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Purpose. The aim of this paper is to present the goals and the process of establishing the Croatian DOI Office as part of the National and University Library in Zagreb, the development and characteristics of the DOI-HR System as well as the work and the accomplished achievements of the Office. Approach/methodology/design. The paper uses the descriptive method to explain the basic characteristics of the DOI identification system, its registration agency the Crossref and the Crossref registration office in the Republic of Croatia – the Croatian DOI Office. Along with the analysis of the statistical data recorded at the end of 2018 on the current Croatian scientific and professional journals, the paper presents the reasons for founding and the benefits of the membership obtained through the mediation of the Office. The paper mainly focuses on the work process and procedures of the Croatian DOI Office, the analyses and description of the DOI-HR System, its structure, purpose, functionalities, collaborations models, and metadata submission methods. Findings. The paper presents in detail the establishment and the activities of the new service of the National and University Library in Zagreb. It shows the necessity of the establishment of the Croatian DOI Office at the Library. The paper describes a new Crossref model operated by the national DOI office that provides signifi cant financial savings and broad range of other benefits for publishers who use the service through the Croatian DOI Office and DOI-HR System, such as Similarity Check services, technical support for assigning and registering DOIs, permanent storage of registered articles and all-rounders, maintenance of permanence of DOI, semi-automatized inclusion of articles in the Croatian National Bibliography and publication on the portal Digitalne zbirke Nacionalne i sveučilišne knjižnice u Zagrebu (Digital Collections of the National and University Library in Zagreb). Practical implication. The paper is intended for the wider library community and publishers who use or want to use the Croatian DOI Office registration service and other national and university libraries that consider establishing a national DOI office. Originality / value. The paper describes the establishing of the Croatian DOI Office, a new service of the National and University Library in Zagreb, the first national and one of the three university libraries in the world that use the new Crossref model of representing publishers (Sponsoring Organisation). Furthermore, the value of and the need for this unique type of service, that the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education has recognized too, are presented. The paper describes a unique system, the DOI-HR System, developed especially for the needs of the Office by the National and University Library in Zagreb. The System allows easier constructing and registering DOIs for the publishers, submitting metadata and objects and provides connectivity to other systems, and, at the same time, fulfills other tasks of the publishers and the national library, such as delivering and receiving of the legal deposit of online resources and their inclusion in the national bibliography and the digital library [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. The University of Rijeka Library has limited financial funds for the acquisition of library materials at their disposal. Based on the existing data on the purchased books usage statistics, this paper aims to determine the efficacy of these acquisitions, that is, if the library users have really borrowed the purchased books. Further more, the paper will try to identify the books that were purchased but not borrowed and explore the reasons why they were not borrowed. Approach/methodolo/design. Based on the reports of the book loans generated by the library software, the usage analysis of the purchased books has been carried out. The analysis was conducted on the monographs which were purchased and borrowed in the period between 2014 and 2018. Findings. The results show that in the researched period mostly domestic books were purchased. The topics and the content of the acquired books correspond to the study programs of the University of Rijeka. High percentage of the purchased books have been borrowed later by the library users. Research limitations/implications. Since the University of Rijeka Library is purchasing only a small number of serial titles, this analysis is limited to the purchased monographs only. Practical implications. The methodology of the analysis can be applied in libraries that can procure the same or similar data reports. It is applicable in the libraries that consider necessary the evaluation of their own acquisition policies from time to time, taking into consideration the usage data on all acquired materials, regardless of the acquisition methods. The analysis results can be used as an argument in the negotiations with the library founders and any other potential library financiers. They can also be used to revise and adjust library acquisition policies. Originality/value. Usually, the collection evaluation methods are used on the entire collections or the library holdings as the whole, regardless of the acquisition methods. This analysis was focused on the books acquired by the specific method, regardless of the library collection each item belongs to. It is intended to explore and evaluate if the financial means were used in the most efficient way, but viewed from the users’ perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. The aim of the paper is to briefly present the founding and development of the Public library “Juraj Šižgorić’’ Šibenik from its establishment to 1980s, especially in the context of the development of the Croatian librarianship and libraries, but also of general social and political circumstances. Approach/methodology/design. The first part of the paper describes the circumstances in Šibenik during the 20th century, at the time when the city library was founded and developed. The second and the third parts of the paper present the development of the Public library “Juraj Šižgorić’’ Šibenik in the context of the development of Croatian librarianship, from 1920s to the Second World War, and the third part describes the period from the war to the 1980s. The data were collected from the daily newspapers, available in digitized form, thanks to the digitization activities of the Public Library “Juraj Šižgorić’’ Šibenik, as well as the University Library in Split, and the data from the scientific and professional literature. The librarians from the Public Library “Juraj Šižgorić’’ Šibenik have published several papers about their library on different topics: contributions by deserving directors, creation and development of collections, the role of the library in the contemporary social and cultural life of the city. Findings. This paper gives an insight into the historical development of the Public Library “Juraj Šižgorić’’ Šibenik and its connection with social and cultural life of the city. Throughout its long history, the library has often faced many problems such as lack of space and fi nancial support, but has always strived to keep up with the contemporary demands and needs of the community. Originality/value. The development of the library has been viewed both in the social context and through the general development of libraries in Croatia. The paper may serve as a basis for further research, but it may also be the inspiration for writing reviews about the history of other libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. Book treatment or bibliotherapy is most commonly associated with the psychiatric field, where it is performed as an auxiliary and creative therapeutic method. The aim of this paper is to consider how meaningful it is to have bibliotherapy in a library as one of the institutions where it is implemented as a preventative method and carried out on healthy population. There is also the question of the possibility of its implementation in university libraries that are often unfairly neglected on this matter in Croatia. Approach. The paper considers different types of bibliotherapy, emphasizing the developmental bibliotherapy as a form that could and should be implemented in libraries. The role of librarians in the implementation of bibliotherapy, freedom of action and competence is being problematized. The results of the research conducted outside of Croatia, presented in this paper, indicate the degree of importance of its implementation in university libraries among the student population. The paper is based on the method of analysing and reviewing the existing knowledge and literature and their synthesis in the new text. Results. It is believed that by introducing bibliotherapy in libraries they are gaining one more, socially useful role, which should not be carried out solely in school and public libraries, but also in university libraries, which, addressing students as a particularly vulnerable group of young people, can give their own contribution to this area. Originality / value. The humanity of bibliotherapy and the encouragement of its implementation in libraries and the questioning of opportunities that the university libraries can provide, are the dominant values of this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. This paper establishes the availability of library resources and services adapted for access from mobile devices in academic and related libraries that support scientific work and higher education: The National and University Library in Zagreb and other university libraries, general scientific, and special libraries ˗ institutes. Approach/methodology/design. Three research questions were asked: 1) To what extent have the academic and related libraries adapted to users in terms of the availability of library resources and services on mobile devices? 2) What types of mobile library resources and services are represented to a greater extent and which ones are less represented in the researched academic and related libraries? 3) What are the similarities and differences between the different categories of the researched libraries with regard to the implementation of the analyzed library resources and services for mobile devices? The research was conducted on the sample of 97 library websites according to 10 content criteria, and each criteria with the presence less than or equal to 50% was considered underrepresented. Findings. The responsive web design is present on 43% library websites. It is most prevalent in university and general scientific libraries (both categories with 50% each), followed by institutes libraries (45%), and the least represented among academic libraries (42%). Only one library (1%) has a library mobile application. None of the researched libraries has a mobile catalog application, while 13% of library catalogs have a responsive Web interface. Libraries do not direct users to access online databases, e-books or e-journals from mobile devices. Communication with users via text messaging is not provided by any library. 23% of the libraries have Facebook profiles. The application of new technologies and services (QR, NFC, Beacon, AR) is not mentioned on most of the libraries’ websites and is represented in rare individual cases. A total of 29% of the researched libraries enable a discovery search of all e-sources: it is offered by all university libraries (100%), 28% of academic libraries, and 20% of special libraries. Education on the use of library mobile resources and services is not explicitly mentioned on any of the researched library websites. Out of the total number of the researched libraries, as many as 44% of libraries do not meet any of the content analysis criteria, and out of the 10 content criteria, the largest percentage of them (30%) is present in 8 libraries. The research findings have shown that the resources and services for mobile devices are not suffi ciently represented (less than or equal to 50%) in the total number of the researched libraries nor in the individual libraries. Originality/value. For the first time, an analysis of the Croatian mobile library resources and services has been made and discussed, which provided an insight into the current situation and can give an incentive to consider the user needs for such services in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]