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ABSTRACTS
EDITOR'S PREFACE
CULTURE, BOOKS, SOCIETY
DICTIONARIES - BACKGROUNDS
AND HORIZONS
Marian PAPAHAGI:
I dizionari letterari nella letterature Romena moderna (Dictionaries of
Modern Romanian Literature)
Ionut COSTEA:
The
History of a History: Coriolan Suciu and His Historical Dictionary of
Transylvanian Place-Names
Gyula DÁVID: The Lexicon of Hungarian Literature in Romania
Mircea ZACIU, Marian PAPAHAGI, Aurel SASU: Dictionary of the Romanian Writers
Alin Mihai GHERMAN: Encyclopaedic Elements in Teodor Corbea's Dictionary
Monica LAZAR: From Indexing to Special Thesauruses
Virgil CIOMOS: Sign and Symbol
László GÁL: Translation and Logical Sense in the Dictionary of Proverbs
Virgil DRAGHICI: The Presupposition of Truth and its Sense
Gyöngyi
ORBÁN: Hermeneutics and Literary Pedagogy
LIBRARIANSHIP: A CHANGING
PROFESSION IN A TRANSITIONAL SOCIETY
THE STATE OF THE PROFESSION
AND BIBLIOLOGIC EDUCATION
István
KIRÁLY, Adriana SZEKELY: A Study on the State of the Profession
of Librarians
with a University Degree in the "Lucian Blaga" Central University Library
Ionut COSTEA: Initial Training in Librarianship. The College in Cluj
Ana-Maria CAPÂLNEANU: Librarianship and Information Science Schools: A Point of View
Florina ILIS: To Be a Librarian? Past, Present and Future in the Profession
Viorica SÂNCRAIAN: Needs and Reality in Continuous Formation
Ioana ROBU: Of Libraries and Librarians
VARIA: THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF THE LIBRARY
Hajnal ILYÉS-BARTHA:
The Bindings of Works by Pelbartus de Themeswar and Osualdus de
Lasko in the Collections of the University Library, Cluj
Meda Diana BÂRCA: Ioan Bob's Dictionary
MISCELLANEOUS
Zoe BUZ:
Modernisation of the Transfer of Information at the Biology-Geology-Geography
Section of the "Lucian Blaga" Central University Library
Marcela GROZA:
The Modernisation of Bibliographical Information in the Field of Computer
Science
Ilona GURKA-BALLA: Who Needs Bibliographies?
Lucia TURC: The Historical Bibliography of Transylvania, 1936-1944
Irina PETRAS: The Analytic Dictionary of Romanian Literary Works
Emese GÁSPÁR: Kellék and Kelléklet. A Hungarian Journal of Philosophy in Cluj
Judith SIMON: Heritage and Mission. The First Publication of the EMKE Librarian Department
Monica MOLDOVAN:
The Periodical Acribia at the publication of its second number
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I DIZIONARI LETTERARI NELLA
LETTERATURA ROMENA MODERNA
(DICTIONARIES OF MODERN ROMANIAN
LITERATURE)
Marian Papahagi
The study offers an erudite
presentation of dictionaries and encyclopaedias of the Romanian
culture, the institutional context in which they were born and their relation
to the formation of Romanian literary criticism and theory. Works dedicated
to the literary production of certain geographical regions are also registered.
Literary dictionaries, products
of Romanian culture which deal with other literatures (English, French,
Italian, American, etc.) are included too.
The emphasis is placed on
the presentation of the concept of the Dictionary of the Romanian Writers,
a fundamental work the File of which can be read in this number of Philobiblon.
THE HISTORY OF A HISTORY: CORIOLAN
SUCIU AND HIS HISTORICAL DICTIONARY
OF TRANSYLVANIAN PLACE-NAMES
Ionut Costea
The study presents the evolution
of a work in the concourse of events of the epoch, a work which had completely
been validated in the landscape of Romanian culture. Starting from the
correspondence of the historian Coriolan Suciu, which can be found in the
collections of the "Lucian Blaga" Central University Library, we can reconstruct
the endeavours of the researcher to see the work of his life printed.
The investigation of the
Dictionary allows us to include this type of preoccupation in the intellectual
climate of Central Europe on account of the effort of creating fundamental
instruments for the work of the researcher.
Finally, the study throws
light on the person of a Transylvanian intellectual, a researcher in the
field of history in the interwar period.
THE LEXICON OF HUNGARIAN LITERATURE
IN ROMANIA
Gyula Dávid
On account of the history
of its publication and its conception, the lexicon mirrors the minority
status of Hungarians in Romania. Without being separated from general Hungarian
culture, Hungarian culture in Romania after 1918 articulated its own characteristics
in function of the fluctuation of historical circumstances.
The study analyses ideological
as well as historical political impediments and censure which delayed the
publication of each volume. The conceptual basis of the lexicon is also
presented: the dictionary deals with a minority culture and therefore its
conception goes beyond the strict meaning of "literature", encompassing
the whole of Hungarian writing in Romania. The completion of the lexicon
is still in progress.
DICTIONARY OF THE ROMANIAN WRITERS
Mircea Zaciu, Marian Papahagi,
Aurel Sasu
For the sake of readers who
are not familiar with the "system" of publications under the communist
regime of Ceausescu, a manuscript had to pass through many unexpected obstacles.
Sometimes already published volumes were withdrawn in the last minute.
The "file" presented here throws light on the fight against the absurdity
of cultural policy, containing the "addresses" and "applications" of some
intellectuals who were responsible for their literature and culture and
who struggled in vain until the disappearance of communism to publish their
Dictionary. The documents are a real "guide" to the functioning of this
system in the field of culture.
ENCYCLOPAEDIC ELEMENTS IN TEODOR
CORBEA'S DICTIONARY
Alin Mihai Gherman
Contrary to the general opinion
that the first Romanian encyclopaedic works was written in the middle
of the 19th century, this study claims that there were earlier lexicographic
works with important encyclopaedic features. This assertion is based on
research done in the manuscript collection of the Romanian Academy Library,
namely the Cluj branch.
Teodor Corbea's Latin-Romanian
dictionary is a work which goes beyond lexical equivalences. It contains
entries which are preponderently encyclopaedic. The dictionary dates from
the end of the 17th century; its author has a Renaissance cultural horizon.
FROM INDEXING TO SPECIALISED
THESAURUSES
Monica Lazar
Compiling special thesauruses
marks a superior stage in indexing; it is the first step towards a modern
national polythematic thesaurus. Given the great interest in business,
and the need for the formulation of specific subject-headings in Romanian,
we suggest the compiling of a business thesaurus.
This will be built by nine
semantic fields; within these fields, subject-headings will be grouped
in the function of their semantic priority, such as business activity,
business techniques, financial activity, financial techniques, economic
activity, economic techniques, law, book-keeping, taxation. The field of
business and the adjoining fields will be intersected by two facets according
to the forms of inquiry of the database: 1- activity (descriptive aspects);
2 - techniques (normative aspects).
SIGN AND SYMBOL
Virgil Ciomos
The meaning of culture coincides
with the meaning of writing and writing refers to reading. Both of them
are "battles" against forgetting. We win the battle against forgetting
only if we can see, with the help of signs and symbols the possibility
which has once been "attained" but is now threatened by oblivion. This
is a "possibility of life" which is stored in books as a possibility of
memory and of continuation through new "readings" and "writings" of the
same symbolic book.
TRANSLATION AND LOGICAL SENSE
IN THE DICTIONARY OF PROVERBS
Gál László
The study answers a number
of issues: 1.How can we define logical sense and meaning? 2. What is the
social status of proverbs as forms of theorising which belong to the traditional
quotidian? 3. How can the language of the logic of propositions be used
in the analysis of the logical structure of proverbs? 4. Do the logical
operators of proverbs in different languages have different social distributions?
5. Does the logical sense of proverbs change in case of translation? 6.
Is the logic of proverbs bivalent or polivalent?
The author tries to answer
these questions applying the language of the logic of propositions to the
natural language of objects. The result is the symbolic form of 1287 proverbs
in Romanian and Hungarian. The statistic processing of these symbolic forms
allows for an original comparative analysis.
THE PRESUPPOSITION OF TRUTH
AND ITS SENSE
Virgil Drãghici
This paper intends to reason
for the thesis of co-originality of truths (apophantic and hermeneutic
truth) by deconstructing two prejudices: the logical one, according to
which the enunciation is the "place" of truth and the phenomenological
one, which says that the original truth is non-declarative.
The investigation of the
co-presence of these two becomes possible by the introduction of the concept
of truth as presupposition. As it has the nature of presupposition, it
gains the nature of foundation. The presupposition of truth is not contained
in language and therefore not to be found there; neither is it independent
of language since it is, as pre-supposition, the condition of its possibility
and endowment with sense. Therefore it makes explicit the phenomeno-logical
structure of the Dasein and the necessity of rethinking the sense of understanding
in terms of the co-originality of truths.
HERMENEUTICS AND LITERARY PEDAGOGY
Gyöngyi Orbán
The signs of the cultural
crisis of our age can be seen in education and in literature teaching as
well. It has become an urgent task of schools to devise a new, modern ideal
of knowledge and the teaching of literature must propagate a view of literature
which gives back literature its nature of enjoyable work of art and restores
the pleasure of reading, joy in aesthetic experience. A specific "section"
of aesthetic and pedagogic hermeneutics is suitable for the completion
of this task.
This study presents the conceptional
background of a hermeneutic literature textbook (Gyöngyi Orbán,
Comrehensive Understanding of Literature) which, considering the cultural
state of our age and the problems of education and literature teaching
a hermeneutic situation , tries to complete the tasks mentioned above.
The study raises the following questions:
How does the function of
a hermeneutic textbook change as compared to traditional textbooks? How
does the hermeneutic conception work in this textbook? What does it mean
to "have a dialogue" with works instead of traditional analysis? What is
the language of conversation with works? How does the function of asking,
answering and that of conceptual language change? What is the main difference
between traditional teaching of literature and literature teaching which
promotes the principle of hermeneutic historicity? Is the chronologic order
important in teaching literature? Do we need the "world literature context"
in teaching Hungarian literature? What is "world literature background"
in a hermeneutic sense? What is the role of "attendant arts parallels"?
Why does the textbook promoting a hermeneutic view not undertake the so-called
"complex aesthetic education" and what does it suggest instead?
A STUDY OF THE STATE OF THE
PROFESSION OF LIBRARIANS WITH A UNIVERSITY DEGREE IN THE "LUCIAN BLAGA"
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
István Király,
Adriana Szekely
This investigation is the
first of this nature published in Romania and aims at a social analysis
of the state of the librarianship profession. Romania was one of the few
European countries where there was no higher education for librarians for
decades. The effects of this situation can be felt today in the level of
professionalism, the mentality of librarians as well as the structure of
librarianship institutions. The study was based on the attached questionnaire
and identifies incoherences in formation, motivation, mentality and functioning.
Its purpose is to make us conscious of them and to obtain data necessary
for the management to diminish them.
INITIAL TRAINING IN LIBRARIANSHIP.
THE COLLEGE IN CLUJ
Ionut Costea
The study presents the legislative
vacuum and the lack of understanding of librarianship which determines
the "masked" development of the profession or its change into a "second-hand"
profession left to the mercy of philologists and historians, as an auxiliary
activity.
Recently the great social
impact of librarianship was not based on a real openness of society towards
this profession but rather on its functioning as a "social valve" for integrating
high school graduates.
The teaching staff, especially
those who teach special subjects, stress practical activities excessively,
unable to place themselves in a formative, operational theoretic horizon.
The "appetite" for inconclusive, non-performant scientific research which
is otherwise in connection with the low level of Romanian librarianship
periodicals of the last years, is a relevant example in this respect. Underlining
the acquiring of certain working methods, education became imitative, depriving
students from the possibility of initiative and professional motivation.
LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION
SCIENCE SCHOOLS: A POINT OF VIEW
Ana-Maria Capâlneanu
Starting from the recognition
of the need of an academic-level librarianship and information science
education, the aim is to draw a parallel between the educational process
in the West and Romania.
The evolution of this field
determines the development of new professional skills. These are reference
points in organising the analytical programs and planning the lines of
instruction within the modern librarianship school.
Rebuilding the official framework
of Romanian librarianship education raises considerable difficulties. While
Western librarianship schools offer various fundamental and optional courses,
the curricula of Romanian schools is yet restrained and not sufficiently
nuanced.
Specialisation on a postgraduate
level would be extremely important as it would ensure the training of specialists
who could teach at librarianship colleges.
Interactive teaching methods
extensively used in Western universities should be introduced in Romanian
librarianship education too, all the more so as the development of creativity
and a real teacher-student communication are still missing.
TO BE A LIBRARIAN? PAST, PRESENT
AND FUTURE IN THE PROFESSION
Florina Ilis
From the perspective of the
history of culture the profession of librarian is part of a natural process
of strengthening its own determinations. This study proposes a diachronic
vision on the profession of librarian, however, it does not neglect the
mode in which the necessary evolution of this profession influences directly
its present mental structures leading to a permanent re-evaluation of its
own characteristics depending on the orientations of an information-consuming
civilisation. From this perspective, the profession of librarian needs
today an adequate position within the informational universe, through the
permanent reference to user’s needs.
NEEDS AND REALITY IN CONTINUOUS
FORMATION
Viorica Sâncraian
The article was born from
reflections on librarianship: formation, profession and professional identity.
The state of the librarian profession in Romanian libraries asks for the
setting up of continuous formation. Librarians, mediators between information
and individuals, must undergo essential formation in order to surpass the
technicalities of the profession. Showing the specific situation in Romania
where solid initial formation has not been a criterion for becoming a librarian,
we think that it is even more important that continuous formation should
be conceived in a professional and performant and also unitary way,
adapted nevertheless to local needs and specificities. The study presents
the causes which hinder this process and suggest possible solutions.
OF LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS: THOUGHTS
FROM AN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Ioana Robu
A four-month scholarship in
the US was the starting point of reflections on the state of profession
and mentality of librarians in Romania and the US. Besides pointing out
the differences in technical equipment and opportunities, the author shows
the differences in professional orientation as well as the social and academic
status of librarians in these two countries. The article focuses on medical
libraries. Subjective impressions gradually give way to the identification
of burning issues in these libraries.