1. BULGARIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS IN THE FIELD OF LITERARY AND DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE Prerequisites, Opportunities, Perspectives

2. PERSPECTIVES The book is not subordinate to territorial borders
Every national bibliography collect resources in the neighboring countries
Balcanica – why not?

3. CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION BOOK SCIENCE and NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Book History and usage of Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Digitalization of the book collections
Online access

4. OPPORTUNITIES CLOSER and FASTER
We can use GIS for research of:
Authors’ and interpreters’ initiatives
Book production
Book dissemination
Communities and societies of readers

5. GIS – BOOK HISTORY WITHOUT BORDERS
Source: MacDonald and Black 2000, 510.
GIS capabilities allow us to explore the history of the book in Ottoman and post-Ottoman context without complying with today's political borders.

6. AN EXAMPLE OF CULTURAL TOLERANCE AND ACADEMIC COOPERATION
INTERACTIVE MAP

7. PERSPECTIVES
The future cooperation between Balkan countries will help for better research of XIX century at once Bulgarian, Turk and other countries book history.
Thanks to new technologies that possibility can be easily used to our mutual acquaintance.

8. NOTES
MacDonald, B.M., and Black, F.A., Using GIS for spatial and temporal analysis in print culture studies: some opportunities and challenges. Social Science History 24,
Zagorov, Vasil and others: History of the Bulgarian book between the Liberation and Independence ( ). Interactive Map :
Team members:
Project Manager: Vasil Zagorov Coordinator: Teresa Trencheva Bibliographic activities: Plamena Zlatkova, Sonia Spasova Computer processing: Dobri Boyadzhiev, Elisaveta Balabanova

9. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATENTION!
Assoc. Prof. Vasil Zagorov PhD