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In September 2021 book Ni s kućom ni bez kuće: nakladnička djelatnost Hrvata u Novome Zelandu (Neither with a house, nor witout a house: publishing activity of Croats in New Zealand) was published. Authors are Ivana Hebrang Grgić and Ana Barbarić and the publisher is Naklada Ljevak. The book is part of series Bibliotheca Academica, and the editor is Nives Tomašević. Peer-reviewers are prof Renata Relja from the University of Split, prof. Maja Krtalić form the Victoria University of Wellington and Rebeka Mesarić Žabčić from Institute Ivo Pilar in Zagreb.

The conference Migrations and Identity: Culture, economy, state (2) was held in Zagreb, May 19 and 20, 2021. Ana Barbarić and Ivana Hebrang Grgić had a presentation on copyright issues and digitization of books of Croats in Australia.

 

During the research in the National Archives of Australia in Canberra, two publications were find. It was previously supposed that the publications were lost. The publications are Iskra (The Sparkle) i Oganj (The Flame), both of them published probably only once in 1933 as a substitution for the banned newspaper Borba.

4th Croatian Diaspora Congress took place in Zagreb on the 5th and 6th November 2020. A presentation that was based on the project Croatian Emigrant Press was held. The authors are Ivana Hebrang Grgić and Ana Barbarić and the title is Preserving Cultural Heritage: Newspapers of Croats in New Zealand. In the photo: Ana Barbarić, Ivana Hebrang Grgić, Ivana Bačić Serdarević and Drago Šaravanja. Ivana Bačić Serdarević and Drago Šaravanja are Croatian writers who lived in Australia.

In Matica, monthly magazine of the Croatian heritage foundation, a text about the first digitized book in the project Croatian Emigrant Press was published in October 2020. 

Although the digitization of publications is not the primary goal of this project, in cooperation with the National and University Library in Zagreb the digitization of selected publications is being carried out. The first publication was digitized in July 2020. It was book Hrvatske zajednice u Australiji (Croatian communities in Australia) by Fabijan Lovoković.

Ivana Hebrang Grgić, the manager of the project, was a guest on the show Globalna Hrvatska (HRT, July 1, 2020). The topic of the show was Croatian emigrants and the media.

Team members on the Croatian Emigrant Press project have made an agreement about collaboration with the National and University Library in Zagreb. The consent for the collaboration was signed by the Director General of the Library, professor Ivanka Stričević. Here is a part of the text of the agreement:

In accordance with its task of ensuring the complete Croatica Collection, the National and University Library in Zagreb agrees to collaborate with the Croatian Emigrant Press project in the digitization of material in accordance with all legal regulations and previously defined criteria for digitization. The library is ready to provide professional and technical assistance for establishing digital collection and permanent storage, as well as software for creating virtual exhibitions.