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Croatian Emigrant Almanac 2020 was promoted in Croatian Heritage Foundation on the 12th of February 2020. Paper entitled A Virtual Bibliography of Diaspora Periodicals, by Ivana Hebrang Grgić and Ana Barbarić, is published in the publication.

During the stay in Sydney, meetings were held with individuals who, as authors and/or editors, participated in publishing books (Figure 1 – poet Ana Kumarich). Croatia House is association that promotes Croatian culture and art (Figure 2 – Ned Tičić from Croatia House). A working dinner was held with Renata Dyer, a system librarian at the Parliament Library and with Jasna Novak Milić, project associate form Macquarie University (Figure 3).

The project, possible contact and future plans were discussed at the meeting with Ivica Glasnović, Consul General of the Republic of Croatia in Sydney.

Bibliographic information was also collected from the National Library of Australia and the Parliamentary Library.

Ana Barbarić and Ivana Hebrang Grgić briefed Betty Pavelic Sirois, Croatian Ambassador to Australia, on the project. The ambassador suggested further contacts and expressed readiness to cooperate.

State Library New South Wales in Sydneyju has online catalogues, but also card catalogues.  Project team members searched card catalogues and found new records that will be included in the bibliography.

Project team members Ana Barbarić and Ivana Hebrang Grgić attended the  book promotion (My Mother’s Kitchen), where they spoke to Joesph Gene Petric, Consul General of the Republic of Croatia in Melbourne; Luka Budak, professor ad Croatian Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney; Ivanka Barić, president of the Croatian Cultural Association; Katica Perinac, president of the Association of Croatian Language Teachers of Victoria and many others.

State Library Victoria is one of the oldest Australian libraries and one of the first free libraries in the world. During the visit card catalogues were searched and contacts with librarians were made.

Seminar Archives and Publishing: Sources, Heritage, Public was organized by  ICARUS Croatia (International Centre for Archival Research) in Gospić, Croatia, from 4th to 5th October 2019. A presentation entitled Heritage Institutions as Access Points to Publications of Croats in Australia and New Zealand was held.  In the picture: Vlatka Lemić, president of ICARUS Croatia and Ivana Hebrang Grgić, invited speaker at the seminar.