%0 Journal Article %T The Book ¨C a Gateway to the Past and a Window to the Future %J Journal Publisher %D 2014 %X The article discusses the surveillance, trends and current development processes in the Bulgarian book. Give examples from history and current events related to the book. After 50 years of the 19th century, libraries have become venues for national education. Began to prevail the interest in public librariesnational literature repositories %U http://journals.uni-vt.bg/izdatel/eng/vol16/iss2/6