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Book donation is the oldest method of completing a library's collections but is still considered today an act of great generosity, of great interest to libraries, especially in recent years, when the total amounts allocated to the purchase of books are in a vertiginous decline. For the Philosophy Library, branch of the Central University Library "Mihai Eminescu" Iași, an important source of completing the collections is the documents entered free of charge in the library funds following remarkable donations from individuals or legal entities: donations coming from the headquarters, from various institutions, from authors (teaching staff, PhD students, writers), from students (to the final license/master) or from retired teachers. Of great importance are the considerable donations made by families who have inherited impressive libraries of university professors or cultural personalities. Every book donated to the Philosophy Branch is important, we can consider the value of the information it contains, the existence in the library collections, the bibliophile value, the prestige of the publishing house that printed it, the quality of the paper, autographs. All donations entered in the branch's collections contain publications relevant to the library profile; these donations have helped to enrich the Philosophy Branch's collections with some rare, valuable books, but of great importance is the fact that the donated titles, in most cases, did not exist in the library's collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Biblioteca copiilor şi a tinerimei from the period of the Great Union is a historiographical research on the promotion of this weekly magazine in the press of the time, which can give us an understanding, from a cultural perspective, of some aspects of the past, starting from a series of documents. The paper also presents a documentary study by approaching from a librarianship perspective of the advertising for the "biblioteca copiilor şi a tinerimei" magazine, as a bibliographic unit, in the newspapers gazeta bucureştilor (1918) and adevărul (1919, 1920, 1921), two of the most popular newspapers among the population. In the reference year 1918, crucial in the accomplishment of the Great Union, adevărul was suspended by the German occupation command and in compensation was chosen the daily gazeta bucureştilor, opposed as ideology and political support. The object (the newspaper) and the subject of the research (the magazine) are bibliographic units that are preserved in archives and libraries, consisting in cultural goods with an important role in the national history and not only. The study of advertising for biblioteca copiilor şi a tinerimei magazine, in the press from the Great Union period, comes to confirm or invalidate the role that the magazine has in popularization of culture among the masses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 19-22 April 2018, in Chișinău, took place the 22nd edition of the International Children's and Youth Book Fair of the Republic of Moldova. The event was organized by the "Ion Creangă" National Library for Children. The objectives were: supporting publishing and dissemination of books for children and youth, promoting of book with a high artistic level and supporting those contributing to create and edit publications for children. Over 150 publishers and representatives of several countries attended the event. During the book fair, the International Conference "Library and Children's Reading: Current Challenges" was also organized, at which representatives of the National Library of Romania participated with two proffesional papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper completes catalogue I, published in the previous edition of Peuce, thus offering the whole view on the Romanian book collection found in the patrimony of Tulcea Eco-Museum Research Institute. This catalogue comprises 39 editions in 45 volumes printed in 1775-1830. Three of them are doubles of the following editions: "Biblia" (the Bible) (Blaj, 1795); secret counsellor Alexander Mavrokordatos, "Phontismata" (Vienna, 1805), and "Acatist" (Ramnic, 1819). Other three volumes are part of J. G. Heineccius's work "Elemente de filozofie, logică şi etică"(Elements of philosophy, logics and ethics) (Buda, 1829). Chronologically, 15 volumes date from the second half of the 18th century, while 30 old Romanian books date to 1801-1830. After thoroughly analyzing the respective volumes and comparing edition elements from consecrated catalogues, we bring some contributions to "Bibliografia românească veche (1508-1830)" (Old Romanian library science (1508-1830)) for 26 out of the 39 described volumes, consisting of several corrections and completions regarding incorrect pagination, content, illustrations and ornaments, all mentioned in the general notes in the catalogue and listed in the paper's final table. Some volumes carry ex-libris and handwritten notes that offer us some view of their intense circulation in all provinces inhabited by Romanians. The publication of the old Romanian book collection from Tulcea museum - 55 editions in 61 volumes - provides specialists with information of net historic, documentary, cultural and social value, and it clarifies certain aspects regarding the circulation and presence of old Romanian books in Northern Dobrudja. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to briefly discuss the requirements of the position of library director in the information society, using Sweden in 2012 as an exaniple. Three recruitment ads in Sweden for the position of library director were studied. Emerging terms are discussed briefly and concluding remarks made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

All libraries need to keep up with the new technologies and to use all kind of information storage materials, besides paper. We have to meet the needs of our users of library services and to include several services for the users with special needs. Libraries must become encyclopedic information centers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pelbartus of Themeswar (1430/40-1504), a Franciscan monk who was teaching theology in Buda, is one of the most famous preachers of the Catholic Church and also the most successful Hungarian writer abroad, as his works has been published in ninety editions before 1526. The aim of this paper is to offer a brief introduction to his works that are being kept in the Teleki-Bolyai Library. Most of Pelbartus' works are collections of sermons, written in order to help clerics in their pastoral work. The central ideas of his texts are asceticism and the virtues of the Middle Ages, scholasticism against the renaissance spirit of King Matthias's court. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

François Hotman (1524-1590), a distinguished personality of the French Renaissance, has had multiple interests in the fields of law, history, literature or religious propaganda for the Reform. He wrote in the field of law and he contributed to the development of the study and teaching methods of Roman law. His preoccupations in this domain have proven to be full of daring. His master work will always be the history tractate Franco-Gallia, which has been a huge success at that time. He was also considered to be one of the most important renascentist political writers. He was appreciated and studied for his measureless erudition and his commentaries regarding the operas of the antiquity have been considered to be remarkably valuable (especially the ones about Cicero's discourses). The presence of the 15 exemplaries of his papers in the most important Transylvanian libraries proves the fact that Hotman's writings have been read, quoted, and collected by our intellectuals. Bringing them forward has been an honor for us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BOBCATSSS Symposium is held annually by and for students of library and information science schools of different European universities and it takes place under the auspices of EUCLID (European Association for Library and Information Education and Research). In 2012, BOBCATSSS was organized by students of three universities: University of Amsterdam, Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (Netherlands) and Stuttgart Media University (Germany). Ideas drawn from the ceremony were related to Internet technology dependence, the negative impact on education, the importance of networks in how information becomes knowledge, media universities, what is socialization, media privacy. In one section of the symposium, the author of the article presented with Ane Landøy from the University of Bergen Library, the paper What challenges are library leaders facing? Ane Landøy is a PhDc at Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen and she has conducted qualitative research on issues facing the leaders of libraries in Norway. Results were confronted with the academic community expectations regarding library services, research conducted by the author at the Transylvania University of Brasov. The article, in fact a report on the event, summerizes briefly the main works and papers that have attracted interest, enough to keep the attention of the audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]