The museum library was recognized as a necessary segment of museums at the end of the 19th century, but its role is not only to disseminate knowledge about museum objects and the benefit of a narrow ...circle of professionals, which, unfortunately, is still a common consideration today. The library is an important part of museum activity, both professional and scientific, as well as exhibition, valuable monuments. Through hard work and efforts of the curator Vjekoslav Celestin, who started keeping the museum documentation, which is the largest museum library in our country today, beginnings of the library can be traced.
On the basis of Vjekoslav Celestin’s thinking about the necessity of a library in a museum, and its continued enrichment with material, for the purpose of its museological as well as scientific function, the library department of the Museum of Slavonia continues the tradition today, with numerous problems that have plagued its predecessors, but with an important role in the cultural and scientific life of the Museum, the city and beyond.
Among the museum documentation stored in the History Department, we found a recent manuscript list of 45 pages written by Vjekoslav Celestin, with 1141 entries, listing mostly literary material and, in part, cultural and historical: manuscripts, prints, photographs and artistic paintings. This is so called The list of blue numbers which, in the opinion of museum librarians, represents the oldest library inventory, not only of museum libraries, but in general, the oldest list of library material in Osijek. The list of blue numbers corresponds to other museum documentation stored in the History Department’s Documentary Collection. The beginnings of the museum library were thoroughly recorded, as well as efforts to acquire material, equipment, creating the foundations for the interlibrary exchange of museum publications, the need to subscribe to professional and scientific publications, opening up to users, researchers, taking care of the local library material - questions and problems still known and current today.
And it was precisely on the track of recognizing the two levels of museum library material - scientific and cultural-historical - that Celestin laid the foundations for today’s thinking of the library of the Osijek Museum. It is important to point out that other guardians of museum treasures who came after Celestin, and hopefully those who are yet to come, will be aware of the importance and value of museum library material, and will persevere in collecting and presenting library material as an invaluable interpreter of cultural history.
Knjižnica Etnografskoga muzeja je specijalna muzejska knjižnica, koja je, kao i većina specijalnih i muzejskih knjižnica, poluotvorenoga tipa i prvenstveno namijenjena djelatnicima Muzeja: kustosima, ...restauratorima i preparatorima. Formirana ubrzo nakon osnivanja muzeja, rasla je zajedno s muzejskim fundusom. U radu se opisuje njezina povijest, važniji fond i obrada građe te iznose neki problemi.
Muzejska knjižnica nastaje istovremeno s osnutkom Muzeja slobodnog i kraljevskog grada u Osijeku, 1877., prateći fond utemeljujućih zbirki arheološke, numizmatičke i povijesne literature. Nastavlja ...godinama, zalaganjem kustosa, bogatiti fondove stručne literature, ali i širiti građu na nove zbirke etnografske i povijesno-umjetničke građe. Fond knjižnice osječkoga muzeja s vremenom se sve više bogati i zavičajnom građom, uz daljnje redovito popunjavanje stručnom muzeološkom literaturom. Nakon Drugoga svjetskog rata, osnutkom i djelovanjem KOMZA-e, osječki je Muzej bio zadužen voditi brigu o napuštenim slavonskim dvorcima i evidentirati kulturno-povijesni materijal koji će biti dopremljen u Muzej. Posebno obogativši knjižni fond, Muzej je došao do građe bivših ustanova i društva (Knjižnice Gradskoga načelstva, Trgovačko-obrtničke komore), ali i do knjižnice vlastelinske obitelji Prandau-Normann iz Valpova i dijela knjižnice obitelji Pejačević iz Našica. Obiteljska knjižnica Prandau-Normann prepoznata je kao iznimno baštinski vrijedna zbirka, a poput sličnih obiteljskih knjižnih ostavština progovara o svojim vlasnicima, njihovim interesima i navikama. Ona predstavlja osobitu spomeničku građu koja ravnopravno s drugim baštinskim ostacima svjedoči o vremenima u kojima je nastajala, sadržajem i raznolikošću vrijednosti i posebnosti – uvezima, ukrasima, ekslibrisima, posvetama, bilješkama na marginama - oslikava društvena i kulturna zbivanja koja su je oblikovala. Pojedinačni primjerci, a još i više čitava knjižna cjelina, preuzimaju ulogu svjedoka protoka vremena i promjena u društvu i prostoru. Jednom riječju, postaju muzejskom građom ne gubeći ni trena svoju sadržajnu vrijednost.
Rad donosi prikaz zavičajnoga fonda Muzejske knjižnice Zavičajnoga muzeja Našice. Knjižnica je primjer ustroja i organizacije zavičajnih fondova i zbirki u unutar ustanove koja skuplja i istražuje ...zavičajnu baštinu. Njezina pripadnost zavičajnome muzeju velika je prednost u proučavanju lokalne povijesti jer građa knjižnice, zajedno sa zavičajnim predmetima muzeja, pridonosi sustavnijem rekonstruiranju i dokumentiranju života u zajednici.
The Garagnin-Fanfogna Library at the Trogir
Town Museum is one of the rare family libraries
that have been preserved from ancient times. It was
created during the 18th century and holds books
in ...their original environment and cupboards from
the Þ rst half of the 19th century. The books range
from incunabulae to editions from the Þ rst half
of the 20th century (some 5,500 books). Amongst
other Þ elds they cover there are those that are editions
of works of French literature.
The article deals with the structure of the subcollection Significant Native Persons, with a stress on authors and their works as a special segment of the written heritage of the Našice Regional ...Museum, and also present the implementation of the museological collecting principle with the motto of collecting today for tomorrow, as well as the possibilities of presenting works and authors through exhibitions, book promotions and publication activities. At the Našice Regional Museum one of the departments is the museum library, which collects not only professional literature for the staff but also all printed materials that thematically deal with the territorial scope of the Museum, the Našice region, or those that were published there.
MDC’s library is the only special library in Croatia whose holdings cover the discipline of knowledge about museums and museum activities. This paper will provide a brief outline of its collections,
...the proÞ le of users and their needs, as well as the services offered by the library. Special stress will be placed on new information
services provided by MDC’s library, where a prominent position is held by the publication The Bibliography of Acquisitions of MDC’s Library. This publication has been published since 1994 in printed form, and since 2001 in parallel in an electronic form titled Acquisitions of MDC’s Library, (www.mdc.hr/prinove*). We will discuss the reasons for the electronic publication in more detail, its purpose and structure. In view of its contents, this database is unique in the virtual surroundings of Croatian museums and provides
information about recent editions by Croatian and foreign museums, as well as by similar institutions. It is used as a bibliographical source of information about museum activities. Soon we will present new projects that will be realised within the framework of MDC’s redesigned website. This is a webopac of the library and the project Museum Book of the Month. The paper will present their aim and the structure of the idea as well as the user target group. Through the publication of MDC’s publications in electronic form, and the development of cumulative electronic bibliographies, MDC’s library
is gradually digitalised and in this way opened to a broad group of users of information on the Internet.
I u muzejskim knjižnicama, ormarići s kataložnim listićima počinju pripadati prošlosti te ih postupno zamjenjuju OPAC-i i WebPAC-i, uvjetovani informacijskom i komunikacijskom tehnologijom. Internet ...je postao novi medij za širu prezentaciju muzejskih knjižnica, njihove građe.
Tako je i Knjižnica Muzeja Slavonije svoju jedinstvenu zavičajnu građu, iz prvoga sveska Osječke bibliografije Marije Malbaše, odlučila učiniti dostupnom široj zajednici pomoću mrežnoga kataloga. Upravo je jedan od osnovnih ciljeva mrežnoga kataloga Zavičajne zbirke Essekiane upoznati zajednicu sa zavičajnim fondom, osvijestiti o tome koja se sve vrijedna zavičajna građa krije u najvećoj muzejskoj knjižnici u Hrvatskoj.
Muzej Slavonije jedini je muzej u Hrvatskoj koji na svojim stranicama ima mrežni katalog zavičajne zbirke i ujedno prvi hrvatski muzej općega tipa koji se na mreži pojavio s katalogom.
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