National And University Library In Zagreb
Harriet Wehrenberg
National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) (Croatian: Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu, NSK; formerly Nacionalna i sveučilišna biblioteka u Zagrebu, NSB) is the national library of Croatia and central library of the University of Zagreb.
Services provided include lending and reference services (bibliographic-reference and catalogue information, subject search, science citation index search); interlibrary loan; national bibliographic database; IT services (reprographic services, microfilming, digitization, use of computer equipment); and learning programmes for users. Exhibitions are mounted, and parts of the Library's premises may be leased.
1. the assembling and organizing of the Croatian national collection of library materials and the coordination of the acquisition of international scientific works at both the national and the University level,
As a result of legal deposit regulations introduced in 1816 bearing on the University of Pest, the library's national importance began to increase. Such legal deposit regulations were extended to the whole territory of Croatia and Slavonia in 1837. Antun Kukuljević, politician and the founder of the Croatian educational system, changed the name of the library to the Latin name, Nationalis Academica Bibliotheca, highlighting the dual nature of the library's educational and national functions, which it has jointly developed since then and symbolically preserved in its name to this day.
The National and University Library in Zagreb is a public institution of national importance, which conducts library activities and provides reference services as the national library of the Republic of Croatia and the central library of the largest Croatian university, the University of Zagreb. The Library also carries out scientific, research and development activities with the primary purpose of organizing and developing the Croatian library system.
We can seek the history of the National and University Library in the library of the Jesuit Gymnasium in 1606, and later in the Jesuit Academy, which marked the beginning of our university in 1669. With the foundation of the Grammar Academy, the higher adminstrative school in Zagreb, it was inaugurated as a public library with a bequest of books and manuscripts from Adam Baltazar Krcelic, a canon of Zagreb and a Croatian writer. This gift was the library's first great endowment and the name of Krcelic is often linked to the founding of our Library.
When the University of Zagreb was inaugurated in 1874, it was decided to combine the holdings of the Grammar Academy and of the National Museum into the University Library, which in the end of 19th century took over the function of the national library of the Croatian people. At that time the library collection of 46,978 volumes was enriched by purchase, gifts and by the bequest of famous Croats and even of some institutions. At the end of the 19th century two most important private libraries - Ljudevit Gaj's and Nikola Zrinski's - were bought. Gay's library had over 16,000 books, a great number of incunabula, manuscripts, autographs and precious transcriptions. That purchase inspired Ivan Kostrencic, then library manager, to ask for the Government permission to open the reading-room where rare books and manuscripts would be placed. Kostrencic's request was accepted on the 24th June 1894 from which date the collection functions as a special department.
Before coming here, I worked in two special libraries; the research library of the Croatian Geological Survey, and then the Library of the Croatian State Archive. In 2015, there was a possibility to come to work here at the National and University Library in Zagreb. My role was to license e-resources on the national level for the Croatian Academic and Research Library consortium. I am now responsible for all the licensing here at NSK.
Compiled by the historian and founder of library science in Croatia, Ivan Kukuljevic Sakcinski, whose private library became one of the founding collections of the library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, this bibliography is a classic in Croatian letters. In fact, the reprint edition from 1974 has an afterword which discusses Ivan Kukuljevic-Sakcinski and his bibliography. It covers Croatian books and some periodicals from 1483-1863. There are 2605 entries in the main bibliography plus 358 more in the additions which were published in 1863. The reprint edition reproduces the additions as well as the original bibliography. The entries are listed alphabetically in three sections: Glagolitic, Cyrillic, and Latin texts. Items included may have been published in cities that are not part of Croatia today such as Vienna, Novi Sad, and Budapest. No indexes are supplied. The bibliography is not comprehensive, but it was one of the first significant works that can be classed under the heading of Croatian national bibliography. See the image below for a few sample entries.
Each fellow will then spend eight weeks at one of several host institutions in the Washington metropolitan area. These institutions will provide training, work experience and Internet access. The fellows will observe how national, university, public, research and special libraries in a democratic society operate and serve their constituencies. The class will return to the Library for the final week of the program.
The 1997 Library of Congress-Soros Foundations Visiting Fellows are: Libuse Hanakova, Bedrich Benes Buchlovan Library, Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic (host library: District of Columbia Public Library); Tamara Kashina, Altai Regional Universal Scientific Library, Barnaul, Russia (host library: American University Library); Maria Kollarova, Slovak National Library, Martin, Slovakia (host library: University of Maryland, McKeldin Library); Marta Krasznai, National Library of Foreign Literature, Budapest, Hungary (host library: Georgetown University, Lauinger Library); Tamara Matveenko, Grodno State University Library, Grodno, Belarus (host library: Catholic University, Mullen Library); Mirela Mikic, Institute of Public Finance, Zagreb, Croatia (host library: Joint Bank Fund Library (International Finance Corp.)); Daina Puntuka, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia (host library: Library of Congress, Business Reference Services); Birute Railiene, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Library, Vilnius, Lithuania (host library: National Institute of Standards and Technology); Marcela Visan, Polytechnic University Central Library, Timisoara, Romania (host library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries); Ana-Maria Yankova, Agency for Economic Coordination and Development, Sofia, Bulgaria (host library: Joint Bank Fund Library); Natalia Zhirova, National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine (host library: Library of Congress, Law Library); Olga Zienkiewicz, Jewish Historical Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland (host library: Library of Congress, Hebraic Section).
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Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania is a principal Lithuanian research library open to the public and is simultaneously functioning as a parliamentary library.The National Library of Lithuania has carried out the functions of a national library since its launch and especially after it became a legal deposit library in 1936. The total number of holdings exceeds 7 million volumes. The website is in Lithuanian and English. The search is available in Lithuanian and English.
St. Kliment Ohridski National and University Library is the national and central library headquarters of the Republic of Macedonia. The library collection comprises 3,000,000 items including 730,000 monographs and 1,370,000 volumes of periodicals and other printed material.
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The National and University Library is the major national library and its collection consists of 2,200,000 bound volumes, several hundred modern and ancient manuscripts (the oldest dating from the 9th century), over 500 early prints. The library also preserves numerous cartographic and pictorial materials, government documents, sound recordings, grey literature, dissertations, etc. The library currently subscribes to 3,200 periodicals, of which more than half are foreign language titles. Online catalogues are available in English, French, and German. In addition, the library provides free access to the Slovenian National Bibliography from its website.
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