scholarly journals Will the laser cutting machines save Russian libraries?

2019 ◽  
pp. 90-98
Author(s):  
E. Pleshkevich
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
National Library ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Leisure Services ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
The Common ◽  
Staff Number ◽  
Practical Recommendations ◽  
Library Collections

The author analyzes the new concept of “truly modern libraries” being developed by Vadim Stepanov who suggests to review the library functions and to re-orient the libraries toward providing socio-cultural and leisure services. The author analyzes these methodological and practical recommendations within the concept while demonstrating the practical “misery” of the concept itself and the recommendations which, to one degree or another, have been being developed in the national library studies. Thus, the open access to library collections is a common place since 1930s; every large library has got special room for public events, etc. The author discusses the experience of Helsinki city library (“Oodi”) that has switched to sociocultural and leisure services. Today, “Oodi” – is a cultural and entertaining center, comprising the library oriented toward leisure activities; in fact, it franchises the title of a library. The author demonstrates that accommodating libraries within cultural, leisure and entertaining complexes has been the common practice since the Soviet period. He emphasizes that changes in the national librarianship are of the multifactor character, while automation and computerization of library processes and online access lead to decreasing the library staff number and the volume of library collections. Thus, these changes may not be regarded as the manifestation of a crisis. The author suggests the projects must be being developed more responsibly.

scholarly journals CULTURAL AND LEISURE EVENTS OF UNIVERSAL SCIENTIFIC LIBRARIES IN SIBERIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-99
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Zhegulskaya
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Local History ◽  
National Library ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Regional State ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Scientific Libraries ◽  
State Regional

The decree of the President of the Russian Federation declared 2019 as the Year of Theatre. Libraries traditionally participate in promotion of theatre art, provide their places for plays, hold art meetings, organize theatre clubs, and use theatrical tools in club activities to hold public events. The article objective is to identify and characterize types, forms, orientation, and specifics of cultural, educational, and leisure activities implemented by the central universal scientific libraries of the Siberian Federal district (SFD) as part of the Year of Theater. 10 central libraries were chosen to be analyzed: Altai Regional Universal Scientific Library named after V. Y. Shishkov (Barnaul), Irkutsk Regional State Universal Scientific Library named after I. I. Molchanov- Sibirsky, State Scientific Library of the Kuzbas named after V. D. Fedorov (Kemerovo), Krasnoyarsk Regional State Universal Scientific Library, Novosibirsk State Regional Scientific Library, Omsk State Regional Scientific Library named after A. S. Pushkin, National Library named after M. V. Chevalkov (Gorno- Altaisk), National Library of the Tuva Republic named after A. S. Pushkin (Kizil), National Library named after N. G. Domozhakov (Abakan), Tomsk Regional Universal Scientific Library named after A. S. Pushkin. The source bases of this study were public plans and reports of libraries, news and events reports posted on the official libraries websites. The theatre topic reflects itself in preparing various libraries exhibitions, chronographs publications, organizing meetings with culture and arts figures, clubs work, organizing competitions, cultural and educational events and projects, holding festivals. Sociocultural event “Library Night 2019” aimed at supporting reading was a bright manifestation of the “Library + Theater” union. Libraries used the following forms of events: performances, concerts, lectures, master classes, exhibitions, excursions, quizzes, competitions, playgrounds. The events held during the Year of Theatre varied in content and combination of traditional and new forms; had strongly marked book and reading popularization; were oriented on different age groups, interactive; used many multimedia products. Although the chosen forms of the events are alike, the fact that each library has its unique content based on local history makes special cultural and leisure activities of every library.

Über die verschollenen geglaubte Schauspielmusik zu Shakespeare "Othello" von August Wilhelm Ambros

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Stefan Wolkenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Robert Schumann ◽  
National Library ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Incidental Music ◽  
The Common ◽  
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ◽  
Felix Mendelssohn

Der Musikwissenschaftler August Wilhelm Ambros (1816-1876) spielte als Feuilletonist und Komponist im Prager Musikleben der 1840er Jahre eine wichtige Rolle. Seine 1848 komponierte Schauspielmusik zu William Shakespeares "Othello" (die in Prag zahlreiche Aufführungen erlebte) wurde nie publiziert und galt als verschollen. Diese Ansicht muss revidiert werden. Das Autograph der Komposition befindet sich seit 1939 unbeachtet im Besitz der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Die erste Sichtung ergab folgenden Befund: Ambros hat sich an dem für eine Schauspielmusik üblichen Modell orientiert. Neben Ouvertüre und Finale besteht die Komposition aus mehreren Zwischenaktmusiken, die durch die Handlung des Dramas miteinander verknüpft sind. Stilistisch orientiert sich die Komposition an den Werken Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys und Robert Schumanns, die für den Prager Davidsbündler Ambros als wichtige Vorbilder fungierten. Durch die Entdeckung der Schauspielmusik zu "Othello" lässt sich diese immer wieder betonte Nähe nun an einem größeren Werk untersuchen.    The musicologist August Wilhelm Ambros (1816-1876) played an important role as feature writer and composer in the musical life of Prague during the 1840s. In 1848 he composed an incidental music for William Shakespeare's drama "Othello" which was performed in Prague for several times, but never was published. It has been considered to be lost, what has to be revised. The autograph of the composition is owned by the Austrian National Library since 1939, but has met with no response so far. The results of a first investigation are: the music to the drama "Othello" does not diverge from the common patterns of this genre. It consists an overture, a finale and some intermission music. Its style is affected, like most of Ambros' other compositions, by Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The recovering of this composition now allows to research this influence on a larger opus. 

Common interests of parents and adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-132
Author(s):  
V. Kostromina ◽  
◽  
G. Kolesnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Family Leisure ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The Common ◽  
Sequential Formation

The article discusses the common interests of parents and adolescents, who have become significantly different in modern society with the advent of innovative technologies between the older and younger generations. The author analyzes the problem of underdeveloped forms of family leisure and take notice to the fact that in various types of leisure activities, the sequential formation of personal qualities of children such as independence, curiosity, organization, sociability, confidence, success and others is more effectively carried out. Family values are promoted by joint leisure, influencing the development of adolescents in socialization. The scientific works of scientists are analyzed, from which the conclusion about the common interests of adults and children follows. The types of family vacations at home and outside are consid it is worthwhile to form interests and traditions that unite adolescents and parents on the positive side. The author suggests synthesizing traditional and innovative forms of organizing family leisure activities in order to achieve common interests of parents and adolescents.

From the History of Book Culture of Ukraine: Research of Retrospective Book, Art, Music Publications and Historical Collections from the Funds of the Vernadsky National Library Of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.I. Kovalchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Book Art ◽  
National Library ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
History Of ◽  
Book Culture ◽  
Library Collections

The collective monograph is the result of scientific research on the history of book culture of Ukraine, conducted by scientists of the Institute of Bibliology of the Vernadsky National Library Of Ukraine during 2016-2018 on the basis of the funds of the departments of antique prints and rare editions, fine arts, music collections, foreign Ukrainiana, library collections and historical collections of the Library. The history of book culture of Ukraine of the XVI-XX centuries, which appears from the pages of this edition, has a multifaceted, but absolutely reliable character, as it is based on specific sources. For bibliologists, librarians, bibliographers, historians of national culture.

Why Kant Could not Have Been a Utilitarian

Utilitas ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENS TIMMERMANN
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgement ◽  
Correct Description ◽  
Moral Thinking ◽  
First Order ◽  
Consequentialist Theory ◽  
The Common ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
Practical Recommendations

In 1993, Richard Hare argued that, contrary to received opinion, Kant could have been a utilitarian. In this article, I argue that Hare was wrong. Kant's theory would not have been utilitarian or consequentialist even if his practical recommendations coincided with utilitarian commands: Kant's theory of value is essentially anti-utilitarian; there is no place for rational contradiction as the source of moral imperatives in utilitarianism; Kant would reject the move to separate levels of moral thinking: first-order moral judgement makes use of the principle of morality; and, relatedly, he would resist the common utilitarian distinction between actions and their motives because any correct description of an action must refer to motivation. The article concludes with the thought that any consequentialist theory based on pre-given ends (teleology) lacks the philosophical resources to distinguish between willing something as a means and as an end, leaving means only, and destroying transparency.

scholarly journals ‘A Local Habitation and a Name’: The Dublin Mechanics’ Institute and the Evolution of Dublin’s Public Sphere, 1824–1904

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Ramon
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Abbey Theatre ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Common Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

The Dublin Mechanics’ Institute (1824–1919), like others of its kind, was established with the declared purpose of providing technical education to the city’s working classes. While its educational objectives were at best partially achieved, the Institute made a significant contribution to the development of Dublin’s public sphere. Especially after 1848, when the Institute acquired the building that would later become the Abbey Theatre, its premises became a hybrid space where the lower middle and working classes could not only attend courses and lectures, but also receive political training on the managing board, organise their own public events at the lecture hall and negotiate relations with their ‘social betters’ in the common area of the reading room. This article looks at the Dublin Mechanics’ Institute through the different venues it occupied between 1824 and 1904, in order to examine the connection between the provision and regulation of physical space and the development of civic and political culture. It argues that the Institute, far from representing a history of failure, must be understood as a key piece in the incorporation of the lower middle and working classes to Irish civic life during the middle decades of the nineteenth century.

Dewey and the visual arts: some thoughts on the scheme and its application

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Jill Cripps
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Classification System ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Library Users ◽  
The Common ◽  
Decimal Classification ◽  
Common Perception ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Library Collections

The Dewey Decimal Classification system, frequently used to arrange arts collections, has a number of commendable aspects but also some significant shortcomings. Evidence suggests that visual arts library users can further their creative ideas by browsing library shelves, and the author considers this should inform classification practice. Dewey, approached from a user perspective and applied with attention to the scheme’s potential, can provide a shelf order that promotes browsing. The common perception that Dewey is most suited to general library collections is perhaps not entirely justified. Within the visual arts, it possibly accommodates specialist resources rather better than is sometimes imagined, particularly with judicious adaptation. A number of modifications are easy enough to achieve and may be applied across a range of visual arts resources.

scholarly journals The true professionals. Reminiscences of authority bibliographers

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
G. Gedrimovich
Keyword(s):  
Public Library ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Individual Characteristic ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Reference Library ◽  
National Library ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Group Processing ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
Characteristic Features

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the National Library of Russia, the reminiscences by Gertruda Vasilyevna Gedrimovich, the oldest and prominent Russian bibliographer, of her first mentors in the profession. The portraits of Elena Vladimirovna Iуenish (1926–2008), Victor Isidorovich Gransky (1903–1970), and Lyudmila Veniaminovna Zilbermintz (1909–1972) – outstanding staff members of Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library (today – National Library of Russia), are given. Some interesting facts in their biographies are cited; their contribution to the library science and leadership are appraised. The author emphasizes their spacious intellect, principles of work and mentorship. Their work made the essence and way of their living. All of them were talented persons with their individual characteristic features. Special attention is given to their ability to achieve high goals and professional results. The author also focuses on the timeless value of the profession of bibliographer and expresses her hope that it will last and develop: today, professional and experienced bibliographers of the National Library of Russia, its general catalogs, group processing department, periodicals reading rooms, Central Reference Library, Library Studies Office, and E-library efficiently execute queries and orders.

scholarly journals Functions of bibliosphere. Part 1

2016 ◽  
pp. 7-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arkady Sokolov
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Character

The author introduces theoretical, technological and sociological interpretations of the human category “function”. The functional approach in library studies, bibliography, and bibliology is explored. The common character of the essential functions of the social institutions within the bibliological sphere is revealed.

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