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On September 19, 2022, a meeting was held with Jasna Novak Milić, the head of Croatian Studies at the Department of Media, Communication, Creative Arts, Languages and Literature of Macquarie University in Sydney. The meeting was also attended by Danijel Džino, lecturer at the Department of History and Archeology of the same university. After the meeting, the collection of the library of the Center of Croatian Studies was searched and valuable publications published in Australia and unavailable in other libraries were found. The publications are mostly published in small editions and by authors. 

In the Croatian Catholic Centers Blacktown and Summer Hill in Sydney, research was conducted on the publications that these centers published or are still publishing. Publications that are not available in Croatian libraries were found and included in the bibliography. Contacts were made and further cooperation was agreed upon.

During visits to the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane and the State Library of New South Wales in Sydney, catalogues were searched as well as collections related to immigration to Australia.

At Western Sydney University, on September 8, 2022, the Croatian Emigrant Press project was presented to the university employees and members of the AUS-NZ Croatian Women in Leadership organization.

At a meeting with the Chargé d’Affaires of the Australian Embassy in Zagreb, Andre Biggi, on September 1, 2022, we discussed the Croatian Emigrant Press project and possible future collaborations between Croatian and Australian institutions and individuals.

Maja Krtalić from the Croatian Cultural Society in Wellington organized, on August 27, 2022, a lecture by Ivana Hebrang Grgić and Ana Barbarić titled Printed word: a priceless witness to the history of Croats in New Zealand.

The Croatian Emigrant Congress was held in Mostar from June 30 to July 3, 2022. Part of the work on the project was presented in the presentation entitled Digitized sources on the history of Croats in New Zealand: the importance of inter-institutional cooperation and open access.

On the platform Dabar: digital academic archives and repositories at the University Computer Centre of the University of Zagreb (Srce), Croatian Emigrant Press Repository is launched. The repository will be administrated by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Department of Information and Communication Sciences and the Library) and all object types from other institutions could be deposited in the repository.

Dfest: a festival of digitization projects was held from 12 to 13 May 2022 at the National and University Library. Ana Barbarić presented the project by presentation entitled Project Croatian Emigrant Press: Cooperation to Digitize Publications of Croatian Emigrants.