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News
12.02.2020
The University of Ljubljana is Celebrating! Congratulations!
A hundred years ago, Dr France Ramovš, a slavist, gave his first lecture on the historical grammar of the slovenian language at the newley founded University. The National and University Library congratulates the University of Ljubljana on its jubilee and invites you to read more than 1200 digitized dissertations written by doctoral candidates of the Ljubljana University, among them the first PhD degree awarded on 15 July 1920 to Ana Mayer for her thesis on the Effect of Formalin on Starch.
News archive
new at dlib.si
26.05.2020
Presejanje za raka materničnega vratu s testom HPV
Presejanje za raka materničnega vratu s testom HPV : izsledki evropskih raziskav
Contibutors: Rebolj, Matejka (author)
Language: slovenian
Source: Zbornik - Izobraževalni dan programa ZORA 2
Year: 2011
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Cartographer, geographer, historian, writer, polyhistor, publisher, and collector Johann Weichard Valvasor (1641–1693) published a monumental cultural-historical topographical encyclopaedia of Carniola in Nuremberg in 1689 with the title Die Ehre Dess Hertzogthums Crain. With the help of his colleagues, he collected numerous historical, ethnographic, naturalistic and other information, which are ...

: Johann Weichard Valvasor
Johann Georg Heptner (1724–1764) took over the printing press of Adam Friderik Reichardt's widow, Anna Elizabeta in 1759. In 1761 he married Maria Theresa Gersoni. After his death, she led the company until the end of 1764, and in 1765 she married the printer Johann Friderick Eger. Heptner's prints were predominantly religious but he also printed official state publications, occasional prints and ...

Johann Georg Heptner's Ljubljana Printing Press
The collection comprises works and translations by protestant authors from the present Slovenian territory as well as some other works that they have contributed to. The digitized copies come from the National and Univerity Library's Rare Printed Books Collection, and from the Royal Danish Library.

Reformation prints
The Ljubljana Eger family of printers and publishers were active from 1765 until 1873. The first member, Johann Friderik Eger (1735–1799), married the widow of printer Johann Georg Heptner, Maria Theresa in 1765 and took over the Heptner company. He printed books, textbooks, newspapers as well as official publications and other material in Latin, German, Italian and Slovenian. He for example ...

Eger's Ljubljana Printing Press and Publishing House
The National Education Institute Slovenia (Zavod RS za šolstvo) is the national central research, development and advisory institution in the field of preschool, primary and general secondary education. Its origins date back to the fifties of the past century when the Institute for the Study of the Educational System was set up. Since then, its activities have been focused on improving knowledge ...

Publications for Teachers and other Professionals published by The National Education Institute Slovenia
The collection presents selected works from the National and University Library's collection, which were in the past marked as religiously, morally or politically controversial and listed on the Papal Index and other, mainly imperial censorship lists. The works were displayed at the exhibition And Yet They Read Them – Banned Books in the Early Modern Age. It was part of the Banned Books ...

Libri prohibiti
Izvestja or yearly reports were school publications about annual achievements of students; that originates in the 18th century. The predecessor of Izvestja were Classifikationen and Juventus that up until the year 1849 published the names of the pupils, according to their general success and success by subjects. Juventus was published by secondary schools between the year 1770 and 1849, it ...

Historical school reports
Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian\nAcademy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) is one of the leading research and\neducational centres in Slovenia, equivalent to prominent academic institutions\nof the Central and South Eastern Europe. It is an independent institution since\n1981, although the majority of its institutes had operated under the auspices\nof the Slovenian Academy of Sciences ...

Decades of research in publications of ZRC SAZU
Adam Friderik Reichardt (1701 or 1709–1757) became the owner of Mayr's Ljubljana printing press around 1731. After his death and until it was sold to Johann Georg Heptner his widow Anna ran the company. Reichardt's prints were in Slovenian, Latin, German, and Italian language. One of the most important works that came from his press is Steinberg's description of the Cerknica Lake with the title ...

Adam Friderik Reichardt's printing house in Ljubljana
What kind of people are the Slovenes and how do we live? In what ways are we similar to other Europeans and how do we differ? Is our country really covered with woods? What is the movement of petrol prices? How many tourists visit Slovenia yearly and what are the most visited attractions? What was the temperature in the last 60 years? The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia ...

Life in Numbers
Diplomat and travel writer Baron Sigmund von Herberstein (1486–1566) became a member of the imperial council in 1515, and in the same year started his long and successful diplomatic career. By 1553, he had made almost seventy trips abroad, mainly to Switzerland and Spain, and to Denmark, Bohemia, and Hungary. Between 1516 and 1526, he visited the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy oy Moscow on ...

Sigmund von Herberstein
Nearly a century's break in the field of printing activity in Carniola since Joannes Manlius's extradition ended by the arrival of typographer and bookseller Joannes Baptista Mayr from Salzburg (1634–1708). He came to Ljubljana in 1678 at the invitation of the Carniolan states, and theologian and historian Johann Ludwig Schönleben. During more than fifty years of its operation, Mayr's printing ...

Typographia Mayriana Labacensis
There are five different scribal hands evident in the Hren choirbooks. The main scribe was Georg Kuglmann; the others are unknown. Three scribes worked closely together and indicate the existence of a scribal workshop at Graz. The presence of two other scribal hands suggests that not all the repertory was copied in Graz. The Missa L'homme armé of Palestrina was probably copied in Innsbruck in the ...

Hren's Choirbooks
Picture books are not an unconscionable quantity of books – they form a literary continuum, communicated through language, literature and culture. Valued are those expressing the spirit of time and humanist values for the benefit of people. They are magnificent expressions of personal and collective memory, carrying a personal and cultural identity.  Slovenian Picture Book (1917-2017) due to ...

Happiness is in Books, Happiness is in Picture Books
Marija Krek was born in 1906 near Škofja Loka, in today's Republic of Slovenia; at that time, it was a part of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. With her mother, brother and sister she left for America in 1921, to join their father who had gone there a few years before; he had settled in Yankee, a small mining town in New Mexico. When Marija (Micka, Mici) came into the Promised ...

Ivan's Letters to Micka – an emigrant’s story
The Jakopič pavilion is a former gallery, in the Art Nouveau style. In 1908, Jakopič built the pavilion in the Tivoli Park; its architect was Max Fabiani. The pavilion was placed at the beginning of the Latterman promenade in the Ljubljana Tivoli Park. Until the Second World War, the pavilion was the main exhibition centre of the Slovenian contemporary painters, sculptors and photographers.The ...

Jakopič Pavilion: Exhibition Catalogues
In 1693, Academia operosorum Labacensium or Academy of the Working Citizens of Ljubljana was founded following the example of Italian scientific academies. Its initiators were historian and lawyer Joannes Gregorius Thalnitscher, and the cathedral provost Joannes Baptista Preschern. They also drew the majority of prominent educated citizes of the time into membership. The most important members of ...

Opera Operosorum
Aleksander Jakob Videčnik, a senior administrative officer and a retired director of the Celje City Savings Bank (Celjska mestna hranilnica), was born on 11 December 1920 in Celje.  He studied the system of cooperative societies and saving banks, especially the work of Mihael Vošnjak and the cultural history of the Upper Savinja Valley. He began writing and publishing in his early life. ...

Aleksander Videčnik
The collection features over 250 traveller's journals, diaries and reports from various research, mountaineering, missionary, ethnographic and trading expeditions, diplomatic missions, grand tours, and other travels and journeys that have been published from the 16th to the 20th century. Among them are numerous journals and diaries from the English, French, German, Spanish, and other research ...

Travel and exploration
Zbirka vsebuje digitalne kopije slovnic, slovarjev, abecednikov, pravopisov, učbenikov ter različnih jezikovnih priročnikov in jezikoslovnih študij iz zbirk Narodne in univerzitetne knjižnice ter drugih slovenskih knjižnic. Skoznje se zrcali razvoj slovenskega jezika od 16. stoletja do konca prve svetovne vojne.

Slovenian linguistics from the 16th to the early 20th century
The Collection contains reports on completed research and target research projects, research programmes and postdoctoral projects that are collected by the National and University Library of Slovenia in cooperation with the Slovenian Research Agency since 2007. All reports are accessible without restrictions.

Slovenian Research Agency reports
Printer, bookbinder, and bookseller Janez Mandelc (also Janez Mandelc, Hans Mannel or Joannes Manlius) came to Ljubljana in the spring of 1575 at Jurij Dalmatin and Jurij Khisl's invitation. As soon as he obtained the permission to set up a printing press by the States, he issued Johann Salicetus's speech against the Turks, while in the autumn of 1575, he also published Dalmatin’s translation of ...

Typographia Joannis Manlii
Slovenians emigrated from their homeland during different historical periods and they left traces everywhere they had settled. They cultivated their culture, language, customs and the written word. One-fifth of the Slovenian population is living outside the borders of the Republic of Slovenia. A part of rich “production” of the Slovenian diaspora is now available in digitized form on the dLib.si ...

Slovenian diaspora publications
Theologian and historian Johann Ludwig Shönleben (1618–1681) was author of numerous orations, theological works, sermons, historical works, genealogies of Carniolan noble families, and other works. He was also among the initiators of Mayr's Ljubljana printing press. Among his most important historical works are Aemona vindicata (Salzburg: Haan, 1674) and Carniolia Antiqua et Nova (Ljubljana: ...

Johann Ludwig Schönleben
Following the chronological order of their creation, the collection presents some prominant works from the field of anatomy that were displayed at the National and University Library's exhibition When the Dead Teach the Living in 2015. Scientific studies, manuals, anatomical atlases and other materials, which are kept at the National and University Library of Slovenia, and the Seminary Library ...

When the Dead teach the Living - History of Anatomy
The collection is a digital monument to Baron Jurij Vega (1754-1802), a Slovenian diverse scientist whose theories and inventions often influenced the course of the world history. Although he was born in the poor hilly region (Sv. Križ near Zagorica), he became a cosmopolitan and scientist: he excelled especially in mathematics and mathematical sciences, and was esteemed for his inventions in ...

Baron Jurij Vega
The digitized collection of the Ptuj newspapers unveils life and events in Ptuj and the nearby region during the period from 1878 - the year of publishing of the first newspaper - until 2012.  Like in other Slovenian towns, German newspapers were the first to appear in the lower Styria. In February 1878, Jakob Schön printed the first issue of the Pettauer Wochenblatt (1878). The first ...

The Ptuj Newspapers , 1878-
The collection comprises publications and documents whose copyright holders have not allowed their free access the Digital Library of Slovenia portal. In accordance with the Legal Deposit Act, such material is available only for study and research purposes on the premises of the National and University Library of Slovenia. It can be accessed on a PC in the Library Information Center. The major ...

Material with restricted access (on librarie's premises)
Josipina Turnograjska (1833 - 1854) was an extremely talented, exceptionally well educated and a broad-minded woman. She wrote more than thirty stories, and was the first to deal with the subject of Veronika Deseniška. However, only a few of her poems are preserved. She was a good piano player and a composer as well. She published her works in the Slovenska bčela monthly and the Zora newspaper. ...

Josipina: Vicinity of remoteness
Until the end of the World War II, Glasbena matica published almost 300 music scores of the Slovenian compositions for amateur singing and playing music. The cultural society, founded in 1872, fulfilled its goal to promote singing and educate masses of amateur singers" by publishing “good Slovenian compositions for church, school and home”. Most editions comprised collections of choral ...

Glasbena matica
The »Spezialkarte der Oesterreichischen-ungarnischen Monarchie« is a topographic map at the scale of 1: 75,000. Topographical maps are the basis of national cartographic information systems, necessary for making other thematic maps and cartographic representations, a tool for defence planning, orientation, etc. The Spezialkarte der Oesterreichischen-ungarnischen Monarchie at the scale of 1: ...

Spezialkarte der Oesterreichischen-ungarnischen Monarchie
The Carinthian plebiscite held on October 10 1920 determined the border between the then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) and Austria. Due to its result, a large part of Slovenians remained on the North side of the Karavanke mountain - in Austria. Prior to the plebiscite, both sides carried out intensive political propaganda and much of propaganda material was preserved. ...

1920 Carinthian plebiscite
Fran Vesel, was a collector of cultural and historical material, and an amateur photographer. His interest in photography took him to Vienna and Munich, where he upgraded his knowledge and became one of the best Slovenian photo amateurs. For many years, he was also a committee member of the National Gallery, and was very active in the Ljubljana Probuda art school. He was renowned for his ...

Archive of photograph chronicler Fran Vesel
In 2009, the Map and Pictoral Collection at the National and University Library of Slovenia bought 288 portrait photos of the most important Slovenian poets of the 20th century photographed by Marjan Kukec. Photos were taken between 1974 and 1981, when the Slovenska matica published France Pibernik’s books Med tradicijo in modernizmom (Between Tradition and Modernism (1978), and Med modernizmom ...

Marjan Kukec's portrait photographs
State topographic maps at the scale of 1:50.000 are important elements of national cartographic information systems. They are the basis for other maps and thematic cartographic presentations, an instrument for defence planning and for orientation purposes, etc. Topographic map of Yugoslavia at the scale of 1: 50,000 for the territory of Slovenia comprises 56 sheets printed from 1950 to 1967. ...

Topographic map of Yugoslavia for the territory of Slovenia, 1950-1967
A thousand years of words collection represents history of Slovenian language and literature and is intended for the widest circle of users. It was primarily designed as an educational tool for e-learning for primary and secondary school students and it will be further developed to become a teaching tool for university students and researchers. The most important works of Slovenian written ...

A Thousand Years of Words

Publications

Štirinajstdnevnik Wandermappe je izhajal kot ilustrirana priloga časopisa Gottscheer Bote.

Wandermappe
355 355
Uprava za gradnjo zadružnih domov pri Izvršnem odboru OF Slovenije je z izdajo tednika Zadružni dom želela, s pomočjo sodelujočih strokovnjakov, dajati stalno in konkretno pomoč vsem, ki so sodelovali pri gradnji.

Zadružni dom (1948)
26 26
Tednik Vprašanja naših dni je bil nedeljska priloga Ljudske pravice. Izhajal je od leta 1945 do 1951.

Vprašanja naših dni (1945)
194 194
Glasnik je bil časopis za Slovence na severozahodu ZDA.

Glasnik (Calumet)
134 134
Nemški koledar za Kranjsko.

Deutscher Kalender für Krain und das Küstenland
3 3
Revija Mladika je začela izhajati leta 1957 kot družinska revija in kot naslednica predvojne revije, ki jo je urejal F. S. Finžgar. Ustanovili so jo Jože Peterlin, Stanko Janežič, Maks Šah ter drugi slovenski kulturniki ter intelektualci. V svoji dolgi zgodovini je morala kriti različne kulturne potrebe, zato je bila pestra in iskana. Revija Mladika spremlja življenje slovenske narodne skupnosti ...

Mladika (Trst)
509 509
Rast je mladinska priloga Mladike.

Rast (Trst)
270 270
Bilten študijskih dni v Dragi, ki izhaja kot priloga Mladiki.

Draga
42 42
Glasilo Zveze komunistične mladine Italije.

Pest
1 1
Sprva je bilo glasilo Osvobodilne fronte slovenskega naroda Svobodnega tržaškega ozemlja, nato pa glasilo KPI za slovensko narodno manjšino.

Delo (OF STO, Trst)
1206 1206
Glasilo prijateljev Svete Gore.

Svetogorska kraljica
39 39
Glasilo vipavskih semeniščnikov.

Iskre
138 138
Primorska borba je izhajala tedensko v Ajdovščini.

Primorska borba
95 95
Glasilo okrožnega odbora ZMJK za Vzhodno Primorsko.

Mladinski vestnik (Ajdovščina)
9 9
Glasilo Antifašistične slovansko-italijanske ženske zveze za Vzhodno primorsko okrožje.

Žena v borbi in obnovi
7 7
Marijanska revija.

Svetogorska kraljica (Trst)
7 7
Realization, property and rights 2020 Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Turjaška 1, 1000 Ljubljana