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This paper includes basic approaches to resource management in the archival heritage collection of the National Library of Romania. Archival resources are described using the implementation of the UNIMARC format, a format that provides sufficient tools to preserve the hierarchical structure of archival descriptions and that can provide detailed material characteristics. At the same time, the workflow is presented in the elaboration of UNIMARC records for materials from the archival collection, including the general-to-specific description, using only data appropriate to the level to avoid redundancy, creation of access points by indexing on topics and creators, following the policy developed by the National Library. The improved user search interface is also presented, which includes both traditional library and archive resources, with specific options for each type of resource. Data elements are defined for archival description levels: fund -- series -- file -- tab/article/item. In this sens, the article contains the descriptions of the fields and the rules for their completion, in the case of bibliographic records in UNIMARC format for archive collection (Annex 1), archive collection/series (Annex 2), archive file (Annex 3) and element/archive document (Annex 4). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Creating cultural and educational centres is a very important aspect of the development of a society. We observe the presence of these centres all over the world, especially in large cities, where there is a larger population. What happens, however, to small communities, especially those that form outside their place of origin? How do they get the information they need to keep up to date with the cultural and educational development of the country where they left ofl? We find a relevant answer in Spain, more precisely in cities where Romanians have formed fairly large communities, such as Madrid, Valencia or Barcelona. Although, through a brief analysis of these communities, we can see that Romanians have managed to learn Spanish, there is also a desire to have access to language, literature and culture in Romania. Therefore, several institutions such as the Cervantes Institute or the Romanian Cultural Institute in Madrid, provide Romanians on Iberian territory with books, courses and other cultural and educational activities, and the Romanian communities organize and promote these actions. Are there also libraries and other similar cultural institutions in several parts of the peninsula, which makes us wonder how these Romanian cultural funds work in Spain? This paper will answer, among others, this question and will present the system and methods applied in promoting language, Romanian literature and culture within the Romanian cultural and educational centres on Hispanic territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Biblioteca copiilor şi a tinerimei from the period of the Great Union is a historiographical research on the promotion of this weekly magazine in the press of the time, which can give us an understanding, from a cultural perspective, of some aspects of the past, starting from a series of documents. The paper also presents a documentary study by approaching from a librarianship perspective of the advertising for the "biblioteca copiilor şi a tinerimei" magazine, as a bibliographic unit, in the newspapers gazeta bucureştilor (1918) and adevărul (1919, 1920, 1921), two of the most popular newspapers among the population. In the reference year 1918, crucial in the accomplishment of the Great Union, adevărul was suspended by the German occupation command and in compensation was chosen the daily gazeta bucureştilor, opposed as ideology and political support. The object (the newspaper) and the subject of the research (the magazine) are bibliographic units that are preserved in archives and libraries, consisting in cultural goods with an important role in the national history and not only. The study of advertising for biblioteca copiilor şi a tinerimei magazine, in the press from the Great Union period, comes to confirm or invalidate the role that the magazine has in popularization of culture among the masses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Flyers make up a category of documents whose main characteristic makes them recognizable among the multitude and diverse documents within library collections namely, many of them are made up of a single page creating at a first glance the impression of a document of secondary importance, more so as many of them possess ephemeral information. With a variable collation, they may have a length from a few centimeters to entire meters (in the case of modern posters, pop-ups and other forms of giant posters, intended for fitting to buildings or on large surfaces), cut out in any geometric shape, without a specific thickness, printed on any flexible support, but with a requirement for an absolutely compulsory mobility. The paper aims to highlight the role of the flyers in the treatment of social, historical, artistic, literary, etc. circumstances in which the Romanian society has been surprised over time, but also to present the ways of highlighting this type of document through its processing. The study was conducted on the flyer collection, belonging to the special collection of the Romanian Academy Library (RAL), which contains an impressive number of such documents, diversified in structure, content and shape (over 360,000 bibliographic units, mostly unique copies). The study has followed and analyzed the route of the flyers, from their entrance into the RAL collections to the creation of a library collection devoted exclusively to this type of document, its development and the evolution over time to the present, when the aim is to harness and, at the same time, to preserve this special collection through the bibliographic description in a computerized system and its integral digitization. The paper contains an introductory part which outlines the general context of the evolution based on the knowledge of human society, its metamorphosis over time, by the succession of the various forms of communication, and also, it succinctly describes the evolutionary route of the first forms of presentation of ephemeral information, as it is presented in the media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is the summary of a PhD thesis aiming at contributing to the deepening knowledge of the research in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) in Romania, by making a radiography ofspecialized papers of all types published in the last 20 years (1994--2013) and by analyzing the content of the articles from three periodical scientific publications both from the point of view of the research theme and from the point of view of the research methods used. The Corpus -- LIS papers (monographs, periodicals, conference papers, projects) was selected by means of a bibliographic research carried out in the database of the National Library of Romania and by documenting other offline and online sources (thematic bibliographies, websites of libraries, professional associations, etc.), and the methods used were: bibliometrics - for analysis of monographs and periodicals, content analysis -- for analysis of articles from the three selected periodicals and synthesis -- for analysis of scientific and professional manifestations of projects and programs. The paper is an original work because it carries out the first attempt to make a radiography of the professional, scientific and research activity in library science in the past 20 years and also performs a content analysis of the articles contained in three periodical scientific publications in the field from the point of view of the topic approached and of the research methods used, the results obtained from the analysis being compared with those from other countries, presented in an IFLA Report published in 2003. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper I have tried to analyze the Romanian educational system from the perspective of intercultural education. I have started the study with presenting intercultural communication, which has an important role in developing intercultural education in Romanian schools, because with its help different exchanges between groups that belong to different cultures and additional meanings can be learnt. By presenting more definitions of culture I have managed to answer the question why people have so many problems in communicating with persons, which belong to different cultures. There arises the fear that the people, with whom you are interacting, can change your own system of beliefs, customs and elements that define them as a nation. The study continues with presentation of another concept, namely, intercultural education, with whose help you can mitigate conflicts, and violence in schools will disappear. In the same part I presented a series of activities that should be conducted at school, inter alia, realization of cultural projects, poetry recitals, debates on different cultural subjects etc. For developing the Romanian educational system and conducting intercultural activities, I have offered a series of intercultural activities proposed by the author of many specialized studies, Micheline Rey. In the last part of this study I have focused only on intercultural education in the Romanian educational system, on the way the Romanians manage to accept and to live with different minorities and, not the least, on the ways to help them to integrate into our culture. That is why I have chosen to present in the final part of the paper the cultural life of Turkish minorities from Dobrogea, which represents a positive example of integration and interaction between the Romanian and Turkish cultures [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper aims to bring to mind the personality of Antim Ivireanul and his involvement in the development of the Romanian culture. Its activity within the Church is evoked, as abbot of the Snagov Monastery, as bishop of Râmnic and as founder of churches: building of All Saints Monastery in Bucharest (1713-1715), later called the Antim Monastery for which he established a set of rules for proper functioning, the Antim Monastery Establishment representing the oldest regulation for organization and functioning of a holy place. Within the monastery, there was a school where children were taught for four years Romanian and Slavonic, two printers - Romanian and Greek and a library, the first public library in Wallachia for which Antim establishes loan rules. Also, throughout his life, Antim Ivireanul has printed 63 books, of which 21 in Romanian, four being written by him. In all his writings, Antim preaches the introduction of the Romanian language in the church by printing religious service books in Romanian and contributing to the creation of a Romanian liturgical language that continues to this day. His most important work, Didahiile, is a collection of sermons held on important holidays and Sundays over the year, written in a beautiful and cursive Romanian language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes how some of the most important libraries in Romania (The National Library of Romania, the Academy Library, the „Carol I� Central University Library in Bucharest, the „Lucian Blaga� Central University Library in Cluj, the „Eugen Todoran� Central University Library in Timisoara and the „Mihai Eminescu� Central University Library in Iași) and, for comparison, two major UK libraries (British Library and Oxford University Library) uses social media platforms. To perform this analysis are presented the library role in contemporary society, the impact of social media platforms in everyday life and how libraries can use social media tools to achieve their goals. Thus, libraries in the West have better understood that promoting online activity is one of the most effective ways to attract users, an example that should be followed by libraries in Romania, whereas the progress made by them through social networks is evidenced by the statistics attesting to the increase in the number of users. Developments in technology and the presence of the Internet in the Romanian libraries are an advantage these institutions should use more to achieve their goals and objectives being a fast and efficient means of communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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There is already a common place the affirmation that adolescence constitutes a crucial point for the human being in the process of development. The identity starts to take a certain shape; the youth becomes more aware in what concerns his relation with the world which is seen even at a cosmic level. It is the age which re-discovers the essential philosophical questions: Who am I? Where am I from? What is behind?... This behind is experienced by the adolescent on multiple planes, of which, he is seldom not aware. Depending on the cultural background which could be religious or laic, the developing personality searches for solutions, usually in philosophy or religion. In fact, is actually the same domain - the field of spirituality? The paper presents the results of a research in this field and takes up the topic of the spiritual cooperation between the psychological counselling and the philosophical one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we tried a reconstruction of the school librarian portrait from the Romanian space, based on some auto-characterizations because we considered relevant to know how the librarians think and feel that are perceived by their audience, especially by teachers and students, and if there are professional self-stereotypes different from those circulated internationally. To collect data on professional self-stereotypes we used the focus group method; we organized two focus groups attended by school librarians from Timis and Caras-Severin. The school librarian characterization is nuanced between "teacher without catalog" and "handyman", "guardian of collections" from a school. Positive attributions - sociable, innovative, adaptable to the actual information in a "knowledge society" based on new technologies for knowledge - correspond to the user, but besides this, the school librarians feelings are also ignored, marginalized in a school team. Behind these negative attributions can be hidden less visible forms of discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the typology of accessible document formats available at the moment, insisting particularly on their advantages and drawbacks. It has been demonstrated that the accessibility of information is a social requirement which is increasingly more demanded by the demographic growth of communities that can benefit from it. The wide variety of available access technologies make it possible to provide a positive response to this request. This article reflects aspect of the editorial market of documents in accessible formats taking into account the demand and supply for such documents, highlighting the family of the XML formats and certain tools used for their transformation, suitable for a multichannel publication. The DTBook format is detailes as part of DAISY primary system for the conversion of formats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Museum libraries are considered referencial departments in the institutions to which they belong. They were instituted in the nineteenth century, developed at the same time as the museums that created them and have especially flourished after 1900. Their history has been analyzed over time by the researchers of the field, and the results were included in various studies, scientific papers and treaties, relatively few in number. Originally created in museums from the United States, this type of library subsequently gained entry also in European countries. In Romania, one of the oldest, most valuable and most researched museum libraries is the one created by Baron Samuel von Brukenthal, managed today by the museum that bears his name. Less known and studied is the County Museum „Teohari Antonescu” library which holds outstanding bibliophile values. Its classic structure could become a modern one by applying innovative librarian principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims, on one hand, to investigate the informational structures that support education in Romania, in all forms of education (university education, pre-university education), in terms of information services and documentation products offered, and, on the other hand, to problematize and identify the essential issues concerning the support of the non-formal education within the educational process. This is a scientific approach that opens new research directions and provides useful proposals for the development of models and informational structures of the education system in Romania. Structured into two parts - Libraries and Information Services in public higher education in Romania and Libraries and Information Services in public pre-university education in Romania - includes the chapters: University Libraries, Central University Library and the School Library, The Information and Documentation Centre, Production and documentation services in the education system in Romania: A Case Study. The research on libraries in higher and pre-university education in Romania reveals some issues: lack of computerization of the informational structures in general, the lack of a single program of computerization, insufficient training of those engaged in storing and transmitting information, librarians and teachers; the existence of a ≪detached≫ attitude towards current problems of librarianship and policy-makers and school librarians resignation in the face of the phenomenon of information literacy; poor promotion of integrated libraries in the education system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The basic function of all types of libraries has been, over time, that of depository of culture for various human communities, thus supporting the evolution of humanity. The paper aims to analyze the library from three perspectives: as an institution, as an organization and as a field of knowledge. The field of librarianship and information science has existed for nearly 150 years. The specialists' acquaintance with knowledge and research worldwide is a prerequisite directly related to the quality of collections and services provided by the library organizations. The awareness of the information and documentation field as being a polyvalent, multidisciplinary one is the only approach valid in a world in which the essential changes that have occurred during the last fifty years can no longer be ignored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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