June 3, 2010
CONFERENCE: SLOVENE DIGITAL CULTURAL CONTENTS
The conference is aimed at informing on the policy and strategy of digital cultural contents in Slovenia and the European Union. Projects in which Slovene organisations are participating and are connected with Europeana, the European digital library, will be presented.

The conference is organised by the national and University Library, being a partner of the EuropeanaLocal project, and the Slovene Ministry of Culture.

Those involved in creating Slovene cultural digital contents – libraries, archives, museums, multimedia centres and those using such contents, are kindly invited to attend the conference.

More information:
Breda Karun
Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica
Turjaška 1
1000 Ljubljana
T: 00 386 1 5861 337

March 24, 2010
THE SLOVENE NATION – THE FIRST SLOVENE DAILY
Slovenski narod (The Slovene Nation ) (1868-1943), the first Slovene daily newspaper is made available via the dLib.si portal. One of its editors was also the writer Josip Jurčič. The newspaper covered mainly political issues, including the news on political events in the Slovenian territory and abroad (news from the battlefields or from different front lines, decisions of the highly ranked politicians, etc. )

February 26, 2010
ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE: A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS ON THE EBSCOHOST PORTAL
Since the beginning of the year, the EBSCOHOST portal has been offering a novelty: the Academic Search Premier package has been upgraded by the Academic Search Complete, a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database with 7400 full-text periodicals, 6 300 peer-reviewed scientific journals , 10 500 journals with excerpts and 12 000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings , etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1 300 journals.
The Academic Search Complete can be accessed via the EBCSO portal and a link to COBISS.

More: http://www.nuk.uni-lj.si/dokumenti/2010/pdf/asc_ebsco.pdf

February 9, 2010
60 YEARS OF SLOVENE SCHOOL BETWEEN THE ANDES AND THE SILVER RIVER (THE RÍO DE LA PLATA)
Already in May 1954, Slovenes living in the refugee camps in Austria organised teaching in their mother tongue. The idea of teaching in Slovene language was realised shortly after their arrival in Argentina, their new homeland. In 1949 the Anton Martin Slomšek School was opened in Ramos Mejija. Each Saturday for sixty years, the school has been organising activities to preserve and strengthen Slovene national awareness. During the last years, more than 90 children attended the school, while in the seventies of the 20th century, their number was 161. They had the opportunity to learn the Slovene language and history and had a religious upbringing. Besides, the school offered children a possibility to develop their talents either by attending the theatre group producing a play every year, the children‛s choir, a gymnastics or a handicraft group. Each year a traditional excursion has been organised so that schools could compete in different sports.

The anthology Sixty Years of the Anton Martin Slomšek School 1949-2009 represents people that are the pillar of Slovene education in Argentina.

February 9, 2010
DIGITAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE (DEDI) PRESENTED TO EXPERT PUBLIC
In Prešeren‛s hall of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), the Consortium of partners of the DEDI II project presented for the first time to expert public the concept of the project - digital encyclopaedia of natural and cultural heritage (DEDI). As stressed by the representatives of the consortium, it is the first digital multimedia presentation of Slovene natural and cultural heritage. Though the web, complex and good quality contents will be offered to wider audience. The first version of digital encyclopaedia DEDI is available on the web page www.dedi.si ,; the project will be in details presented to general public at the end of September 2010 when it is to be terminated.

January 13, 2010
THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF BARA REMEC BIRTH – THE PAINTER OF ARGENTINEAN MOUNTAINS AND LAKES
Slovene artist Bara Remec found her inspirations and a quiet place to work in the Southern Hemisphere among the Argentinean mountains and lakes. While living in native Ljubljana, her family staunchly supported her by enabling her to attend courses of famous painters such as Mirko Šubic, Saša and Henrika Šantel. Later she continued her studies at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts. Before the World War II, she exhibited her works in Ljubljana; she won recognition as illustrator of publications edited by Dr. Tine Debeljak, her brother-in-law.

The maelstrom of war took her to Austrian and Italian refugee camps where she continued creating illustrations that were often presented at improvised exhibitions. In 1948 she came to Argentina, and the next year already she had an exhibition in Buenos Aires. She lived and painted in San Carlos de Bariloche, the countryside of many mountains and lakes that reminded many Slovenes of their native country. She is buried there, in a place with a view on Pico Bara, the peak named after her.

The National and University Library has many publications illustrated by Bara Remec, and some of her drawings. More about the artist is on the video entitled Blue Eyed Woman.
Link to video: http://www.slovid.com/bara+remec+slikarka+sinjih+oci+4/18069/video)

January 6, 2010,
A STREET OF PARAGUAY‛S CAPITAL NAMED AFTER A SLOVENE WOMAN FEATURING ON A PARAGUAYAN POST STAMP
After the Wold War II, Dr. Branislava Sušnik from Medvode shared the same destiny as many other displaced Slovenes. She studied history and prehistory at universities in Ljubljana, Vienna and Rome. As she left her native country for political reasons, her name was barely heard in public for many years. In 1951 she settled in Paraguay where she died in 1996. She devoted her life researching Paraguayan Indians. In the capital Asunción she established the ethnographic museum and remained its devoted director until her death. For her scientific works she received the most important Paraguayan decorations. Her bibliography, mostly anthropologic studies, is immense. Only a modest number of them - twelve monographs - , are thanks to Dr. Irene Mislej kept in the National and University Library. In 2005, Paraguay issued a post stamp with her picture, and at the end of last year a street in Asunción was named after her.
More in picture

January 6, 2010,
NEW MATERIAL ON DLIB.SI PORTAL
In November and December 2009, the following material has been added:
Belokranjec (1908-1921)
Besednik (1869-1878)
Dogovori (1973-1990)
Etnolog (1999-2008)
Goriška straža (1918-1928)
Javna tribuna (1966-1990)
Kronika (1953-2001)
Na temeljih preteklostih snujemo prihodnost (1999)
Narodna sloga (1931-1932)
Naša komuna (1979-1994)
Naša skupnost (1971-1994)
Naše delo (1948-1950)
Notarski vestnik (1925-1927)
Nova doba (1919-1941)
Posavska straža (1906-1908)
Posavski obzornik (1997-2008)
Ročni kažipot po Goriškem in Gradiščanskem (1894-1923)
Sloveniens Blatt (1848)
Slovenka (1897-1902)
Slovenski glasnik (1858)
Slovenski pravnik (1881-1944)
Splet znanja in domišljije (2006)
Tribuna (1951–1998)
Collection of maps of the Miran Jarc Public Library from Novo mesto (1400-1930) and various pupils’ newspapers of Novo mesto (1891-1956).

January 8, 2010,
VEDUTAS OF SLOVENIAN PLACES IN DIGITAL FORMS
Within the framework of the project Europeana Travel, vedutas dating from the middle of the 17h century to the second part of the 19th century have been digitized. Vedutas are held by the National and University Library. This valuable collection is also presented on the dLib.si. portal.
Vedutas are highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista.