Briefly about the Library
Governance
The Library Governing Board has 9 members:
- Dr Jozo Ivanović, Chairman of the Library Governing Board, representative of the Ministry of Culture and Media,
- Dr Sofija Klarin Zadravec, Deputy Chairman of the Library Governing Board, representative of the National and University Library in Zagreb,
- Amalija Babić, representative of the Ministry of Science and Education
- Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Krešimir Nemec, representative of the Ministry of Culture and Media,
- Ivana Prgin, representative of the Ministry of Culture and Media,
- Ivana Puljiz, representative of the Ministry of Science and Education,
- Tamara Ilić Olujić, representative of the National and University Library in Zagreb,
- Ivan Milanović-Litre, representative of the Ministry of Science and Education, and
- Tomislav Milković, representative of the National and University Library in Zagreb.
Director General
Dr Ivanka Stričević, Director General of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK)
Assistants to the Director General
- Dr Sofija Klarin Zadravec, National Library Affairs Assistant
- Dr Dijana Machala, University Library Affairs Assistant
- Tatjana Marincel Borković, Financial and Legal Affairs Assistant
The Library in numbers:
Premises
Net floor area: 36,478 m2
Gross floor area: 44,432m2
Closed stacks: 110,000m of mobile shelving
Open Access Reading Rooms: 12,900m of shelving
Holdings
Library’s total holdings: approximately 3.5 million items
New items acquired in 2018 through regular acquisition and legal deposit procedures:
Croatian monographs: 14,192 items
Croatian serial publications: 37,657 items
Special book material: 733 items
Non-book material: 963 items
Music: 1,715 items
Electronic resources: 550 items
User statistics (2018)
Registered users: 10,537
Active memberships: 15,056
Library visitors: 169,059
Visitors using late hours study services: 14,160
Online visits: 496,671
Unique online visitors: 247,688
Online pages visited: 2,118,307
User facilities
1,100 seats
64 seats in Special Collections Reading Rooms
8 audio booths
7 rooms for individual study
2 rooms for group study
10 study cubicles
100-seat conference room
150 seats in the late hours reading room (21.00 – 24.00)
Special Collections
Manuscripts and Old Books Collection
Print Collection
Map Collection
Music Collection
