A detail from the Dada-Jok magazine
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Duration:
September 2017 – February 2019
Description:
As part of this project, Europeana and twelve cultural institutions from ten European countries partnered to showcase the development of literacy on the old continent in the period between the 4th and 20th centuries through digital collections. The National Library of Serbia is presenting the spread of the written word in our region and celebrating the Serbian language through 11 digital collections selected by its project team: “World War I Periodicals”; “Nova Evropa” (magazine); “Handwritten Periodicals”; “Manuscripts of Božidar Knežević”; “Internacionalna revija za umetnost i kulturu Zenit” (an avant-garde magazine for arts and culture); “Yugoslav Avant-Garde”; “Travel Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries”; “Collected Works of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić”; “Lyricism of Serbian Moderna”; “Incunabula and Paleotypes”; “Diary Notes of World War I Participants”.
Project partners:
- National and University Library of Slovenia, Slovenia (Coordinator)
- Europeana Foundation, Netherlands
- National Library of Greece, Greece
- Royal Library, Netherlands
- National Library of Serbia, Serbia
- National Library of France, France
- National Library of Scotland, United Kingdom
- National Library of Latvia, Latvia
- National Library of Portugal, Portugal
- State Library in Berlin – Prussian Cultural Heritage, Germany
- National Research Council – Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, Italy
- Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information, Italy
- National Library of Wales, United Kingdom
Project team at the National Library of Serbia:
- Tamara Butigan Vučaj (Coordinator)
- Petar Popović (Assistant)
- Laslo Blašković
- Ljubomir Branković
- Dragan Glišić
- Uroš Žugić
- Vera Zrnić
- Saša Ilić
- Nataša Jovanović
- Nemanja Kalezic
- Maja Kostić
- Miroslav Lazić
- Jasna Majerle
- Irena Malvić Opanović
- Jelena Marković
- Dragana Milunović
- Olga Mitrović
- Dušan Nikodijević
- Nataša Petrović
- Ana Stevanović
- Vladan Trijić
Project outcomes:
A thematic collection published on Digitalna NBS
Contents published on Europeana:
- “World War I Periodicals”
- “Nova Evropa Magazine”
- “Handwritten Periodicals”
- “Manuscripts of Božidar Knežević”
- “Yugoslav Avant-Garde Magazines”
- “Travel Literature”
- “Collected Works of Vuk Karadžić”
- “Lyricism of Serbian Moderna”
- “Early Printed Books”
- “Diary Notes and Memoirs of World War I Participants”
Content from the National Library was promoted through four blogs:
- “The Trailblazer” by Ana Stevanović
- “Born to be Forgotten – the story of Božidar Knežević” by Dušan Nikodijević (translated into English by Tatjana Domazet)
- “The Traveller” by Ana Stevanović (a blog about Milorad Rajčević)
- “Babylonian Language Confusion – Ljubomir Micić and Yugoslav avant-garde movement” by Sasha Ilić (translated into English by Tatjana Domazet)
