| Abbreviation |
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| NSK |
| English |
| National and University Library, Croatia |
| Francais |
| Bibliotheque Nationale et Universitaire, Croatie |
| Deutsch |
| National- und Universitätsbibliothek, Kroatien |
| Italian |
| Biblioteca Nazionale e Universitaria, Croazia |
| History, description, mission statement etc. |
| National and University Library was founded in 1607, within Jesuit College. In 1776 the Jesuit College Library was affiliated to the Royal Academy of Sciences (Regia Scientiarum Academia). With the foundation of the University in Zagreb in 1874, the name was changed into the University Library. During the 19th century the Library took complete responsibility for fulfilling its dual national and university functions, which were expressed in collection building policy. In 1883 the library moved to new premises built for University. In 1913, the construction of the new building situated at Marulic Square was finished. After less than 80 years, on May28th, 1995, the Library moved to the new building, second in the 20th century. Services offered:
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| Postal address |
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| P.O. BOX 550 10 000 Zagreb |
| Visiting address |
| Hrvatske bratske zajednice 4 10 000 Zagreb |
| Telephone |
| ++385 1 616-4111 |
| Fax |
| ++385 1 616-4186 |
| General e-mail |
| nsk@nsk.hr |
| URL |
| www.nsk.hr |
| Director |
| Josip Stipanov, Ph.D. |
| Staff |
|---|
| 301 FTE Library staff Staff list |
| Annual budget |
| 36,041,422.17 SKK (958,881.15 US$) |
| Monographs |
|---|
| 2.015.720 volumes |
| Serial titles |
| 24,180 |
| Current serial titles |
| 1,624 current serials titles (CROATICA) 205 current newspaper titles (CROATICA) 1,232 foreign serials titles |
| Microforms |
| 314,427 (microfilms) |
| Electronic documents |
| 430 units |
| Other electronic resources |
| See the list, DIALOG, ISI, EmeraldFulltext, ABI/Inform, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, EBSCO |
| Others |
| Manuscripts:142,113 Cartographic materials:28,101 Music:17,580 Audiovisual materials:11,735 |
Special collections and services Collection of Rare Books and Manuscripts contains 187 incunabula, 67,000 rare books, 142,113 manuscriptsThe acquisition of material from special collections comes from donations or purchasing and partly also from legal deposit. Prints and Drawing Collection holds prints and drawings, posters, leaflets and postcards Collection of maps holds rare maps Music Collection collects printed music manuscripts and audio cassettes and CD's International Permanent Exhibition of Publications (ISIP) is department within the National and University Library with independent status. The main activity is to exhibit the literature collected from publishers covering general knowledge, culture and arts. By traditional cooperation with foreign publishers from all continents ISIP acquires foreign scientific and technical publications free of charge. Collection of official publications collects, processes and makes available all kinds of official publications of international organisation and foreign governments. The collections comprise also Croatian official publications, publications of the Council of Europe, and official deposits of governments due to the contracts Collection of Dissertations and Master thesis - National and University Library holds theses from all four Croatian universities. All the material from special collections could be consulted only in their reading rooms. |
| English: approx. 20%
French: approx. 4% German: approx. 12% Russian: approx. 6% Spanish: approx. 1% Croatian: approx. 50% Italian: approx. 5% Others: approx.1% |
| Name(s) of OPAC(s) |
|---|
| Crolist |
| Coverage of the collections by the OPAC(s) |
| Computerized cataloguing started in early eighties. CROLIST bibliographic database contains 812,782 bibliographic records. The catalogue of the National and University Library, (WebPAC) is accessible from web pages, as well as national bibliographies, and catalogue of ISIP. |
| Telnet-interface(s) |
| None |
| Web-interface(s) |
Crolist - The Crolist webopac has two search possibilities:
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| Z39.50-interface(s) |
| Not yet |
| Other remarks on the catalogues |
| By retroconversion of the catalogue, approximately 6,200 bibliographic units has been added to the database. |
| User groups |
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| The NUL is accessible to all users over eighteen years of age, but they have to register for the reader card. Graduates from the secondary school are allowed to use only the reading rooms and other services but on site. |
| Use restrictions |
| The Library holding the functions of the national and university has some restrictions regarding the regulations for borrowing the books. Excluded from borrowing outside the library are: |
| Price of loans |
| 1. Personal loans: no additional charges
2. ILLs: from BLDSC the price is 170 SKK (local currency) (4.50 US$), from SUBITO the price is 80 SKK (2.15 US$), from other libraries the price is 100 SKK (2.50 US$). |
| Price of copies |
| 1. Copies made by the library and sent to patrons: The copies of A4 format cost 0,50 SKK , while the price for the copies of A3 format is 1,00 kn.
2. Copies made by patrons: The copies of A4 format cost 0.50 SKK (0.01 US$), while the price for the copies of A3 format is 1.00 SKK (0.02 US$). 3. ILLs: The price for copies from BLDSC regardless of number of pages is 70 SKK (1.90 US$), SUBITO copies from 1-10 pages by email is 35 SKK (0.95 US$) plus copying per page, articles over 20 pages are 45 SKK (1.20 US$), if the articles are delivered by email the price is 25 SKK (0.65 US$) (in .pdf) |
| Use of electronic documents and services |
| 1. Online services: 1.1.DIALOG (retrospective searches approximately 300 SKK (8.00 US$) 1.2.CROLIST database free of charge 1.3. Databases: EBSCO, EMERALDFulltext, Web of SCIENCE to Consortium members free of charge (list: http://www.nsk.hr/usluge/katalozi.html) 2. CD-ROMs: Free if charge. They could be used only in LAN. See the list 3. Others: Internet searches are free of charge but restricted by time.
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| Other remarks on patron policies |
| For the purposes of International library loan there is exception to the rule which allows loan for all Croatian books published in Croatia after 1945 if the library has at least one copy beside the deposit copy. |
| National and University Library is a member of CENL, and is active in Working groups on Performance Indicators as well as MACS and several other projects. It is represented also on Gabriel- Gateway of European National Libraries. It is also a member of CDNL. Library holds institutional membership in IFLA (Sections for: National Libraries, University Libraries, Bibliography, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Preservation and Conservation and Information Technology).It has a member in the Standing Committee on UNIMARC, CERL and ELAG as well as a membership in Austrian Institute for South and Southeast Europe, in Vienna. |
| Four other Croatian university libraries from Osijek, Rijeka, Split (see the list).
We recommend catalogues: http://knjiznice.ffzg.hr Faculty of Philosophy Zagreb University |
| April 19th 2003 |