Books of Ukraine in the mirror of the state bibliography (according to materials of database of the state bibliography "Book Chronicle" 2019)

The system of bibliographic information of the Book Chamber of Ukraine, based on the receipt of mandatory copies of printed materials, comprehensively covers various types of domestic printed materials and serves as an exhaustive basis for the creation and publication of state bibliographic indexes. The most important component of the current state bibliography is the "Book Chronicle", which contains comprehensive bibliographic information about books and brochures published in Ukraine from all fields of knowledge: scientific, popular science, educational, reference, religious, official, socio-political, production and practical, literary, artistic and popular publications for children and youth, etc. Current trends in the development of the publishing industry, science and culture necessitate bibliometric analysis of the database of the state bibliography of book editions "Book Chronicle". The proposed analytical review covers the thematic distribution of publications in the database for 2019, which contains 17 634 bibliographic records, according to UDC classes. A comparative analysis of the number of publications by sections of the UDC in order to determine the thematic focus of book publishing in Ukraine in 2019 in accordance with the branches of science. The analysis revealed that most of the records belong to classes 0, 3, 6 and 8 — 13 942 titles, or 79% of the total number of publications in 2019 — works of art and literature and books on education, law, economics, medicine, science; the remaining sections together account for less than half of all database records — 21%, or 3692 records.