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Dobroslav M. Ruzich (Chachak, July 1, 1854 - Krushevac, October 13, 1918) , a teacher, writer, librarian, member of parliament, senator, minister and councillor of state is a prominent person in the cultural and political life of Serbia in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. On the hundred and fifty anniversary of Ruzich’s birth and publication of his works „Žena i mirisi“ („The Woman and Odours“) (2002) and „Veliki ljudi“ (The Great Men) (2004) the Public Library „Vladislav Petković-Dis“ of Chachak revives the memory of this known and nearly quite forgotten creator. The tempestuous life and rich and versatile creative opus numbering over two hundred literary and scientific works make Ruzich an outstanding representative of his times and ensure him a high place in the national history of the Serbs.

Ljubica Đorđević was an extraordinary Professor at the Philological University of Belgrade in retirement, a librarian of long standing of the Library, Department for Yugoslavian literature, a founder of the Library Seminar, a pedagogue, a bibliographer and a poetess. The paper gives the crucial moments of her dramatic life journey and professional career, and within the overview of her scientifical and professional works, as well her book of poems.

Dragiša Stanojević (1844-1918), Doctor of Law, politician, socialist, publicist and translator, was the Director of the National Library from July, 1897. to September, 1900. During these three years, he took care of the amelioration of the financial situation of the Library, he evaluated the real condition of the Holdings, he looked after the improvement of the quality of acquisitions, he paid special attention regarding the returning of several thousands of publications rented from the Library, and something that was unknown up to today, he was among the first to work on the Law of the National Library in Belgrade, from 1901.

This article features an interview with Jane Greenberg, Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Greenberg discusses metadata education, her research projects, and the future of the Semantic Web. She describes the Metadata Generation Research and Automatic Metadata Generation Applications projects, the ways library school curricula have changed and will likely change in the near future, and the influence Dublin Core has had on her career.

In December 2003 and January 2004, Anna Creech interviewed four consultants: Marilyn Geller, Helen Henderson, October Ivins, and Judy Luther. Their work focuses on various aspects of the serials industry. They discuss how they became consultants and issues surrounding the changing roles of serials librarians, electronic publishing, scholarly communication, the consolidation of subscription agents, and other aspects of the serials industry.

In this interview, Maija Berndtson, director of the Public Library of Helsinki (Finland), speech of the history and of the current situation of the libraries in Finland.

In this interview, Barbara J. Ford, person in charge of the Public Library of Chicago (United States), explains the importance that the public libraries have in the United Satates at present.

Interview to Pilar Faus in the one that revises her life and her work as a librarian. She was a director of the Biblioteca Pública Provincial de Valencia (Valencian Community - Spain) from 1979.

Interview to Amparo Bou, librarian and librarian's teacher in Valencia (Spain).

An overview of Paul Otlet's work is proposed.

Interview with Luis García Ejarque, Chief of the Technical Office of the National Service of Reading (Spain) from 1958 until 1985, and one of the most important librarians of Spain in the XXth century.

Interview with Amparo Pérez, Director of the Archivo del Reino de Valencia (Spain) from 1976 until 1990 and Director of the Provincial Coordinating Center of Libraries of Valencia (Spain).

Interview to Eliades Acosta, the director of the National Library of Cuba Jose Martí on the occasion of the first centenary of the center.

Interview to Primitivo Gómez Senent in the one that revises his life and that of his father Nicolau Primitiu Gómez Serrano, important valencian bibliophile. The Biblioteca Nicolau Primitiu is considered to be the most important fund of the Biblioteca Valenciana.

María Moliner played a very important role in the national library policy implemented by the Second Republic in Spain, specially in the advancement of public libraries. Her most important contributions were made through the Valencia Branch of the Pedagogical Missions Trust and the Library Section of the Department of Public Instruction. From this position, she created a national library plan.

The history of printing in Antequera between 1573 and 1603 is studied through the analysis of four active printers, their bioraphies and output trying to discover the reasons that contributed to the sudden appearance of printers in the city. Information is provided on the Nebrija family descibing their work in Antequera and differentiating it from their work in Granada, which has been very little studied, and setting it into the context of the printing privileges and economic interests they had. Details are also provided on the work carried out by printers other than the four mentioned in the title.

Interview to Josefa Emilia Sabor, argentinian librarian.

Interview to Pedro Hípola, professor of the Faculty of Librarianship and Information Science of the University of Granada (Spain)

Biography of Bartolomé José Gallardo, librarian.

The publication presents the history of analytical review and Colon classification through the prism of the research of author’s personality – Shiali Ranganathan. It is determined the main structural features of this classification in the context of the practical use of its conceptual possibilities. It is concluded that the current state and prospects of faceted classification in professional systematic practice.

VESTIGIUM aims to integrate together biographic informaIon, data, digital texts and audiovisuals about relevant personaliIes in the past Century using semanIc technologies

The article presents the profile of Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński – the bibliophile, politician and librarian, who set up the foundation of his name. The literature concerning his work, as well as some inaccuracies in the descriptions, has been briefly discussed.

This job is based on an article in which definitions of Bibliography have been registered and have been analyzed qualitatively; the results show the parameters which these definitions contain. Following this, the results are studied by means of statistical and network analysis with the computer program R and Ucinet. The analysis of the network studies the connections between them, understanding as a connection, when the two parameters appear together in a definition. The results lead to the conclusion that it is a symmetrical network, which although presenting structural holes does not contain subgroups and for this reason all the parameters are reachable. Finally this method is proposed as a very useful tool when it comes to managing concepts, at times so difficult to define, as is the case with Bibliography.

The view that María Moliner wrote the Dictionary without any knowledge of lexicography is widespread. The aim of this essay is to demonstrate that the exercise of her profession as a librarian and, more concretely, the management of the alphabetical subject catalogue, granted her ample lexicographical experience. The management of an alphabetical subject catalogue requires the creation and management by the librarian of a true lexicon, aimed at establishing an informative dialogue with the user of the catalogue. No doubt, this practice proved decisive, not only for the process of creation of the Dictionary, but also for the designing of the model itself.

Biography of Vicent i Pere Salvà

An outline of the life, work and thought of Fermín Peraza Sarausa, one of the most eminent Cuban bibliographers and director of the Municipal Library of Havana for more than 25 years is presented. The role he played as an innovator and in the introduction of the best experiences of the library practice of the avanguard countries in Cuba is stressed. His work as publisher of the " Anuario Bibliográfico " (Bibliographical Yearbook) and his contribution to the training of librarians in Cuba is analysed.

A brief outline of the life and work of the famous fighter, poet and librarian, María del Carmen Villar Buceta is carried out; and some of her contributions to the bibliographical field and the development of the librarian's activity in Cuba are analyzed.

A sketch of the life and work of the outstanding Cuban intellectual Domingo Figarola Caneda is made. His contributions to the field of bibliography and his work as the first director of “José Martí” National Library of Cuba are also analysed.

An outline of the life and work of the outstanding Cuban intellectual María Teresa Freyre de Andrade, founder of the Cuban library science, is made. Her contributions to the bibliographical field and her extensive work as a librarian before and after the triumph of the Revolution are analysed.

Information science is an interdisciplinary area of study which has strong links with a wide range of subjects. As a consequence of these interactions, a couple of branches have been emerged in information science during the past few decades. For example, development of bioinformatics is the result of collaborative research on common grounds between biologists and information science experts. Similarly, Chemoinformatics is an area of research and practice which has roots in chemistry and information science. This report is the direct transcription of an interview with Professor Peter Willett in March 7, 2006 and seeks to illustrate some general issues in chemoinformatics and its linkage with the related areas. Professor Willett is the head of Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield and is one of the well-known researchers in information retrieval (IR) in general and chemoinformatics in particular. The interview consists of two parts. The first part is related to Professor Willett’s specific research area and its relation to the World Wide Web. In the second part he addresses some general issues about his personal experience of using the Web as an end-user rather than an expert in IR.

Interview with Andrés Ovalle López and Jhon Alexander González Flórez, founders and moderators of the Infosfera discussion list and Infoesfera weblog.

When one glances through the endless book of history and reads about the lives and actions of persons with great merits for their perseverance and dedication, the luminous trail they leave behind causes pleasant admiration. Thera are plenty of examples of human beings, who, in the course of time, have made unforgettable achievements with which they have conquered the glory. Nevertheless, it is very sad to leaf through this book about someone very close that also deserves to reach posterity and getting to the first blank page after having turned numerous written pages. The recent death of Dr. José López Sánchez has left the iciest empty space among his colleagues and disciples, and the grief of an irreparable and regrettable loss in the institutions where he worked. Overwhelmed by the painful impression caused by his death , the author of this paper tries to approach his work as a publicist and biblographer, as well as his contributions, paying a modest homage to his memory from the perspective of the information sciences.

Interview with Tomàs Baiget

The interview to Carmen Pagani points her career as a documentalist first at CER (Residential Building Centre), then at the documentation centre founded there, crowned with the establishment of the Society for the History of the Welfare Service.

The article aims to make an overview of the life of Maria Teresa Ronchi (known as "la Martinelli" from her husband's surname).

In 2001 the ADBS published a volume to celebrate the 80th birthday of Jean Meyriat. AIDA also wants to celebrate Meyriat with this article in which notes on his professional biography, comments on his initiatives and personal memories can be found.

The background, evolution and the essential characteristics of the repertoire entitled “Who is who in sciences in Cuba” are dealt with in this paper. It is a reference work, published in printed and electronic version, that makes easy the identification of the most prominent personalities and institutions of Cuban sciences, the exchange of experiences between specialists and entities, as well as the development of scientific studies in different disciplines. This repertoire, which is dedicated to information professionals, science intitutions and mass media, contains the registries of some 340 professionals working in the sector of health and environment. The limited number of personalities included in the repertoire is significant, taking into account the existance of multiple institutions and personalities in the country.

This interview was made in Valencia in a date marked by the social conflict in our country: 20J (day of the general strike of 20th June 2002). This circumstance motivated that the stay of Adriana Beancur in our city extended; for that reason, besides to offer the splendid conference us that appears published in this same number of MEI, it was possible to arrange an encounter that passed calm hroughout the following day.

Personal testimony of the Dra. Nelly Mac Kee during her work in the old National School of Librarians, founded on the city of Lima in 1943, and transferred to the University of San Marcos to become Professional Academic School.

This document –which title is: “An approximation to the life and work of Don Joaquín García Icazbalceta, writer, historian, and bibliographer, (1825-1894)”-- is only an approximation to the life and work of such connotated personage such as Don Joaquín García Icazbalceta. It is a research paper for the subject “Reference 4” of the 7th Semester of the Undergraduate Program in Library and Information Science at the School of Philosophy and Letters at the Nuevo Leon Autonomous University, in San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon, Mexico submitted to the lecturer Maria del Rosario Banda Martinez. The theme of this essay was chosen in function of the syllabus of this subject, Reference 4, and in this context should be considered its scope. I do not pretend to make new discoveries or to include everything about my character's life or work, for I am sure that I would fill up several books. Instead, what I try is to approximate to the most significant about him. And that is nothing but the fact that it was he one of the pioneers to rescue the most valuable of both our pre-hispanic and colonial past and to place with fairness the good that the colonization brought to Mexico. Being approached this keeping at bay any historical or current anti-Spaniard aboriginalist-driven prejudices, shamanisms, fatalisms, or any other mediocre reasonings. Talking about his life, I divided it as follows: descent; first infancy; exile to Spain; return to México and its intelectual influences; development and maturity and death. And if to his life I dedicated only a few pages, and more to his work, it was because the life of Don Joaquín García Icazbalceta is his work. As for his life section. I have divided in several subdivisions, each one correspond to the bibliographic sources from where I extracted records of my character or that in one way or the other talk about him. The main source (only from the ones that I consulted) will always be the Dictionary of Mexican Writers (Diccionario de escritores mexicanos) of Aurora M. Ocampo and Ernesto Prado Velázquez, and in second place the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Mexico (Diccionario Enciclopédico de México), but only because the largest number of titles of his work are cited there, and besides of being also well classified, arranged (specially the Dictionary of Mexican Writers). However those 2 works are not the most representative regarding to a more thorough and profound analytical and hermeneutic analysis as the works of Luis González, Agustín Millares Carlo and Carlos Pagaza, and also some how the work of Federico Gómez de Orozco.