Publishing in Yugoslavia's Successor States

253 Pages·2000·17.011 MB·English

by  Michael Biggins, Janet Crayne

Michael Biggins
Janet Crayne
Editors
Publishing in Yugoslavia’s
Successor States
Publishing in Yugoslavia ’s Successor States has been
co-published simultaneously as Slavic & East European In-
formation Resources, Volume 1, Numbers 2/3 2000.
Pre-publication £ £ O ummarizes the topics of the Slavic
librarians’ electronic discussion
REVIEWS,
list “Slavlibs” in a scholarly way with
COMMENTARIES,
immediate practical use for a broader
EVALUATIONS. .
audience. . . A truly international forum
for information specialists from both
West and East.”
Dr. Gottfried Kratz, MA
Slavic Librarian
Muenster University Library, Germany
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REVIEWS, COMMENTARIES, EVAIUATIONS. . .
A notable characteristic of this ^TPhe contributors to this eru-
impressive new journal is its dite collection offer fasci-
wealth of information for librarians nating glimpses into the history of
and other professionals who work publishing in the South Slav area,
from the fifteenth and sixteenth
in the Slavic and East European
centuries to the present. Regional
Field. It highlights current develop-
comparisons are telling: in Bosnia-
ments in publishing, including the
Herzegovina, for example, only
latest Internet and electronic re-
50 books were published during
sources. Included are articles of a the entire Ottoman period (1463-
high standard by well-informed 1878), while Viennese publisher
and distinguished librarians who Josef Kurzbeck alone printed 151
have had years of experience in books in Serbian in the last de-
the field and can discuss, for exam- cades of the eighteenth century.
ple, “A ten-year history of the The book’s focus, however, is on
the 1990s, a decade of war, eco-
Hungarian press” as well as “Re-
nomic chaos, and impoverish-
cent publishing trends in Poland”
ment. Here, the authors show how
and the “Russian book trade in ’98
the recent Bosnian War of 1991-95
and ’99.” An extra dimension is the
impacted publishing not only in
international coverage of reference Bosnia, but also in Serbia, where,
materials and bibliographic tools in under the pressures of the war,
the reviews by a variety of special- readership shrank, print runs de-
ists. The journal is of enormous clined, and scholarly and publish-
practical benefit and provides an ing standards were impaired. Pub-
exceptional service. ... It will lishing in Kosovo was also im-
clearly be the principal journal that pacted by Milosevic’s nationalist
agenda; already in the mid-1990s,
Slavic librarians will consult in the
as this book shows, Serbian au-
future as it is a rich source of valu-
thorities pulped Albanian-lan-
able and relevant information for
guage books from the Pristina
their needs and can be considered National Library, in an effort to
a major contribution to the field.” erase the cultural memory.
Taken in sum, this volume
Mary Stevens makes an important contribution to
Slavic Selector our understanding of the social
University of Toronto Library and political history of the region.”
Sabrina P. Ramet, PhD
Professor of International Studies
University of Washington
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REVIEWS, COMMENTARIES, EVAIUATIONS. . .
^^TPhese collected essays go be- »^nphe editors of Publishing in
yond compilation and illumi- Yugoslavia’s Successor States
nate the rapidly changing character
should be commended for putting
of pivotal cultural institutions in the
a valuable tool into the hands of
lands of the former Yugoslavia. The
Slavic librarians and scholars, one
authors survey the history of pub-
which has been sorely lacking. All
lishing from its late medieval incep-
regions of the area are covered
tion as a producer of religious cate-
including those which have re-
chisms and scriptures, through the
19th century era of “national awak- ceived little attention in the litera-
enings,” into the state-controlled ture to date: Bosnia, Macedonia,
and ideologically driven socialist Montenegro, and Kosovo. . . .
era, through decentralized Republi- Of practical value to librarians
can autonomy, and finally in the and scholars are the final three sec-
past two decades characterized by tions of each essay. There one
the explosive growth of privately finds an annotated list of publish-
owned presses. Among other valu- ing houses, providing details of the
able insights, the authors show that kinds of literature in which they
the major trends of the 1990s had
specialize. A list of vendors, most
their origins in the previous de-
with contact information that in-
cade, when ideological rigor gradu-
cludes web sites, will certainly be
ally gave way to greater diversity
of service to those charged with
and publishers became bolder in
acquiring these publications for
producing works by social and
their institutions. Rounding out
political critics. Usable as a refer-
ence source, this book also pro- each essay is a categorized listing
vides a valuable institutional per- of the important newspapers and
spective on the major transforma- scholarly and popular journals,
tions in the lands of the former each with descriptive comments.
Yugoslavia over the past half Cen- This volume will become an indis-
tury.” pensable resource for anyone
needing access to the publications
Robert J. Donia, PhD
of this region.”
Research Associate
Center for Russian and East Euro- Allan Urbanic, PhD, MLIS
pean Studies Librarian for Slavic Collections
University of Michigan University of California, Berkeley

Publishing in Yugoslavia’s
Successor States
Publishing in Yugoslavia ’s Successor States has been co-published
simultaneously as Slavic & East European Information Resources,
Volume 1, Numbers 2/3 2000.
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Publishing in Yugoslavia’s
Successor States
Michael Biggins
Janet Crayne
Editors
Publishing in Yugoslavia ’s Successor States has been co-published
simultaneously as Slavic & East European Information Resources,
Volume 1, Numbers 2/3 2000.
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