The bibliographic bureau and library committee of Siberia research institute (1919-1920)

The article is devoted to the bibliographic bureau and library committee of Siberia research institute in 1919-1920. In the paper there is analyzed the staff of bureau and committee, their structure, the estimate of these divisions, there is showed the activities of bureau of compiling Siberian bibliographies, Siberian figures dictionary. Paper ransiders the formation of the library, the methods of its acquisition, the circle of grantors, described the working conditions of employees of bibliographic bureau and library committee of Siberia research institute. The task of bibliographic bureau was to work on the general bibliography of Siberia. In the bibliographical bureau entered M.K. Azadovsky, P.G. Liubomirov, A.I. Milutin, M.G. Kurlov, E.V. Diehl, etc. M.K. Azadovsky was appointed the head of the bureau. Bureau was composed of the departments «Literature and literary criticism», «Review and bibliographical notes», «Review of current literature», «Review of Foreign Literature», etc. The large projects implemented by bureau can be called bibliographic pointers «Siberia in the Russian journalism 19011917», «Siberia in the Russian historical journals and periodicals of 1901-1917» and dictionary of Siberian figures. In compiling the bibliography office employees viewed about 100 journal titles (both general and specific scientific and monthlies) and more than 150 titles of scientific and periodical press. It has been viewed nearly 10,000 numbers of various editions and publications. Number of composed bibliographic cards reached 23,000. At the institute as an independent structural unit there was formed a library. The library is enriched both by donations and through buying of books. The largest acquisition was the purchase of G.N. Potanin library. The library fund grew rapidly. On October 15, 1920 in the fund there were listed more than 3000 titles of books and periodicals, and more than 8,000 copies of books, pamphlets, magazines, etc. After the restoration of Soviet power in Siberia because of the problems with financing the activities of the Institute has been discontinued. Thus, at the Institute for Siberian Research during the Civil War, there was made the first a large-scale attempt in the region to establish the work to information support of researches and building a large thematic library. Despite the short duration of the institute, Bureau of bibliographic and library staff managed to do a great job that will be continued in the next decade at the Tomsk University.

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