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Cabral do Nascimento (1897-1978) was the first director of "Arquivo Distrital do Funchal" (Madeira), created in 1931. This edition transcribes his official letters owned by the Madeira Regional Archives, with an introductory study.

This essay begins with a treatment of Paul Groussac´s personal characteristics to approach later over his direction of the National Library, charge for wich was designed january 19th 1885, carrying out with this until his death june 27 th 1929. Hence Groussac managed the National Library for forty four years. Precisely for this reason the author , after introducing a compendium of opinions over Groussac, restricts the view to Groussac´s management, application of cultural politics and finally the creation of two magazines edited by him, La Biblioteca (1896-1898) and Los Anales de la Biblioteca Nacional (1900- 1916); summing up two chapters, one about the Norberto Piñero affair, the other of Gaspar García Viñas mission to the Archivo General de Indias wich was commited by Groussac himself. The view of the author shows Groussac as a functionary always busy himself seeking privileges on his position of Director of the National Library, avoiding the real functions encommended to him. The new about this of Groussac and his management of the National Library remains in its librarian view.

A work which studies the life and work of Gunnar Mendoza Loza (1914-1994), one of the greatest Bolivian professors and pioneers of the archives science and its great impact in the development of the this discipline in Bolivia. In summary, his work allowed the Bolivian people to recover part of their memory, it preserved it from the imminent destruction and prepared the field for its conservation and access. He recovered, at least the information found in faraway places, where it is found against the will of their organizers --as long as it is national patrimony-- and he did the necessary for its utilization. This official memory of the history of Bolivia has been saved. Among other things, it is now to us to continue --as our possiblities allow us-- to lead our attention to the non-official information of the history of Bolivia.

The donation of the personal archive of the archivist José de la Torre y del Cerro to the Provincial Historical Archive of Córdoba and the Municipal Archive of Córdoba, brought together that of the part of his personal library that was most related to his professional activity. In this way, her books are divided into three collections, two collections that accompany the documents in both archives and a third that remains in the house of her daughter, Pilar de la Torre Vasconi, and therefore contains books that are not directly related. with the performance of their professional activity. The fact that their forms are disintegrated, so that no memory of their unit is preserved or of the reasons that led to the gathering of this bibliographic corpus, prompted us to make a joint catalog, with an exhaustive description of all the documents, and with special interest in the dedications that appear in many works, whose authors wanted to thank the help provided by José de la Torre.

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the death of Norman Borlaug, Agronomist, Father of the "Green Revolution" and Nobel Peace Prize 1970, from INTA we want to honor him by sharing a series of articles about him.

Historical collections are original resources and living witnesses which shed light on the history of a region, nation or subject. M. Seyfettin Özege is an important person who makes the collection, which sheds lights on nearly two last centuries of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of Turkish Republic, reach today as a whole. Thousands of resources, known as Seyfettin Özege Rare Resource Collection, are among the most precious resources of Central Library of Atatürk University. Although the collection has been preserved as a whole, it cannot be presented to service in a modern structure due to various reasons. The resources have been kept waiting as being deprived of technological facilities. Users can make use of the collection, which has not even OPAC, in quite limited conditions. However, in spite of this, Özege collection has still remained a center of Turkish culture to which researchers have frequently applied

The paper contains a biography of Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan

Nadezhda Krupskaya Konstantinovna, feminist, educator, Bolshevik leader and key figure in the Russian Revolution.

Joaquín González Moreno (1924-2004) fue un notable archivero de la historia de Sevilla (España). Fue director del archivo de Medinaceli durante cuarenta años además de conservador de la Casa de Pilatos en la que se ubica este archivo, uno de los más importantes de la historia de España. El doctor González Moreno fue también profesor de Paleografía de la Universidad de Sevilla y autor de 40 libros y cientos de artículos en publicaciones periódicas de temas andaluces relacionados con los archivos, bibliotecas, historia del arte, patrimonio histórico y artístico y heráldica.

Directory of Colombians Librarians that include bibliographical records of the authors