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In 2022, Professor Ke Ping's History of Chinese Bibliography was published, which covered the development and evolution of bibliography from the Spring and Autumn period to the Republic of China period, with the characteristics of inheriting tradition, discovering new historical materials and scientific analysis, made up for some deficiencies in the study of bibliography history since the 1930s. strengthened the academic status of the field of Chinese bibliography history and became a new benchmark for bibliography history research. At the same time, the book can also be continuously improved, such as expanding the scope of historical figures and dynasties, and strengthening the connection between the history of bibliography and the history of science and technology, and the history of ideas. On the whole, the book is of guiding significance for scholars to review the history, explore the future and consolidate the development of the discipline, and has practical value for inheriting the Chinese cultural heritage and promoting cultural self-confidence and self-improvement, [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The constant technological revolution that we have been witnessing for decades has affected all forms of communication and, consequently, has also involved the ‘recorded communication’ that pertains to bibliographic thought and action. Since the end of the nineteenth century and especially since the first decades of the twentieth century, this has led to a process of change in the structure of all scientific disciplines, including Bibliography. This process has had two fundamental consequences for bibliography: on the one hand, it has meant that bibliography as a meta-discipline is endowed with new instruments of investigation; on the other, it changed the disciplinary scope of bibliography itself, to the point where it has found itself specialised in a number of other derived disciplines. The need to clarify what happened is particularly felt in Italy, where even in the last century the documentary and bibliographical disciplines had an important development and debate, but it is also widely felt in the rest of the European context and beyond, as demonstrated by recent occasions of international scientific and conference comparison and as highlighted by some of the recent Italian studies of Bibliography and Information Sciences. In this contribution we discuss a methodological hypothesis to investigate the problem. In particular, it is argued that the solution to the problem is to be searched in a new methodological approach that includes both a qualitative survey of the main sources of the discipline in the Italian context – i.e., the traditional survey method of Bibliography – and a quantitative investigation necessarily conducted with the decisive help of the application of Linked Data technology to the most recent production of the discipline. The twofold approach would allow to give a concrete start to this disciplinary arrangement, reconstructing the most recent process of metamorphosis, identifying the junctions and the forms (methodologies, tools, and objectives) both in diachronic and synchronic terms.

We are witnessing a dangerous departure from the history of the book towards sociology, of the bibliography towards the information sciences. Instead, the two disciplines must reclaim their identity. How can they do it? Reconnecting, each in its own way, to the materiality of the book. Intellectual production, in fact, is expressed through the creation of articulated objects (books) which, on paper or through bits (sometimes both together), themselves dictate the conditions for their access.

Taking the volume by Maria and Marina Bersano Begey La Polonia in Italia published in 1949, as a starting point, we review some of the main bibliographic contributions published in Italy concerning cultural relations with Poland. The three volumes of the Bibliografia critica of Sebastiano Ciampi published in Florence between 1834 and 1842 can be considered a distinguished antecedent of this book. Alongside the names of the Begeys are those of Arturo Cronia, Enrico Damiani, Jitka Křesálková and Pietro Marchesani who, at different times, have drawn up bibliographic references, with the aim of promoting a better knowledge of Polish culture in Italy. The works of these scholars represent an example that should be imitated and followed constantly, given the importance that bibliographies have in order to encourage mutual knowledge among peoples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The activities of the Petrograd / Leningrad Institute of bibliology in the field of literary bibliography is shown. The history of bibliographication of Chekhov's works.

This paper advocates the point of view that the history of modern Chinese bibliography should be decided during the period from 1840 to 1949. Modern bibliography is the link between the classical and the current and plays a connecting role. Therefore, organizing the academic heritage of the studies on modern theoretical bibliography has eminent academic and practical values. This author discusses the issue from the following perspectives: the establishment of the discipline status of bibliography, the definition of the research object, the reinforcement of the social role, the absorption of' the essence of classical Endeavour, and the important innovation of the research method per se. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The autonomy, imposed by the knowledge accumulated in time, progressively at the beginning, exponentially afterwards, in the infinite memory of mankind has challenged the need for systematizing the information. In the Romanian society the call for bibliographies has grown perpetually from the first manifestations through theory and standardizations, following the ever-increasing flow of documents and the degree of complexity and diversity of the interests in having a better understanding of man and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]