December 2018:
Dom i svijet (The Home and the World) was a magazine published in Perth, Western Australia in 1932. Only two issues were published. Today we do not know of any existing copies, although there is a possibility of finding some copies in private collections. The only source that proves that the magazine was published in two issues was the Australian newspaper The Swan Express. In vol. 33, no. 48 (November 3, 1932) there is a short notice: “The Dom i Svijet will be published next week”. The next information about the journal was published in the same newspaper in vol. 34, no. 3(December 22, 1932): “… The next issue of this magazine is indefinitely deferred…”.
January 2024:
During research in the library of the War Memorial Museum in Auckland in November 2023, a copy of the first issue of Dom i svijet was found. The copy was donated from a private collection and was made available only after previous research in that library (after 2019). The discovery of that copy is significant for several reasons – for the first time it allows the public to see the contents of the publication; it proves that the use of secondary sources in creating a bibliography is the correct way to find information; it proves that the assumption about the preservation of numerous lost publications in private collections is correct; it made the digitization possible. Digitization has been done and the issue is available in the Croatian Emigrant Press repository in open access.
