THE PUBLISHING ACTIVITY OF THE BULGARIAN NATIONAL LIBRARY ST. ST. CYRIL AND METHODIUS

Abstract

An overview of the publishing activity of Bulgarian National Library St. St. Cyril and Methodius from 1897 to the present day is presented. In the period 1897–1944 the publishing output was very limited due to lack of sufficient experience and staff, funds, own printing house, Balkan Wars and World War I. After 9.09.1944, the Library became a national methodological center and a central scientific library. Important lists and bibliographic repertoires of Bulgarian literature have been published, and valuable manuscripts stored in the Bulgarian Historical Archive have been published for the first time. The editions in the period 1989–2020 are characterized by a variety of their thematic scope. By genre, these are lists, facsimile editions, bibliographic indexes. The National Library successfully fits into the global reading practices for publishing electronic editions, as well as in the digitization of rare and valuable documents. In recent years the Library has initiated the realization of innovative electronic publications, such as the notebooks of V. Levski, H. Botev and G. S. Rakovski. The facsimile edition of Under the Yoke novel dedicated to the 170th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Vazov is in preparation in 2020.