Introduction
National and University Library Catalogue

 
  Catalogue contains records:
  • of the National and University Library holdings (croatian books published since 1981,) old and rare books, foreign books published since 1984, which have been acquired as a gift, purchased, or exchanged, the legal deposit from other Republics of the former Yugoslavia, since 1973 to 1990, electronic resources; CD ROMs, which have been acquired as a legal deposit, a gift, or have been purchased since 1992, serial publications, prints and drawings, maps and carthographic material, printed music, doctoral thesis and master thesis, journal articles and proceedings and foreign periodicals

  • prepublication data of the books to be published in Croatia (CIP) and,

  • materials processed within various projects of the National and University Library like for eg. retrospective cataloguing of old books and Croatian publications up to 1940, retroconversion of the bibliography of Croatian Latin authors (materials are not necessarily in the holdings of the Library).
 

User is asked to look for the information on the rest of holdings in the card catalogue of the National and UniversityLibrary in Zagreb.

 

Catalogue entries belong to some extent to the Croatian Current Bibliography of Books, Articles and Serials, Croatian Retrospective Bibliography (1835-1940) and the Bibliography of Croatian Latin Authors.

 

Catalogue is updated by new entries in real time so that a user may find an incomplete record what implies that the item is not available. In this case the user should contact a reference librarian for further information. Networking Libraries' holding materials other than those of the National and University Library are identified by institution codes (codes of participating libraries) List of institution codes characteristic of certain types of materials accompanies individual entries.

 

Catalogue has two search possibilities: simple search and advanced search. Access points are by keywords, personal name, title and word from the title and language, ISBN; ISSN, NSK- identifier. In advanced search Boolean algebra can be used, as well as HELP and EXAMPLES screens. There are optional search limits by language, bibliographic level, type of record, form of content and the year of publication. Truncation could be done by user. Character set used for searching can be Croatian (Croatian diacritics) or English. All the blue elements of the entry represent hyperlinks enabling catalogue navigation. There are no login or logoff instructions. The system could be accessed 24 hours, seven days a week.