CATALOGUING AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC WORK
The author and subject cataloguing and
the classification of new publications, as well as retrospective
processing of all other collections in the Library are done
electronically using the Matica Srpska Library computer system. The
aim of the work is to register all publications in an electronic
catalogue and, at the same time, to do the revision of the
stock.
The cataloguing is done according the international standards.
The Library makes catalog descriptions
of books published in Vojvodina before they are printed (cataloguing
in publication - CIP). In bibliographic work, the most important
publication is the current Bibliography of Books in Vojvodina (started in 1981). Personal and special bibliographies are prepared
too.
Articles from periodicals published by Matica Srpska (Letopis,
scientific Reviews),
Yearbook of the Matica Srpska Library and other journals and
magazines have been processed using the computer. The importance of
such analytical cataloguing is manifold, both in offering
information to readers and in preparing bibliographies for
printing.
The books with dedications and
signatures of the authors, as well as the books with various seals
and ex-librises are regularily catalogued.
THE ELECTRONIC BASE OF THE
LIBRARY
The Matica Srpska Library successfully
combines its rich tradition with the demands and needs of the modern
computer age. Today, its computer system consists of various
information and communication equipment, among which there are ALPHA
Server, two VAX computers, 62 terminals, 60 personal computers, 8
matrix and 12 laser printers, etc. The reception, inventory,
acquisition and exchange of publications are completely automated,
along with cataloguing of bequests, old and rare books, CIP
cataloguing, current and retrospective cataloguing of books,
bibliographic cataloguing, analytic periodicals' cataloguing, users
registration and retrieval of the electronic catalogue.
In the electronic catalogue of the
Matica Srpska Library (starten in 1989), which is the largest of its
kind in the country, on February 2008, 1.000,000 entries were recorded
(books, periodical titles, items of special collections, analytical
cataloguing of periodicals). Each of these entries can be retrieved
using about hundred different parameters (author, title, publishing
year and place, key word, etc.) which means that the electronic base
consists of more than 76 million different data on the Library
collections.
Since February 2003 together with project of
Virtuel Library of Serbia (VBS) on National Library of Serbia
servers (http://www.vbs.rs/cobiss/)
the test version of mutual electronic base COBIB.SR has been set up
with 1,346,035 entries. The base of this electronic catalogue is the
Matica Srpska Library's database with 738,137 entries (55%). Sample
copy is done on one place, and both the Matica Srpska Library and
National Library of Serbia mutualy use the entries.
The Bibliography of Books
in Vojvodina and the Bulletin of Acquired Books in Foreign
Languages are prepared for publishing using this electronic base.
The catalogues of the oldest and the most valuable Library
collections are also prepared for publishing with the help of the
program for automatized cataloguing of old and rare
books.
Special care is taken in preserving the Library
computer system and in using the program equipment. The data is
protected regularly, by copying the electronic database daily and
monthly.
Computer experts participate in developing
and testing programe solutions for automatization of the Library
work.
The Matica Srpska Library has been linked-up with Internet global
information and communication network through Serbian academic network
since August 1996. Its electronic base can be find on the Internet
on the following web address: http://bmsalf.ns.ac.rs/cobiss/.
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Reilly's map of Serbia from 1791,
cooper engraving |
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The plan of Sabac fortress from 1788,
cooper
engraving |
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SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS
One of the most interesting
collections in the Library, based on the variety of content,
informativenes and form of publication, is the collection of special
library material.
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Cartographic and geographic collection (6,900 maps and plans, 1,200 atlases, 2,900 tourist guides,
37,300 postcards...) |
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Music
collection (9,930 sheet music, 25,240 records, 6,480
cassettes, 196 video cassettes, 620 CD and 700 musical
programmes) |
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Art
collection (52,500 posters, 3,200 postcards with art
reproductions, 18,300 catalogues of art
exhibitions) |
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Collection
of minor documentary material (about 321,000 units -
directories, calendars, invitations, programs of exhibitions,
recipes, time-tables, telephone books, comics...
etc.) |
These collections are accessible to
users in the reading room for special library material.
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The postcard of Novi Sad
from 1914 |
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The market place in Novi Sad from
the middle of the 19th century,
the graphics |
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A SPECIAL REGIONAL
COLLECTION
A special regional collection gathers
together books and periodicals published and printed in Vojvodina,
publications about Vojvodina, or written by the authors of Vojvodina
in Serbian, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, Ruthenian and
other languages. This collection has a museum value. Special sets of
books, such as the publications of Matica Srpska, the Serbian
Academy of Science and Arts and the Montenegrian Academy of Science
and Arts, have also found their place in the Matica Srpska
Library.
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From the Apostlos of Matica srpska from the
13th century |
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