Bibliography

Bibliography is a field of scholarly and practical activity consisting in the description, systematization, registration, and provision of information about printed (and manuscript) works, as well as a body of bibliographic indexes on a certain theme or author. The basic unit of bibliography is the bibliographic description, which gives unified information about an edition (author, title, place and year of publication, publisher, extent). One distinguishes registration bibliography (the accounting of the entire mass of editions), recommendatory, subject, personal, and critical bibliography, and the bibliography of bibliographies. Bibliography is the foundation of a philologist's scholarly work: without it, source heuristics and a historiographic survey are impossible. One of the founders of modern Ukrainian bibliography was Mykhailo Maksymovych; the most noted bibliographer of Western Ukraine was Ivan Levytsky; major bibliographic works were carried out by Ivan Kalynovych and, most notably, Yurii Mezhenko. The discipline that theoretically comprehends bibliography and the history of the book is bibliology.