RELIGIONS, IDENTITIES AND POLICIES IN THE E-ENVIRONMENT OF SERBIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP
RELIGIONS, IDENTITIES AND POLICIES IN THE E-ENVIRONMENT OF SERBIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP

Summary/Abstract: This paper is focused on the presence of materials on religions, identities and policies in Serbian academic librarianship. The theoretical framework of this paper is library and information one. The scope of the paper is to give a realistic insight into the collections of Serbian academic libraries to the potential users whose interests are expressed particularly in the domain of religions, identities and policies. The author of this paper has published several articles in the field of qualitative and quantitative meth ods in librarianship. High number of Serbian academic libraries are members of COBISS (Cooperative On-line Bibliographic System & Services). Except that, as we live in a globalizing society, numerous doctoral dissertations defended in Europe, which are focused on religions, identities, and policies are available on the European Portal of E-theses DART (Digital Access to Research Theses). They are in free access, written mostly in the language of the state they were defended in. Open repositories offer professional and scientific materials which can be useful to library users for their professional development. The universities of Serbia contribute to the content of some open repositories. It is not possible to separate the problem of retrieving databases from the nature of professional cataloguing and classification of library materials. Bibliographic descriptions in the academic libraries – members of the COBISS system - are being composed using the material at hand. It means that each bibliographic description is composed academically. The references in Serbian academic librarianship are in accordance with the national and international standards for bibliographic description of library materials, adopted by the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions). Subject cataloguing of library materials in the COBISS system is being realized following the UDC e. g. Universal Decimal Classification.

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