Information service experiences technological changes – expanding possibilities for data retrieving and storing, the process also involves rising remands from the users. Library services has to change to meet the changing need of users. Bibliography – the basis of international intellectual cooperation (EC Richardson, 1939) – still Personal bibliography – instrument to draw a historical portrait of a person, institution, field of science Personal bibliography – a core for prosopography in a history of science

1. Dr. Birutė Railienė,
b.railiene@gmail.com
The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
26th Baltic Conference in History of Science 'Science as Profession'
Helsinki, August 21- 22, 2014

2. The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps.
But Biography is about chaps
Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Biography for
Beginners (1905)
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bentley1.html

3. Bibliography is about books, articles...
later – about all published, and now – about all
accesible information, relevant to the index

4. Bibliography for a person
[institution, branch of science, idea, etc.]
is a starting point to know,
a way of conduct,
a source for study,
an instrument to commemorate

5. Methodology of personal bibliographical index
 Tradition (institution, copiler, publisher)
 Qualification (compiler)
 Conception (compiler, person of interest)

6.  Biography
 Selected works
 Memoirs
 Bibliography of records
◦ By person
◦ Iconography
◦ About person
 Name index

7. A scholar
His/hers pupils, followers
Historians of science
Science policy makers

8. Documenting a personal scholarly input
provides data for:
 Social network
 Institutional datasets
 Archive
 Bibliography

9.  Isolation from the frontier sourcfes of
information
 Relying on secondary information sources
 Selection of material

10.  Personal bibliography by country (national
library OPAC, UDK – 012)
 Estonia 351 (data by Mare Kurvet)
 Latvia (data missing)
 Lithuania 818 (LNB.lt)

14.  Institutional scientific reports - NO
 An attachemnt to a CV - NO
 An index to a file of copies? – NO
 Prosopography – YES, and even more

15.  Prosopograhy – a study that identifies and
relates a group of persons or characters
within a particular historical or literary
context (Merriam-Webster dictionary)
 Prosopography is based on structured
biographical data; it should not be confused
with biography.

16.  Prosopograhy embodies bibliographical data
with the links to documents (original, digital,
etc.)

17.  Prosopograhy reports all the information on
such persons that is contained in the
different sources (such as chronicles, letters,
saints' lives, legal documents as well as other
texts like inscriptions and seals) and lists the
respective sources (Prosopography of the
Middle-Byzantine Period)

18. http://telota.bbaw.de/pmbz/

19. http://prosopography.modhist.ox.ac.uk/tutorial/tutorial_1.htm

21. : contributions of
mediaevalists and
modernists on the use of
computer in historical
research.
Garant, 1995 - 218 p.

22.  http://www.personendaten.org/

23. http://www.personendaten.org/

24.  Bibliography – the basis of international
intellectual cooperation (EC Richardson,
1939) – still

25.  Bibliography – the basis of international
intellectual cooperation (EC Richardson,
1939) – still
 Personal bibliography – instrument to draw a
historical portrait of a person, institution,
field of science

26.  Bibliography – the basis of international
intellectual cooperation (EC Richardson,
1939) – still
 Personal bibliography – instrument to draw a
historical portrait of a person, institution,
field of science

27.  Bibliography – the basis of international
intellectual cooperation (EC Richardson,
1939) – still
 Personal bibliography – instrument to draw a
historical portrait of a person, institution,
field of science
 Personal bibliography – a core for
prosopography in a history of science

28.  Success of application – a thorough and
precise bibliographical performance +
scientific seeking

29.  Additional information to the curious

30. Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo
What is not written, does not exist

31. Richardson, Ernest Cushing. Bibliography – the
basis of international intellectual cooperation
// Proceedings of the Second Convention of
International American Bibliographical and
Library Association. – New York, 1939, p. 42-
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