Girolamo Savonarola Religious and Political Reformer: The Incunable Collection of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Izbicki
Keyword(s):  
Book Trade ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Rapid Passage

The works on the Dominican religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola did not vanish from sight with his execution in 1498. The preacher's works began appearing in print during the last decade of his life, and they continued appearing after his death. Most were published in Florence, but some appeared in other cities. A few even were printed in Germany. The printers most associated with dissemination of the friar's works are Bartolomeo de' Libri and Lorenzo Morgiani. This selection of early editions of Savonarola's works illustrates the rapid passage or his words into print and the long afterlife of the friar as a religious figure. The collection also contains writings of both supporters and opponents of Savonarola, most of them published in his lifetime. Thus the microfiche collection (212 titles on 263 microfiche) illustrate every aspect of the friar's impact on both the book trade and the reading public of his day. (MARC21 Bibliographic Records are also available but were not reviewed.)

Valuable Research on Bibliographic Aspects of Social Memory of the Russian State Library

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-400
Author(s):  
Ludmila P. Mashentseva
Keyword(s):  
Social Memory ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Russian State ◽  
State Library ◽  
Selection Of

This is a review of the bibliographic index “Bibliographic Activity of the Russian State Library” released by the publishing house “Pashkov Dom” in 2021. The new index has been drawn up by the experts from the Research Department of Bibliography of the Russian State Library (RSL). This unique book serves as a social memory of one of the largest libraries both in this country and worldwide. We might regard this information resource as a kind of chronicle of the RSL Reference and Bibliographic Service, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2018. The structural and substantive analyse of the methodological features of the index as well as the criteria for the selection of material have been carried out. The publication consists of two parts (“Literature on the bibliographic activity of the library” and “Publications of the library on bibliographic theory and practice”) and includes 1709 bibliographic records.The book can be used as an example for creating similar works, and it is a comprehensive toolkit for scientometric analysis of the library’s bibliographic activity.

The ‘Bibliography of the History of Art’ and the Nordic Countries

1991 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Emma Sailing
Keyword(s):  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Trial Period ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Online Access ◽  
International Role ◽  
Crucial Test ◽  
Selection Of

Building on the precedent established by the Kunstakademiets Bibliotek and RILA, Nordic countries are for a trial period of three years contributing bibliographic records to the BHA, via the latter’s Scandinavian editor in the U.S.A. Several institutions are involved; the selection and preparation of records for the BHA can usually be done in conjunction with work already undertaken by the institutions concerned, in some cases for national bibliographies. Records include abstracts, which should ideally be provided or approved by the authors. Only a selection of material can be cited in the BHA; it is important that its international role should be complemented by national bibliographies. Although Nordic libraries can subscribe to the BHA in its printed form, online access is inhibited by financial considerations; a CD-ROM version would be most welcome. It is hoped that this three year experiment in co-operation will be judged a success, and that funding to enable it to continue will be forthcoming; a crucial test of any form of international co-operation is whether respect for national traditions outweighs any desire for excessive standardisation.

Access to Reading

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail Williams
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Read Aloud ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Alternative Models

This chapter considers where readers got books from. Recent studies of the eighteenth-century book trade have emphasised how expensive books were—and thus should be regarded as luxury objects of that time. In addition, literacy was limited, and had not changed very much in half a century. Nonetheless, there were multiple points of access: alongside booksellers and their new books, there were newspapers and periodicals, second-hand stalls and shops, circulating libraries, abridgements, adaptations, books sold in numbers, and old-fashioned sharing, borrowing, and lending. Books, newspapers, pamphlets, and letters could be and were read aloud, in the home, in groups, in public places. All of this created ways into literature for a broader reading public, and offered alternative models for literary consumption.

National Bibliographies – Do They Have a Future?

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Bourne
Keyword(s):  
Book Trade ◽  
International Level ◽  
Federal States ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Information Networking

National bibliographies serve a variety of functions, but act essentially as archival records of the national imprint. A number of factors may, however, alter our views of their purpose and affect our expectations of their long term future. Coverage and currency are often constrained by inadequate legal deposit mechanisms, but it may be questioned whether the national bibliography needs to include all publications or whether the national bibliographic agency (NBA) should act as a coordinator of current bibliographic data. Some NBAs have been driven to reduce the bibliographic content of their records as a result of declining income and increases in publishing output. Such measures have not met with universal approval, but appear to have resulted in improved currency. Technology continues to have an impact on the production of national bibliographies, with CD-ROMs, the UNIMARC format and, particularly, networking initiatives all facilitating greater availability of and access to bibliographic information. Networking may well render less relevant the local basis of national bibliographies, with possibilities for supranational coverage and the linking of document supply to bibliographic access. Closer cooperation with the book trade should result in the reuse of publishers' bibliographic data, rather than the NBA having to create bibliographic records from scratch. Politically, the concept of what constitutes a national grouping is evolving, with new alliances between countries as well as the disintegration of former federal states taking place. Important questions arise as to the future purpose of the national bibliography, the potential for cooperation with other producers of bibliographic data and whether the role of the national bibliography is likely to be usurped at the international level. NBAs must view these questions as an opening up of opportunities rather than as threats to their existence.

scholarly journals Metaphoric Noun Variants and Modification Types in Undergraduate ESL Students’ Academic Writing Texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Vasemaca Tadulala Ledua Alifereti
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Esl Students ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Text Quality ◽  
Nominal Groups ◽  
Selection Of

Significant grammatical innovations over the years have been a reaction to changes in purposes of communication due to demands from the reading public. It is assumed such changes are embraced in English used by undergraduate students in readings they are exposed to, and texts produced during their studies. In analyzing data, comprising ESL undergraduate students’ writing scripts, the study seeks to find how such grammatical innovations are manifested in selection of nouns and modification types. A noun is a compulsory element, contributing meaning to text and over the years, constituents comprising nominal groups have evolved from prototype noun to the compressed metaphoric variant. Data is analyzed, against the backdrop of Halliday and Matthiessen’s metaphor taxonomy. Results indicate, majority of students have yet to move from overuse of prototype to more metaphoric noun variants. Noun modification choices are restricted and this is a language gap that needs addressing. Awareness of contemporary grammatical innovations pertaining to nouns and modification strategies are imperative in order to improve ESL students’ text quality and effectiveness.

scholarly journals Buying and Borrowing Books: Book Consumption In Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden (pp 121-154)

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Lending Library ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
City Mysteries ◽  
Over Time

How did Swedish readers in the late nineteenth century acquire reading materials, and what books were the most popular? And how did their reading preferences change over time?A few unique, recently discovered sources, consisting of sales’ and borrowers’ ledgers from three different institutions – a parish library, a commercial lending library and a bookshop – can help to answer these questions. These three institutions represented key elements of the Swedish book trade, and together they served customers from the entire social spectrum, from farmhands, blacksmiths and labourers to bishops, noblemen and literary critics.  Generally speaking, the Swedish reading public of the late nineteenth century was divided into two groups: those who bought books, and those who borrowed them. The bookshop was where all the latest books could be found, and Strindberg, Ibsen and Daudet were among the best-selling authors. The parish library, by contrast, had only a limited range of fiction – mainly written by an earlier generation of authors – and primarily acquired books that would enlighten and educate, rather than entertain. However, the members of the parish library preferred fiction above all, and over the years they transformed from omnivorous to discerning readers. The commercial lending library, which specialised in novels, attracted many bookworms, with some people borrowing from fifty to one hundred books a year, very often historical novels.Different customer groups seem to have had different literary preferences. The study shows for example that female customers of the bookshop tended to buy books on women’s emancipation, and preferred Tolstoy to Strindberg – who was the male customers’ favourite. And while romantic and gothic stories, and the so-called “city mysteries” by Eugène Sue were hugely popular among the students and the artisans of the commercial lending library, they aroused little interest among the bookshop’s customers.

scholarly journals Bibliography of A.I. Solzhenitsyn: the History, Problems and Solutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizaveta P. Semenova
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Critical Literature ◽  
Selection Of

The article describes the history of creation of Biobibliographic Index “Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. Materials for Biobibliography” dedicated to A.I. Solzhenitsyn – the outstanding Russian writer, Nobel Laureate and public figure – from the bibliographic chapter planned in the 1960-ies to the Index in two volumes, being prepared for publication in 2018.The Index contains the list of all works by A.I. Solzhenitsyn from 1962 to 2017: released both as separate editions and published in the periodical press, as well as the literature about his life and creative activity. The first section includes the book editions and works by the writer published in journals, newspapers and non-author’s collections. They are grouped by genre principle — prose, drama, poetry. The bibliographic records are arranged in chronological order (by date of publication). The second section “Literature on A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s Life and Works” includes a variety of publications, devoted to the writer entirely or partially. The key to the disclosure of the substantive content of each entry is a classified index, where the heading titles reflect the landmarks of A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s life and creative heritage, identified in the process of the compilers’ acquaintance with the critical literature de visu. This index helps the user to navigate in the extensive corpus of literature devoted to the writer and in selection of materials on the subject of interest.The author considers the problems encountered by the compilers, as well as the ways of their solution and defines this publication as the first experience in Russia in preparing a large-scale bibliographic collection dedicated to A.I. Solzhenitsyn.

Selling the Illusion of Access

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-146
Author(s):  
Erin A. McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter argues that Aemilia Lanyer’s publisher Richard Bonian published the extensive dedicatory material in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum to appeal to an emerging female reading public. The volume’s permeable boundary between text and paratext also anticipates the replacement of dedicatory poems with commendatory verses in the coming decades. The chapter therefore closes by considering two additional books with an unusual investment in dedicatory and commendatory verse: Coryats Crudities (1611), which inspired a competing book that only reproduced its preliminary verses, and Mary Fage’s Fames Roule (1637), a collection of anagrams and acrostics on court figures. Together, these books reveal authors and their publishers navigating poetry’s uneasy transition from a pursuit driven by patronage to one oriented toward the commercial book trade. In the process, the books also give the reader new insight into the privileged social networks of their authors and addressees.

Cognitive gadgets and cognitive priors

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Domenico Iannetti ◽  
Giorgio Vallortigara
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Some of the foundations of Heyes’ radical reasoning seem to be based on a fractional selection of available evidence. Using an ethological perspective, we argue against Heyes’ rapid dismissal of innate cognitive instincts. Heyes’ use of fMRI studies of literacy to claim that culture assembles pieces of mental technology seems an example of incorrect reverse inferences and overlap theories pervasive in cognitive neuroscience.

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