On May 22, a meeting of the librarians of the collection and scientific processing of documents together with the information and bibliographic department took place.
On May 22, a meeting of the librarians of the collection and scientific processing of documents together with the information and bibliographic department took place. Library workers discussed the list of standards of reference and information, library and publishing (valid in Ukraine as of 03.01.2018 g.).
Historical Reference:
It is known that the beginning of the work on the standardization of library business in librarianship literature dates back to the 1960's, although attempts to create the first standards were still in the 1920's and even earlier. So, at the end of the XIX century. libraries become more or less a mass phenomenon. It is during this period that there is a need to establish a common standard for certain types of library equipment (for example, a catalog card), the introduction of uniform rules for the compilation of a bibliographic description (in 1893 Ya. G. Kvaskov - the librarian of the Rumyantsev Museum).
So, it's safe to say that standardization in library business began with the standardization of the format of the card and the description of the publication. Today, the development of standards in the field of publishing and librarianship is one of the areas of scientific activity of the Book Chamber of Ukraine named after Ivan Fedorov.