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Project of Organizing the Monastery Library Collection of the Congregation of Daugthers of Mercy in Blato on the Island of Korčula

Projects of organizing monastery library collections play an important part in the preservation and subsequent use of written heritage. These valuable collections can be used for scholarly research especially more so if the information about monastery library collections can be retrieved from online library catalogs. The monastery library in question is in the possession of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mercy whose founder was the blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified Petković. Since the Daughters of Mercy value the written heritage, which they preserved throughout the years, they were aware of the need for expert assistance in organizing their library collection. They have partnered with two Departments of Information Sciences with a purpose to organize and ensure the preservation of the library collection. The purpose of this work is to present an example of good practice where students of Information Sciences from Osijek and Zadar organized a monastery library collection and how such a project can be very important in the preservation and use of written heritage and at the same time ensure the visibility of the collection by making it a part of the Zadar University online library catalog. The project of organizing this particular monastery library collection had begun in 2015 and consisted of several stages during which student volunteers, with the help of their mentors, organized the collection using Universal Decimal Classification and used Croatian Library and Information System (Crolist) to create online records in the aforementioned online catalog. This project shows that the students of Information sciences are aware of the importance of monastery libraries and that they can ensure that these libraries fulfill their social role in the local community by helping them understand their collections and emphasize their cultural importance.

library collection ; monastery libraries ; written heritage

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