Libraries and Catalogs in Ukraine: The Way to Understand the Past and Build the Future

Abstract

This article explores the current state of Library Science and library catalogs in Ukraine. It describes conditions that have impacted their development and problems that influence their growth. Particular focus is given to the increase in information access in Ukrainian libraries that has taken place over the last twenty years. The authors describe major projects in the library field and in the field of library cataloging with special attention to the experience of the Library of the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.”

KEYWORDS:

• Ukrainian libraries
• online library catalogs (OPACs)
• Integrated Library Systems (ILSs)
• ALEPH 500
• library and information science education in Ukraine

Notes

We do not have any general statistics on libraries, only statistics provided by the leading special libraries.

Brotherhoods (Ukrainian singular: братство, bratstvo) are defined as fraternities affiliated with individual churches in Ukraine that performed a number of religious and secular functions. http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages\B\R\Brotherhoods.htm (accessed October 14, 2014).

The basic general periods in Ukrainian state history were the Kievan Rus, The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Pol. Rzeczpospolita), Cossack Hetmanate, Russian Empire, and USSR.

Not that this is the only reason. For four centuries Ukraine did not have its independence, and this is the second major reason for problems in the culture and the library field.

“Zakon Ukrainy pro biblioteky ta bibliotechnu spravu.” http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/32/95-%D0%B2%D1%80 (accessed April 9, 2014).

These statistics are from the National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine. http://profy.nplu.org/articles.php?lng=uk&pg=5619.

“About the Library,” Vasyl Stegayk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine, http://www.lsl.lviv.ua/en/ (accessed September 13, 2014).

These statistics are from the National Parliamentary library of Ukraine, http://profy.nplu.org/articles.php?lng=uk&pg=5619 (accessed October 14, 2014).

The Library network managed by the Ministry of Culture—these are public libraries.

TOV “Ukrainskii fondovyi dim” (UFD/Library), http://ush.com.ua (accessed October 14, 2014).

NPO “Informsistema” (MARK SQL), http://www.informsystema.ru/Software.aspx (accessed October 14, 2014).

Asotsiatsiia “EBNIT” (IRBIS), http://www.elnit.org/sistema-irbis/sostav-produktov-semeystva-irbis.html (accessed October 14, 2014).

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Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

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Serbin, Istoria, suchasnyi stan ta perspektyvy rozvytku bibliotechno-bibliografichnykh klasyfikatsii v Ukraini; “Suchasnyi stan UDK v Ukraini,” Knyzhkova palata.

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Information on the differences between the old Russian standards and ACCR2 can be found at http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/aw/reuse/harmony/harmony_report1.htm (accessed October 14, 2014).

All bibliographies in our country must be created according to GOST requirements. DSTU GOST 7.1:2000 and DSTU GOST 7.80:2007 should not be applied to bibliographic references (footnotes, endnotes, etc.). There is a special standard in Russia, GOST R 7.0.5-2008, Bibliographic reference. General requirements and rules of making, but Ukraine did not adopt it. As a result, in our country we use DSTU GOST 7.1:2006 and DSTU GOST 7.80:2007 for any type of bibliographies. Any other form of citation style does not exist in our country.

G. Skibchyk, “Aktualni napriamy derzhavnoi polityky v bibliotechnii spravi,” Teoria ta praktyka derzhavnogo upravlinnia 3, no. 34 (2011). http://www.kbuapa.kharkov.ua/e-book/tpdu/2011-3/doc/1/18.pdf (accessed April 9, 2014).