AXIS LIBRI 1 3rd issue, 2nd year, June, 2009 AXIS LIBRI Hail to Axis Libri by a great writer When the linden trees are blooming they bring good luck to the book lover I am happy to find out that the city I was born in, Galaţi, that is now about to be covered in the immortal smell of the linden trees, is now richer with another literary magazine, AXIS LIBRI. I do hope that this magazine will make young people like I ���������� �������������������������� ��������������������forget the famous verse of Barbu Nemţeanu: „Galaţi, a terrible city of merchants/A place where ������������ ������������ ������������ �������� ��������������� ����� � ������ ��� �������� � ������ � �� � ����������� � ����� � � � ������ �the �� � ���������poet is � ��as � ����in Sodoma…” � � � ������� � ����� ��� ���� � !�"#�$� More%���&���������� � ���� � ���������������� �� ���� ���������� ���������������������������� ������" ��� than that, the Galaţi of the last years of the 20th century � %���� ����'� � �������������� ���������������(�)������������������� ��� ���� $$$*$ gave to literature+�� ����������� � ��������������� ��������������� ������������� �������,��� �������������������$ some brilliant quills. I am convinced that this � magazine, ��������������� � ���� � ������������������� ������"�������� �'-$�$�.���/� *�� � �� �������,���� issued by the „V.A. Urechia” Library will attract to the � ���������������� ���� ���� ��������������� ����� � ���� �� �� ������ ������� ��� ������� �������������� field �� ������ ���� ��0��&$�1������������������� �+����� ����2����������3����������� �����������3������� ��of letters many young talented writers that will el, in time, the � city of���� ������$ Galaţi at the literary fame level of other cities, like Cluj or Iaşi. It is the right of the people from The Lower Danube to dream beautifully and I wish you good luck with all my heart. 0������������ Friendly yours, Bucharest, 30th of April, 2009 "����������45� �������6557 2 AXIS LIBRI 3rd issue, 2nd year, June, 2009 Editorial Time of anew are more attractive and comprising, the integration in the life of the community is more active and effective both for the librarians and the users. The three publications that are being edited, Axis Libri (cultural), The Association (professional) and The Urechia Foundation Bulletin (of specialty) made positive the advertising of the Library and certified at the same time the professional quality of the staff. All these are reasons for hope and optimism. We can only be saved through culture, finding through information and knowledge (and the Library is good provider of that) alternatives to the problems the modern society has to face. This context being given, the challenge The Library has to face is the amplification of its role in This is May…it’s spring time! the attraction it should pose for the potential public And this brings with it the organic need of in the implementation of the authentic democracy. refreshing, becoming anew, of change…A new To do this we need collaborations, close partnerships breath of moist soil and clear sky floods everything that would provide fully comprising public platform that is new, exacerbating the will to come into the meant to give value to the citizens’ involvement in light of the fruit of everything that was accumulated the local set of problems. in time from those who gave themselves to us The library of the future will improve the fulfilling themselves and making us richer. communications’ dynamic continuing to function The Library, space for information, research, self also as a humanizing and personalizing space of the formation, meditation and loisir, a fundamental axis relationships with its users. for the cultural eternity of a people, has to…in full Are we able to mold our competencies and economical, financial but also values’ crisis… adapt performances on the coordinates of the futuristic to the mutations produced in our civilization. prognoses? This is the question we have to learn „Culture alone can make the world better” said how to answer. C. Noica. By extrapolation we can say: The Library We are on our way of doing that, through makes the world better, wiser, more responsible, it maintaining and the amplifying of the dialogue can actively participate through the specific services with the community; through the diversification of at the development of democracy and the increase our services to the population as close as possible of the social capital. to the highly populated areas; through attracting as This optimistic credo of ours motivated us in many new users as possible who need our data base; everything we did and we believe that the results trough promoting our programmes, our services are proof for that. We multiplied and extended our and collections; thorough identifying new ways collaborations and we established fruitful links and methods of analysis; thorough technological with other cultural institutions locally, nationally renewal, through the transformation of the and internationally (the Republic of Moldova, professional profile of the librarian. Ukraine, Canada, and USA). The services rendered This is the way we wish to materialize in a new diversified and increased in quality, the educational spring set of clothes, the projects and programmes -formative activities and the cultural manifestations Prof. Zanfir Ilie, manager of the May, 2009 V.A. Urechia County Library, Galaţi 3 3rd issue, 2nd year, June, 2009 AXIS LIBRI From the life of County Library ”V.A.Urechia” From the life of County Library ”V.A.Urechia” 2 AXIS LIBRI 3rd issue, 2nd year, June, 2009 From the life of County Library ”V.A.Urechia” From the life of County Library ”V.A.Urechia” 3 3rd issue, 2nd year, June, 2009 AXIS LIBRI From the life of County Library ”V.A.Urechia” T r i b u t e t o V.A.Urechia Pictures from the manifestations on the occasion of the Librarian’s Day in Romania from the V.A. Urechia County Library: - The annual meeting of librarians from the public libraries in Galaţi county - The V.A.Urechia Library Awards festivity - Book Launch „Dulce, disperată melancolie” by Ilie Tănăsache - Future as seen by children (OSIM) - Gifts from the light of books - Donations from the V.A. Urechia Library to the school, penitentiary and NGOs. We mention that at the same time as our celebrations of the Librarian’s day In Romania by our institution on the 23rd of April, In the V.A. Urechia Library and in the rest of the country there were also celebrated: The Interna- tional Book day and of the Copyright and the Christian celebration of Saint George. Other aspects and pictures from the celebrations of the Librarian’s Day can be found on the library’s site: www.bvau.ro in the events/news section. 4 AXIS LIBRI 3rd issue, 2nd year, June, 2009 From the life of County Library ”V.A.Urechia” T r i b u t e t o V.A.Urechia Localia The Urechia Year Vasile Alexandrescu Urechia (1834-1901) 175 years from the scholar’s birthday The portrait of a man of culture (I) „Does a rich Romanian want to make his name immortal? To link it to the fame of advancing the Romanian culture?” (V.A.Urechia,1900) C u l t i v a t e d students”. Appreciated by most of his contemporaries, intellectual, of mocked by others, lacking the sparkle most of them encyclopedic formation, had, V.A. Urechia is still in the Romanian culture V.A. Urechia devotedly because of the honesty of his work as a historian Valentina Oneț and enthusiastically specialized in documents, through his huge effort served the Romanian to gather sources for a fund as rich as possible of Culture for half a century, driven by the notion Dacian-Roman documents, through his bibliophile of Romanian nation, statement of the national generosity. identity, nation unity, Latin origins, he defended the V.A. Urechia is one of the founders of the principle of Latin origin of the people and language, „Ateneul român” society in Iaşi (1860) along with supported the creation of a confederation of Latin M. Kogălniceanu and in Bucharest (1865) along origin countries reason why he was named by the with C. Esarcu, being in most part the author poet A. Roque Ferrier „the great of their regulations Latin of Romania”. following the models of A contemporary of the giants of similar associations he Romanian culture, M. Eminescu, saw in Madrid, Turin, B.P. Haşdeu, Al. Odobescu, M. Paris and he also was a Kogălniceanu, I.L. Caragiale, V. very active lecturer on Alecsandri, the scholar V.A. Urechia history and literature crossed the epoch of Modern until his last year of life, Romania formation starting with 1901. In the volume the Union of The Principalities till „Documents and the beginning of the 20th century National Celebration of with the Romantic structure of his the inauguration of the generation. He had an intense activity, society for the grammar in many fields of culture, convinced and glossary of the that he is a usefully servant of that. In Romanian language” a 1942 bibliography, the specialist in (1867), the birth of documents Alex. Iordan found 626 The Literary Romanian titles of printed materials, lectures, Society, the future newspaper articles signed by V.A. Romanian Academy Urechia in the next fields: history, is described step by biographies, literary criticism, philology, culture, step by V.A. Urechia (1879). Since 1865, general education, arts, literature, politics and others. director of the Department of the Cults and Public In 1868, Iosif Vulcan introduced him in his Education, V.A. Urechia is named member of the magazine, „Familia”, as one of „those rare men Romanian Literary association „for the culture of who through their talents and diverse works meant the language” among the first 21 personalities of the to spread the lights and the national ideas all over Romanian culture alongside G. Bariţ, T. Cipariu, B.P. Romania made himself a name cherished and Haşdeu, A.T. Laurian, I.Eliade Rădulescu,… and will beloved by all Romanians especially the young represent alongside V. Alecsandri and C. Negruzzi, 5 3rd issue, 2nd year, June, 2009 AXIS LIBRI T r i b u t e t o V.A.Urechia the Romanian province Moldavia, „Romania from to Walachian liberals grouped around C.A.