The collection is a descendant of the so-called D-Collection – a deposit collection of the literature which was banned for moral or political reasons.

Areas of Responsibility

• To collect, process, preserve, represent and make available the primary national collection of Slovenian Diaspora material.
• To make records of Diaspora periodical articles.
• To cooperate in the compilation of the Slovenian National Bibliography for the Diaspora material.
• To create and maintain Personal Name Authority Records of Diaspora authors.
• To prepare bibliographic indexes of Diaspora periodicals.
• To provide information and reference services.
• To prepare exhibitions.
• To cooperate in the development of the Digital Library of Slovenia.

Holdings

The collection consists of Slovenian emigrant monographs and periodicals. It holds the material of varied content: Diaspora fiction (especially the works by the authors belonging to the Slovenian political emigration), political information material, historical material (memories, testimonies and archival resources) and religious printed matter. The collection also keeps some material from the period between 1941 and 1945 (e.g. the works by the members of the Slovenian Home Guards called »domobranci« and works by France Balantič). Some very precious and rare prints from the refugee camps in Austria and Italy (1945-1950) are also a part of this collection.
The majority of the material is in the Slovenian language, some publications are in the Serbo-Croatian (e.g. all Milovan Djilas‛s books, which have been officially prohibited) and some are in other languages.