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The History of Jesuit Libraries in Croatia an Overview
journal of jesuit studies 2 (2015) 283-301 brill.com/jjs The History of Jesuit Libraries in Croatia An Overview Marica Šapro-Ficović City Library Dubrovnik, Croatia [email protected] Željko Vegh City Library Zagreb, Croatia [email protected] Abstract The purpose of this study is to provide a historical overview of the Jesuit libraries in Croatia from their foundation to the present. The first known libraries were at Jesuit high schools, called “colleges,” established during the seventeenth century. This article deals with foundation of libraries at the Jesuit colleges in Zagreb, Varaždin, Požega, Rijeka, and Dubrovnik, emphasizing their role supporting education and the dissemination of knowl- edge. These libraries were witness to a strong influence of Jesuits colleges on the spiritual, educational, and intellectual life of many Croats. Highlighted in this respect is the famous library of the Jesuit school in Dubrovnik (Collegium Ragusinum). After the suppression of Jesuit order in 1773, the colleges were closed, and their libraries scattered and plundered. Nevertheless, many books survived. Portions of the collections of the former Jesuit col- leges are today an invaluable part of the patrimony of the largest Croatian libraries. Keywords Jesuits – Croatia – translation – Dubrovnik college – Zagreb college – Varaždin college – Požega college – Rijeka college – library history – old and rare book collections Introduction Jesuits arrived on Croatian soil in the mid-sixteenth century by invitation, shortly after the founding of the Society of Jesus. In the seventeenth century, © Šapro-Ficović and Vegh, 2015 | doi 10.1163/22141332-00202008 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial 4.0 Unported (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License. -
Aleksandra Horvat EVA VERONA – a LIBRARY CAREER Eva Verona Was Born on 1 February 1905 in Trieste, a City Then Under the Aust
Aleksandra Horvat EVA VERONA – A LIBRARY CAREER Eva Verona was born on 1 February 1905 in Trieste, a city then under the Austro- Hungarian Monarchy, where her father was working. She spent her early childhood in Vienna and then attended grammar school in Zagreb. She studied mathematics and physics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, graduating in 1928. The next year she began working in the University Library (today the National and University Library), and soon afterwards passed her librarian examination. She worked in the University Library until retiring in 1967, performing a variety of roles in various departments. She reorganized the natural sciences area in the classified catalogue and was involved with the foreign periodicals collection. She was responsible for choosing and purchasing works covering the natural sciences and technology and also for works pertaining to librarianship. In 1939 she published her first paper on classified catalogues in Nastavni vjesnik . In 1940, with Branko Hergeši ć, Jelka Miši ć and Nevenka Dragi čevi ć she compiled an up to date bibliography of books published in Banovina Hrvatska (the Autonomous Banovina of Croatia). The first issue appeared in 1941 and was titled A Catalogue of books published in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . Following changes in the country’s political situation, the bibliography changed its title to read A Croatian Bibliography . In cooperation with Jelka Miši ć, Verona also compiled a list of the periodicals received by libraries in Zagreb, which was published by the Association of Secondary School Teachers in 1941. In the forties she was an associate with the Croatian Encyclopaedia and wrote a contribution on bibliography for the collected papers Naša domovina . -
The History of Jesuit Libraries in Croatia an Overview
journal of jesuit studies 2 (2015) 283-301 brill.com/jjs The History of Jesuit Libraries in Croatia An Overview Marica Šapro-Ficović City Library Dubrovnik, Croatia [email protected] Željko Vegh City Library Zagreb, Croatia [email protected] Abstract The purpose of this study is to provide a historical overview of the Jesuit libraries in Croatia from their foundation to the present. The first known libraries were at Jesuit high schools, called “colleges,” established during the seventeenth century. This article deals with foundation of libraries at the Jesuit colleges in Zagreb, Varaždin, Požega, Rijeka, and Dubrovnik, emphasizing their role supporting education and the dissemination of knowl- edge. These libraries were witness to a strong influence of Jesuits colleges on the spiritual, educational, and intellectual life of many Croats. Highlighted in this respect is the famous library of the Jesuit school in Dubrovnik (Collegium Ragusinum). After the suppression of Jesuit order in 1773, the colleges were closed, and their libraries scattered and plundered. Nevertheless, many books survived. Portions of the collections of the former Jesuit col- leges are today an invaluable part of the patrimony of the largest Croatian libraries. Keywords Jesuits – Croatia – translation – Dubrovnik college – Zagreb college – Varaždin college – Požega college – Rijeka college – library history – old and rare book collections Introduction Jesuits arrived on Croatian soil in the mid-sixteenth century by invitation, shortly after the founding of the Society of Jesus. In the seventeenth century, © Šapro-Ficović and Vegh, 2015 | doi 10.1163/22141332-00202008 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial 4.0 Unported (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License. -
Libraries and the Library System of Slovenia
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and... Libraries and the Library System of Slovenia Melita Ambrožič and Maja Žumer Abstract This paper provides a brief introduction to the Republic of Slovenia and presents a history of its library system. Although the first “public” library opened in 1569 and the first “public” research library in 1701, the current library system originated in the twentieth century, after World War I. The library system of Slovenia today is an organized network consisting of publicly funded libraries of all types, which have been in continuous development since the end of World War II. Several academic and research libraries started using information- retrieval systems in the early 1970s, while other Slovenian libraries started using automated services during the late 1980s. Slovenian libraries have recently reached a relatively high level of development and are now focused on providing digital resources and other new services to their users. While digital libraries are active these days and several acquisition consortia are currently providing user access to numerous resources after a long period of stable and significant growth, the recent global financial crisis provoked austerity measures that are threatening the continued development of the country’s library system. Slovenia—Past and Present Slovenia is a country in south-central Europe bordered by Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north. It takes its name from the Slo- venes, a group of South Slavs who originally settled in the area at the end of the sixth century ce and established the principality of Carantania in the seventh, which became part of the Frankish Empire in the eighth century.