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On the basis of documents from the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia (ARS), especially annual reports on the operation and reports on program task implementation of the Slovenian State Security Service (SDV) this paper presents the organizational structure, methods, and fields of work of the Slovenian secret police in the 1980s. The SDV was organized in accordance with accepted secret regulations as well as federal secret legislation. According to the provisions of the State Security Service Rules, which state that it should perform its work based on the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia's (ZKJ) positions and policies, its focus was on preserving the existing political system. From the early 1980s to 1989, the State Security Service's work was divided into external and internal areas, with the present article focusing on the latter. The internal field was divided into "hostile structures," which included groups such as "anarcholiberalism," "bourgeois pluralism," "bureaucratic-dogmatic structures," and "clergy," "bourgeois right," economic liberalism, and nationalism. In doing so, they observed that criticism was increasingly directed at the ability of the then-political leadership and the oneparty system. The SDV employed repressive methods of control to keep an eye on these structures, including territorial preventive work, intelligence work, person surveillance, verification, informative and operational interviews, secret tracking, secret investigation, secret control of mail, secret control of telegraph and telephone traffic, and secret sounding spaces. Precisely from the field of internal action, i.e., monitoring of the "internal enemy", we can conclude that SDV also acted as political police in the 1980s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: In this article, we present borrowing e-books from the web portal Biblos in libraries in Posavje region during the epidemic due to the increase of infected patients with coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), Methodoiogy/approach: We used a survey to gain information about inventory and borrowing e-books on the web portal Biblos in Brežice Library, Valvasor Library Krško and Sevnica Library. Information about the inventory and borrowing e-books in Brežice Library for past years was gained from the library's annual reports. Results: Gained results show that libraries have a proportionately sizeable inventory of e-books, regarding the number of members. During the closure of libraries, they informed their members and users about their activities and supply of printed and online media and their websites and social media. Research limitations: Only libraries from Posavje region have been involved in the review - Brežice Library, Valvasor Library Krško and Sevnica Library. The data is focused only on a specific time frame during the lockdown of libraries for users between March 13 and May 3,2020, and the period of stricter measures until the declaration of the end of the coronavirus epidemic on May 31,2020. For comparison, we used the same period in 2019. Originality/practical implications: The results are useful for all three involved public libraries and all other libraries because they show the response of users to changed conditions of open access to literature and the success of redirecting readers to the web portal Biblos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Green Library is a library that, with its operation, location selection, use of green technologies and exploitation of natural resources, works economically and minimizes interference with the environment. Examples of green library best practices can be found all over the world. The aim is to familiarize Slovenian librarians with this topic, bring them closer to the green library concept and promote the importance of environmentally friendly libraries. One of the goals is also to define the following concepts: green, green libraries, sustainability and sustainable development. The article presents the beginnings and development of green libraries in the world and identifies the situation and possibilities for further development of green libraries in Slovenia. The first part defines the concepts of green, green libraries, sustainability and sustainable development and describes the beginnings of green libraries. Furthermore, the focus is on the important national initiatives of Croatia and the United States of America. Crucial international initiatives are also presented in the article. In the second part, the situation in Slovenia is represented in connection with sustainable development. The I feel Slovenia brand, the Green Network and the examples of the Slovenian green libraries - Franc Ksaver Meško Ormož Library and Šentvid Library, a unit of Ljubljana City Library are mentioned. By reviewing the web pages of the Slovenian public libraries (their published work programmes, the business reports or the strategic plans), we have determined the green orientation of the Slovenian public libraries. The Werner checklist was used for the criterion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]