Bìblìotečnij vìsnik (Jan 2023)
Reader`s face of the special fonds of the Central scientific library of the Academy of sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the late 1960s and 1970s
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to systematizes data about readers of the special storage department of the Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in the late 1960s and 1970s., to describe the directions of their research and to find out the peculiarities of the formation of scientific problems. Research methodology. The methods of analysis and synthesis were used to write the article, historical and comparative were used to characterize the scientific achievements of readers and changes in their interests in different years, statistical were used to determine the number of readers and their visits, etc. Scientific novelty. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the study of the field of scientific interests of visitors of the special fond of the Central Scientific Library is being conducted for the first time. Previously not promulgated sources were involved for this process. The main sources for writing the article were the journals of registration of readers and given out literature during 1969, 1969-1974s, 1976-1978s, preserved among the internal documentation of the department of foreign Ukrainica studies of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, which became the successor of the special fonds. Conclusions. The special storage department of the Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR did not work for a wide range of visitors, as it kept literature, prohibited by censorship. Many users of the library were not even aware of its existence. It had peculiar rules for giving out books, which could not be carried out without the prior permission of the directorate of the library or the Academy of Sciences. The publications of the special fonds were used for writing counterpropaganda works by researchers in the field of humanities and social sciences. Although we are aware of not rare examples of the working up materials by conscientious scientists who tried to create objective science, contrary to the tasks of the party leadership. Research directions of the readers of the special storage department shed light on the development of Ukrainian science in the USSR, which suffered repeated oppressions in connection with the "Block" operation of 1972.
