National projects as an adaptation tool employed by rural libraries: the case of the Kaliningrad region
This article considers the socio-cultural and social activities of rural libraries from the perspective of social geography and geography of culture. Globalisation, erosion of local cultural values and blurred spatial boundaries between socio-cultural communities render research endeavours in the fields of social geography ...
Library collections and publishing according to Pliny the Younger
In Rome, libraries played the role of cultural centres and were closely linked with publishing. The latter was a subject of correspondence between Pliny the Younger and Suetonius. The way to the birth of a book is complicated: writing, recitation, reference-review,...
