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29. 5. 2025

Dobreknjige.si portal: entering a new decade with enhanced features

Luana Malec, Magda Vremec Ragusi

Dobreknjige.si is an online platform designed for readers seeking high-quality fiction and non-fiction recommendations. As a national project of Slovenian public libraries, it helps users organize their reading and connect with fellow readers, and promotes a vibrant reading culture. The portal attracts over two million visits annually, with its popularity steadily increasing. After a decade of operation, a major upgrade became necessary due to outdated technology, limited development possibilities and the need to meet modern user expectations.

21. 5. 2025

Libraries, Social science and humanities

Researching reading habits and reading culture of Slovenian librarians: methodological issues

Sabina Fras Popović, Polona Vilar, Petra Javrh

The paper describes the methodology of a study of reading habits and reading culture of librarians and library management in Slovenian libraries, which is a part of a broader survey in the project Reading role models: reading habits of professional staff in kindergartens, schools and faculties and public libraries – i.e. a study of all professionals involved in and influencing reading literacy and reading culture, as well as of students for these professions.

3. 4. 2025

Computer science and informatics, Uncategorized

Accessibility for vulnerable groups in the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia

Antun Smerdel

One of the key tasks of the e-ARH.si: ESS 2016–2020/2021 project was ensuring accessibility for vulnerable groups. To achieve this goal, we included individuals with disabilities in the project team. As part of this project, more than 2,100 different types of archival records were adapted, and the websites of all six regional archives were adjusted for vulnerable groups.

26. 3. 2025

Library and information science

How are web archives created? Technical aspects of web content capture

Janko Klasinc

Web archives are collections produced by libraries and other heritage institutions to permanently preserve online heritage. They often contain large amounts of material stored from the web through the use of web crawlers. From a usage perspective, they are often unpredictable, non-transparent and inconsistent data sources that contain numerous content gaps.

29. 1. 2025

Bibliometric, Open access, Publishing

Academic books: scientific and similar monographs in Slovenia from 2013 to 2023

Aleš Pogačnik

The basis for the analysis of scientific and similar monographs (academic books) in Slovenia in the period from 2013 to 2023 were bibliographic records in the COBIB.SI database that contain also information on the type of scientific publication (for less than half of the records verified). During this period, an average of 520 to 1245 monographs were published annually (depending on which types of works are counted as academic books and how reissues, such as reprints, new editions and e-books, are treated).

6. 9. 2024

Cataloguing, History

Contribution to the Research on Bibliographic Activity Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1955-2001)

Džejla Khattab, Lejla Hajdarpašić, Senada Dizdar

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1945, the Decree on Mandatory Delivery of Printed Matters in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Decree on the National Library of Federal Bosnia and Herzegovina were passed, which laid the legal foundations for creating a Bibliography of Bosniaca. Later in B&H, following the foundation of the B&H Library Association in 1955, the first B&H librarianship journal, the Bulletin of the B&H Library Association and the National Library of the People’s Republic of B&H was launched, where the journal was first renamed to Librarianship: Journal of the B&H Library Association and then to Librarianship: Yearbook of the B&H Library Association.

31. 7. 2024

Cataloguing

COBIB.SI: increment of bibliographic records in 2022

Ema Dornik

The article presents in detail the data on the annual increment of bibliographic records in 2022 at annual and monthly levels. The analysis includes 171,503 bibliographic records created by 546 cataloguers. In the last quarter of the year, 27.5% of bibliographic records were created.

23. 7. 2024

Cataloguing

Evaluation of the CONOR.SI authority file from cataloguers’ point of view in academic libraries

Urška Zupančič, Marija Petek

Authority control is an important part of cataloguing. The Slovene CONOR.SI authority file including authority records for individual and corporate authors, enables among others identification of authors. The purpose of the research was to find out cataloguers’ opinions on its usefulness, its advantages and disadvantages, and how creating authority records for corporate authors was practised. The survey was conducted as an online questionnaire and interview, 73 cataloguers from academic libraries participated. The results showed that the majority of surveyed cataloguers were satisfied with CONOR.SI.

6. 6. 2024

Libraries, Social science and humanities

Implementation of the Libraries of Emotions project in the Kranj City Library – experiences and challenges

Manca Štefe, Damjana Pečjak

Kranj City Library is the central regional library, which, among other things, implements programs for reading literacy, information literacy, lifelong learning and intergenerational cooperation. In this context, we joined the international project Libraries of Emotions with the aim of introducing an innovative reading promotion service. In the paper, the project and the process of implementing practical content were presented.

14. 2. 2024

Education

Personalisation in the Moodle virtual learning environment: a case study of Arnes Classrooms

Boštjan Batič, Marta Licardo

The education system should provide an inclusive learning environment where every individual is important and entitled to equal opportunities. This paper presents the activities and functionalities of the Moodle virtual learning environment based on the case study of the e-classroom where the potential for providing an inclusive learning environment based on the idea of personalised learning was analysed.