circumstances of founding these societies and the main features of their activities. Very valuable is the material in the Manuscript section concerning famous personalities of these societies: Lucjan Uziębło, member of the Vilnius Society of Science and Art Museum, and Tadeusz Wróblewski, the founder of Eustachy and Emily Wróblewski Library. The material comprises their personal documents, scientific certificates, letters, notes, manuscripts, death certificates, obituaries. All this archival material is important not only for the history knowledge of the mentioned societies; it is significant also for the knowledge of the cultural and scientific life in Vilnius of the first half of the 20th century; therefore, it is necessary to preserve it as an important documentary heritage.
LIETUVOS BIBLIOFILIJOS IDĖJINĖS NUOSTATOS IR ORGANIZACINĖ STRUKTŪRA SOVIETMEČIU
Authors: LIEPAITĖ INGA
Published: January 2019

The aim of the article is to reveal the ideological attitudes and organizational structure of Lithuanian bibliophilia of the end of the 5th–9th decades. Alongside with the term bibliophilia as we understand it today, the term mass bibliophilia is also used in the article. The latter allows to identify precisely the attitude of the Soviet ideologists towards bibliophilia, which was inculcated officially (via the press and formal activities of certain organizations) as ostensibly a mass phenomenon that has passed from an exclusive and narrow to an open and broad space (in terms of quantity) and this conditioned distortion of traditionally understood essence of bibliophilia (in terms of quality). Mass bibliophilia is an elementary liking for books, collecting books and love of books. The development of Lithuanian bibliophilia in the Soviet times may be divided into two periods: 1) preorganizational, which lasted from 1940 when the Society of XXVII Book Lovers was closed, to 1974 when the Voluntary Society of Book Friends of Lithuanian SSR was founded, and 2) organizational. In the first period, already during the German occupation, there were discussions about the revival of official activities of the mentioned XXVII Book Lovers’ Society. In 1959, Romualdas Šalūga for the first time brought the idea in the press about the need to establish a book lovers’ society; however, although the idea was noticed, it was not realized at that time. There are archival and other sources that may imply wide non-formal professional ties between bibliophiles approximatelyfrom the second half of the 6th decade. In the period 1970–1975, on the initiative of the same R. Šalūga, a Vilnius book friends’ club was functioning, combining bibliophilic and cultural-cognitive activities. In the second stage of bibliophilia development, an important role fell to the Voluntary Society of Book Friends of Lithuanian SSR, established in 1974. The latter was perceived by its founders as a mass public bibliophilic organization. The Society was later criticized for bureaucracy and artificiality of its activities; nevertheless, it is important to accentuate that it was this society that capacitated legal activities of the book friends’ club from 1975. Rather often book friends’ clubs were used as means for cultural matters. Due to the fragmentary coverage of the activities of such clubs and shortage of their archives it is difficult to say at the moment how many book friends’ clubs, apart from the Vilnius Mažvydas and Plungė Daukantas clubs, were (or if they ever were) of bibliophilic profile. The activity of the two latter clubs, were not equal, either. It was impacted by both external (cultural politics carried on by the Soviet regime in Lithuania) and internal factors (who was a chairperson, affinity of members’ interests, etc.). Those clubs played an important role in the history of Lithuanian bibliophilia, and they are the only ones that continue their activities since the Soviet time up to now.
VYTAUTO DIDŽIOJO UNIVERSITETO BIBLIOTEKOS DIREKTORIAUS VACLOVO BIRŽIŠKOS SENŲJŲ SPAUDINIŲ PAIEŠKOS ŽEMAITIJOJE
Authors: PETREIKIS TOMAS
Published: January 2019

In independent Lithuania, no legal framework for the protection of the press and manuscript heritage had been created, neither had the state a targeted strategy for its protection; therefore, only the public initiative in this area provided considerable results on the public grounds, by creating museums and libraries in province. The attention of V. Biržiška, Director of the library of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) and the Institute of Lithuanian Bibliography, towards the press heritage could be characterized by single-mindedness. By shaping the University library funds, he tried to gather there the heritage of the old Lithuanian press and manuscripts as much as possible, as it could provide an appropriate framework for the further research in Lithuanian philology. In a systematic manner V. Biržiška had been using the help of Lithuanian educators and students in the search of the press heritage since 1924. In Samogitia, he kept in touch with educators from Šiauliai and Telšiai. In Telšiai, he received some publications from Viktoras Kamantauskas, the local gymnasium teacher, and doctor Jonas Mikulskis. The library was significantly supported also by the Šiauliai State Gymnasium, which within a few years gave more than four thousand publications to the library. For eight years Jonas A. Dargis from the Barstyčiai town had been collecting and supplying old books to V. Biržiška. He mostly acted in Northern and Western Samogitia. Within less than a decade, the funds of the VMU library had been supplemented by approximately four and a half thousand publications from Samogitia, among them several quite unique. The active search of the press heritage by V. Biržiška drew public attention to old books and caused an increase of their price, which in turn determined the subsequent movement of bibliophilia.
ORIENTALISTO JUOZAPO KOVALEVSKIO DOKUMENTINIS PALIKIMAS VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETO BIBLIOTEKOJE: REKONSTRUKCIJOS BANDYMAS
Authors: KARŽELIENĖ LILIJA , ŠULGIENĖ NIJOLĖ
Published: January 2019

In 2010, Vilnius University (further VU) marked the 200th anniversary of academic studies in orientalistics, and in 2011 the 210th birth anniversary of VU alumnus, progenitor of mongolistics in Russia Jozef Kowalewski (Józef Szczepan Kowalewski, Осип Михайлович Ковалевский – 1801–1878) was celebrated with a special exhibition dedicated to him and held at VU Library. These events aroused interest in the fate of J. Kowalewski‘s personal library donated to the University by his wife Anna Kowalewska in 1883. The reconstruction of J. Kowalewski’s documentary heritage was a venture to find out in what VU Library departments and how many items of his personal collection are being kept today. Pursuant to the archival documents and the publications of the personal library, it became clear that J. Kowalewski’s documentary heritage at VU Library was concentrated in the departments of Book Storage, Manuscript, and Rare Book. In the course of research, the information published in the mass media about the number of books in J. Kowalewski’s personal library was expanded and corrected: instead of the known 444 titles, 1250 publications formerly owned by J. Kowalewski were identified. The ownership marks found in the books showed that J. Kowalewski had been collecting his library from the beginning of his studies in Vilnius in 1817 until his death in Warsaw in 1878. J. Kowalewski’s personal books are being entered into the electronic catalogue, while the already digitized manuscripts will become a source for studies and investigation.
SĄJŪDŽIO SPAUDOS PAVELDAS LIETUVOJE
Authors: JANKAUSKAITĖ VAIDA
Published: January 2019

During the Soviet occupation, the Lithuanian reform movement Sąjūdis encouraged the development of the uncensored press and influenced the end of the Soviet government-controlled press system. Sąjūdis published and widely disseminated illegal periodicals and onetime publications, which concentrated the Lithuanian society for the reconstruction of Lithuania’s independence in 1990. Currently, there is no research of the Sąjūdis printed heritage.The object of the present study is the Sąjūdis press of the early period (published from 13 June 1988 till 11 March 1990) purposely stored in Lithuania’s memory institutions and private collections. The aim of this study was to establish the best known and available collections.Every Sąjūdis publication became particular and nowadays needs an appropriate view and preservation in special heritage departments of the Lithuanian memory institutions. Their first tasks would be to prepare a thorough bibliography and to validate the value of these heritage collections, which have unique inscriptions and ownership marks sometimes made by famous people.The collections were investigated in three archives, eleven libraries, nine museums and two personal collections. There is no complete surviving Sąjūdis printed heritage collection. During the Sąjūdis press distribution (1988–1990), the Lithuanian libraries, museums and persons collected it actively, and later the formation of this heritage was spontaneous. The most common ways of acquisition were the national legal deposit, donations, purchase, and interchange. The dominant donors of the Sąjūdis printed heritage were the staff, members of Sąjūdis, historians, journalists and other persons who realized the necessity of keeping this heritage. The largest collection, according to the title number, belongs to the private collector (bibliophile) Žilvinas Januška. Personal collections, because of their methodical and purposeful retrospective formation, have more titles than the institutional ones. The biggest collection according to the number of copies belongs to the Vilnius University Library. However, there are 10 per cent of unidentified and lost titles of the Sąjūdis printed heritage. There is a possibility to find more of them in Lithuania.Sąjūdis press contains materials of different periods, this fact endangers this heritage to disappear if not conserving it. This heritage is in good condition in Lithuanian museums and in worse condition in the archives, especially in libraries.In conclusion, Lithuanian memory institutions have to fulfil their mission and to preserve the printed heritage of Sąjūdis better.
DOKUMENTACIJA APIE XVII AMŽIAUS KLAIPĖDOS KRAŠTO LIUTERONŲ BAŽNYČIOS PADĖTĮ
Authors: JURGEN ARNAŠIUS (ARNASZUS) HELMUT HANS
Published: January 2019

Klaipėdos universiteto Literatūros katedraManto g. 84, LT-92294 KlaipėdaEl. paštas: helmutarnaszus@gmail.com
KONSTANTINO SIRVYDO BIBLIOGRAFIJOS PAPILDYMAS
Authors: VANAGAS VYTAUTAS
Published: January 2019

Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutasAntakalnio g. 6, LT-10308 Vilnius, Lietuva
KAIP BUVO GINAMA LEVO VLADIMIROVO DISERTACIJA
Authors: ŽUKAS VLADAS
Published: January 2019

Vašingtono skveras 1–51, LT-01108 Vilnius, Lietuva
VANDA STONIENĖ – MOKSLININKĖ IR PEDAGOGĖ
Authors: TARASKEVIČIŪTĖ EGLĖ
Published: January 2019

Professor Vanda Stonienė was a well-known scientist of Vilnius University in the field of book science. Born in 1932, she died just before her 76th birthday, leaving many important scientific works written and things done. It is crucial to commemorate her and make a summing-up of her whole life’s successful career.The professor was best known for her analytical works published while working in the university. She also wrote a lot of popular science works, took part in editoring scientific publications. Professor V. Stonienė was a devoted academician. Her colleagues and students respected her for the commitment to work and book. She participated in many international conferences and worked for the public good. As an individual person, the professor collected her own library which was dedicated to the science of book.
TEORINIAI IR TAIKOMIEJI DOKUMENTINIO PAVELDO KLAUSIMAI TARPTAUTINĖJE KNYGOTYROS KONFERENCIJOJE
Authors: SĖDAITYTĖ EDITA
Published: January 2019

Vilniaus universiteto Knygotyros ir dokumentotyros institutasUniversiteto g. 3, LT-01513 Vilnius, LietuvaEl. paštas: editasedaityte@gmail.com
KNYGOTYRA 2011–2012 m. KONFERENCIJOSE
Authors: PETREIKIS TOMAS
Published: January 2019

Vilniaus universiteto Knygotyros ir dokumentotyros institutasUniversiteto g. 3, LT-01513 Vilnius, LietuvaEl. paštas: petreikist@gmail.com
KNYGOS ISTORIJA SUOMIJOJE NUO XVIII A. IKI MŪSŲ DIENŲ (ANGLŲ K.)
Authors: LAINE TUIJA
Published: January 2019

In this paper, I shall introduce the research of book history in Finland during the last 300 years. How has book science developed from the eighteenth century onwards, what have been the main themes, and for what specific reasons have they become of central importance in the different periods of book history? And, last but not least, what methods have scholars used in book historical research?
RUSIŠKOJI MICHAILO KUFAJEVO BIBLIOLOGIJOS MOKYKLA (RUSŲ K.)
Authors: LELIKOVA NATALIJA
Published: January 2019

Статья посвящена влиянию на российское книговедение выдающегося ученого Михаила Николаевича Куфаева. Не создавший своей книговедческой школы в 1920-е годы, в период расцвета своего творчества, вследствие изменения политической и идеологической обстановки в СССР 1930-х годов, несправедливо обвиненный, а впоследствии забытый, М. Н. Куфаев оказался весьма востребован современным российским книговедением, во многом формирующимся на основе его теоретических положений. Именно в современном книговедении М. Н. Куфаев нашел своих последователей и своих учеников.
APIE KNYGOTYROS ISTORIJOS TYRIMŲ POREIKĮ IR NAUDĄ: MOKSLOTYRINĖS ANALIZĖS BANDYMAS (RUSŲ K.)
Authors: MIGOŃ KRZYSTOF
Published: January 2019

Among historical sciences, the history of science is nowadays of particular importance. In parallel to the general history of science, considered autonomous or as part of the science of science, studies on the history of individual scientific disciplines are fast developing. Their significance is not limited to the pure knowledge. In fact, understanding the evolution of a given discipline is an indispensable component in contemporary research and relevant to practical applications. The book science history has become a separate specialty within bibliological research since the mid-20th century. In the following years, various approaches to the subject matter and means of presentation of historical data have gradually developed. In the voluminous multilingual literature one can see the domination of case studies, these being mostly biographic (‘bibliology classics’), institutional, and topical. In contrast, there is a relative paucity of synthetic studies aimed at generalizations at national (countrywide) and global levels. This paper offers a review of the most important research problems related to the history of bibliology, with a particular emphasis on Central and Eastern European countries. It includes the proposal of a model construction and content of a future synthetic treatise ‘The history of world bibliology’. Such a monumental work should address the following issues: the state-ofthe-art of the ‘book world’ as the basis of the development of bibliological thought, the position of bibliology among other sciences, approaches and views about the subject and scope of book science, cognitive competences of book science, its notional instrumentation and terminology, central research categories, schools in bibliology, relationships among scientists, institutions and organization of science, sources of bibliological knowledge and research methods, the system and typology of book science literature.
NAUJOS KNYGOS ISTORIJOS TYRIMŲ IR PEDAGOGIKOS KRYPTYS (ANGLŲ K.)
Authors: HOWSAM LESLIE
Published: January 2019

This article addresses contemporary trends in the history of the book, focusing on both research and teaching. Given the great complexity of the interdisciplinary study of book science (called ‘book history’ or ‘the history of the book’ in North America and Britain, and l’histoire du livre in France), students may be confused or overwhelmed when the subject is introduced. They may legitimately ask what they can expect to learn, and how the subject will be organized. This is especially relevant because their generation has grown up with computers and with digital texts, and also with a cultural discourse of globalization. The article considers the challenges of teaching and learning the history of the book from two points of view, both of which have produced rich results in research over the past twenty to thirty years. The first identifies each individual book as a means of communication and cultural transfer; the second incorporates “the book” as a conceptual category in larger historical narratives working from the perspectives of time and space. While both perspectives can be of value for an introduction to this protean subject, neither offers a fully satisfactory response to the challenge of producing a coherent narrative. There is a discussion of transnational approaches to the history of the book; these are compared favourably to the more limited national approach, but the scholarly impulse to undertake the latter is contextualized. The article concludes with a discussion of Digital Humanities and demonstrates how this new field of study can work collaboratively with scholars in book history.
KNYGŲ KOLEKCIJOS IN CORPORE LIETUVOS BIBLIOTEKOSE
Authors: BRAZIŪNIENĖ ALMA
Published: January 2019

A book collection in corpore is usually used to describe a historically formed, indivisible collection of books having a historic, scientific and cultural value. Specialized research on this topic in Lithuania has been scanty, if any, with the exception of research conducted on acquiring and storing book collections in libraries as well as similar topics. The article aims at investigating the theoretical aspects of using the term book collection and providing the analysis of existing practices and trends with regard to book collections both in Lithuanian and foreign libraries. To achieve this objective, the following methods of literary analysis and empirical research have been used: analysis of library websites, expert survey, interviews with the library staff taking care of book collections at their disposal. The objects of research are the book collections in corpore, acquired and stored in the National Library of Lithuania, libraries of state-level and county libraries. The libraries which decide to store and preserve book collections in corpore, undertake a museum function, that is, the inherent function pertinent to a memory institution. This function is not characteristic of public libraries. However, it is among the core functions of the libraries having the national and state status.Based on the criterion of the former owner, collections in corpore can be grouped as follows: personal libraries (the libraries of outstanding statesmen, public figures, science and culture mak­ers) and book heritage of various institutions (institutional libraries). It turned out that currently 144 collections in corpore are being stored in the National Library of Lithuania, state-level and coun­ty libraries, with personal libraries identified as the prevailing group among them (137). The seven remaining collections in corpore are institutional libraries.The analysis of the information available in library websites on the collections in corpore revealed that the material presented is rather scarce and the websites do not contain comprehensive infor­mation about the scope of the respective collections. Thus, the user’s access to information is rather restricted. Today, the acquisition of collections in corpore has been reduced in scope, reflecting the current situation in librarianship. The status of some of the libraries which have acquired a great many book collections in corpore (for example, Vilnius University Library) have to be reviewed. Hav­ing established whether we are dealing with a collection in corpore or whether it is merely a donated collection of books, we can integrate the books in question into the library holdings, marking book provenance indicators in a bibliographic description in the online catalogue. Due to their exclusiv­ity, book collections in corpore are becoming book monuments. Such a status puts their custodians under an obligation to treat them as the sets of documents having special value, that is, as book monuments.
REDAKTORIAUS VAIDMUO VERSTINĖS GROŽINĖS LITERATŪROS LEIDYBOJE
Authors: BRASAITĖ FAUSTA
Published: January 2019

The goal of the article is to determine the role of editor in the publishing of translated fiction. The case study of editor’s role in the publishing of translated fiction is relevant in particular due to the popularity of translated fiction in Lithuania. As shown by the statistical analysis of Li­thuanian press (years 2000–2011), translated fiction print runs are almost two times higher than native fiction print runs.The problematics of translated fiction editor’s role is related to the editor’s interim position in the literary publishing process. The editor is between the author and the translator, and this determines the uncertainty of the editor’s role. In this context, the problematics of editor’s role is closely related to such aspects of translated fiction as translator’s and editor’s cooperation, literary quality of the translation, the publishing policy of the publishing house related to the literary quality of translated fiction. Various methods were used while writing this article. The interview method was used to perform the qualitative study. While using the document and source analysis method it was concluded that the editor is like the connective tissue between the author and the reader in the publishing process. The questionnaire and the comparison methods helped to uncover that editor’s role in the publishing of translated fiction is the dimension of text quality. It also revealed that the quality of the translated fiction literature highly depends on the com­munication between the editor and the translator.
VIENINGOS EUROPOS SKAITMENINĖS RINKOS PROBLEMA IR PASEKMĖS NEGAUSIŲ ŠALIŲ LEIDYBOS SEKTORIUI
Authors: TOMAŠEVIĆ NIVES , DESPOT IVONA
Published: January 2019

Most European e-book markets are currently being created. Publishers are going through a transitional phase and together with the printed content creators becoming the designers of e-content. The integration of technology into business processes is becoming an important business challenge together with the creation of new publishing products. All this is possible only through mutual work of other sectors in the creative industries. The paper tries to show the possibilities a small publisher has and identify the obstacles to the development of such markets. It discusses the advantages of a traditional publisher compared to new entrants, the skills that a traditional publisher develops and implements. One of the obstacles for the development of a small market is a high VAT rate for e-books throughout Europe. A special emphasis will be put on the Croatian market, which upon the entrance to the European Union had to apply a new tax policy regarding books.KEYWORDS: e-book, electronic publishing, VAT/GST/Sales Tax Rate, Single European digital market, small market, innovative publishing products, Croatia.
LEIDYBOS VAIDMUO KULTŪROS IR KŪRYBOS INDUSTRIJOJE
Authors: TOMAŠEVIĆ NIVES , LEBEDA IVANA LJEVAK
Published: January 2019

The examination of culture poses a demand for a dialectical reflection on the homology of local and global cultures as a resource to be preserved not only by conservation, but also by future upgrading. Publishing as an industry has a direct impact on both of these segments of culture as a resource or, in other words, through its production, publishing simultaneously conserves the existing cultural values and also upgrades them. Owing to these qualities, publishing has two roles – one pertains to the market in question, whereas the other pertains to culture. These qualities are intertwined within the cultural and creative industry, a sector which is now emerging in Croatia. Another important role within the sector of cultural and creative industry belongs to the book, which is a product of the publishing industry. This research regards the book as a product of the publishing industry for which an attractive niche in the market should be found and takes the position that from the sales perspective, a potential reader, i.e. a future consumer of this cultural good, should be approached in an understandable and efficient manner. This means that the function of the book is also twofold (both a cultural and an economic good). Therefore, the book demands a comprehensive x approach that combines local and global cultures around the fact that it is precisely the book that is the basic means by which language capital of a specific cultural identity, as well as cultural diversity on a global scale, is nurtured.KEYWORDS: publishing, literature, cultural good, cultural and creative industry, culture, art.
SKAITMENINĖS LEIDYBOS KOMUNIKACINĖ GRANDINĖ
Authors: MURRAY PADMINI RAY , SQUIRES CLAIRE
Published: January 2019

The publishing value chain has remained relatively consistent since the invention of the printing press. Robert Darnton’s influential model of the communications circuit of the book, which tracks how intellectual property circulated in 18th century France, has been a largely accurate representation of the publishing industry until the late 20th century. This article examines changes to the publishing industry, particularly as a result of the disruptions and disintermediations of the digital age, and proposes a re-drawing of the communications circuit for the 21st century. The research in this article was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council grant number AH/J01317X/1 The Book Unbound: Disruption and Disintermediation in the Digital Age.
LIETUVOS AKADEMINIŲ BIBLIOTEKŲ ELEKTRONINIŲ KATALOGŲ NAUDOTOJAI
Authors: PEČELIŪNAITĖ ANGELĖ
Published: January 2019

The Internet and information and communication technology, giving the user the unlimited potential to achieve, process, share and disseminate information, to commu­nicate in various forms inevitably affect human behaviour, changing our habits. Information managing institutions have identified this challenge and seek the possible ways how to best meet the needs of users. They are constantly interested in the behavioural changes of infor­mation consumer and monitor the flow and timely response to the changing developments. This article presents the research of electronic cataloque sites of the Lithuanian Academic Library using Google Analytics website analysis tool, which allows to capture a time variation in consumer behaviour. A one-year long fact-finding and data analysis revealed a growing desire of information users to work with mobile devices. The following trends have also been identi­fied – the average time on visiting the site is shorter, the bounce rate has increased, the number of pages viewed during the session has decreased.
SUSIDŪRIMAS SU INTERNETINE GALVOSENA
Authors: DER WEEL ADRIAAN VAN
Published: January 2019

In this brief essay I would like to pursue the notion that in the world of books we may be able to observe the clash between publishers catering to conventional reading and buying habits, and the expectations of readers who don’t consider themselves bound by the traditions and customs of the field. If asked, these readers might confess to regarding the traditions and customs of the book trade as antiquated, and no longer relevant in today’s world of instant and constant access to information, and certainly not applicable to them. Publishers have had to adjust their practices to the unfamiliar expectations of a new reading public many times in the history of the book. These changing expectations have concerned both the content (the ‘what’) and the form (the ‘how’) of reading. The mentality in the publishing industry is obviously going to have to reflect all the various mentalities that consumers display, including this pervasive but elusive online mentality. If the analysis I presented in this essay is in any way correct, it follows that there is a need for the book industry, and especially trade publishing to do market research. We clearly cannot speak of a reading crisis, with probably more written information being produced and consumed than ever before in history. But it does appear that a buying crisis is looming in the book industry. The sort of market research that is called for is not the sort that individual publishers should or can perform; it is the sort that policy makers, educationalists, and the book industry need to engage in collectively. For surely it makes sense to find out what various identifiable segments of the market would like to read, and how they would like to access their reading, and how much and how they would be prepared to pay for it.
KARALIAUČIAUS UNIVERSITETO PROFESORIAUS KARLO GOTTFRIEDO HAGENO (1749–1829) ASMENINĖ BIBLIOTEKA (rusų kalba)
Authors: JERMAKOVA NADEŽDA
Published: January 2019

Karl Gottfried Hagen (1749–1829) was a famous German chemist, founder of Pharmacology, MD University of Koenigsberg, and the head of the family pharmacy business. Professor Hagen was a versatile lecturer: he lectured on chemistry, physics, mineralogy, zoology, botany at the University of Konigsberg. The son of Professor Hagen – E. A. Hagen – helped to publish “The Seasons” by K. Donelaitis. The library of Professor Hagen was one of the best in Konigsberg. In this article we have analyzed some qualitative and quantitative indicators of Professor Hagen’s library. For this purpose we considered his life events and scientific activities, and those historical events which influenced the development of Professor Hagen’s pedagogical views. The analysis of biographical facts and historical events that influenced Professor Hagen’s Path of life allowed us to identify the following three main types of his activities: scientific, educational and journalistic. The library in question played an important role in the organization of Hagen’s integrated productive activity. The Auction Catalogue “List of books of K. G. Hagen” served as the basis of our research. It was published in Konigsberg (1829) and consists of 128 pages. This document was put at our disposal by Dr. E. Neumann-Redlin von Meding, a descendant of Professor Hagen.Traditionally, we have analysed the information in the following areas: place of publication; year of publication; scientific fields; language of publication; types of publications and documents. There are over 100 places of publication in the Catalogue. We have established that the Catalogue of Hagen’s library contains the following sections: history of science; physics; chemistry; alchemy; zoology; botany; mineralogy; medicine and related sciences; history of Prussia; philosophy, theology and related sciences. The Catalogue includes such types of publications as textbooks, monographs, dictionaries, manuals and guidelines, pharmacopoeia, dissertations, manuscripts, scientific journals, descriptions of travel, newspapers. To the best of our knowledge, only part of Hagen’s publications was offered in the auction. We hope to continue the search for more relevant information. We believe that it will promote modern lecturers’ and students’ information competence and develop the dialogue “library – reader”.