Realities and Trends in the Evolution of the Romanian Library Bibliography

• Main Author: Cristina Popescu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Bucharest 2006-01-01
• Series: Studii de Biblioteconomie şi Ştiinţa Informării
• Subjects: Bibliography; Romanian Literature; Bibliographical Databases
• Online Access: http://www.lisr.ro/en9-10-popescucr.pdf

The informational explosion, especially the one from the last decades, represented an incontestable challenge for the diversification of the possibilities to structure and to find the information, regardless of the interest field. In this context, it is extremely useful the corroboration of the traditional biographies, including those regarding Romanian literature, stored on paper - no matter how well done, but that can’t keep up with the requirements of the current information and documentation - with the bibliographic databases. From the succinct analysis of the old and new literary bibliographical phenomenon - mentioning the significant moments - it becomes obvious the dynamics of the “bibliography” concept, taking into account the variety of the informational store capacity and the diversity of the presentation form of the bibliographies. Thus, the conclusion is clear, that in the present it became necessary the fast access to the online data banks of the Romanian critics, theoreticians and literary historians, in this electronic era, constituted in an impressive diversity of bibliographical resources which contain also information specific to their activities.