Professional paper
The largest donation in the history of the Croatian Academy Library : Renata Gotthardi-Škiljan donates her family library
Zrinka Vitković
orcid.org/0000-0003-4061-0877
; Knjižnica Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
When the Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts accepted the Gotthardi-Škiljan family donation, although having a rish history of receiving gifts for its collections, it faced a very demanding task of choosing the right way to include the donated materials into its holdings. The entire Gotthardi-Škiljan family library was donated to the Library, with the 10,525 volumes of monographs and periodicals. This largest donation ever presented to the Croatian Academy Library enriched the Library with a great number of highly valuable titles, but it also brought the obligation to take proper care of the materials which, due to the development policy of its collection, the Library decided not to keep. The Library collection was enriched with a total of 1,353 volumes, while other Academy research sections, museums and galleries took a total of 1,136 volumes according to their needs. The rest was distributed to other libraries, institutions and individuals across Croatia during a three-years. This example may be of use to other libraries and even to related institutions, as a pattern for dealing with similar situations in their future work.
Keywords
gift; donation; Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Library; Renata Gotthardi-Škiljan
Hrčak ID:
142379
URI
Publication date:
8.6.2014.
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