Biljana M. Đurašinović
biljana.djurasinovic@gmail.com

doi: 10.19090/cit.2017.31.62-70
No. 31 (November 2017), p. 2-10

Social Libraries with Reading Rooms as a Form of Public Librarianship
in Serbia from 1918 to 1941

Summary

This paper gives an overview of work of social libraries with reading rooms in Serbia from 1918 to 1941. Its introductory part describes the forms of public librarianship in Serbia in the interwar period, with a special emphasis on the differences between the types of institutions. Special attention is paid to connections between social libraries and public libraries. The first part of the paper is dedicated to definition, regulations and functioning of social libraries with reading rooms, as a form of public librarianship. The second part deals with work of the Šabac Social Library with a Reading Room, which worked from 1928 to 1941, as the best organized institution of this type in Serbia in the interwar period. The last section describes forming of the Union of Social Libraries with Reading Rooms, an organization that was supposed to bring together all social libraries with reading rooms in the territory of the Kingdom, and defines its scope of work.

Keywords:

social libraries with reading rooms, public libraries, social libraries, rules of social libraries with reading rooms, Šabac Social Library with a Reading Room, public librarianship, Serbia 1918–1941, Union of Social Libraries with Reading Rooms

Submitted: 15th June 2017
Correction to the manuscript: 5th September 2017
Accepted for publication: 12th September 2017

Social Libraries with Reading Rooms as a Form of Public Librarianship in Serbia from 1918 to 1941 by Biljana M. Đurašinović is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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