On April 8, 2025, Ivana Hebrang Grgić and Ana Barbarić gave a lecture entitled Tracing Croats in New Zealand: A Travelogue Research into Written Sources at Matica hrvatska. The lecture was organized by the Department for International Cooperation and the Diaspora.
At the celebration of the National and University Library Day in Zagreb, held on February 21, 2025, Assoc. Prof. Ivana Hebrang Grgić received the National and University Library in Zagreb Award for her overall exceptional contribution to the development of library activities.
The Award for 2024 was awarded to her for her many years of encouraging development and innovation in the field of library activities, and in particular for the cooperation achieved under the Croatian Emigrant Press project, which has been running at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb since 2018.
In the newspaper Vijenac, no. 803/804 of December 19 2024, a report was published from the presentation of the project held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb on the occasion of the creation of the 1000th record in the bibliography and the storage of the 100th object in the Croatian Emigrant Press Repository.
On Monday, November 25, 2024, the institutional project Croatian Emigrant Press was presented at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. After the welcoming speech of the dean, Assoc. prof. Ph.D. Domagoje Tončinić, the project was presented by Assoc. prof. Ph.D. Ivana Hebrang Grgić, project manager, and prof. Ph.D. Ana Barbarić, collaborator on the project. Inter-institutional cooperation was explained by Assoc. prof. Ph.D. Nives Tomašević from Naklada Ljevak and Ph.D. Sofija Klarin Zadravec from the National and University Library in Zagreb.
The presentation was organized on the occasion of the creation of the 1000th record in the bibliographies and the depositing and archiving of the 100th object in the Croatian Emigrant Press repository. Out of 1000 records, 400 refer to books and newspapers that were not available in Croatian libraries before this research. Likewise, part of the digitized objects were not available or were difficult to access in Croatian and international institutions. Based on the research, two books and about 20 scholarly papers have been published so far. Presentations were held at numerous scientific conferences, of which five were invited presentations.
The presentation was attended by representatives of numerous institutions – the National and University Libraries in Zagreb, the Croatian Heritage Foundation, the Matrix Croatica, Central State office for Croats Abroad, the Institute for Migration Research, the Institute for the Croatian Language, etc.
The 49 th assembly of the Croatian Library Association was held in Opatija from November 13 to 16, 2024, with a conference section titled Libraries and Community: Innovation, Inclusivity, Diversity and Sustainability. Ivana Hebrang Grgić and Ana Barbarić held an invited presentation entitled Libraries and library services for Croats in the diaspora: libraries and library collections in Australia and New Zealand.
The 3rd international scientific conference Migration processes between Croatia and South America: Consolidation of transnational networks of action and participatory research was held from November 13 to 15, 2024, in person and online. On November 13, in Zagreb, Ana Barbarić held a presentation entitled Creating bibliographies of publications by Croatian emigrants as a contribution to the preservation of written heritage. Ivana Hebrang Grgić participated in the Spanish-language panel on November 14 by presenting the title Publications of Croats in South America: creating bibliographies and digitization.
On Monday, October 28, 2024 at the Zagreb School of Business a lecture was held on research into the publishing activities of Croats in New Zealand. The lecture was part of the Contemporary Literary Culture course taught by associate professor Ph.D. Nives Tomašević.
Croatian Radio – Radio Dubrovnik broadcast an interview with Ivana Hebrang Grgić about the activities of the Croatian emigrant press project. The author of the program is Jelena Obradović Mojaš. The conversation can be listened to on the website of Croatian Radio, and it is also stored as the first audio object in the Croatian Emigrant Press Repository.
Part of the program Globalna Hrvatska (Global Croatia) on September 19, 2024 (HRT 2) was about the opening of the exhibition about New Zealand writer of Croatian origin Amelia Batistich. Ivana Hebrang Grgić spoke about the author and in general about the publications of Croats in New Zealand (in the 36th minute). The show was broadcast on September 19, 2024 on the 2nd program of Croatian Television at 6:00 p.m. andon September 21, 2024 on the 4th program at 5:10 p.m.
In Vijenac, journal is published biweekly by Matica hrvatska, in issue 792 of July 18, 2024, a review of the book Their faraway home was published.
