Conference paper
Mobile libraries as part of the library network of public libraries in Croatia : the situation and development plans
Iva Pezer
orcid.org/0000-0003-0594-533X
; Gradska knjižnica i čitaonica Vinkovci, Vinkovci, Hrvatska
Ljiljana Vugrinec
orcid.org/0000-0002-4274-3430
; Knjižnica i čitaonica “Fran Galović” Koprivnica, Koprivnica, Hrvatska
Abstract
The primary purpose of this paper is to examine the situation and plans for future development of mobile libraries in Croatia, in the context of fulfilling the provisions of the existing Croatian legislation and the need for library practices. The specific objectives are: to describe the state of mobile libraries in Croatia on the basis of past statistics and present the results of the study plans of their development. In Croatia, in 2014 operates ten bibliobus services in the field of nine counties and the City of Zagreb, with a total of 14 bibliobus vehicles. During the past fifteen years, mobile librariy services have experienced a significant development: there were established four new services, six service was reestablished with new vehicles, four brand new vehicles were purchased in existing or new services, and two used vehicles obtained from abroad as donations are in function. However, in eleven Croatian counties there are still no organized mobile library services, although in each of them there are areas that are not provided with stationed libraries. Therefore, the Commission for the mobile libraries HKD in 2013 carried out a study about needs and development plans of mobile libraries in Croatia within which a questionnaire to all county libraries examined what their real needs, short-term and long-term plans for the development of the county library network, with particular emphasis on the role of mobile libraries in these plans. The results of this study, together with the information about current state bibliobus services that regularly annually collects Commission for mobile libraries, gives a complete picture of the situation in movable librarianship the Republic of Croatia in 2014, and the screenings of needs for the next multi-year period.
Keywords
mobile libraries; bibliobus service in Croatia; the Commission for the mobile library; Croatian Library Association; bibliobuses; bookmobile
Hrčak ID:
143630
URI
Publication date:
10.8.2015.
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