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Lyubov Borisovna Khavkina (1871-1949) was a Russian theorist and organizer of library science, a major librarian and bibliographer.

In 1891, she was one of the organizers of the first Kharkiv free library. In the same year, she entered the Kharkiv Public Library, where she worked, with breaks, until 1918. In 1898-1901 Khavkina studied library science at the University of Berlin, attended the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, where she got acquainted with the methods of the American Library Association and the ideas of its founder Melville Dewey, who had a great influence on her. Khavkina's library research works originate from the book "Libraries, Their Organization and Technology" (St. Petersburg: Edition of A. S. Suvorin, 1904), which received wide recognition in Russia and was awarded the gold medal of the 1905 World Exhibition in Liege. In 1913, on the basis of a project compiled by her, the first courses of librarians in Russia were opened at the university. Khavkina combines teaching courses in a number of disciplines with work for the Kharkiv Public Library (in 1914 she was elected to the library board) and foreign trips. In 1914, she got acquainted with the experience of organizing librarianship in the United States (New York, Chicago, California, Honolulu) and Japan, describing this experience in the book "The New York Public Library" (1914) and in various reports. Khavkina's work "Ketter's Author's tables in processing for Russian Libraries" (1916) is also based on the American experience — the rules for placing books on library shelves and in library catalogs based on the principles developed by Ch. E. Ketter. These tables are used in Russian libraries to this day and are colloquially referred to as "Khavkina tables" (tables of the author's mark).

A copy in the publisher's covers, on the title page there is a stamped ex-libris of the bibliographer Nikolai Nikolaevich Orlov (1898-1965).