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Purpose. Crowdsourcing has been used in libraries and archives all over the world for more than a decade, but it has not yet become popular in Croatia. The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent the Croatian professional community is familiar with this concept of work in heritage institutions, and also if there is any potential for implementing crowdsourcing in Croatian archives and libraries. Approach. The answers to these questions were obtained through a mixed research approach with predominantly quantitative characteristics on a random sample of 201 patrons and 23 employees of libraries and archives in the city of Zagreb. The research was conducted in situ with surveys for the patrons consisting of 17 questions and semi-structured interviews with the employees. In addition to examining the overall interest for participation in crowdsourcing projects and the employees' desire to supervise them, the respondents were questioned about their familiarity with the term "crowdsourcing", and their own thoughts and ideas on this topic. Findings. According to their answers, although patrons were not familiar with the term 'crowdsourcing' and its meaning before, they have shown interest for participating and gave positive feedback on crowdsourcing projects after reading a short explanation. They generally opted out for participating in purposeful games and projects of text correction and/or transcription. The results of this research have shown that, in addition to the willingness of patrons to participate as potential volunteers, there is also certain interest among employees as potential organizers of such projects. The employees have expressed concerns about the quality of that kind of amateur work, and emphasized the necessity of project supervision and work results monitoring as key elements for a successful project. In conclusion, a successful crowdsourcing project needs to be organized with the content and activities that would be appealing to potential volunteers and target the enthusiastic patrons who have shown interest in participating in various heritage institutions' activities and projects. Research limitations. This research was conducted only in the city of Zagreb, and although it included a number of city's archives and libraries, its results cannot be generally applied to other regions of Croatia. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct further research in order to gain more insight into the potential and possibilities for implementing crowdsourcing in heritage institutions in all parts of Croatia. Originality. This paper provides better insight into the potential for implementation of crowdsourcing projects in Croatia based on findings of the research conducted among users and employees of archives and libraries in the city of Zagreb. There has not been research in this area prior to this paper, focusing on the interest of the respondents in organizing and participating in such activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim. The paper describes collection building in a medical library using the example of the Central Library of the Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center (SMUHC) in Zagreb and its two branch libraries. Methods. The Central Library of the SMUHC at 29 Vinogradska Street in Zagreb is a special medical, i.e. a hospital library. The branch libraries are located at the other two locations of the SMUHC: at 19 Draškovićeva Street (at the Traumatology Department of the SMUHC), and at 197 Ilica Street (at the Oncology Department of the SMUHC). The paper describes the library collections and presents a brief overview of acquisition models. Findings. Due to the nature of biomedical information that becomes out of date rather quickly, the most important collections are periodicals, databases, and collections of the foreign and domestic books, which are regularly updated with the most recent editions. At the beginning of the 21st century, e-resources are becoming increasingly important in biomedicine. The Central Library develops its collections of the printed and e-resources combining the purchase with their own funds and using the access to e-resources procured for the scientific and academic institutions in the Republic of Croatia. Value. It may be concluded that by building its collections in the manner described in this paper, the Central Library of the SMUHC successfully fulfills the basic task of the large hospital library, which is to support the professional, scientific and research work of the employees of the Sestre milosrdnice UHC, as well as of the external users. [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]

The paper brings, in chronological order, short biographies of the directors of the National and University Library in Zagreb and its predecessor libraries. The introduction offers an overview of the former investigations and accumulated knowledge on the status and role of the previous managers of this central Croatian library, followed by short descriptions of their life and work in the Library. The aim of this paper is to contribute to its 400th anniversary by supplementing the more extensive published works on its collected book heritage, events, premises and services, from which we rarely learn much about the persons who gave the greatest contribution to its development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strategic planning and strategic management are present in librarianship like in all other economic activities of modern society and link the librarianship with the field of market management and economy in general. As stated in the Regulations of the Activities of Central Commissions for Libraries in the Republic of Croatia (2001, article 15), the National and University Library in Zagreb is the center of the library system and the central library for all types of libraries in the Republic of Croatia. It has the task to organize and develop libraries in the Republic of Croatia in order to improve their work, taking into consideration the contemporary librarianship theory and practice, and thus ensure the quality of library services in science, education, culture, and society. Building the strategy for the development of libraries in the Republic of Croatia cannot be separated from the context of, especially European, librarianship, so this paper will also present the strategies of several European and US libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses several groups of problems identified in classification of art history according to Universal Decimal Classification (UDC). As the first group of issues the author mentions the existence of more than one UDC number for the same concept, and finds that, sometimes, the distinction made in UDC between different aspects of the same concepts is not necessary. In the second group of issues the author lists some deficiences of the UDC scheme as present in the Croatian edition from 2005 (based on the UDC MRF from 1998) and points out the problems of the out-of-date classification of periods of mediaeval art in this edition and confusing terminology and hierarchy of modern and contemporary art. The author describes how the above listed problems are solved in the classification practice of the National and University Library in Zagreb (Croatia). The author clarifies which of the above mentioned issues can be managed through the library's classification guidelines and which can only be alleviated using a revised UDC schedule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to define the term alternative library and to identify the structure and activities of alternative libraries based on the Zagreb sample. Alternative libraries are civil sector's libraries. These libraries collect and offer the use of their collections to the general public. Their collections cover a variety of topics and subjects from the field of human rights protection, such as rights of women, homosexuals, right to live in peace and free information-access rights. The results of the research conducted at the end of September and the beginning of October 2005 are presented in this article. Using structured interview method, the research was carried out in five Zagreb alternative libraries. The libraries include: Reading-room and Library of The Centre for Women's Studies; the Library of Ženska Infoteka; Lezbib -- lesbian library of Lesbian Group Kontra; Media Archive [mama] of Multimedia Institute [mi2]; and Peace Library of The Centre for Peace Studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to present the first development period of the bibliographic activities in the National and University Library in Zagreb and point particularly to some so far unknown facts connected with this development. Some organisational and other questions during the presidency of the first Library director Ivan Kostren6id are first discussed, followed by a review of activities of Kostrencic's successor Velimir Dezelic. It was established that during the whole period between 1875 and 1918 the Library professionals took into account the necessity of elaboration and publication of the Croatian national bibliography but that the necessary financial and personnel prerequisites for this activity were not extant in the Library at that time. Therefore the Library had to restrict its activities to priority tasks, such as library catalogues for users. Some details about an unsuccessful trial of the production of a Croatian bibliography at the end of the 19th century are presented as well as the creation of the first cataloguing rules in 1913 and plans of V. Dezelic for further development of bibliographic activities in the Library after the end of the First World War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]