Czechoslovakia in Bibliography : A Bibliography of Bibliographies MILOSLAV RECHCIGL, JR. INTRODUCTION Despite the great emphasis which has been placed on Slavic studies in the United States during the last few years, very little attention has been devoted, so far, to Slavic and East European bibliography as a whole. The first monograph devoted to Slavic bibliography was written by Robert J. Kerner1 in 1916, at a time when bibliographical services in most of Slavic Europe had not yet been fully established. The second publication in English,2 an offprint from the Bulletin of the N. Y. Public Library, which appeared thirty-one years later, is merely a list of about 100 English-language bibliographies in the collection of the New York Public Library. More recent bibliographical monographs in English, such as those by John T. Dorosh,3 Karol Maichel,4 or Paul L. Horecky5 have been restricted to Russia and the Soviet Union. There is one German publication on East European bibliography, Die Bibliographie in den europäischen Ländern der Volksdemokratien. Entwicklung und gegenwärtiger Stand,6 written by East European scholars. Similar publications have appeared in Bulgarian7 and in Russian.8 1 The Foundations of Slavic Bibliography (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1916), 39 p. 2 Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library, A Bibliography of Slavonic Bibliography in English (New York, N.Y. Public Library, 1947), 11 p. 3 Guide to Soviet Bibliographies. A Selected List of References (Washington, U.S. Library of Congress, 1950), 158 p. 4 Guide to Russian Books. Vol. I. General Bibliographies and Reference Books, J. S. G. Simmons (ed.) (= Hoover Institution Bibliographical Series X.) (Stanford, 1962), 92 p. 6 Basic Russian Publications. An Annotated Bibliography on Russia and the Soviet Union (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1962); Russia and the Soviet Union. A Bibliographic Guide to Western-Language Publications (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1965). 6 Leipzig, VEB Verlag für Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, 1960, 165 p. ' Bibliografijata v SSSR i stranite s narodna demokracija (Sofija, Nauka i izkustvo, 1953), 110 p. 8 Bibliograficeskie istocniki tekuscego komplektovanija literatury stran narodnoj 1694 Czechoslovakia in Bibliography However, these monographs have a rather limited scope, since most of them cover national bibliographies of the East European countries only since World War II. This is also true of the recent Soviet serial publica- tion, Bibliotekovedenie i bibliografija za rubezom,9 which devotes con- siderable space to surveys of contemporary East European bibliography. Until now, therefore, Western scholars seeking Slavic bibliographies have had to depend primarily on general and international bibliographies. There are some good publications of this type, such as those by Georg Schneider,10 Hanns Bohatta and Franz Hodes,11 Louise-Noël Malclès,12 G. G. Kricevskij,13 K. R. Simon,14 Theodore Bestermann,15 and others, but their coverage of the Slavic and East European area is quite limited and the entries are not always accurate. The frequent omission of the original diacritical marks characteristic of the various Slavic languages, coupled with occasional errors in spelling, also lessens the usefulness of these bibliographies. The author has undertaken the compilation of this bibliography in order to fill — at least partially — the gap which has so long existed in this field. To my knowledge, this is the first comprehensive (although necessarily selective) bibliography of bibliographies on Czechoslovakia to be published in the Western hemisphere. Even in Czechoslovakia today, in fact, there exists no comprehensive, up-to-date bibliography, although plans had been made to publish an exhaustive bibliography of Czech bibliographies as early as 1961.16 demokratii (Leningrad, Gosudarstvennaja publicnaja biblioteka, 1954), 85 p.; I. V. Gudovscikova, Bibliografija v evropejskich stranach narodnoj demokratii (Leningrad, Leningradskij gosudarstvennyj bibliotecnyj institut, 1960), 92 p. 9 Vol. Iff. (Moskva, 1958). 10 Handbuch der Bibliographie, 4th ed. (Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1930), 674 p. 11 Internationale Bibliographie der Bibliographien (Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, 1950), 652 p. 12 Les sources du travail bibliographique (Genève-Lille-Paris, Droz-Giard-Minard, 1950-1958), 3 vols. 13 Obscie bibliografii zarubeznych stran (Moskva, Izdatelstvo vsesojuznoj kniznoj palaty, 1962), 292 p. 14 Istorija inostrannoj bibliografii (Moskva, Izdatelstvo vsesojuznoj kniznoj palaty, 1963), 736 p. 15 A World Bibliography of Bibliographies and Bibliographical Catalogues, Calendars, Abstracts, Digests, Indexes, and the Like, 4th ed. (Lausanne, Societas Bibliographica, 1965). 16 Milos Papirnik, Bibliografie ceskych bibliografii. Cited in: Ceskd bibliografie v roce 1957. Prehled plânovanych bibliografickych publikaci (Praha, Nârodni knihovna, 1957), p. 15. Czechoslovakia in Bibliography 1695 As far as I have been able to learn, there is only one paper in the English language devoted specifically to Czechoslovak bibliography, i.e., that by Karol Maichel.17 It is a short historical survey, restricted to bibliographies published in Czechoslovakia and covering primarily the national current and retrospective bibliography. More limited in scope is a pamphlet by Jozef Kuzmik18 concerning the Slovak retrospective and current bibliography. The relevant chapters, in French and English, respectively, on the Czechoslovak national bibliography, in Malclès' Les sources du travail bibliographique19 and UNESCO's Bibliographical Services Throughout the World20 are mere outlines. Some of the recently published selective bibliographies on Czechoslovakia21 also list the most important bibliographies on Czechoslovakia, but the scope of these publications did not allow adequate coverage. There is one good historical survey of Czechoslovak bibliography, covering the years from 1945 to 1961, written in German, by Heinrich Jilek.22 The same period was also covered by two Czechoslovak authors, Jaroslav Drtina and Jozef Kuzmik, in a chapter contributed to the above-mentioned East German monograph, Die Bibliographie in den europäischen Ländern der Volksdemokratie.23 The development of contemporary Czechoslovak bibliography (from 1936 to 1960) is the subject of a chapter in French by M. Kudelâsek and V. Myska, in 25 ans d'historiographie tchécoslovaque.2i A description of contem- porary Czechoslovak bibliography is also available in Russian.25 17 "Czechoslovak National Bibliography: A Historical Sketch", College and Research Libraries, 18 (1957), pp. 269-274. 18 Slovak Bibliography in the Past and Present (Martin, Matica slovenskâ, 1955). 19 Op. cit., Vol. I. Bibliographies générales, pp. 294-296. 20 See, especially, the 5th Annual Report, 1956. R. L. Collison (ed.) (Paris, UNESCO, 1958), pp. 42-47. 21 Oldrich Cerny, Czechoslovakia. A Selected Bibliography with a Brief Historical Survey. M. S. Thesis (Washington, D.C., The Catholic University of America, 1959), 119 p.; Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr., Czechoslovakia and its Arts and Sciences: A Selective Bibliography in the Western European Languages. Offprint from The Czechoslovak Contribution to World Culture. Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr., ed. (The Hague-Paris-London, Mouton and Co., 1964), 79 p. 22 "Die Entwicklung der Bibliographie in der Tschechoslowakei nach 1945", Zeit- schrift für Ostforschung, 11 (1962), pp. 124-143. 23 Op. cit., pp. 89-131. 24 "Bibliographie, imprimerie, bibliothèques", in: 25 ans d'historiographie tchéco- slovaque, 1936-1960 (Praha, Ceskoslovenskâ akademie vëd, 1960), pp. 37-48. 25 Mylnikov, A. S., "Nekotorye certy sovremennoj cechoslovackoj bibliografii", Bibliotekovedenie i bibliografija za rubezom, 5 (1960), pp. 119-144; Kaloeva, I. A., Bibliografija cesskich i slovackich bibliografij o Cechoslovakii. Lit. opublik. v 1945-1960 gg. (Moskva, Akademija nauk SSSR, Fundamentalnaja biblioteka obscestv. nauk, 1962), 38 p. 1696 Czechoslovakia in Bibliography There are a number of bibliographical publications and historical surveys, in Czech or Slovak, concerning a specific period or area of Czechoslovak bibliography. These are listed in the appropriate section of the present bibliography. For an overall view of bibliography in contemporary Czechoslovakia, a chapter by L. J. 2ivny26 and mono- graphs by J. Drtina,27 M. L. Cerna,28 and J. Kuzmik29 are especially recommended. It is beyond the scope of this introduction to describe the development of bibliography in Czechoslovakia. Scholars interested in the historical aspects of Czechoslovak bibliography are referred to recent publications of Jiri Kabrt,30 which describe in detail the development of bibliography in the Czech Lands from earliest times up to the 18th century. Katarina Ruttkayovà31 wrote a comparable monograph on the history of biblio- graphy in Slovakia. In addition, two Czechoslovak periodicals on bibliography, Ceskà bibliografie32 and Bibliograficky sbornik,33 devote considerable space to historical aspects of Czech and Slovak biblio- graphy. The present bibliographer has tried to include the most important bibliographies published in Czechoslovakia or anywhere else, regardless of language, as long as they concern Czechoslovakia. The bibliography has been planned in two parts. The first, which appears here, contains general bibliographies and related reference materials. The second part, concerning specialized bibliographies, will be published at a later date. For the sake of simplicity and uniformity, citations, for