THE ROLE OF ODESSIAN SCIENTISTS-HISTORIANS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY ODESSA (NOVOROSSIYSK) UNIVERSITY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XX CENTURY

Abstract

The complex contemporary issues in Ukraine related to the reform of education and science, calls refer to the experience of past years, for example, the first third of the twentieth century. During this period, one of the best in the world, scientific and educational systems of the Russian empire, as a result of the socio-political and socio-economic transformations in the first half of the twentieth century, was in a state of permanent reorganization. One aspect of this policy was the Research Library of the Odessa (Novorossiysk) University, which is a leader in the development of higher education and research in Europe. The multi-faceted and productive activities of the library for nearly two hundred years is due to its employees that support the continuity of library science, continue the work of those who stood at the origin of the library, developing and realizing its objectives, and in general contribute to the development of education and science, the need to further improve their role in society. In this regard, the reconstruction and understanding the fate of the library staff in one of the hardest periods of national history is a scientific challenge. Under current conditions in the context of the revision of the provisions of the preceding conceptual historiography using new sources and methods of research have the opportunity to objectively analyze in the context of the history of the library operation of power in relation to its employees and their fate in the first third of the twentieth century. Allocation study the fate of the library staff in a separate subject of historical research allows us to determine their role in the development of library infrastructure against the socio-political changes and the impact of these processes on the life of members of the scientific intelligentsia. Scientific literature directly dealing with the problems of this study to quantify the insignificant. Mostly it works on the history of the Research Library, and biographical articles on the lives of individual employees of the library. The sources of information for this survey were the archival materials and publications of researchers. The article is based on the basic methodological principles of historical science: historicism, scientific objectivity in covering the systemic historical facts and events. Used chronological, typological, comparative methods of historical knowledge, classification and systematization of historical sources and bibliographic material. Analysis of the source base was carried out using the methods of sources and archival heuristics. The scientific novelty of the results shows that the paper is the first general study of the history of the fate of the library staff, presented in the context of socio-political development of the country. First analyzed and put into scientific circulation lesser known archival sources that contribute to the study of the development of library infrastructure, the fate of its individual employees. Scientific-theoretical and practical significance of the study is that the results significantly enrich the knowledge of the source base of library history in Ukraine, reproduce the main trends and characteristics of this process in the Research library remodel biography of its employees. The article contributes to the development of objective scientific concepts and views on the scope of the phenomenon of the library as an important source for studying various aspects of the life and activities of the company.

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Валерій / V. Левченко / Levchenko

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Валерій / V. Левченко / Levchenko (2017). THE ROLE OF ODESSIAN SCIENTISTS-HISTORIANS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY ODESSA (NOVOROSSIYSK) UNIVERSITY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XX CENTURY. Вісник Одеського національного університету. Бібліотекознавство, бібліографознавство, книгознавство, 22(2), 77-105. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-271340