STUDENTS’ DAY: Opening of a new digital reading room at the University Library

On April 4th at 11 a.m. on the occasion of celebrating the Students’ Day, University Library “Svetozar Markovic” is opening “Mala prostonarodna digitalna čitaonica” and is starting to provide new library services to the Serbian academic community.

It is our honor to invite you to the University Library “Svetozar Markovic” to the Students’ Day on April 4^th at 11 a.m. to the opening of “Mala prostonarodna digitalna čitaonica” when we will start to provide new library services to the Serbian academic community.

 

The unusual name of our new space represents historical reminiscences of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic’s efforts which date back to 1814.

 

A special digital collection of anti-revisionist literature about the First World War containing 16,000 digitised pages will be presented on this occasion. In addition, the visitors will be introduced with the first fully searchable corpus of digitized historic newspaper texts with more than 400,000 pages in Serbian Cyrillic from the period between the turn of the 19^th century and the first half of the 20^th century.

 

Starting from April 4^th we will provide our users with new technological tools for easier and more efficient use of library services. We have prepared an Android App which shows available seats in the Library’s reading rooms and we have also provided wireless Internet access which covers the whole building.

We would like to emphasize that in these chaotic times University Library “Svetozar Markovic” is a mother institution to all higher education libraries in Serbia. As such it is not only open to students and researchers from the University of Belgrade, but also to students and teachers from all Serbian universities who are willing to improve their knowledge and to do independent research. All of them can become the members of the University Library “Svetozar Markovic”.