VIRTUAL LIBRARY OF SERBIA

Text topic: E-Libraries

Text author: Стела Филипи-Матутиновић

Article explains the history of shared cataloguing in Serbia, and gives details about the establishment of the shared union catalogue – Virtual Library of Serbia – with the support of international project funding. Search possibilities are explained in detail. The regional cooperation in COBISS.Net Balkan library network is presented, together with the data on participating libraries, number of records available and importance of the network for all libraries and their users in the region. In the context of world trends concerning the transformation of library catalogues into portals with links to full texts, the present status and activities planned for future development are described and explained.