MEMORY OF SERBIA IN MEMORY OF EUROPE AND OF THE WORLD

Text topic: E-Libraries

Text author: Весна Ињац

The National Strategy on digitization and preservation of cultural heritage in Serbia is not yet created nor adopted officially in Ministry of Culture, but the National Library of Serbia (NLS) is developing the Digital Library of Serbia (DLS) from 2003. NLS has more than 100 digital collections of cultural heritage material and about two million of digital items. From 2005, when the NLS became the full partner of The European Library project (TEL), all its digital collections are included at the TEL portal. From 2008, when the portal of Europeana was launched, all digital collections of the NLS are integrated at this portal. Most precious digital collections of the NLS are also part of the World Digital Library (WDL), project established by Unesco and Library of Congress. Although there is still no official Serbian strategy of digitization of cultural heritage, memory of Serbia has already became part of Europe’s memory and memory of the world.