Branka Dragosavac
branka.dragosavac@ius.bg.ac.rs

Ana Pavlović
ana.pavlovic@ius.bg.ac.rs

Katarina Stefanović
katarina@ius.bg.ac.rs

Univerzitet u Beogradu
Pravni fakultet – Biblioteka, Beograd

doi: 10.19090/cit.2018.33.63-71
No. 33 (November 2018), p. 63–71

Librarian: A Newsletter for the Training of Librarians in Vojvodina

Summary

Librarian was being published from 1952 to 1958, as a bulletin of the Library Center of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. Its primary goal was to train librarians and provide information about events and developments in the profession. Beeing the fi rst library journal in Vojvodina it was issued in seven annual sets, with a total of 28 printed volumes. By 1956, the bulletin was published quarterly, while in the last two years it was published semi-annually. The numbering of the volumes was continuous all the time, while the pages were numbered continuously until the end of 1957. By the number 23–24, there were a total of 746 pages of printed text, and the volumes 25–26 and 27–28 count 192 pages.
This paper presents the columns and texts that formed the content of Librarian. The issuing of the bulletin can be divided into two periods – the fi rst (1952–1953), during which it contained mostly editorial texts about the formation and organization of libraries, and the second (1954–1958), when the columns were designed and the number of authors of the texts from various fi elds of librarianship was increased.
By providing basic information about libraries, especially the rural ones, presenting regulations in the fi elds of cataloguing and classifi cation, organizing departments and services, registration of users and cultural and educational activities in public libraries, Librarian became a necessary source of information in public libraries. By bringing good practice examples and presenting the work of some domestic and foreign libraries, attempts have been made to encourage all libraries to do their best, with existing funds and staff . When it comes to professional library literature – monographs and serial publications – the bulletin was providing information about the eff orts to develop the profession. By presenting book production, it made librarians and users aware of the latest editions, thus contributing to the acquisition of new titles. Six decades after ceased publication, Librarian is an indispensable source of information for historical research in the fi eld of public librarianship in Vojvodina.

Keywords:

Librarian, library bulletin, history of librarianship, enlightenment, education, library training, Library Center of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

Submitted: 14th January 2018
Correction to the manuscript: 21st August 2018
Accepted for publication: 11th October 2018

Librarian: A Newsletter for the Training of Librarians in Vojvodina by Branka Dragosavac, Ana Pavlović, Katarina Stefanović is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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