Conference paper

THE HERITAGE IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES: SURVEY RESULTS

Alemka Belan-Simić ; Knjižnice grada Zagreba

Abstract

Numerous library collections have been created on the basis of bequests by prominent literary, cultural, scholarly and other names who donated their manuscripts, correspondence and works to
libraries in their home towns or towns in which they worked. A comprehensive project of listing archive holdings and collections in Croatia, the results of which were published in 1984, involved
archives, manuscripts, maps and other collections of book-related and other hodings at the National and University Library, the HAZU library and the former scholarly libraries in Dubrovnik, Pula,
Rijeka, Split and Zadar, while collections in national libraries were not listed apart from those at the Zagreb City Library.
In today’s globalised world national libraries are considered to be centres that can promote and preserve a feeling for the local community, the geneaology and the history of a place whose identity
is Þ rmly linked with the life and work of individual prominent authors. National public libraries can help in the creation and dissemination of digital content based on the holdings in the collections of local libraries, museums and archives. The systematic
collaboration of libraries, archives and museums in Croatia began in 1997 with the organisation of annual seminars “Archives, libraries,
museums: the possibilities for cooperation in the environment of a global information infrasctucture”. As a result of participation in the seminars, some national libraries began to digitize the holdings of their local collections and work began on the “Proposal for a national programm of the digitization of holdings in archives, libraries and
museums”, whose third and Þ nal stage envisions the creation of a portal tentatively called “The Croatian Heritage”. Since we consider that literary bequests in archives, libraries and museums should be a part of this portal, we wanted to determine their existence, scope and level of treatment in libraries. With this aim we created a survey questionnaire and sent it to the addresses of national libraries
in Croatia.

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Hrčak ID:

76960

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/76960

Publication date:

1.12.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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