Professional paper
Professional literature at the Department of the Museum of Nin antiquities in Nin and the contribution of the professional Museum staff to its collecting
Marina Maruna
orcid.org/0000-0002-4052-6344
; Arheološki muzej Zadar, Zadar, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper presents circumstances in which professional literature at the Department of the Musum of Nin Antiquities in Nin was collected. The process of collecting was chronologically divided into two phases. The first phase deals with the period from the 1960s to 1996. It is largely based on assumptions due to deficient archival informations. The second phase (from 1997 to 2019) is characterized by recording library materials (professional literature) in accordance with certain rules and manner of its acquisition for the Nin museum. Further on the contribution of the museum staff, in particular the curators, was emphasized in the paper, in collecting and storing the professional literature necessary for professional and scientific-research work. The procedure of selecting existing library materials (monographs, periodicals, offprints, leaflets) was also presented as a prerequisite for technical and professional processing, with an aim of making it publicly available in 2019. Content analysis was performed on the entire library holdings. Considering the needs of the professional staff of the museum for professional literature, number of works dealing with archaeology and other related fields (history, art history etc.) was determined. Content structure of the newly formed library collection at the Department of the Museum of Nin Antiquities is a kind of evidence of well conducted procurement policy in previous decades for which all credit goes to the curators, in other words staff of the Department of the Museum of Nin Antiquities in Nin.
Keywords
professional literature; reference library; procurement; professional museum staff; Department of the Museum of Nin Antiquities in Nin
Hrčak ID:
237187
URI
Publication date:
21.4.2020.
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