Conference paper
Ten years of AV Department of Tin Ujević Library
Tea Grašić-Kvesić
Stella Sessel Livaić
Abstract
AV department of Tin Ujević Library was founded in 2003. as music department with the financial support of Open Society Institute Croatia. Initially offering a variety of music with an orientation towards classical and jazz music. With the development of new technologies and demands of new, e-generation of users, department is enriched with new types of material on new media such as movies, games and e-books. The number of users has increased, but the space became inadequate, so AV department was altered and renovated in 2009. in order to offer our users all the book and non-book material in free access. Today AV department has 3240 units of material, 1831 belonging to the music collection, 554 units of visual material, 602 units of electronic resources, and the rest belongs to books about music and printed music manuscript. Except for acquisition, storage and lending of AV materials, department actively participates in organisation of concerts, lectures and exhibitions regarding music. In order to respond to specific users’ demands, the Department employs musically educated librarian.
Keywords
public library; music department; AV department; AV collection; music collection; e-book; e-information; e-loan
Hrčak ID:
115227
URI
Publication date:
3.9.2013.
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