Research of bibliographic sources of Ukrainian literary criticism

The aim of publication is illumination of historiography, range of problems and source base of metabibliographic researches at industry of fiction and literary criticism in Ukraine. The bibliographic is applied and other scientific methods: approaches of the systems and historical; empiric methods of description and design; thematic analysis method, source and statistical analysis. The question of becoming of Ukrainian literary bibliography, that afterwards grew into the system of the integral bibliographic providing of Ukrainian study of literature researches, became their source base, is outlined in the article. It is marked that already at the beginning ХХ of century of increase of volume of bibliographic products, in particular and study of literature, set on an order-paper by a question about her account and systematization. Development of metabibliography of a study of literature industry attained qualitatively a new level with the publication of sound aids of L. I. Holdenberh (Kyiv, 1971; Kyiv, 1977; Kyiv, 1990) and afterwards R. S. Zhdanova (Kyiv, 2004). Their labours, that contain the thoroughly systematized comparative description of bibliographic aids and certificate editions in industry of bibliography of Ukrainian fiction, literary criticism and specialist in folklore, are complex analysed first. They embrace a period from the second half of ХІХ of century on 2002. It is marked that these labours are not only a base for the advanced study, and also help to carry out monitoring of the certificate-bibliographic providing of scientific researches, find out blanks, defects, duplications, perfect methodology of preparation of bibliographic labours. They serve as a reference-point and base of further historical-bibliographic researches. It is marked that passed 15 after the exit of metabibliography of R. S. Zhdanova. The far of important materials that need working and historical-bibliographic generalization accumulated. The scientific personal interest of authors of the real article is related the sources of a study of literature bibliography of the second degree to the pre-arranged scientificallyauxiliary metabibliographic aid that will represent the separately given out bibliographic sources from Ukrainian literature and folklore, and maybe and Ukrainian philology on the whole.