Mari bibliologi români la Literele bucureștene. Galerie de portrete în revista Biblioteca

Each scholarly journal has its own history, linked to the field it represents, and each of them owes its evolution and development to generations of specialists – theorists and practitioners – shapers of schools, directions, currents, professional organizations. Biblioteca: revistă de bibliologie și știința informării (in en.: Library: Journal of Bibliology and Information Science ) has been used as a space for information and professional debate by generations of bibliologists, who have written articles that have become fundamental texts in the field. Founded in 1948, since when it has been published continuously, the publication has remained open to professionals in all types of libraries and information and documentation institutions. Known colloquially as " Biblioteca journal", the publication represents, above all, a symbol of the Romanian librarianship profession, a form of consistency, resistance and adaptation to times, people, transformations, an eyewitness of the evolution of Romanian librarianship whose destiny can be reconstructed by browsing through its pages. The aim of the article is to evoke three personalities, graduates of the University of Bucharest – Faculty of Letters: Dan Simonescu, Barbu Theodorescu and Mircea Tomescu, who have added cultural, scientific and professional value to Biblioteca, bringing outstanding contributions to the Romanian librarianship. Intellectuals, theorists and practitioners alike, they have worked in Romanian libraries, producing a wide variety of specialized works, making efforts to organize and modernize the institutions in which they worked and which, for a time, they also managed. They were pioneers, teachers, tutors and trained several generations of specialists, bibliophiles, bibliologists and librarians. The three personalities briefly evoked in the article – Dan Simonescu, Barbu Theodorescu, Mircea Tomescu – are part of the gallery of great names who graduated the University of Bucharest – Faculty of Letters.