Ostavština Hamdije Kapidžića u fondovima specijalnih zbirki Nacionalne i univerzitetske biblioteke Bosne i Hercegovine

Korisnici Nacionalne i univerzitetske biblioteke Bosne i Hercegovine u svrhu različitih istraživanja često traže građu koja sadrži podatke o nacionalnoj i lokalnoj historiji; politici; kulturi. Nacionalna i univerzitetska biblioteka Bosne i Hercegovine svoje fondove; pored obaveznog primjerka; popunjava razmjenom i poklonima. Jedan takav poklon jeste i zaostavština historičara Hamdije Kapidžića. Biblioteka je ovaj poklon zaprimila 2008. godine. Dio poklona; koji čine nekoliko predmeta; korespondencija; pisma; razglednice; stare knjige; karte; nalazi se na Odjeljenju Specijalnih zbirki. Građa već duže vrijeme stoji neobrađena pa smo odlučili kroz ovaj kratki pregled i popis javnosti predočiti arhivu ovog znamenitog bosanskohercegovačkog kulturnog i naučnog radnika. Nadamo se da će ovaj kratak osvrt na zaostavštinu historičara Hamdije Kapidžića donijeti nove poglede na njegov život i znanstveni rad i poslužiti kao izvor za nova istraživanja.---------------------------------------------Heritage of Hamdija Kapidžić in the funds of National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina special collectionsUsers of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina; for the purpose of various researches; often look for material that contains national; local heritage; history; material about politics and culture. In addition to the obligatory copy; NUBBIH replenishes its funds with exchanges and gifts. One such gift is the legacy of historian Prof. Dr. Hamdija Kapidžić. The Library got this gift in 2008. Part of this gift – correspondence; letters; postcards; old books; maps; etc.; are located in the Department of Special Collections. The material has been undocumented for a long time and we decided to present to the public the archives of this famous Bosnian cultural and scientific worker through this brief overview and list. We hope that this brief review of the legacy of the historian Hamdija Kapidžić will bring new views on his life and scientific work and serve as a source for new research.

Awareness of conflict of interest as an academic standard of ethics

The paper shows that conflicts of interest in science undermine its ethos. Some examples of this phenomenon have been analysed from the point of view of its destructive consequences. The need to counter them has also been identified in our country and some legal regulations and self-regulation are gradually being introduced. However, they are not always respected in practice. In the last part of the paper, a model of management of risk of bias in scientific research has been outlined. The main thesis says that an awareness of conflict of interest embracing both knowledge of the general issues and relevant assessment of the personal risk of lack of objectivism should be an ethical minimum of every scientific worker.

The Leeuwenhoek Lecture, 1988, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723

The Leeuwenhoek Lecture on microbiology has been delivered annually since 1950 by a succession of distinguished research scientists and so perhaps I may be excused the pious duty of speaking of its founder, Mr George Gabb. But I cannot pass by this opportunity to recall that great English student of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Clifford Dobell (1886—1949). Dobell was, it seems, a strange and lonely figure; not liked by all his colleagues, of a difficult and impatient temperament, but a scientific worker of the highest excellence. It is not for me to summarize from Obituary notices his researches upon protozoa, amoeba and bacteria; I need only stress that Dobell did more than any man of his time to revive interest in Leeuwenhoek’s investigations, which he rediscovered in the early years of this century. Dobell’s painstaking yet lively monograph—he compared the decipherment of Leeuwenhoek’s Dutch manuscripts to that of the Rosetta stone—is a perennial classic; one of the finest in our language upon an individual scientist (1). Let me now only add that Dobell’s curious essay in on Dr O. is the only funny article in a somewhat sombre journal; I will not spoil the fun by disclosing the sense of Dobell’s odd title (2).

Z zagadnień etyki zawodu pracownika nauki

That there is an observable increase of public interest in problems of professional ethics as well as in the specific ethic of the profession of scientific worker, is an incontestable fact. There is a visible endeavour to create a set of principles defining the moral duties of the profession of scientific worker, different groups giving the problem their particular different treatments.