Subject and Genre Analysis of Romanian Library Science Literature: Books – published between 1945-2003

The purpose of this survey is to analyze – scientometrically and bibliometrically – the Romanian literature of librarianship and information science, published between 1945-2003 in book format, in order to reveal the degree of the de facto contribution of this literature to the acknowledgement, affirmation and strengthening - or perhaps, weakening - of the librarian profession in Romania. Our study represents, in fact, a hermeneutic incursion into the historical and internal resorts of the profession and its literature, attempting to reveal the manner in which the Romanian authors have approached the issues, that is, through the genre descriptors - precisely conferred to each of the 430 bibliographic references - on the one hand, and the main subject fields of the decades, that are fixed in the survey by subject descriptors, on the other. The stages of this survey – investigation for documents retrieval, compilation of the analytic bibliography as basis for the survey, the bibliometrical calculation and result data analysis – outline a social and professional approach, by means of critical analysis and evaluation of the Romanian literature of librarianship - considered also as result of a social-cultural factors complex, and through a thourough research of its dynamics, its values system, and the social position that it is associated with.

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