Paid services at the Library for Foreign Literature: New Objectives, Experience, Perspectives

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Olga Sinitsyna
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Financial Problems ◽  
Trainee Teachers ◽  
Foreign Literature ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Low Incomes ◽  
State Library ◽  
The Way

Confronted by enormous financial problems in the late 1980s, many Russian libraries were obliged to find ways of earning money in order to survive and to maintain their collections. The State Library for Foreign Literature was one of the first to break out of the stranglehold imposed by Lenin’s ideal, ‘Libraries - free of charge for everyone’. The Arts Department led the way to the introduction of paid services, over and above basic library services which remain free. Paid services include picture research, special loans, and photocopying, but also classes for children in foreign languages and art to supplement education in school, and courses for trainee teachers. Fees are reduced or even waived to ensure that services are accessible to those on low incomes.

scholarly journals Targeting Autism in Libraries: A Comprehensive and Collaborative Training Program for Librarians

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth V. Small ◽  
Suzanne Schriar ◽  
Mary Pelich Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Syracuse University ◽  
State Library ◽  
Collaborative Training

This article describes the Targeting Autism program, funded by multiple grants from the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). This program was created to provide free training to the librarians of the State of Illinois on providing quality services and programs to patrons with autism. The State Library of Illinois leads the project, in partnership with Dominican University and Syracuse University and in collaboration with dozens of autism- related organizations. The Targeting Autism program has included a variety of educational opportunities—in-person annual forums, group workshops, follow-up individualized coaching, Webinars, blogs, and an online self-paced, in-depth training program for individuals or groups through Project ENABLE (Expanding Non-discriminatory Access to Librarians Everywhere) to librarians in Illinois and beyond. The program is a model for the development of similar programs both nationally and internationally.

scholarly journals On the question of the crisis of domestic library activity: is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Bibliosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
E. A. Pleshkevich
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Library Construction ◽  
State Library ◽  
Development Analysis

The article is devoted to the prospects of development of the national library activity. The purpose of the article is to determine the ways of library construction. For the first time the original methodology for its development analysis on the basis of supply and demand for library services is proposed. The dynamics of changes in the market of library services in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods is presented. It is shown that the decrease in demand for library services is largely due to the obsolescence of library collections and the inability to meet the information needs of readers. The author comes to the conclusion that the vector of library construction should be set by the state and society. If in the Soviet period the emphasis was placed on the interests of the state to form a new “Soviet” person, today it should shift towards the humanization of social relations and the creation of conditions for the creative development of an individual. It is noted that the unfavorable situation in library construction is created by certain demographic and socioeconomic factors. Their compensation should also form the basis of the state library policy.

scholarly journals ‘Real Photos’: Transforming Tindale and the Postcolonial Archive

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 56-73
Author(s):  
Jane Lydon
Keyword(s):  
South Australia ◽  
The State ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
The People ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Major Transformation ◽  
State Library ◽  
The Way

When the Transforming Tindale exhibition opened at the State Library of Queensland in September 2012, there was much excitement and goodwill. This landmark exhibition was curated by Michael Aird and featured Ah Kee’s drawings and enlarged prints of anthropologist Norman Tindale’s photographs of 1938-1940, as well as extensive archival information and stories from the subjects themselves and their relatives. The transformations of the exhibition’s title refer to the way Tindale’s ‘data’ was given both new physical form, as well as engendering and renewing social meanings. Scholars such as Elizabeth Edwards have argued that we should explore the materiality of images and the diverse forms they assume, attending to the ways their form and vitality shape us as much as we imbue them with meaning. Digitisation constitutes a major transformation of photographs’ historical accumulation of materiality. It also enables the return of historical archives from European museums to Indigenous relatives in Australia. In this article I explore the relations and narratives that emerge from this process, focusing on their Indigenous significance, and using the example of an enigmatic cardboard panel held by the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford on which are mounted thirteen photographs from South Australia. For Indigenous descendants of the people recorded in these photographs, their physical form is less important than the way they embody missing relatives, lost through invasion and assimilation. This process is slow and often awkward, but the rewards are great, in challenging foundational national histories, re-connecting family networks, and telling the truth of Indigenous experience.

scholarly journals Subalterns and 'ghosts' behind Kiepert’s maps of the Anatolian peninsula (1830s–1890s)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Ségolène Débarre
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The State ◽  
Heritage Foundation ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Anatolian Peninsula ◽  
State Archives ◽  
State Library ◽  
Work First ◽  
The Way

Abstract. Although they are discussed less frequently than his maps of the Balkans, Heinrich Kiepert's maps of Anatolia, and those of the Aegean coast in particular, nevertheless occupy a prominent place in his work. First published between the 1840s and the 1890s, Kiepert's maps reflect the way in which the German “classical Orient” depicted by Said (Said, 1978) became increasingly "real" over the years and emerged as a target for strategic and imperialist penetration. While their archaeological orientation tended to eclipse their ties to the German and Ottoman military, this analysis reveals how civil and military investigations were intertwined from the outset, and linked to a desire for national prestige. Based on the archives of the State Library in Berlin, the Secret State Archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Ottoman State Archives, this article aims to highlight the ambivalence and different facets of Heinrich Kiepert's cartographic project in Anatolia. The context of his work will be analyzed in order to understand the conditions under which his cartography was produced and the transimperial exchanges that shaped it.

A Call to Recognise and to Imagine: Amitav Ghosh, and Others, on Writing the Earth Differently

APRIA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Rick Dolphijn
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
The State ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Fukushima Disaster ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge ◽  
The Way

The crises of the contemporary are severe, especially if we are unable to recognise how and when we went wrong. Amitav Ghosh teaches us about recognition, about the dangers of modernity, and the way our blindness has been institutionalised in the petrocapitalist narratives that dominate scientific analysis and many forms of knowledge important to our times. Discussing the way petrocapitalism frames current issues like air pollution and the Fukushima disaster, this text highlights the art of recognising the state of the Earth. Together with the arts (primarily literature, as Ghosh also suggests), the aim of this text is then to place a greater emphasis on imagining the Earth otherwise, or, recognising a different earth. This way we do not so much critique modernity, or the petrocapitalist forms of science, but rather, affirmatively, search for an alternative, a more inclusive and less human-centred way to deal with the crises of the contemporary.

scholarly journals Foreign Literature in Fascist Italy: Circulation and Censorship

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Dunnett
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
John Steinbeck ◽  
World War ◽  
Foreign Literature ◽  
Historical Contextualisation ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Way

Abstract In this article the author sets out to illustrate some of the strategies which Italian translators and publishers adopted, or were forced to adopt, to ensure that their texts passed muster under Fascism. “Taboo” areas are identified and an attempt is made to sketch out what were often rather vague criteria for acceptability. The author proceeds to survey the mechanisms that were put in place to vet books—essentially, preventive censorship and police confiscation—for the duration of the dictatorship. It is argued that the apparatus of the State was only partially successful at monitoring the content of works of literature. This historical contextualisation, drawing on archival and published material, is followed by a number of case-studies, first of three novels by John Steinbeck, and then of Americana, a famous anthology of American literature published during the Second World War. In her conclusion, the author draws attention to the failure of the regime to implement a watertight policy on translation, despite its desire to influence the way readers interpreted books.

Censorship of art books in the Soviet Union and its effect on the arts and on art libraries

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Sinitsyna
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Foreign Literature ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Original Works ◽  
State Library ◽  
Art And Architecture

Although official censorship in the Soviet Union ceased over ten years ago, the effects in art and art libraries are still felt. Censored books were marked with a hexagon and relegated to closed stacks, which for many years were off limits to the public and library staff alike. Some of the banned material in the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature is analysed here in an attempt to establish the reason why certain items were seen by the authorities as too harmful to be acceptable for general circulation. The fate of the second “enemy” perceived by the Soviet censors, the original works of art and architecture, is also described.

scholarly journals Aleś Puszkin — czołowa postać białoruskiej awangardy?

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Anna Kuleszewicz
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Marc Chagall ◽  
State Regime ◽  
Music And The Arts ◽  
The Way

Avant-garde, a rebellious band of new trends and tendencies in art that appeared in the early 20th century, lasted for years being transformed, yielding the new forms of expression. It is also a trend of art most often associated with contemporaryBelarusian art (partially due to “school of Vitebsk”, Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich), still enjoying popularity in the country. One of the most recognizable Belarusian artistsis Ales Pushkin, born in 1965 in Bobr, associated with the Achremczuk’s National Schoolof Music and the Arts in Minsk and Vitebsk artistic environment. Pushkin is known for his indomitable, rebellious attitude towards the state regime. For many observers, art amateurs and even art critics, the character of his work immediately resembles avant-garde. However, as some researchers noted, Pushkins’ art enters a new dimension,paving the way towards new horizons of contemporary (avant-garde?) art of Belarus.

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