Museum of Croatian Culture in Slovakia

Croatian Library

Since its inception in 2006, the museum has collected hundreds of books that have been donated or purchased for study purposes of museum employees. The aim of creating the museum library in December 2014 was to make the existing literature available to both experts and the general public.

Library holdings

The library holdings include specialized books and documents mainly in the fields of ethnology, ethnography, linguistics, history, geography, and a collection of belletristic and artistic literature, literature for children and textbooks. You can find here religious literature, regional, occasional and anniversary publications. From a linguistic point of view, Croatian and Slovak languages ​​prevail, on a smaller scale there is Burgenland Croatian (Gradišćan), which is the codified language of the Croatian minority living in the territory of Austrian Burgenland and Hungary, German, Hungarian and Czech. The library holdings contain approximately 1,000 library units. The Croatian Library uses the Library Information System for small and medium-sized libraries KIS MaSK, which is operated by the Slovak National Library in Martin. The online catalogue of the library of SNM – Museum of Croatian Culture in Slovakia is available here.

Library information services

The library information services are provided on the premises of the library or via the Internet. The library provides:

a) loans of library documents in the library (on-site loans)

b) loans of library documents outside the library premises (absence loans)

c) access to the library’s electronic catalogue

d) bibliographic and factual information.

Users

Following persons can become users of the library: every employee of the Slovak National Museum (hereinafter referred to as the museum), every citizen of the Slovak Republic who has reached the age of 15 and a citizen of another country after presenting a residence permit in the Slovak Republic or a passport. The library lends out all library units except documents stored in reference libraries, which can only be viewed in person. Individual loans are provided free of charge for a period of 1 month. The library makes available and lends documents from its library holdings only to registered users.