The director of the National Library of Romania, Adrian Cioroianu, announced on Monday that the volume “Energy security and resource management at the beginning of the 21st century; Romania in the current European context”, representing the doctoral thesis of the Minister of Internal, Lucian Bode, will be available to the public “from the next few days” and hasn’t been “secret for a moment,” Agerpres reports.
“Minister LN Bode’s book is in the National Library of Romania, it has not been classified for a moment, but only on the normal data processing flow. I have ordered, exceptionally, the priority processing of this book, a copy of which will be available to the public in the next few days. Normally, according to the workflow, the book would be processed in the next 6-8 weeks, “wrote Cioroianu on Facebook.
He added that, of the seven copies, four will go, after processing, to the Academy Library in Bucharest, BCU Cluj, BCU Iaşi and BCU Timisoara.
“The three copies left at BNaR, of any book, are divided as follows: one copy enters the Immaterial Legal Deposit, one copy is available on the shelf, one copy is destined for exchange with other libraries. Each month they arrive at the BNaR between 1,800 and 2,500 book titles, each in seven copies, plus a few hundred courses, plus about 2,000-2,500 periodicals (I repeat: monthly).
According to him, the National Library is “only the keeper of the books and has no attribution of verification, validation or control”.
“As to the value or originality of the book, the author and his challengers can continue to argue, but remember that BNaR is only the keeper of the books and has no attribution to verify, validate or control the books sent. This book, among other titles, was sent to BNaR at the beginning of 2022 by the publishing house that published them “, indicated Cioroianu.
The chairman of the culture committee of the Chamber of Deputies, the USR deputy Iulian Bulai, invited the director of the National Library, Adrian Cioroianu, to Parliament on Monday to discuss the “current block” in accessing doctoral theses in the library and in the identification and administrative solutions of the situation.
According to a press release sent on Monday by the Save Romania Union, the invitation was sent for October 17, at 1pm.
“The USR started a transcription marathon on Friday for Minister Lucian Bode’s doctoral thesis, a thesis accessible only in digitized format at the National Library of Romania. Transcription can only be done by hand, because a regulation of the institute of 2016 provides that the doctoral theses kept at the National Library of Romania can be consulted only by two computers on the premises of the Library, without the possibility of consulting them online. ‘institute led by Adrian Cioroianu, the works cannot be photographed, the only option left is the transcription by hand “, reads the statement.
On Friday, Cristian Ghinea and Iulian Bulai began transcribing Lucian Bode’s doctoral thesis, and the action was continued on Monday by USR deputies Denisa Neagu, Diana Buzoianu and Iulian Lorincz.
The Minister of the Interior, Lucian Bode, rejected, on 6 October, the claims in the public space that his doctoral thesis was “classified” and said that it is available at the UBB Library in Cluj and at the National Library of Romania.
Bode also told Digi 24 that he will sue anyone who accuses him of keeping his thesis secret.
“All those who accuse me, from now on, of hiding my doctoral thesis, I will meet them all in court. They made too much fun of my work and what they call hiding the thesis, that they could not read it. journalists have read it because it no longer has covers, and not only, “said the minister.
