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Editorial. International conference "From the book pandemic to
bibliography".
- Authors: Andre Vieira de Freitas Araujo, Giulia Crippa, Fiammetta Sabba, Gustavo Saldanha
  Pages: 1 - 14
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14100
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
Models and forms of bibliographical thinking: in search of a point of view
to interpret complexity
- Authors: Maurizio Vivarelli
  Pages: 15 - 46
  Abstract: The paradigmatic transformations, rapid and in continuous acceleration, of the organization and communication of knowledge in contemporary reality make it necessary to reflect on the principles on which models and methods of the bibliographic tradition are based. This paper examines these topics: a) the elementary entities that constitute the “objects” of the representation of knowledge, from “books” to “data”; b) the description of some of the essential characteristics of the models of representation of these “objects”; c) the ways in which the perception of representations is carried out and communicated, through the recordings, giving rise to the different interfaces of bibliographic mediation, in the classic frame of the Bibliographic universe; d) the relational and holistic nature that characterizes the empirical phenomena referred to knowledge of objects, bibliographic and extra-bibliographic; e) the model profile of a possible Bibliographic multiverse; e) the general lines of a “point of view” with which to hypothesize the integration, following Michel Foucault, of “words” and “things”.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14047
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
Bibliographical principles in Brazilian degree courses in Library
Sciences: an analysis of the epistemological curricular specificity
- Authors: Cristina Dotta Ortega
  Pages: 47 - 93
  Abstract: The field of documentary mediation actions in a bibliographic approach deals with referencing and disseminating knowledge through systems, products and services that promote the qualified use of information by an audience, aiming at its appropriation. The Bibliography course presents concepts and operations that form the fundamental basis of the described field. These fundamental bibliographic aspects – or bibliographic principles – constitute the
  structuring axis of curricular proposals aimed at professional formation and research. Despite the fact that bibliographic principles constitute the structuring axis of Librarianship courses, we question whether these principles are currently sufficient and properly present in the curricular proposals of these courses in Brazil. Thus, the objective of the research is to characterize the presence of bibliographic principles in Brazilian Librarianship education, through the analysis of undergraduate programs, verifying whether these programs provide epistemological specificity concerning the social function of information appropriation by an audience. Initially, a scheme of bibliographic principles and the processes and products that derive from them is presented, which allows to guide and underpin the study; then, an empirical analysis is carried out with the proposition of categories, selection of undergraduate Librarianship coursesand teaching programs, analysis and discussion. The analysis of curricular proposals indicates that bibliographic principles were not abandoned, but there was a partial erasure, often leading to a loss of focus and specificity. It is necessary to invest in curricular proposals whose epistemological specificity is easily identified and aimed at educating for the social function of the field that deals with documentary mediation actions in a bibliographical approach.
  
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14067
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
Bibliography and the information society
- Authors: Andrea Capaccioni
  Pages: 94 - 112
  Abstract: The paper offers reflection on the contribution that bibliography can offer to the information society. In recent decades, the role of information has become decisive not only as regards the cultural but also economic aspects of society. With the spread of the Internet, a general rethinking of information organization became indispensable. In this new scenario, the bibliography can play an important role in the context of recorded communication.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14050
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
A Brazilian bibliographical policy' The historical and political
course of the national bibliography in Brazil
- Authors: Carlos Henrique Juvêncio
  Pages: 113 - 137
  Abstract: It aims to understand the initiatives for the construction of Brazilian national bibliographies under the prism of political bias. From the historical context, we will seek to show how much the national bibliography is linked to the rise and strengthening of government and information regimes. It covers four periods of Brazilian history - Proclamation of the Republic (1889), Vargas Era (1930-1945), military dictatorship (1964-1985) and democratic reopening (1985-) - observing how they reverberate in distinct bibliographic policies that fostered accelerated construction or erasure of the Brazilian national bibliography, as well as the institutions involved in its construction. Uses as theoretical framework Fonseca (1972), Maeda (2016) and Juvêncio (2016) seeking to delimit the history and trajectory of the construction of national bibliographies in Brazil, in addition to González de Gómez (2002, 2012, 2015) and Braman (2004) to elucidate what an information regime is. As a method, it uses a bibliographic-documental research, based on primary sources on the subject. It concludes that the efforts undertaken in the construction of bibliographies over the last 100 years in Brazil derive from the action of different informational regimes. Whether with the emergence or decline of institutions, as well as the greater or lesser attention given to the elaboration of the repository of national intellectual production, he realizes that there is a bibliographic political gesture, even if undeclared, that populates the efforts to elaborate a national bibliography.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14068
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
Proposal for a new methodological approach to the study of 20th century
Bibliography
- Authors: Carlo Bianchini, Fiammetta Sabba, Lucia Sardo
  Pages: 138 - 151
  Abstract: The constant technological revolution that we have been witnessing for decades has affected all forms of communication and, consequently, has also involved the ‘recorded communication’ that pertains to bibliographic thought and action. Since the end of the nineteenth century and especially since the first decades of the twentieth century, this has led to a process of change in the structure of all scientific disciplines, including Bibliography. This process has had two fundamental consequences for bibliography: on the one hand, it has meant that bibliography as a meta-discipline is endowed with new instruments of investigation; on the other, it changed the disciplinary scope of bibliography itself, to the point where it has found itself specialised in a number of other derived disciplines. The need to clarify what happened is particularly felt in Italy, where even in the last century the documentary and bibliographical disciplines had an important development and debate, but it is also widely felt in the rest of the European context and beyond, as demonstrated by recent occasions of international scientific and conference comparison and as highlighted by some of the recent Italian studies of Bibliography and Information Sciences. In this contribution we discuss a methodological hypothesis to investigate the problem. In particular, it is argued that the solution to the problem is to be searched in a new methodological approach that includes both a qualitative survey of the main sources of the discipline in the Italian context – i.e., the traditional survey method of Bibliography – and a quantitative investigation necessarily conducted with the decisive help of the application of Linked Data technology to the most recent production of the discipline. The twofold approach would allow to give a concrete start to this disciplinary arrangement, reconstructing the most recent process of metamorphosis, identifying the junctions and the forms (methodologies, tools, and objectives) both in diachronic and synchronic terms.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14051
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
Bibliography, female noun: Jules Gay and Desirée Veret
- Authors: Lorenzo Baldacchini
  Pages: 152 - 163
  Abstract: In 1861 an important bibliography dedicated to love, women and marriage was published in Paris, under the pseudonym M. le C. d’I***. The author (and publisher) was Jules Gay. He was 54 years old and had had both important political and editorial experiences. In particular, with the agreement with socialism and the ideas of Robert Owen, he propagated the principles of social and sexual equality. The influence exerted on him and his numerous publications on women by his wife Désirée Veret, a proletarian seamstress, feminist militant, but also a woman with passionate loves, was very profound. But we must not think of her as some kind of Gay muse. Rather, she was the intermediary of a special relationship between bibliography and history.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14052
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
A woman among men: Christine de Pizan's bibliographical gesture in
The City of Dames
- Authors: Mell Siciliano, Fernanda Valle, Amanda Salomão
  Pages: 164 - 195
  Abstract: This paper is a theoretical and exploratory research on the concepts of bibliography and bibliographic gesture, in relation to the book The Book of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan (1363-1431 AD). In this work, the Italian author based in France, disputes the widely revered and referencedpatriarchal bibliography, by selecting 150 female personalities who stood out in various fields of knowledge, by means of a logical argument as well as a memorial to female reputation. The discussion hereby presented is supported by the literature review performed by Eduardo Alentejo (2015) - to whom bibliography is understood both as a material and intellectual product, under the notion of repertoire, lists or subject descriptions, always guided by general policies and individual choices of bibliographers, thus related to selection, and clipping – and by the notion of bibliographic gesture, as defined by Giulia Crippa (2015, 2016). Other authors like André Araújo (2015), Viviane Couzinet and Patrick Fraysse (2019) are useful to better understand the concept of bibliography; and, to contextualize Christine de Pizan in her time, Rosalind Brown-Grant (1999), Patrizia Caraffi (2003, 2004), Diana Arauz Mercado (2005), Tracy Adams Rechtschaffen (2010), Ana Rieger Schmidt (2020a, 2020b) and Jacques Le Goff (2006). The Book of the City of Ladies was read in two versions: one translated to English (1999) and other to Portuguese (2012), both developed from the original text in Old French. The results show that, given the different existing notions of bibliography and the historical limitations imposed on women, the efforts undertaken by Pizan in this book, although apparently lacking the theoretical-conceptual delimitation of what is understood as bibliography nowadays, result in a remarkable repertoire of references, that deserve to be observed through the lens of bibliography and Knowledge Organization and considered by the field as a bibliographic gesture.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14069
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
The Bibliographical technical school (1886-1889): a 'missed'
opportunity
- Authors: Rosa Parlavecchia
  Pages: 196 - 218
  Abstract: The paper aims to analyze the regulations and the program of studies envisaged by the Scuola tecnica bibliografica – a two-year technical course established in 1886 to be given at the central national libraries of Rome and Florence – in order to outline the strategies that the Ministry of Public Education intended to implement in the field for the professional training of librarians. The unpublished correspondence accompanying these official documents between the Minister of Public Education Michele Coppino, Desiderio Chilovi and Domenico Gnoli is examined, in order to shed light on the complex events that led to perennial postponements of the inauguration of the new course up to to arrive at an inevitable and sad ending: its ‘failure’ to start.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14054
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
Other books, other handwritings: indigenous reports
- Authors: Vinícios Souza de Menezes
  Pages: 219 - 254
  Abstract: It approaches in an unconventional way other books and other spellings present in the indigenous ways of writing, materializing and narrating their stories. The concepts of book and spelling are interpreted broadly. Activating a diversity of indigenous reports and exposing, through different thoughts, other possibilities of imagining them. Accepting the assumption that there are no unwritten cultures and that formulations about ‘illiterate societies’ are colonizing effects of an ethnocentric thought, the crossing proposed by this text is to attend, as far as possible, these other bibliographies crossed out and censored by the traditional book and by the universal spelling of Western peoples as primitive expressions. Decolonizing our bibliographic thinking is the horizon targeted by this research. Listening to the stories of the indigenous people is an endbeggining, devouring the end for the beginning. The end of the book is the cessation of its absolute, finished and universal condition. The end of the unique and western book is the beginning of the scriptural opening and its material plasticities. The strength of the concept of the book expressed in the semiophagy of the bookOunce, proposed from a differOunce (différonce), is a way of dreaming in the Amerindian way a new and, simultaneously, an old beginning: the open possibility of the book once more as a sign of freedom of self-determination from the multiple meanings of different peoples. This text brings a report of the cultivated jungle of Abya Yala – the Living Earth. Perhaps this is an endbeggining to the disconcerting otherness of the bibliographic messages that we insist on forgetting.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14070
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
From bibliography to book history... and vice versa! (with the case of a
fake "fake")
- Authors: Edoardo Barbieri
  Pages: 255 - 270
  Abstract: We are witnessing a dangerous departure from the history of the book towards sociology, of the bibliography towards the information sciences. Instead, the two disciplines must reclaim their identity. How can they do it' Reconnecting, each in its own way, to the materiality of the book. Intellectual production, in fact, is expressed through the creation of articulated objects (books) which, on paper or through bits (sometimes both together), themselves dictate the conditions for their access.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14056
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
Searching for Conrad Gesner in the Brazilian tropics: the documentary
presence of Gesner bibliographical works in heritage libraries
- Authors: Andre Vieira de Freitas Araujo, Diná Marques Pereira Araújo
  Pages: 271 - 326
  Abstract: The paper offers a historical-bibliographical discussion of the copies of Bibliotheca Universalis (1545), Pandectae (1548) and Bibliotheca instituta et collecta (1574), by Conrad Gesner (1516-1565), present in two Brazilian heritage libraries: the Library of Saint Benedict’s Monastery of São Paulo (BMSBSP) and the National Library of Brazil (BN), in Rio de Janeiro. The contextualization and characterization of the copies are based on the following theoretical-methodological course: 1) presentation of the Gesnerian bibliographical studies in Brazil; 2) considerations on the presence of the Gesnerian editions in libraries; 3) historical comments on BMSBSP and BN; 4) historical notes and analysis of the copies of Bibliotheca Universalis (1545), Pandectae (1548) and Bibliotheca instituta et collecta (1574) safeguarded in BMSBSP and BN, highlighting their extrinsic and intrinsic aspects from their analytical bibliographical description. The copies of BMSBSP and BN have values that are expressed in two keys: 1) “universal” historical-cultural value, linked to the role of these works in bibliographical studies and in Gesnerian Studies; 2) “local” historical-cultural value, linked to the institutional context, modality and motivations of acquisition, preservation, mediation, use, control, circulation and appropriation of the copies. In the landscape of the two heritage libraries highlighted here, the Gesnerian universality - although it can be reviewed, relativized, and even tensioned in the context of the tropics - constitutes a geographical and conceptual space that includes not only the Old World, but also the New World. Indeed, the Gesnerian bibliographical works trace an intriguing and passionate historical-bibliographical thread between the 16th century polymath and the Bibliography of the Brazilian tropics.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14071
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
Bibliography and memory: Filippo Gesualdo's Eighteenth Lecture and
Conrad Gesner's Pandectae
- Authors: Diego Baldi
  Pages: 327 - 361
  Abstract: In Filippo Gesualdo’s work on mnemonics titled Plutosofia, which appeared in 1592, there is a chapter dedicated to the Library of Memory. In this chapter Gesualdo gives an explanation about the techniques to build up a mnemonic library. According to Gesualdo’s advice, it is possible to organize the mind just like a library, where every book could find its own proper place. The library structure would be organized by some loci, as a building, a space, a room and so on. The analysis of this kind of ordering system reveals some significant analogies with the bibliographic system used by Conrad Gesner to organize his Pandectae. A comparison between the two works highlights how both of the systems could lead to draw a mental map of the human knowledge and it shed a light on the genesis of the Gesner’s Pandectae.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14066
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
«To bring light to the pious reader»: references to information sources
and transmission of knowledge in the artistic recipe book by João Stooter
(1729-1732)
- Authors: René Lommez Gomes
  Pages: 362 - 422
  Abstract: Born in Antwerp and living in Portugal, the diamond cutter João Stooter acquired some prominence in the 18th century when he produced an armory manual and an artistic recipe book. His works were intended to improve the quality of the products created by the Kingdom’s mechanical officers and artists, making them rival foreign products. Regarding his second work, an artistic how-to-do book entitled «Arte de Brilhantes Vernises», the author
  found himself moved to write on a wide range of subjects – such as varnishes, paints, and glues – relating to the artisanal transformation of raw materials that the overseas trade dumped on the Portuguese market, such as wood from Brazil and Africa. At the dawn of Portuguese Illustration, Stooter gathered,
  tested and corrected recipes for varnishes and other artistic compounds obtained from a wide range of information sources, above all in various genres of printed books. With the result of the experiments conducted in his studio, which aimed at testing, correcting and standardizing the preparations and techniques, he composed the first recipe book of its kind to be printed in Portuguese. The work was edited by the Verdussen house, in Antwerp, between
  1729 and 1732. Several copies of it were later enhanced with handwritten notes by the author. In printed and manuscript texts – which were born from
  his bibliographic gesture, when selecting, compiling and mediating previous records – the author developed a complex system of internal references to the contents of the book and to works taken as a source, which required the technical gesture of the artisan if added to the indicated reading path, so that a preparation could be carried out satisfactorily. Based on the proposition that the field of bibliography encompasses the history of production and uses of books, this study will demonstrate how the references defined this recipe book model, placing itself at the center of the transmission of artisanal knowledge advocated in the work.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14072
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
The Art of Bibliography in Brazil: analysis of production in some
scientific journals (2014-2020)
- Authors: Giulia Crippa, Ieda Pelógia Martins Damian
  Pages: 423 - 464
  Abstract: “The Art of Bibliography” is an international seminar that, since 2014, takes place every year. The papers presented in this seminar are, from 2015, published in journals with relevance in the area of Information Science. From these papers, the objective of this work is to study the theoretical conceptions and the concrete activities related to the domain of Bibliography in Brazil. The quali-quantitative study analyzes the production on the theme to evidence the evolution of the concept of bibliography present in the scientific productionthat relates Brazil to other countries, highlighting the conceptions and activities developed by researchers. Specifically, the research seeks to identify the elements that draw the domain, through the production on the theme “Bibliography”. In view of the above, this is a study of descriptive nature, since it analyzes the content of the articles, from categories of analysis and information raised in the scientific production considered. From the selected production on the theme, it was possible to verify that the theoretical epistemological, techno-methodological and sociopolitical dimensions are present, built as categories during the content analysis.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14073
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
Bibliography out of the wardrobe: what does Brazilian information science
reveals about issues of gender and sexual dissidence'
- Authors: Bruno Almeida dos Santos, Nathália Lima Romeiro
  Pages: 465 - 497
  Abstract: Objective: Elaboration of a bibliographic repertoire on gender issues and sexual dissidences in Brazilian Information Science from 1972 to 2021.
  Method: The research is qualitative, exploratory and bibliographical in nature, in which we surveyed and organized a bibliographic repertoire of scientific articles, scientific communications, theses, dissertations and books on gender issues and sexual dissidences in the field of Information Science.
  Result: The results shows the construction of a bibliographic repertoire with a total of 128 bibliographic sources, with 107 representing articles and periodical communications, 18 theses and dissertations and 3 books.
  Conclusion: We believe that studies like this are important to give visibility to gender issues and sexual dissent, which are so marginalized in our social environment.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14074
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
The book in the prison system in the state of Espírito Santo: social
device in the pandemic
- Authors: Adriana Isidório da Silva Zamite, Maira Cristina Grigoleto
  Pages: 498 - 525
  Abstract: This study the relevance of books in the prisional system of the State of the Espirito Santo and its possibilities of use in the period of the pandemic of the Covid-19 argues, either for the general aspects or the clipping established in the units of closed regime during the year of 2020. The general objective is to recognize books as social devices in this environment. The specific objectives aim at: to approach them as source for transposition of the reality of the jail; to discourse on the potentialities and limits of its uses in periods of sanitaryrestrictions in the Espirito Santo; e to argue on the importance of the book for the convicts during the pandemic. The justification resides in its social coverage for the visibility of the book as social device and right of the convicts in regular periods of restrictions during the pandemic. It`s about a qualitative and exploratory research, with use of the procedures of bibliographical research, documentary of field. In the first stage it was carried through official survey of bibliographical materials (theses, dissertation, scientific articles) and documents (laws, recommendations, techinical guidelines) for the treatment and deepening in the subject and better knowledge of the universe of the research. For the field research, interview directed to the Sub-Manegement of Education in Prisons with the intention to collect data on uses of the libraries and services of book loans during the pandemic. The results indicate that, for the application of legal regulations, relatives to the uses of books in benefit of the convicts, is necessary the understanding of its potentialities as social device in different conjunctures. The conclusions guarantee the agreement of book-device must be pandemic in the prisional system, that is, must be spread in fast and wide scale, allowing the access to different knowledge in custody of institutions that control collection and subjects.
  PubDate: 2021-12-21
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/14075
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 2 (2021)
Culture vs. operative intelligence
- Authors: Alfredo Serrai
  Pages: 1 - 10
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13064
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
The library of Alexandria and the fire that did not destroy it. I: Modern
reflections up to Justus Lipsius
- Authors: Luca Tiberi
  Pages: 4 - 100
  Abstract: This paper (first of two parts) aims to gather the most important testimonies of modern age authors regarding the Library of Alexandria, so that can be observed how the fire in 47 b.C. is considered. The increasing knowledge of the classical texts improves gradually the historical reconstruction of the event and poses new questions. Some variae lectiones from greek and roman authors are also discussed in order to draw more accurate conclusions. Particularly is examined the probable source of the Isidorus’ strange number (70.000) in Or. VI, 3, 5, concerning the amount of books destroyed by the fire.
  PubDate: 2021-02-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/11818
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
A rare illuminated normative codex from the Florentine Renaissance: the
1472 Statute of the Confraternity of Santa Maria Assunta in San Pier
Gattolino
- Authors: Francesco Salvestrini
  Pages: 11 - 45
  Abstract: The paper analyses the content of the so far unknown Florentine confraternal statute of the lay company of Santa Maria Assunta in San Pier Gattolino. It traces the history of this church and the brotherhood that produced the statute book in the 15th century, and explains the relationship between text and illuminated images. The report highlights that both the rules and the pictures formed part of an integrated message contributing to the practical application of the laws and increasing the symbolic value of them.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13066
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
A new attribution to the Maestro dei Putti: an illuminated book of the
Attic Nights by Aulo Gellio (Venice, Nicolas Jenson, 1472)
- Authors: Simona Inserra
  Pages: 46 - 69
  Abstract: The paper presents the discoveries about a Venetian incunable studied during the cataloguing activities of incunables at the Regional Library in Catania (2018-2021). The aim of the paper is to inform the academic community about the crediting of the illuminations to the Maestro dei Putti; this results from a collaboration with Lilian Armstrong, professor of Art at Wellesley College, MA and specialist on Venetian Renaissance Book Illumination. This identification enriches the census of incunables with another copy, illuminated by the artist who was active between Venice and Padua in the 70s of XV century.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13067
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
«Piccola, ma sufficiente per li miei studi»: the library of Cardinal
Roberto Bellarmino. First investigations and census of annotated books
- Authors: Lorenzo Mancini
  Pages: 70 - 174
  Abstract: The article presents the first results of a research about the library of the Jesuit Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino (1542-1621). The starting point are some unpublished works dedicated to this topic compiled by two Jesuit scholars in the first half of ‘ 900: François Xavier Le Bachelet and Sebastian Tromp. In particular, Tromp’s work had concerned the identification of the editions cited in the library inventory, without however proceeding with the identification of the items actually belonging to the cardinal, today mainly preserved at the National Central Library of Rome and the Historical Archive of the Pontifical Gregorian University. In addition to providing a first analysis of the composition of the Bellarminian collection, the article examines the events related to
  its conservation at the Roman College, to which Bellarmino donated it after his death and where on several occasions it was subject to spoliations – even if today it is difficult to evaluate their extent. These episodes testify to the problematic intellectual legacy left by Bellarmino and how it influenced not only
  his long process of canonization (which lasted three centuries) but also the conservation of his books. In the appendix, the inventory of the library is published for the first time, as well as a catalog of 122 books with the provenance note of the Bellarmine’s private collection and, in several cases, containing his autograph annotations.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13068
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Establishing an «Orientalium linguarum Bibliotheca» in 17th-century
Vienna: Sebastian Tengnagel and the trajectories of his manuscripts
- Authors: Hülya Çelik, Chiara Petrolini
  Pages: 175 - 231
  Abstract: Sebastian Tengnagel was the court librarian of the Imperial Library in Vienna from 1608 until his death in 1636. At the same time, he was an active member of the Republic of Arabic Letters, the circle of European scholars devoted to acquiring and disseminating knowledge of the Orient in early modern Europe. The Austrian National Library holds two groups of texts that can help us understand the complexity of his intellectual endeavours: the corpus of manuscript letters describing his work as an Orientalist and as a librarian, and the collection of Oriental manuscripts built up by Tengnagel. The two sources must be studied together, because each sheds light on the other. Only by interlinking them can we attempt to answer the crucial questions: how and why, in early 17th-century Vienna, did one become an Orientalist' What were the ‘tools of the trade’' This paper is a survey of this material, based upon the interdisciplinary project The Oriental Outpost of the Republic of Letters. Sebastian Tengnagel (d. 1636), the Imperial Library in Vienna, and Knowledge of the Orient carried out at the University of Vienna at the Department of Near East Studies and the Institute for Austrian Historical Research. Through specific case studies it shows how it is possible to reconstruct both the provenance and trajectories of certain books, and the stories of those who carried or studied them.
  PubDate: 2021-07-02
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13081
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
«What began as a hobby became a consuming quest»: American bibliophile
William Lawrence Clements and his collection of incunabula
- Authors: Debora M. Di Pietro
  Pages: 232 - 272
  Abstract: This paper aims to describe the activity of the bibliophile William Lawrence Clements, an American industrial businessman and one of the greatest
  collectors of the 20th century. During the golden age of American book collecting, William Clements managed to set up an outstanding book collection
  specialized in Americana, never seen before in the Midwest of the United States. Through the study of the William L. Clements Library’s incunabula collection, it is possible to reconstruct the history of the individual copies and the cultural environment in which William Clements worked. Sold through auctions and individual merchants, these incunabula belonged to prestigious collections and still retain fundamental provenances that allow the reconstruction of their journey. The study of the itinerary of the incunabula throughout the centuries, from Europe to America, is reconstructed by analyzing elements such as ex libris, inscriptions, bindings, stamps, reading marks, and manuscript notes.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13070
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Francesco Lumachi: contribution to the biography of a Florentine publisher
of the Early Twentieth century
- Authors: Giovanna Grifoni
  Pages: 273 - 312
  Abstract: Francesco Lumachi, the small Florentine bookseller who made his debut on the Italian publishing scene in 1900, despite belonging to an entrepreneurial reality, that of booksellers-publishers, anchored more to the past than to the future, is considered to have inaugurated, together with the new century, the modern book. With intuition and audacity, he was the first to contribute to the notoriety of authors destined to impose themselves on the cultural
  scene for their innovative qualities, and with refined aesthetic taste he published volumes of typographical elegance and sometimes also of unconventional form. As a true “friend of books”, as he liked to define himself, he was also the storyteller of amusing bibliographical stories. A multifaceted figure who always remained shrouded in mystery, due to his shy and modest nature, his brief professional career with dramatic results, and the probable loss of
  his personal and work papers. In an attempt to fill the biographical gap, this contribution presents the results of archival research that, for the first time,
  digs into Francesco Lumachi’s family roots and his schooling, a background from which unpublished elements emerge and, at the same time, a range of questions susceptible to further investigation, together with personality traits that find points of contact in editorial and existential choices, such as inconsistencies and fascinations that can be justified by the historical context of reference. The work also avails itself of an iconographic collection, also partly unpublished, as evidence and proof of the topics dealt with.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13071
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
The philosophy of history in Giorgio Emanuele Ferrari: a philosopher in
the Marciana Library
- Authors: Paolo Livieri
  Pages: 313 - 327
  Abstract: Giorgio Emanuele Ferrari understood the library work in light of one of its fundamental assets: being a witness of the Zeitgeist. A privileged position in the management of documents, the librarian can profile tools and content of human self-understanding, both in its essence and its evolution. In the essay, we analyze G.E. Ferrari’s texts and unearth the philosophical drive of his vocation.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13072
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Orsa Maggiore, editor of Radclyffe Hall
- Authors: Valentina Sonzini
  Pages: 328 - 351
  Abstract: In 1946, the Edizioni dell’Orsa maggiore started to publish all the Radlyffe Hall’s books. The Author has been censored in England and her first literary work, The Well of Loneliness, became an incredible success (the first edition in England has been published in 1928 and in Italy in 1930 by the publisher Modernissima). In Italy, Hall is known thanks to two traslators (both are linked to Gian Dàuli and the publisher Corbaccio): Annie Lami and, above all, Mimi Oliva Lentati (the leader of Editrice dell’Orsa maggiore). The present article is about the little publisher Orsa and its brief, but very important for italian lesbian movement, history.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13073
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
The problem of digital legacy in the transmission of personal archives and
libraries
- Authors: Stefano Allegrezza
  Pages: 352 - 400
  Abstract: The digital revolution that for at least a couple of decades has radically transformed every sector of society has not neglected to make profound changes also in the personal life of each one – which is becoming more and more ‘digital’ – and in the production and use of documents. Through personal computers, tablets and smartphones, we draw up documents, take notes and personal notes, write literary texts, develop studies and projects, take photographs, read books, interact on social networks, etc. In this way, many documents are created in digital format and many magazines and books are purchased and read in digital format as well. As a consequence, the digital part in personal archives is increasing more and more (and these are turning into “digital personal archives”); in the same way, personal libraries increasingly consist of digital books and magazines and therefore they are becoming ‘personal digital libraries’ too. In many cases digital material is stored on virtual spaces made available by cloud service providers and become accessible only to those who know (or have) the necessary credentials. But faced with this transformation, many people begin to ask themselves: what will happen to these personal digital fonds after the death of the producers or owners' Will the heirs be able to accommodate this legacy' To answer these questions, we need to face the problem of the transmission of the digital legacy, fully understanding the implications that derive from having entrusted personal fonds to systems often protected by inscrutable access mechanisms and trying to identify the solutions that could allow them to secure their future, avoiding falling into that ‘digital dark age’ that more than someone has already begun to foreshadow.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13074
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
The cultural property as the soul of the world
- Authors: Alfredo Serrai
  Pages: 401 - 419
  Abstract: Examination and discussion of the specific nature of the Cultural property, in relation to their misterious origin and their current mental function, both in connection with the development of a specific stage of civilization and the needs of the modern man.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13075
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Digital Library, or the evolution of the library: the Veneranda Biblioteca
Ambrosiana and its new open access Digital Library dedicated to
manuscripts
- Authors: Fabio Cusimano
  Pages: 420 - 462
  Abstract: The Digital Library – used here to connote a general category – aims to innovate the range of services offered to the public by ‘analogue libraries’ to a varied group of users. These services cross the multifaceted cases of public reading libraries (and a large and generalist pool of users), of university libraries (and an equally large pool of users made up of students, undergraduates, faculty, and researchers), and also extend to the world of conservation libraries, which attract a specialized niche audience, very often of international origin. The digitization of precious, ancient, books – both manuscript and printed – represents a great and complex challenge from many points of view (conceptual, design, implementation, logistics, economic, personnel management, etc.), but also the most intuitive way we have now to expand the services offered to users in digital form. In the (recent) past, many digital library initiatives have been carried out in this sense by individual library institutions, as well as by individual private programs or government projects, with variable results in terms of objectives actually achieved, sustainable permanence online, and their ability to effectively counteract the so-called ‘digital obsolescence’ by updating the entire technological infrastructure of the project itself, as well as the individual digital contents, to guarantee their survival. Nowadays, web- based technologies have evolved, increased, and standardized to such an extent that a new approach is possible for digital libraries in terms of usability, visualization, and multi-platform replication of digital content.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13076
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
«I’ll give a look on the shelves»: case study on reader-opac
interactions at the Biblioteca Civica “Vincenzo Joppi”, Udine, Italy
- Authors: Carlo Bianchini
  Pages: 420 - 457
  Abstract: Introduction. Users’ behaviour studies relevance shows a constantly increasing trend. Users’ behaviour is the research focus both in libraries and information sciences and in cataloguing. User studies in LIS were developed along four trends: user studies, information behaviour, information practice and information experience (Gonzales-Teruel 2018). With FRBR Report in 1998 and its four user tasks definition, a major shift toward users’ centrality came in cataloguing too. Relevance of user tasks is also underlined by the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP). It confirms FRBR four functions and adds a new one: to navigate. The focus of this research is the effective interaction of users with the OPAC at the Biblioteca Civica "Vincenzo Joppi”, Udine, Italy, with the aim of assessing both efficacy and efficiency of interactions, from the point of view both of the user and of the OPAC. Method: This paper draws on an original research, as data about a simple random sample of 36 readers were collected by means both of a survey by a questionnaire before and after the interactions and by OPAC transactions screen recordings. Data were collected in Udine public library, Biblioteca “Vincenzo Joppi”, Udine, Italy, between August and October 2017. Quantitative and qualitative data analyses were conducted on collected data about 130 searches (a process that ends with a positive or negative result) and 200 interactions (each of the search attempts). Results and Discussion: The contrast between use frequency and reader’s proficiency level shows that the more frequent the use, the higher the confidence level felt by reader. On the contrast, confidence level is not related to educational background. Nearly half of the interviewed (49%) search in the catalogue to fulfil personal information needs; any other information needs (teacher suggestions, friends’ advices, internet etc.) are less important. In nearly half of the interactions, the search field used is title; instead, percentage of searches by subject, by author’s surname or by author’s name and surname are all just slightly over 10%. Furthermore, data about search field support data about the two broad types of questions: 60% are known item searches, and just 40% are exploratory searches. The most preferred search approach is Google-like search (36%); advanced search (30%) is relevant, while basic search (12%) is less important. However, the most successful results are obtained by advanced search (67%), followed by basic search (56%) and google-like search (53%). An interesting difference emerges from the contrast between data collected from questionnaires and from direct observations of readers’ interactions with the OPAC: readers express approval or disapproval based on the final results of their overall research and not on single interactions, and take for granted that to achieve results one or more attempts could be needed. Final success depends mostly upon the kind of users’ starting question: known item searches are more successful than exploratory searches (60% versus 43%). Data As a result, data confirm that to perform exploratory searches readers need to be supported by a higher level of reference service. Data show that reasons for failure in searches rely on readers’ behaviour (56%) more than on library services (24%). For this reason, readers’ interactions with the OPAC could be improved by promoting information literacy for the readers.
  PubDate: 2021-01-18
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/12004
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
For a hypothesis of metacatalogation
- Authors: Federico Valacchi
  Pages: 463 - 487
  Abstract: The contribution starts from the Mauro Guerrini book (Dalla catalogazione alla metadatazione) that he has the definition of metacatalogation was
  suggested, as a term containing a series of descriptive phenomena that should make it possible to identify and represent both archives and libraries. Between “cataloging and metadating” the descriptive elements resist. A bibliographic record of a paper catalog consists of a metadata set, just as the elements represented in an archival search tool can be called metadata. For real innovation, the archival inventory must be transformed into an information system, almost a search engine, characterized by specific strategies and filters. The inventory will be in the archive and no longer of the archive even if the contextual elements as a whole must never fail. Information constitutes the essential heritage of any society: the public, civil and political perception of archives and libraries has the task of putting themselves at the service of enlarged communities and processes on a very large range.
  PubDate: 2021-07-13
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13077
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
A day for open science: ‘Viaggiatori in Toscana: personaggi e
testimonianze’
- Authors: Elisabetta Angrisano, Biancamaria Brumana, Silvia Calamandrei, Cinzia Cardinali, Laura Giambastiani, Annantonia Martorano, Fiammetta Sabba
  Pages: 488 - 509
  Abstract: The report reconstructs the lectures held on April 9 2021 during the open science day dedicated to Viaggiatori in Toscana: personaggi e testimonianze, organized by the ‘Festival di Pasqua’ of the Municipality of Montepulciano. The main theme was the ‘journey’ as social, formative and cultural education experience, and in particular the journey in Tuscany, place of choice for many Italian and foreign grandtourists. The speeches show the results of research that has seen the examination of library, archival, artistic and musicological sources and experiences that are so different from each other but which, in a harmonious and interconnected way, give back the image of a social and cultural phenomenon based on the exchange and contamination of ideas. All of this is done through a new form of divulgation, intended for a non-academic public and in line with the principles of the Third Mission of the universities.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13078
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Bibliography of the Italian authors
- Authors: Alfredo Serrai
  Pages: 510 - 512
  Abstract: The paper proposes, also as support of the National Library Service, the creation of a national repertoire that chronologically indexes the editorial production of the Italian authors, both handwritten and printed. The repertoire, entitled Bibliographic Dictionary of Italian
  Authors , would offer systematic evidence of the works of each Italian author, with a hypothetical regional structure.
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13079
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
My library
- Authors: Luciano Canfora
  Pages: 513 - 517
  PubDate: 2021-07-01
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13080
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Francesca Longo Auricchio - Giovanni Indelli - Giuliana Leone - Gianluca
Del Mastro, La Villa dei Papiri: una residenza antica e la sua biblioteca
, Roma, Carocci, 2020
- Authors: Sara Marmai
  Pages: 518 - 522
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13281
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Enrico Pio Ardolino, Storiografia delle biblioteche: genesi, stabilità e
fratture di una tradizione di studi , Pesaro, Metauro, 2020
- Authors: Diego Baldi
  Pages: 523 - 526
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13282
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Erasmo da Rotterdam, Prefazioni ai Vangeli, 1516-1522 , a cura di Silvana
Seidel Menchi, Torino, Einaudi, 2021
- Authors: Francesca Nepori
  Pages: 527 - 533
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13289
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Paolo Sachet, Publishing for the popes: the roman Curia and the use of
printing (1527-1555), Leiden-Boston, 2020
- Authors: Alfredo Serrai
  Pages: 534 - 535
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13291
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
La peste e la stampa: Venezia nel XVI e XVII secolo, a cura di Sabrina
Minuzzi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2020
- Authors: Maria Grazia Dalai
  Pages: 536 - 539
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13292
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Romilda Saggini - Paolo Ramagli, Libri antichi tra Savona e Albenga:
inventari cinquecenteschi e catalogazione dei fondi di due diocesi liguri,
Udine, Forum, 2020
- Authors: Valentina Sonzini
  Pages: 540 - 542
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13293
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Benedetto Bacchini nell’Europa fra Sei e Settecento: libri, arti e
scienze, a cura di Sonia Cavicchioli e Paolo Tinti, Modena, Panini, 2020
- Authors: Andrea Moroni
  Pages: 543 - 545
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13294
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
István Monok - Edina Zvara, Esterhasiana Biblioteca. A gyűjtemény
története és könyvanyagának rekonstrukciója, Budapest, Kossuth
Kiadó, 2020
- Authors: Alfredo Serrai
  Pages: 546 - 546
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13295
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Anton Bruck - István Monok - Éva Edina Zvara, Bewahrte Geistigkeit und
Kulturerbe von drei Nationen. Die Historische Bibliothek des
Franziskanerklosters in Güssing, Budapest-Güssing, Franziskanerkloster
Güssing, 2021
- Authors: Alfredo Serrai
  Pages: 547 - 547
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13296
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Chiara Reatti, Tra aula e torchio: libri e scuola a Bologna da Napoleone
all’età della Restaurazione, Bologna, CLUEB, 2020
- Authors: Giorgio Montecchi
  Pages: 548 - 550
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13297
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Annantonia Martorano, Classificare il potere: dal Prospetto delle materie
del 1803 alla gestione documentale delle Prefetture, Torre del Lago,
Civita editoriale, 2020
- Authors: Dimitri Brunetti
  Pages: 551 - 556
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13298
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Mart, Guida all’Archivio del ‘900, Rovereto, Mart,
2020
- Authors: Francesca Ghersetti
  Pages: 557 - 560
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13300
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Lorenzo Pezzica, L’archivio liberato: guida teorico-pratica ai fondi
storici del Novecento, Milano, Bibliografica, 2020
- Authors: Giorgia Di Marcantonio
  Pages: 561 - 563
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13302
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Gigi Raimondo - Raffaele Carrieri, Il Sabato dei bibliofili: Milano 1936,
a cura di Massimo Gatta, con scritti di Luca Montagner, Massimo Gatta,
Antonio Castronuovo, Macerata, Biblohaus, 2020
- Authors: Francesca Nepori
  Pages: 564 - 567
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13303
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Marco Menato - Simone Volpato, Immondi librai antiquari: Saba libraio,
lettore e paziente di Umberto Levi, con una nota di Antonio Della Rocca,
prefazione di Stefano Carrai, postfazione di Giovanni Biancardi, Biblion,
Milano, 2020
- Authors: Vincenzo Fano
  Pages: 568 - 571
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13304
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Antonella Trombone, Teresa Motta: una bibliotecaria e “un anno di
vicende memorabili”: con lettere inedite di Francesco Barberi e Manlio
Rossi Doria (1943-1949), presentazione di Alberto Petrucciani, Rionero in
Vulture, Caliceditori, 2020
- Authors: Fiammetta Sabba
  Pages: 572 - 573
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13306
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Chiara Faggiolani, Come un Ministro per la cultura: Giulio Einaudi e le
biblioteche nel sistema del libro, Firenze, Firenze university press, 2020
- Authors: Roberta Cesana
  Pages: 574 - 580
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13307
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Le biblioteche dell’alta formazione musicale: prove di monitoraggio e
valutazione, a cura di Giovanni Di Domenico, con Anna Bilotta e Maria
Senatore Polisetti, Milano, Ledizioni, 2020
- Authors: Dinko Fabris
  Pages: 581 - 588
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13308
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
Rossana Morriello, Le raccolte bibliotecarie digitali nella società dei
dati, Milano, Bibliografica, 2020
- Authors: Lucia Sardo
  Pages: 589 - 591
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13309
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)
L’arte della ricerca: fonti, libri, biblioteche: studi offerti ad
Alberto Petrucciani per i suoi 65 anni, a cura di Simonetta Buttò,
Vittorio Ponzani, Simona Turbanti, con la collaborazione di Enrico Pio
Ardolino, Roma, AIB, 2021
- Authors: Fiammetta Sabba
  Pages: 592 - 595
  PubDate: 2021-07-29
  DOI: 10.6092/issn.2283-9364/13382
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2021)