Volume III (1998), no. 1 - 2

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.

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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 Sometimes already published volumes were withdrawn in the last minute.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.

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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).

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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