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Libraries in Moldova: The road to renewal in hard economic times

Anghelescu, Hermina G.B.; Bejan, Eugenia

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Title
Libraries in Moldova: The road to renewal in hard economic times
Author(s)
  • Anghelescu, Hermina G.B.
  • Bejan, Eugenia
Issue Date
2015
Keyword(s)
  • Post-Communism Development
  • History of Libraries
  • Russia--Libraries
  • Central and Eastern Europe--Libraries
Abstract
The transition from a communist to a democratic society has affected the entire social map of Moldova, including the library network. For over two and a half decades, Moldovan libraries have undergone major changes and reforms: from closed- to open-access stacks; from ideological institutions serving political platforms to public squares in support of democracy; from repositories of propaganda books to information centers serving the information needs of the communities they serve. This paper examines the changes in, and challenges faced by, Moldova’s libraries from 1991, the year that marks the country’s independence, to the present. Various projects— government-sponsored or assisted by international organizations, such as the Open Society Institute and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—are featured.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89838
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2015.0018
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Copyright (2015) Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 63 (4) Spring 2015: Libraries in a Postcommunist World: Part 2 PRIMARY
Library Trends 63 (4) Spring 2015: Libraries in a Postcommunist World: Part 2 Edited by Hermina G.B. Anghelescu