The principles used in the compilation of the bibliography of the »Vjesnik Historijskih arhiva u Rijeci i Pazinu«, vols. 1-30 (Pazin-Rijeka 1989)

Abstract

The A. describes, in a few chapters, the main principles used in the compilation of the bibliography of thirty volumes of the »Vjesnik HARP« (published as the 31st volume of the series). She exposes the questions and problems that arose in that work, with the use of many examples. She stresses the endeavour to restore a balance between principles and the real data. After the introduction in which the A briefly describes the history of the journal, why it was founded, its thematical profile, she analyzes the bibliography. She deals with the aims of the bibliography, with the scheme (the bibliographical material is divided according to the contents) and the structure of the bibliography. The latter chapter is divided into several sub-sections according to the main scheme of the bibliography. These sub-sections are: a review of the main scientific branches, introductory notes, the part of the bibliography with the description of bibliographic units and indexes. The sub-section with the description of bibliographic units is the most extensively explained. It deals with elements of the description, punctuation marks, the disposition of bibl. units inside various groups and terms of reference. Particular attention is given to the principles of selecting the scientific branches, and the assignation of single units to specific branches. These criteria are mainly the contents and the characteristics of the classification system (UDC), but there are other as well. Such other criteria are e. g. what the public could expect, the number of units related to a specific subject, the needs of the journal as a scientific medium. There are other topics that are discussed, such as the level of classification, the terms used for naming various scientific branches, the reasons and usefulness of putting together composite groups, notes-comments. At the end there are the indexes: the alphabetic index of scientific branches, the index of authors and the index of subjects.