{"id":10100,"date":"2026-11-11T17:01:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/?p=10100"},"modified":"2026-11-11T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T15:01:47","slug":"the-celebration-of-the-university-librarys-138th-anniversary-brought-together-the-past-and-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/?p=10100&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The celebration of the University Library’s 138th anniversary brought together the past and the future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To mark the 138th anniversary of the University Library, Assoc. Prof. Bilyana Yavrukova \u2013 Director of the Library \u2013 traced its historic path and praised the efforts of Prof. Alexander Teodorov Balan, Prof. Lyubomir Miletich and Acad. Stoyan Argirov towards the library\u2019s establishment and development. Speaking about the first librarians and the library\u2019s achievements over the years, Assoc. Prof. Yavrukova shared the idea of organising a dedicated space, which would showcase the history and activities of a different library department or service each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first themed display is dedicated to catalogues and cataloguing at the University Library. The display cases feature methodological guidelines and instructions used over the years, as well as archive photographs and items from the cataloguers\u2019 daily work \u2013 a typewriter, a catalogue drawer and various other tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition focuses on the earliest rules for bibliographic description, compiled by the long-serving director of the University Library, Acad. Stoyan Argirov, and a catalogue of early printed works designed as a notebook with replaceable pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A chronicle of the development of cataloguing practice at the University Library is also displayed \u2013 starting with the formulation of the first rules for describing library resources, continuing with the internal rules for catalogue description within the integrated library and information system ALEPH 500, and concluding with the International Standard for Bibliographic Description \u2013 Consolidated Edition (ISBD), introduced in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following the presentation of the thematic section \u2018Catalogues and Cataloguing at the \u201cSt. Kliment Ohridski\u201d University Library\u2019, Assoc. Prof. Yavrukova highlighted the library\u2019s achievements and success in the field of digitising cultural and scientific heritage and its support for Open Science at Sofia University. In order to promote the digitisation processes and the organisation of digital content, the \u2018Digitise with Us!\u2019 initiative was organised at the start of the academic year. Five participants were selected by lottery from among those who had expressed interest, and they will take part in a hands-on training course organised by the \u2018Digitisation, Scientific Databases and Services\u2019 department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To mark the 138th anniversary of the University Library, Assoc. Prof. Bilyana Yavrukova \u2013 Director of the Library \u2013 traced its historic path and praised the efforts of Prof. Alexander Teodorov Balan, Prof. Lyubomir Miletich and Acad. Stoyan Argirov towards the library\u2019s establishment and development. Speaking about the first librarians …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10111,"href":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions\/10111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libsu.uni-sofia.bg\/UB\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}