Author: HIT

Presentation Croatian Emigrant Press – from bibliography to digitization was presented within the 9th Festival of Croatian Digitizing Projects. The festival was held on May 9 and 10, 2019 at the National and University Library in Zagreb. The summary is published in abstract booklet.

The project will be presented at Kreativna riznica (Creative Treasury), symposium that has been organized annually (since 2015) in Osijek, Croatia. The aim is popularization of science and promotion of creative industry. Organizers of the symposium are Andizet – Institute for Scientific and Artistic Research in Creative Industry and the Faculty of Economics, University of Osijek.

Text about the project published in magazine Matica, is also published on the portal Moja Hrvatska (My Croatia).

In Matica, monthly magazine of the Croatian heritage foundation, a text about the project was published.

U časopisu Matica za siječanj i veljaču 2019., mjesečnoj reviji Hrvatske matice iseljenika, objavljen je članak o projektu.

A report about the project was part of TV programe Globalna Hrvatska (Global Croatia) on Croatian Radiotelevision. Ivana Hebrang Grgić and Željka Lovrenčić talked about the project.

The Voice of Croatia published a short text about the project, as well as the link to an interview broadcasted by SBS Croatian.

By December 31, 2018 all new records were added to both bibliographies. After the first phase of the research (searching catalogues of national libraries), there were 52 records in the bibliography of Australian newspapers. In the bibliography of New Zealand newspapers there were 13 records. Therefore, in the first phase of the research, until November 2018, 65 publications were found and recorded.

The second phase of the research included additional content analysis of secondary sources as well as research in libraries and archives in Australia and New Zealand. The second phase also included meetings with Croats in Australia and New Zealand that work (or worked) in the publishing sector. After the research and meetings, 41 more titles were found for Australia and three more for New Zealand. All the new records were added to the bibliographies. By the end of the year 2018, the bibliography of Australian newspapers had 93 records, and the bibliography of New Zealand newspapers had 16 records.

The two bibliographies have been created using library software Koha that supports international universal bibliographic standards. The total number of records at the end of 2018 was 112.

In January and February 2019 the records will be edited and unified. If new titles are discovered, new records will be added.

Serials – Australia (after the first phase, until November 2018)

Serials – Australia (after the second phase, until the end of 2018)

Serials – New Zealand (after the first phase, until November 2018)

Serials – New Zealand (after the second phase, until the end of 2018)

During research in Australia and New Zealand, through researching bibliographies, catalogues and literature, data about 36 more titles from Australia and 3 more from New Zealand were discovered. The copies are mostly held in private collections or in archives of Croatian associations.  Some of the records were made based on copies and some based on secondary literature or interviews.

Some of the monographs that were used as secondary literature are:

Holjevac, Većeslav. Hrvati izvan domovine. 2. ed. Zagreb : Matica hrvatska, 1968.

Hrvatska – Australija i Novi Zeland : povijesni i kulturni odnosi = Croatia – Australia & New Zealand : historical and cultural relations / osmislila i priredila = conceived and compiled by Tuga Tarle ; uredio = edited by Ivo Žanić. Zagreb : The Croatian Writer’s Association, 2000.

Lovoković, Fabijan. Hrvatske zajednice u Australiji : nastojanja i postignuća. Kingsgrove : Središnji odbor hrvatskih društava Australije = Central Council of Croatian Associations in Australia, 2010. ISBN 9780646530536.

Marković, Luka. Pod australskim nebom. Zagreb : Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 1973.

Tkalčević, Mato. Hrvati u Australiji. Zagreb : Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske, 1992. ISBN 864010199X

Tkalčević, Mato. Povijest Hrvata u Australiji. Melbourne : Hrvatski svjetski kongres u Australiji, 1999. ISBN 0646371584

Working version of a new record 

In the Newsletter of the Dalmatian Cultural Society in Auckland, within which the Genealogical and Historical Society acts, a short notice about the visit  to their archive, library and museum has been published.