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Knjižnica 50(2006)1-2, 173-186 174 publications on Internet represent a revolutionary break-through in communication and data transmission. The new format has changed the publication to the extent that the library science should re-define the topic of its research, and re-consider the meth- ods and procedures for its treatment. Consequently, the library science should refer to the underlying terminological and typological research, and re-define the subject of bibliographic processing and determine the elements for the subject’s identification. The new technological platform of electronic publications opens a range of possibili- ties, which make the significance and value of the established methods of knowledge management very relative, and thus also the basis of the library science and its “rais- son d’ętre”. No cultural value is attached to electronic publications due to their specific character- istics, as it has been attached to a book in our civilization. Therefore, collection and long-term preservation of this material is not problematic only from the technological but also from the sociological aspect. By dealing with electronic media, library theory and practice finally step from the area of the known laws of the Gutenberg universe into the new space, where the new working rules will have to be established. Key words: electronic publications, typology of publications, acquisition of electronic publications 1 Uvod Na začetku novega veka stojijo veličastne postave znanstvenikov, umetnikov, raziskovalcev in humanistov, ki so postavili temelje sodobnega dojemanja sve- ta. Ne le figurativno, temveč dobesedno so odkrivali in razkrivali svet ter ga na novo umestili v vesolje. Razvijali so nova orodja, metode in tehnike za njegovo raziskovanje, razlaganje in upodabljanje. Z novimi odkritji so tonile v pozabo stare teorije, metode in tehnike. Kopernikov heliocentrični sistem je odrinil zemljo iz središča v orbito in Gutenbergov izum je zamenjal enkratnost in dragocenost rokopisa z relativno cenenostjo neomejenega števila tiskanih ponovitev. Pol tisočletja kasneje je dvajseto stoletje ukinilo nepremičnost in ekskluzivnost vesolja ter ga postavilo v gibanje. Spodneslo je tudi statično materialno podstat publikacije ter jo naredilo fluidno in minljivo. Elektronske publikacije, ki so dosegljive na medmrežju, predstavljajo v pol šestem stoletju od izuma tiska revo- lucionaren prelom v načinu komunikacije. Publikacije, ki so predmet zanimanja in obravnave bibliotekarske vede, so se spremenile do te mere, da bomo morali na novo definirati predmet svojega dela in na novo določiti metode in postopke, ki jih uporabljamo pri njegovi obravnavi. Z elektronskimi mediji bibliotekarska veda in praksa dokončno stopata iz območja poznanih zakonov Gutenbergovega vesolja v prostor, kjer si bo potrebno pravila dela na novo ustvariti.