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University Library holds all of the inter-war Jewish journals from Zagreb, and Sarajevo "Žido";"Jevrejska tribun"). The rare editions section in"the treasur" (trezor) hold personal and business correspondence of a prominent Zagreb Zionist lawyer, Lavoslav Schick (Šik), killed in the Holocaust (Jasenovac concentration camp), like most Jewish lawyers and jurists who lived in Zagreb and were arrested for the first time in 1941.
In order to submit a request for the Library’s materials, users must find out whether a particular item is part of the Library’s holdings and write down the item’s call number. *Books* IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE AUTHOR OR TITLE - Search the Library’s Online Catalogue. - Search the Library’s Alphabetical Card Catalogue of Books (on the Ground Floor). Apart from records on books, this Catalogue includes records on calendars, yearbooks, almanacs and similar publications that recently started to be categorized as serial publications. Specific items are searched by the author’s name (last name, first name) or by the titles of anonymous works. Due to the application of different cataloguing systems, the Catalogue has chronologically been divided in two series: a) Catalogue of works published until 1975 may be searched by author or the first noun in the titles of anonymous works, i.e. Enciklopedijski rječnik–See: Rječnik, enciklopedijski. b) Catalogue of works published between 1976 and 1990 may be searched by author or the first word in the titles of anonymous works. IF YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE AUTHOR OR TITLE - Search the Library’s Online Catalogue. - Consult one of our subject search specialists (on the Ground Floor, Floors 1, 3 or 4) who will search the resources available to the Library by specific subject areas (assisting users with their high-school graduation theses, seminar papers, graduation, master’s and doctoral theses, etc.). - Search the Library’s Special Catalogue of Books published until 1990 on the Ground Floor, where titles have chronologically been classified by specific subject areas (i.e. musical theory, folklore, dance, etc.). *Journals and newspapers* IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE AUTHOR OR TITLE - Search the Library’s Online Catalogue. - Search the Library’s Alphabetical Card Catalogue of Periodicals (on the Ground Floor). The Catalogue is organized in two series. It may be searched by the names of serial publications only (newspapers, journals, etc.). Due to the application of different cataloguing systems, the Catalogue has chronologically been divided in two series: a) Catalogue of periodicals published until 1978 may be searched by the first noun in the title of a serial publication, i.e. Narodne novine–See: Novine, narodne. b) Catalogue of periodicals published between 1979 and 1990 may be searched by the first word in the title of a serial publication. IF YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE AUTHOR OR TITLE - Search the Library’s Online Catalogue. - Put your query to our subject search specialists (on the Ground Floor, Floors 1, 3 or 4) who search the resources available to the Library by specific subject areas (assisting users with their high-school graduation theses, seminar papers, graduation, master’s and doctoral theses, etc.). - Search the Library’s Special Catalogues of Periodicals published until 1990 on the Ground Floor, where titles have chronologically been classified by specific subject areas (i.e. medicine, pharmaceutics, pharmacology, etc.). These catalogues may not be searched by the titles of individual articles. - Search the Library’s Topographical Catalogue of Periodicals published until 1990 on the Ground Floor, where titles have alphabetically and chronologically been classified by the place of publication (i.e. Dubrovnik, Osijek, Zagreb, etc.). These catalogues may not be searched by the titles of individual articles.
The library has differing opening hours for different floors and services. In general, the library rooms are open to users Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Most user services are open on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. For further information on the opening hours of specific sections of the library and services, it is recommended to consult the library website: http://www.nsk.hr/en/opening-hours/