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Founded in the 1850s, the library of the Jesuit College of Campolide, in Lisbon, was pillaged and scattered in the wake of the country’s Republican revolution in 1910. After a decade of litigation over its property, the remnants of the Jesuit library were incorporated in the collections of the Portuguese National Library. Despite being the Francisco Malta Romeiras, The Modern Jesuit Library most celebrated boarding school in late nineteenth-century Portugal, the absence of a catalogue prevented historians to study the library until now. The tracking of hundreds of copies at the Portuguese National Library has recently allowed me to sketch a partial reconstruction of its collections and to study them in the broader context of science and education in "A Biblioteca Erudita de Campolide: A história de uma biblioteca jesuíta dispersa pela República" (Cascais, 2022). This article summarizes the main findings of this research and presents it to a wider international audience. Despite its limited scope, I argue that the Jesuit Library of Campolide provides an excellent case-study to understand the practices of Catholic librarianship from mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.
Starting from the problematization of the meanings of science and library professions and institutions, the paper surfaces and analyzes from perspectives equally philosophical, epistemological, and scientometric, the premises and conditions which situate – willingly or not – the project of a (any) genuine research which intends to study the Romanian literature on librarianship as it appears in books and periodicals. To this end, earlier researches will also be placed on the dissection table of analysis, but meanwhile the problematic and even symptomatic experiences that the editors of the journal Philobiblon and its Romanian anthologies by the title Hermeneutica Bibliothecaria – Antologie Philobiblon have to confront are also organically exposed. These experiences outline as well the issues that practically any present or future responsible research of this type should focus on, as also the neuralgic points and mental traps which – once identified – will have to be either avoided, or assumed in the course of these researches. These traps, resulting precisely from the functioning and environment of this literature – which is, or pretends to be, equally professional and scientific – are and can be dangerous in the future, yet also eloquent with regard to their publishing and affiliation institutions.
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