scholarly journals Activities of the reading room of library literature of the Vernadskyi National library of Ukraine in the context of information and scientific support of library specialists

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-150
Author(s):  
Svitlana Maslovska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reading Room ◽  
National Library ◽  
Scientific Support

Komunistiskās partijas kontroles mehānisms Latvijas Padomju rakstnieku savienībā: Žaņa Grīvas piemērs

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-118
Author(s):  
Madara Eversone
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
National Library ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Representative Image

It was in the interests of the Communist Party to create a representative image of Latvian Soviet writers, which would represent the interests of the party and at the same time oversee the course of literary life in the Latvian Soviet Writers’ Union. Such was the writer Žanis Grīva in the Latvian Soviet literary process. The influential positions in the Soviet nomenclature gave him power in the creative environment and created opportunities to monitor the implementation of the Communist Party’s course. The article aims to put forward the personality of Žanis Grīva in the context of the research of the Latvian soviet literary process and the Latvian Soviet Writers’ Union, proposing several issues to be further researched and developed in the future. The article is based on the documents of the Latvian Soviet Writers’ Union and the Communist Party local organization of the Latvian Soviet Writers’ Union, and the personal file of Žanis Grīva in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia, and documents of the Žanis Grīva collection that are available at the Latvian State Archive of the National Archives of Latvia, as well as Žanis Grīva’s personal documents regarding his life and professional activities that are available at the Aleksejs Apinis Rare Books and Manuscripts Reading Room at the National Library of Latvia. Memories of contemporaries were also investigated. It is concluded that the role of Žanis Grīva in the Latvian soviet literary process and the Latvian Soviet Writers’ Union is political and purposefully constructed by the Communist Party, and has little to do with literature and literary talents. It can be assumed that Žanis Grīva has negatively affected the creative activity of some members of the Writers’ Union, such as Gunārs Priede.

Moving pictures: the National Photographic Archive

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
Gráinne MacLochlainn
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
National Library ◽  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Moving Pictures ◽  
Historical Photographs

The large and varied collection of Irish historical photographs previously housed in the National Library of Ireland has recently been relocated to Dublin’s Temple Bar. A purpose-built archive provides storage vaults, reading room facilities and an exhibition space for this important aspect of the Irish cultural heritage, thus balancing the preservation of the photographs with access to the images. This paper provides a candid look at the development of a National Photographic Archive.

scholarly journals Manuscripts of Requiem by foreign composers in the Vilnius libraries’ funds: an overview of 19th – beginning of 20th century sources

Menotyra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laima Budzinauskienė
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Sacred Music ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
National Library ◽  
Dramatic Character ◽  
Type Form ◽  
Vilnius University ◽  
Missa Pro Defunctis ◽  
The 19Th Century

Among numerous genres of sacred music (such as chorales, hymns, motets, masses, etc.), Requiem, or otherwise Missa pro defunctis, Missa defunctorum (Mass for the Deceased) stands out. It is the Mass for the Deceased, corresponding to the Roman Catholic Missal, that is celebrated mainly during the funeral. Over time, Requiem has become a vocal-instrumental genre, a composition associated with the theme of death and mourning. In the 19th century, two principal forms of the genre of Requiem co-existed: a proud, concert-type form, heavily influenced by secular music, and a more modest, reserved, and more “traditional” liturgical one. The latter was smaller in scope, written for a more modest composition of performers in a simpler music language and of a non-dramatic character. The development of the liturgical Requiem over the period in question was largely affected by the Cecilian Movement, active also in Lithuania. True, it is also possible to discuss an intermediate link between the concert and the liturgical types of Requiem – a concert-type vocal-instrumental Requiem, which could also be performed in liturgy. The paper focuses on the manuscripts of the Requiem compositions re-written in the 19th century that were once performed in churches of Vilnius and other cities of Lithuania and currently are stored in in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Reading Room of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and in the Manuscript Department of the Vilnius University Library. These are copies of the Requiem compositions by the following authors: Gioacchino Albertini (1748–1812), Josef Becher (1821–1888), Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842), Max Filke (1855–1911), Joseph Gruber (1855–1933), Lambert Kraus (1728–1790), Antonio Rosetti (1750–1792), and Johann Baptist Schiedermayr (1779–1840).

Visit of the Delegation from the National Library of the Republic Korea to the Russian State Library

2009 ◽  
pp. 130-131
Author(s):  
Article Editorial
Keyword(s):  
Reading Room ◽  
National Library ◽  
Korean Literature ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Republic ◽  
State Library

On July, 14—15th, 2009 the delegation from the National library of Republic Korea has visited the Russian State Library and took part in opening of the renovated reading room of the Korean literature.

scholarly journals Dansk i danske samlinger. Om Udenlandske Danica i det 20. århundrede

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grethe Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
National Library ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
University Department ◽  
Online Catalogue ◽  
The University

In the National Collection of printed works in the National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library, primarily collected through Legal Deposit, one finds also works published abroad, dealing with Denmark and Danes, the so-called Danica extranea. These have been collected since 1788 when instructions, written to the new director of the library, ordered him to purchase works dealing with all the Danish states and colonies and their subjects. At that time the Danish king ruled over Denmark, Norway, the Duchies (Schleswig-Holstein) as well as colonies in India, Africa and the Caribbean. This kingdom was reduced 26 years later following the Treaty of Kiel in 1814 when Norway was ceded to Sweden. In 1864, the Duchies became part of the emerging German Empire.According to the instructions of 1788, this should also have influenced the acquisition of Danica extranea. However, this was not the case. The staff of the Danish Department (established in 1780) of the library retained until 1991 the image of Denmark as it had been before 1814 when it came to defining what should be purchased for the national collection. The article describes how this was formulated and carried out in practice during the second half of the twentieth century. The Department operated with three categories of Danica extranea: extranea proper, non-extranea (works on areas and people who had at one point in time belonged to Denmark or had been Danish subjects), and Scandinavica (works on Scandinavian countries and people, unless dealing exclusively with Sweden). This was confusing for people using the library, for example they had to look for Norwegian books published after 1814 in the Danish catalogue and not in the foreign, catalogue, and it created internal conflicts in the library when books purchased for general circulation were withheld in the national collection because of their subject matter and then could only be used in the Reading Room. The issue was resolved in 1991 when acquisitions of non-extranea and Scandinavica became the task of the University Department and purchases of duplicate copies was made possible in case of any conflict. The introduction of an online catalogue in 1998, into which all separate card catalogues were merged made it easier for users to find a book.

Recent Developments in the National Library of Ireland

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Catherine Fahy
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Core ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Statutory Body ◽  
Adequate Staffing ◽  
Made In

The provisions of the National Cultural Institutions Act 1997, which will establish the National Library of Ireland as an independent statutory body under a new Board, are due to be implemented in 2005. The years since the Act was passed have seen substantial increases in funding and staff numbers, albeit from a very low base. A phased building programme has delivered improved visitor and administration facilities, but crucial storage and reading room elements have been delayed. Collection development has benefited from government measures including legislation for tax credit for the donation of important material and for a Heritage Fund. A new Genealogical Service has been an outstanding success, but other substantial improvements in service are contingent on the building programme. Retrospective catalogue conversion projects have been completed for the core Irish printed collections and these catalogues are available online. A substantial amount of retrospective conversion of catalogues of other collections remains to be done. Digital projects are underway which will lead to an increased amount of material from the graphic collections coming online. A major new state of the art exhibition facility opened in 2004 with the inaugural exhibition James Joyce and Ulysses at the National Library of Ireland. Progress has been made in securing conservation resources, and in preservation microfilming and reformatting programmes. The major challenges facing the Board will be to push through the building programme, to carry through digital and retrospective conversion programmes, and to secure adequate staffing and financial resources.

scholarly journals Arkivets pleroma

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (121) ◽  
pp. 153-170
Author(s):  
Torsten Andreasen
Keyword(s):  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Vertical Movement ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
National Library ◽  
Alain Resnais ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
The Face

In 1956, on a commission from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alain Resnais made a short film about the French national library called Toute la mémoire du monde. The film performs a vertical movement from indiscernible form and prevalent darkness upon the face of the deep in the library cellars to the summits of institutional power in its domed view of the well-ordered rows of tables and chairs in the Labrouste reading room. This vertical axis is established and maintained by the horizontal library operations that promise to transform the library objects from chaotic heap to collective happiness, or what this article has called the promised movement from plethora to pleroma. Resnais’ film intervenes in an ongoing discourse about the possibility of archival pleroma, thinking machines and the possible beneficial consequences for human existence. But the question is whether such persistent happy belief in the fall of the very last practical obstacles for pleroma does not overlook the view from Resnais’ domed shot: The view indicating that sinister fantasies of the pleroma of knowledge persist in relation to fantasies of political organisation and that the guardians of the archive will always patrol the aisles of the reading room.

Cannabis-associated arteritis

VASA ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grotenhermen
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Cardiovascular Effects ◽  
Causative Factor ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Thromboangiitis Obliterans ◽  
Pathological Features ◽  
Scientific Support ◽  
Clinical And Pathological Features

Background: To investigate the hypothesis that cases of arteritis similar to thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) and associated with the use of cannabis were caused by cannabis or THC (dronabinol), or that cannabis use is a co-factor of TAO. Patients and methods: A systematic review on case reports and the literature on so-called cannabis arteritis, TAO, and cardiovascular effects of cannabinoids was conducted. Results: Fifteen reports with 57 cases of an arteritis associated with the use of cannabis and two additional case series of TAO, in which some patients also used cannabis, were identified. Clinical and pathological features of cannabis-associated arteritis do not differ from TAO and the major risk factor of TAO, tobacco use, was present in most, if not in all of these cases. The proposed pathophysiological mechanisms for the development of an arteritis by cannabis use are not substantiated. Conclusions: The hypothesis of cannabis being a causative factor or co-factor of TAO or an arteritis similar to TAO is not supported by the available evidence. The use of the term “cannabis arteritis” should be avoided until or unless more convincing scientific support is forthcoming.

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