Preliminary communication
CONTEMPORARY LIBRARY RESOURCES IN THE DOMAIN OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT: EXPERIENCE FROM SERBIAN DIGITAL ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT
Vesna Župan
orcid.org/0000-0002-1955-6397
; The “Svetozar Marković’’ University Library in Belgrade, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Abstract
This article is focused on digital and electronic resources in Serbian academic libraries. The text emphasizes the role of materials in economics and management. Statistical as well as an empirical access is used in order to describe the situation in the academic libraries of Serbia. The article explains also the role of open digital repositories such as PHAIDRA and DART-Europe. The census from 2011 shows that 7.120.666 persons live in Serbia. There are 242.848 students among them including those who are postgraduate students as well as those who study according to the previous programme. Statistical data show that 89.287 students and 1.700 postgraduate students attend the University of Belgrade which is al¬most 37,69% of the total number of students in Serbia. At this university 4.289 persons work in the educational process. The structure of library collections shows the potentia¬lity of a university for educational and scientific work. The library collections in academic Serbia are illustrated in the paper. The retrievals of electronic information resources are carried out. All library materials in all the languages are taken into consideration having in mind economics and management. The number of bibliographic descriptions which refer to the economics and management of Serbia, ex-Yugoslavia, Balkans, and generally speaking Europe are compared. The aim was to present realistically the structure of collections in Serbian academic librarianship. The retrieval of the cumulative e-catalogue COBIB.SR whi¬ch has approximately 2.822.600 bibliographic descriptions is carried out. It is obvious that it exists only 381 references on human resources in Serbia, four on those in ex-Yugoslavia, zero on those on the Balkans and only five on these resources in Europe. It is out of approxi¬mately 43.000 references published in 2014 which have their bibliographic description in e-catalogue COBIB.SR that only 5 references on human resources generally speaking exist, only 98 references on entrepreneurship, and 129 on economic development. This is rela¬tively little having in mind that library materials include not only books but also articles. This paper didn’t go in for the quality of acquired library materials. It is clear on the base of presented results that the acquisition of publications on human resources should be in¬creased particularly on those in ex-Yugoslavia, on the Balkans and wider – in Europe, then on entrepreneurship on these locations having in mind the importance of multinational companies. The collection of The ‘’Svetozar Markovi’’ University Library in Belgrade is par¬ticularly retrieved. Linguistic structure of the acquired library materials is presented in the paper after the retrieval of the cumulative e-catalogue COBIB.SR was carried out.
Keywords
libraries; resources; economics; management; Serbia
Hrčak ID:
144504
URI
Publication date:
9.9.2015.
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