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 informationretrieval
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.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89836
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2015.0021
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