Bibliographic Index of the Contents of the Journal “Bibliotekovedenie”. To the 70th Anniversary of the Periodical

In 2022, the Publishing House “Pashkov Dom” of the Russian State Library released the bibliographic work “Journal ‘Bibliotekovedenie’: Index of Contents 1952—2021”. The publication was prepared by the Research Department of Bibliography of the Russian State Library for the 70th anniversary of the scientific and practical journal. The article briefly describes all the milestones of the leading professional publication: from the periodical scientific collection “Libraries of the USSR. Work experience” up to the contemporary journal “Bibliotekovedenie”. Materials of the periodical have significant scientific value. The compilers of the bibliographic index ordered and systematized publications, as well as characterized previous similar works — cumulative in-journal indexes of contents and the only index of 1984 until 2022 published by the V.I. Lenin State Library of the USSR. The author highlights the number of differences between the previous indexes dedicated to the journal and the 2022 edition, among them are the completeness of coverage of the material, the structure and methodology of systematization, the availability of reference apparatus, etc. The reference apparatus of the new edition consists of five auxiliary indexes (index of names, personalia, library and information organizations, peer-reviewed publications and library and information serials). The book includes four reference appendices (the list of editors-in-chief, members of the editorial board and the editorial council; bibliographic list of publications about the journal in the professional press; the list of acronyms of library and information organizations; the list of bibliographic sources). In the process of compiling the index, the compilers encountered difficulties at the stage of grouping the material. Over the entire period of the journal existence, publishing standards and drawing up of the publication have changed many times. The compilers executed the painstaking work to identify the authorship of individual publications, as well as the identity in the names of repeatedly renamed library and information organizations, and to reveal data on the personalia mentioned in the articles. The article gives the examples of drawing up of the index. The index of publications of the main professional periodical from 1952 to 2021 reflects the processes of development of science, evolution, transformation of scientific knowledge and makes the basis for the work of researchers at present, being the significant mechanism of scientific activity.