Publishing Activities of the Lithuanian Scientific Society LMD leidybin veikla

This article elaborates on the publishing activities (1907-1940) of the Lithuanian Scientific Society (LSS) discussing the implemented plans and their significance as well as the un-realized ideas and reasons of their failure. The paper determines the authors that mostly contributed to various publishing activities and shows how the scale of the publishing activities of LSS changed from the foundation of LSS to its closure. In total, LSS published almost 90 textbooks, 29 documents, dozens of offprints from Lietuvi tauta ( Lithuanian Nation“) and Medicina“. Plans to publish encyclopedias, indices, maps and the journal Medicina ir gamta ( Medicine and Nature“) were not implemented. The main upsurge in publishing was in 1918-1922. The political and cultural environment undoubtedly influenced publishing in Lithuania. LSS played the major role as a provider of textbooks for developing Lithuanian school and as a publisher and distributor of scientific literature. The publishing activities of LSS were widely known in Lithuania and abroad. Article in Lithuanian Straipsnyje remiantis rankra tine med iaga ir skelbtais altiniais siekiama supa indinti su Lietuvi mokslo draugijos (toliau – LMD) 1907–1940 m. leidybine veikla, atskleid iant gyvendintus sumanymus, j reik m visuomenei, aptariant planuose likusius sumanymus, j nepasisekimo prie astis, i analizuoti, kokie autoriai labiausiai prisid jo prie vairios leidybin s veiklos, parodyti tendencij , kaip kito LMD leidybos mastai nuo jos kūrimo iki u darymo. I viso LMD i leido beveik 90 vadov li , 29 dokumentus, de imtis atspaud i Lietuvi Tautos“ bei Medicinos“. Ne gyvendinti projektai: enciklopedijos, bibliografijos, em lapio, urnalo Medicina ir gamta“ leidyba. Did iausias leidybinis pakilimas – 1918–1922 m. Leidybos veiklai neabejotinos takos tur jo politin kultūrin situacija Lietuvoje. Reik mingiausia LMD veikla yra ta, kad ji aprūpino vadov liais besikurian i lietuvi k mokykl , rūpinosi mokslin s literatūros leidyba bei platinimu. LMD leidybin veikla buvo inoma ne tik Lietuvoje, bet ir u jos rib . Straipsnis lietuvi kalba