NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
ROMANIA
For a detailed history about the compiling of national bibliographies in Romania see Theodorescu B., Istoria bibliografiei romane, Bucuresti, Editura enciclopedica romana, 1972 and Cornelius Dima-Dragen, Das Rumänische Buch- und Bibliothekswesen, Wien, 1980.
The first Romanian printed bibliographies are to be found in the periodicals Curierul Romanesc (Bucharest, 1829), Albina Romaneasca (Jassy, 1829) and Gazeta Transilvaniei (Brasov, 1838). Bibliographical information was also present in calendars and almanacs, the most popular periodical of that time in Central Europe. But the first bibliographical monthly publication came out only in 1879 under the title Bibliografia romana. Buletin mensual al Librarie Romane generale din Romania si al librariei romane din strainatate. It came out till 1890, with some interruptions. An alternative title for that time was the journal Convorbiri literare. For the period 1866-1904 see also the yearly publication of the Romanian Academy Analele Academiei Romane (some issues at Berkeley). These early bibliographies cannot be considered national bibliographies, because they did not appear regularly and were not complete.
In April 1901 a law prescribed that all the books and manuscripts belonging to the Central Library of Bucharest should be given to the Romanian Academy, which would incorporate them in its collection. With this, the Biblioteca Academiei Romane officially became the National Library. This institution was meant to be the national official depository of Romania. In 1903 the bibliographer Nerva Hodos started the publication of the journal Revista bibliografica (1903-1905) (New York Public Library is the only institution in US that holds it).
After the I WW valuable bibliographies were published as a supplements to periodicals, first in Buletinul cartii (1924-1926) and then in the newspaper Universul literar (from 1926). The lack of a real systematic national bibliography was overcome through bulletins published by some editors, particularly by the publishing house Cartea romaneasca.
For the time after the II WW the work which is more similar to a national bibliography is the Romanian bibliography compiled by D.Panaitescu-Perpessicius and published in the journal Orizont (1945-1947).
Bibliographies
Cresterea colectiunilor,
Bucuresti: Biblioteca Academiei Romane, 1907-1919.
UIUC Call Number: Romanian Reference A858Aclc (1906-1919).
No institutions in the US holds the volumes from 1920 to 1942, scholars interested in them should refer to the Regional Library Network for Central and Northern Germany (http://z3950gw.dbf.ddb.de). The gap from 1919 to 1952 will probably soon be covered, since the Romanian Academy Library is now working on a project called Bibliografia romanesti contemporane (1919-1952). For more details see http://www.bar.acad.ro.
First published under the title Cresterile Colectiunilor, this quarterly bulletin is considered the first attempt to a national bibliography, because the entries are based on items which were obligatory given to the Romanian Academy Library.
Every bulletin begins with a report about the developments in the collection. The bibliography that follows is organized by subjects: 1) Bibliographies and Encyclopedia; 2) Publications by Academies of Science; 3) Philology; 4) Literature; 5) Arts; 6) Philosophy and Sociology; 7) Education; 8) Theology; 9) History and Auxiliary Sciences; 10) Geography and Ethnography; 11) Political and National Economics; 12) Industry and Commerce; 12) Communication, Telegraph, and Post; 13) Finance; 14) Statistics; 15) Decrees and Laws; 16) Politics; 17) Administration; 18) Mathematics and Astronomy; 19) Natural sciences; 20) Physics and Chemistry; 21) Medicine and Veterinary; 22) Army; 23) Society; 24) Miscellaneous. Within each subject there is another division: first are listed the serials and then the monographs. Other sections are devoted to periodical publications of general character, political organs, leaflets, stamps and photographs, manuscripts. Of particular interest is the section "Documente": here are listed old documents, which original in Romanian language were held at the Library of the Romanian Academy. There can be found texts from the XV century. The last part of this quarterly publication is a description of the manuscripts and various documents conserved in the archive of the family Sturza.
The first 5 numbers of this bibliographical work (1906-1907) have no index. They can be searched only by subject. Within every section the citations are in alphabetical order; in most cases the works are cited under the author, but sometimes under the title. In the section "Academice" works are listed in the alphabetical order of the towns were the Academy is situated.
For the years 1908-1915 the last issue of the year is provided with an author index, which however is limited to the 24 subject sections. The section containing information on stamps, manuscripts, and documents are still not indexed. The years 1916-1919 are indexed together.
In the last issue for 1911 there is a big section (80 pages) devoted to the leaflets appeared between 1700 and 1850, and held in the Library of the Romanian Academy. This list is geographically divided: Romania, Moldavia, united principalities, Romanian leaflets in Hungary and Transylvania, Romanian leaflets in Bucovina, Romanian leaflets in Bess Arabia, Romanian leaflets abroad, leaflets of Austria and Hungary, leaflets of Russian, leaflets of Turkey, leaflets of the Greek Patriarchy, etc. This list is indexed.
Bibliografia Republicii Populare Romine, Bucuresti: Biblioteca Centrala de Stat a Republici Socialiste Romania, 1956-1998.
Changes in title and holdings:
1957-1966: Bibliografia Republicii Populare Romine
1967-1990: Bibliografia Republicii Socialiste Romania
UIUC has them all.
Call number: Main Stacks 015.498 B85B .
1990-1992: Bibliografia Romaniei (voll. 39-40)
UIUC have only vol. 39.
Call number: Main Stacks 015.498 B85B1.
LC: vol. 40, 21 (1-15 Noem. 1991) - vol. 41, 24 (16-31 Dec. 1992). LC
does not have the first 6 months for 1991.
1993- 2002: Bibliografia nationala romana (voll. 42- 51)
UIUC: 1998 not complete
Call number: Romanian Reference 015.498
B85B1A .
LC: 1993-1994 complete
1995-1998 not complete
2000 not complete
2001 not complete
2002 not complete
Bochum University (Germany): 1993-2001 complete
In 1952 was established the Romanian Book Chamber. Starting from May 1, 1952 it published a Buletinul bibliografic which appeared two times a month and contained information on every book, brochure, and map published in Romania. A second bulletin (Series B) appeared from January 1, 1953 and contained information about journals' and newspapers' articles. (UIUC has March- December 1956 Series A). In October 1956 the Book Chamber was incorporated in the National Library of the Romanian Socialist Republic, consequently, starting from 1957, the two bulletins changed their title in Bibliografia Republicii Populare Romine (1957-1966) and Bibliografia Republicii Socialiste Romania (1967-1990), Series A and Series B. At the same time the Central State Library (founded in 1955) started publishing other bibliographical series for other categories, like musical materials and discs.
Carti, albume, harti
This bibliography underwent the same destiny of the Soviet National Bibliography of the same period (Knizhnaia Letopis’ for example). Till the 80’s first of all are listed the works on communism and leninism, then the social sciences, philosophy, history, political economy, international relationships, statistics, economics, army, natural sciences, techniques, agriculture, transportation, communications, health and medicine, sport, linguistics, literature, art, religion, publishing and bibliography, and encyclopedias. Starting from the ‘80s the content is organized in a different way: the first part is no more devoted to communism, but to bibliographical works and encyclopedias then follow philosophy, religion, social sciences, education, natural sciences, technology, medicine, agriculture, art, linguistics, literature, geography, and history.
The entries give full bibliographical information, including data on the format, the number of copies published and the price. The issues are not regularly indexed: sometimes the issues included an alphabetical index at the end, other times cumulative alphabetical indexes are to be found every 6 issue, e.g. every 3 months. 1998 has both name index and title index.
Note muzicale. Discuri. Casete
UIUC Call number: Romanian Reference 015.498 B8521
This series started in 1968, with a three monthly frequency. For the period
before 1968, information about the Romanian musical production is to be
found in the series A for books. This bibliography includes the national
production of scores, CD, discs, and cassettes. It is divided into 2 big
sections: CD and cassettes. Each section includes subsections devoted
to literature and to music. There are two indexes: author and title index.
Bibliografia Nationala"Românica"
It includes books, and dissertations, published outside of Romania, written
or edited by Romanian authors.
Teze de doctorat
It started in 1995, with yearly frequency.
Other series are Publicatii seriale and Articole din publicatii periodice. Cultura
Retrospective National Bibliographies
I.Bianu, N.Hodos, Bibliografia
romaneasca veche 1508-1830, Bucuresti: Editura Academiei Romane.
Vol. 1: 1508-1716, published in 1903. Vol. 2: 1716-1808, published in
1910. Vol. 3: 1809-1830, in 8 fascicules published between 1912 and 1934.
Vol. 4: Additions and corrections, published in 1944.
UIUC Call Number: Main Stacks 015.498 B47b .
It is chronologically organized. At the end of each volume there is a scheme, which summarizes the works included in the bibliography. The scheme is again in chronological order; it briefly repeats title, language in which the book was written, place of publication and number of pages. More helpful is the alphabetic index, including authors and titles.
The entries are very rich; apart from the bibliographical description,
they include long citations and facsimiles reproducing the pages of the
oldest Romanian books.
In our collection the third volume is bound together with the second,
and includes only the first two fascicules (1809-1817). Scholars must
also be aware of the supplement Contributii la Bibliografia Romaneasca
Veche, compiled by D.Poenaru in 1973 (Tirgoviste: Muzeul Judetean
Dimbovita).
Bibliografia Romaneasca
moderna (1831-1918), Bucuresti: Biblioteca Academiei Republicii
Socialiste Romane. 4 volumes.
UIUC Call Number: Romanian Reference 015.498 B4712
This work is a continuation of the Bibliografia romaneasca veche 1508-1830. The basis of the bibliography was the fund of the Library of the Academy, completed with investigations in other libraries in Bucharest and in the entire country, as well as titles of books mentioned in reference publications, but not located in libraries (in the bibliography these books are marked with an asterisk).
The citations are presented in a unique alphabetical series for the authors and the anonymous works. Most of the bibliographical descriptions include annotations concerning the contents, editions, titles, history of the book, existence in the book of indexes or bibliographical lists. There is no index.
On-line sources for the Romanian National Bibliography
Biblioteca Nationala a Romaniei (http://www.bibnat.ro/)
From the Web-site of the National Library of Romania is possible to search their on-line catalog. There is no clear indication of the restrospective coverage of this catalog. It can be search through a simple or an advanced search. There is also the possibility to list the publications by title, author, subject, etc. The catalog needs to be improved, at the moment it cannot be considered a place to conduct a thorough search.
Biblioteca Academiei Romane (http://www.bar.acad.ro/)
The Romanian Academy Library started registering its holdings on-line in 1998. At the moment it includes approx. 60.000 records: 90% of them are books and serials received by the Library from 1996 (RAL catalog). But the Web-site of the Romanian Academy Library offers also the possibility to search an on-line catalog of manuscripts and old books, which includes approx. 4,000 records (ORB catalog). The two catalogs cannot be searched at the same time, the visitor has to choose one of them. Visitors are offered also the possibility to search the Virtual Library Eminescu (IMG catalog), which will include the entire collection of manuscripts and correspondence by Eminescu held at the Romanian Academy Library. The IMG catalog is now under construction.
There are three searching options for every catalog: you can either browse authors, titles and subjects, or do a simple or combined search.
Periodical resources for Romania
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Hodos, Nerva; Ionescu, Al.
Sadi; Publicatiunile periodice romanesti (ziare, gazete, reviste),
vol. 1 (1820-1906), Bucuresti: Academia Romana, 1913.
UIUC Call number: Romanian Reference 016.0559 H66P
This work is a bibliographical description of Romanian newspapers and journals. The criteria fixed in 1895 by the Romanian Academy in order to establish which periodicals were to be included in this bibliography are the following: 1) linguistic criterion (Romanian language); 2) geographical criterion (periodicals in other languages but published in Romania); 3) ethnical criterion (periodicals published abroad but written by Romanian authors).
The bibliography is mainly based on the collection of the Library of the Romanian Academy and on previous bibliographical works of the same kind, like the bibliography by Aleksandru Pop Bibliografia publicatiunilor periodice romaneti si a celor publicate in limbi straine in Romania sau de romani in strainatate, 1889.
The periodicals are listed in alphabetical order. There is no index.
Each entry includes information on title, subtitle, place of publication,
publication history, frequency, format, editor(s), collaborators, and
publisher. Some times additional annotations are included.
The introduction, written by the distinguished Romanian bibliographer Ioan Bianu, is an accurate description of the history of the Romanian press.
Baiculescu, George; Raduica,
Georgeta; Onofrei, Neonila; Publicatiile periodice romanesti (ziare,
gazete, reviste), vol. 2: catalog alfabetic 1907-1918 + supliment
1790-1906, Bucuresti: Editura Academiei Respublicii Socialiste Romania,
1969.
Stance Desa, Ileana; Morarescu, Dulciu; Patriche, Ioana; Raliade, Adraina;
Publicatiile periodice romanesti (ziare, gazete, reviste),
vol. 3: 1919-1924, Bucuresti: Editura Academiei Respublicii Socialiste
Romania, 1987.
UIUC Call number: Romanian Reference 016.0559 H66P
These two volumes present themselves as a continuation of the precedent bibliography. Volume 2 includes a supplement with a list of new titles not included in the first volume, and with additions and corrections to the entries of the first volume. Volume 3 has a list of sources consulted for reference.
Raduica, Georgeta; Raduica,
Nicolin; Dictionarul Presei Romanesti (1731-1918), Bucuresti:
Editura Stiintifica, 1995.
UIUC Call number: Romanian Reference 055.9103 R119d
This dictionary includes bibliographical descriptions of 7500 periodicals, including almanacs and calendars. One interesting feature is that it includes approx. 50 titles, which were introduces with double numeration after 1989. It is easely accessible through a name index, a geographical index, and a chronological index.
The period between 1924 and 1990 is not well
covered. The only useful work for the years before the half of the century
is a bibliography published by the Romanian National Library under the
title Publicatii periodice rominesti (Bucuresti: s.n., 1957),
but unfortunately not held by any US institutions. For the second half
of the XX century possible sources are the periodical publication Newspapers
and periodicals from Rumania (scattered issues held by some US
institutions) and the monograph Catalogul publicatiilor romanesti:
periodice si seriale (held by LC).
The lack of general periodical bibliographies can be partially overcome
using a bibliography for literary periodicals:
Hangiu I., Dictionarul
presei literare romanesti: 1790-1990, Bucuresti: Editura Fundatiei
Culturale Romane, 1996.
UIUC Call number: Romanian Reference 055.9103 H193d
This dictionary includes 2206 periodical and non-periodical publications in Romanian or in other languages, but focusing on Romanian studies. Each entry includes title and subtitle of the publication, a brief characterization, publication history and place of publication, frequency, editors, most important sections within the publication, main collaborators, format, and a critical bibliography. A name index, a geographical, and a chronological index make this bibliography very easy to use.
Bibliografia Nationala
Romana, Publicatii seriale, 1992-to date
UIUC Call Number: Romanian Reference 016.059591 B471
This bibliographical series compiled by the Romanian National Library started in 1992. It is yearly published and includes the entire national periodical production. The first 3 volumes cover the period from 1990-1993. The following volumes cover the production of the previous year.
The citations are organized according to the subject. The first section is called "Generalitati" and includes such topics like civilization, culture, press, etc. The following sections are devoted to Philosophy, Religion, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Applied Sciences, Art and Sport, Linguistics and Literature, Geography and History.
A detailed table of contents allows searching for specific topics. Other access points are a journal title list and a corporate author list. Starting from the IV volume (1994), there are also an institution index, and a personal name index.
PERIODICAL INDEXES
Lupu, Ioan; Camariano, Nestor;
Papadima, Ovidiu; Bibliografia analitica a periodicelor romanesti,
Bucuresti: Editura Academiei Respublicii Socialiste Romania, Vol. 1: 1790-1850
(published in 1966-1967); Vol. 2: 1851-1858 (published in 1970-1972).
UIUC Call number: Romanian Reference Q. 016.0559 AC1B
This bibliography includes bibliographical descriptions of every kind of article, essay, and literary work published in journals and newspapers in Romanian language, or in other languages but published within the Romanian territory (including Moldavia), or published abroad but written by Romanian authors.
The period covered starts from 1790, date of publication of the first Romanian periodical Courier de Moldavie. (Other sources consider Calendar as the first Romanian periodical: it started in 1731 in Transilvania). For the period between 1829 and 1850 the bibliography indexes 75 periodicals. For a list of the periodicals taken into consideration see pages XV-XIX vol. 1, and pages V-X vol.2.
The first part of the bibliography is called "Generalitati" and includes the following topics: Culture, Civilization, Progress; Bibliographies and Catalogs; Libraries; Periodicals; Scientific Societies, Academies, and Museums; Collections and Series; Manuscripts and Rare Books. The following parts are devoted to Religion; Social Sciences; Philology and Linguistics; Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Technical Sciences, Medicine Agriculture; Arts; Literature; History, Geography and Biographies. A very detailed table of contents is to be found at the end of the volumes. Other useful access points are 3 alphabetical indexes, respectively for authors and translators, for pseudonyms, and for personal names. The entries are annotated.
The period between 1859 and 1952 is not covered. This gap could be only partially covered using Cresterea colectiunilor for the period 1906-1919, and the Osteuropäische Bibliographie for the period 1920-1923.
Buletinul bibliografic. Seria B. Articole si recenzii
din presa. Volumes 1-4, 1953-1956.
Not at UIUC. See holdings of NN and U of Wisconsin.
Bibliografia periodicelor din Republica Populara
Romina, Volumes 5-10, 1957-1962.
Not at UIUC. See U of Wisconsin for complete holdings.
Bibliografia Republicii
Socialiste Romania. Articole din publicatii periodice si seriale,
Volumes 11-38, 1963-1989.
UIUC Call number: Main Stacks 016.0559 B85B
This index was published bimonthly by the Central State Library of the Romanian Socialist Republic. A list of the periodicals indexed appears at hte beginning of every issue. The work is easily accesible through a detailed table of contents and an alphabetical index of authors and personal names mentioned in the titles.
Academy of the Romanian People's
Republic Scientific Documentation Centre, Romanian Scientific abstracts,
Social Sciences, Bucharest, 1964-1988
UIUC Call Number: Main Stacks 305 RUM. The Library has 1964-1970
and 1987-1988.
In 1964 the Scientific Documentation Centre of the Academy of the Romanian People's Republic started the publication of a monthly bulletin in two series: Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. These bulletins were published in English and Russian, and aimed to "provide scientists abroad with the most complete and rapid information about the achievements of Rumanian research in the main branches of the fundamental sciences" (vol. 1, page 3). Although this bibliography is not a National Bibliography, it can be considered a good alternative for it for scholars not familiar with the Romanian Language.
The materials are recorded according to the field of study: Economic Sciences; Jurisprudence; Philosophy, Psychology, Logic; History, Ethnography; Linguistics, Philology; Theory and History of Literature and Arts. A table of contents at the beginning of each volume gives more detailed subjects within every branch. A list of the publications recorded can be found at the end of each bulletin.
The citations give full bibliographical reference and abstracts. There is no index.
Ilis, Florina; Kiraly, Istvan;
Marcu, Angela; Literatura bibliologica romaneasca, Articole din
publicatii periodice, 1990-1998.
No institution holds this CD in the US.
Cultura on Romania: referinte
bibliografice si documentare din periodice romanesti (1992-1999).
See holdings at Yale and New York Public Library.
Articole din publicatii
periodice. Cultura
Harvard currently receives it.
This is a retrospective bibliography
of articles appeared in periodicals between 1953 and 1988. It started
in 2000 and has monthly frequency.
Bibliography of bibliographies
Stephen A. Fischer-Galati, Romania.
A bibliographic Guide, Slavic and central European Division, Reference
Department, Library of Congress, Washington, 1963.
UIUC Call number: Romanian Reference 016.9498 F525r
Altough this work is not a bibliography of bibliographies in the strict sense of the word, it is still valuable to the pourpose of "selecting materials relevant to the study of Romania" (page VII). The first part of it is a bibliographical survey. It opens with a concise description of bibliographies and general reference works. Distinct chapters are devoted to the land, the people, history, politics and government, law and justice, social conditions, economics, religion, intellectual life, language and literature. Each of them includes a bibliography of specialized topical bibliographies.
Apart from the table of contents, a detailed bibliographical listing makes this work easily accessible. Since the publications listed in this bibliography are accompained by a location symbol, this work is also a useful tool to locate monographs on Romania held in US libraries.
Monograph bibliographies and Handbooks
Bibliografia istorica a Romaniei
UIUC Call number: Romanian Reference 015.498 B471
This is a collection of historical bibliographies in 10 volumes.
The first volume (Bibliografia istorica a Romaniei 1944-1969, Bucuresti: Editura Academiei Respublicii Socialiste Romania) was published in 1970 under the auspicies of the Institute of History and Archeology of Cluj. It includes approx. 8000 entries for Romanian works written between 1944 and 1969, and devoted to every kind of topic and time period in the history of Romania, and also of other nations. It is a sort of compendium on the development of historiography in Romania in those 25 years.
The second and the third volumes (Bibliografia istorica a Romaniei. Secolul XIX, Bucuresti: Editura Academiei Respublicii Socialiste Romania) show a different approach: it is part of a project of the Institute of History "N.Iorga" in Bucharest for a general bibliography of works appeared in the XIX century and in the first half of the XX century, and devoted to the history of the Romanian country and the Romanian people in the XIX century. The project was meant to include 5 major parts: general works on the country and the people; economical life; political life; cultural life; biographies. Actually only the parts related to general description of Romania, economics, and biographies have been published.
Volume II part 1 Cadrul general. Tara si locuitorii (published in 1972) includes geographical and statistical studies, maps, travellers' descriptions, works on local history and on minorities living on the Romanian territory, accounts on the Romanian people living abroad and on their relations with other nationalities. The basis for this bibliography were 30 libraries on the whole Romanian territory.
The material included in the volume II part 2 Viata economica (published in 1999) was first prepared in 1970 by G.Zane, and then revised and corrected in 1992 by the National Institute of Economical Research. It covers the most important fields of Romanian economical life: agriculture, industry, commerce, transportation and means of communication, finances.
Volume III part 5 Biografii (published in 1974) includes materials of biographical nature appeared before 1960:, such as biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, correspondence, and genealogical documents.
Volume IV (Bibliografia istorica a Romaniei 1969-1974, Bucuresti: Editura Academiei Respublicii Socialiste Romania) takes over the project started with volume I, that is to show the course of Romanian historiography. It is a selective bibliography including 10,000 works on Romanian history published between 1969 and 1974. Its value is in the fact that it cites both monographs and articles from periodicals. A peculiarity of this work is that it provides every Romanian title with a translation in French.
The following volumes have the same structure, each of them covers a period of 5 years and is accesible through an author index. This multivolume work is the most complete bibliography on Romanian history.
Klaus-Detlev Grothusen, Rumänien,
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977, pages 654-691.
UIUC Call number: Romanian Reference 914.98 R8632
This work is the second volume of the guides to South-Eastern Europe compiled by the Südosteuropa-Arbeiterkreis der Deutschen Forchungsgemeinschaft. The last 40 pages of this work provide bibliographical references to the varoius sections taken into condieration: state and politics, economy, society, culture and science. Every section is subdivided into more specific topics. There is also a brief section on general descriptions and refrence works on Romania.
Andrea and Dennis Deletant, Romania,
Oxford: Clio Press Ltd, 1985.
UIUC Call number: Romanian Reference 016.9498 D378r
This bibliography lists mostly works in English. It takes into consideration all aspect of social, political, economical and cultural life in Romania. It also includes a small section about general and specialized bibliographies on Romania. It is easily accesible through a detailed table of contents and an index of authors, titles and subjects. The chronological coverage goes from the '30s to the '80s, however the majority of the works cited was written between 1960 and 1980.
Opritsa D. Popa, Marguerite E.Horn,
Ceausescu's Romania. An Annotated Bibliography, Westport:
Greenwood Press, 1994.
UIUC Call number: Main Stacks 016.9498 C32
This annotated bibliography includes approx. 1,000 publications written by Western scholars on Romania. It covers the period from 1965 to 1989, that is Ceausescu's dictatorship. It lists "books, journal articles, reports, occasional papers, chapters in books, U.S. doctoral dissertations, and governament documents" (page IX). The bibliography is organized by subject. Apart from the table of contents, it has two access points: an author and a subject index.
S.M.Stetskevich, S.B.Frolov, Rumyniia.
Rekomendatel'nyi bibliograficheskii spravochnik, Moskva: Kniga,
1986.
UIUC Call number: Main Stacks 016.9498 R869
This guide is an annotated bibliography to Romania. It lists general publications on history and geography, but also more specific works on the economical, social, cultural and political life of the country. It includes mostly monographs, however sometimes are listed also articles from encyclopedias. Its chronological coverage is very limited: 1960-1980.
