After conservation/restoration treatments and digitization of the archive of photographic negatives of the daily Jutro, kept in the National and University Library, the identification of 2203 silver gelatin negatives on glass plates and 35 nitrocellulose negatives started last year.

After digitization, the negatives have been safely stored in archival envelopes and protective boxes that are kept in the appropriate climatic conditions of the depot. The library restricted access to material, but enabled unlimited research and identification, and gradual publication of negatives with relevant data on the Digital Library of Slovenia. Through photographic lens, the access to insight of high-profile and great stories of that time, is now available. You can also follow reports from sports events, recordings of trivial moments and portraits of unknown inhabitants of our country, as well as other documentary images that complement and enrich the words written in the newspaper Jutro.

We invite you to explore the first set of published negatives created in 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930 and 1931, or to browse the newspaper Jutro in which the negatives were published.

Recently, a new collection was published on the dLib.si portal, which includes 18 monographic publications and the Novi odmev journal. All publications were published by the Cultural and Educational Association Slovenski dom Zagreb, the oldest association of Slovenes in Europe, operating uninterruptedly. The collection is available at this link.

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.

Among book collections of the second half of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, the library of Baron Žiga Zois (1747–1819) was outstandingly prominent in view of the importance of its content and the library’s direct involvement in the development of science and culture on the Slovenian territory, and beyond its borders. Zois was a landowner, an entrepreneur, a merchant, a natural scientist, a linguist and an enlightened patron and a mentor. Today, his library is kept at the National and University Library.

Zois closely and systematically followed contemporary spiritual movements and was engaged in the development of natural, technical, applied, humanistic and other sciences, both in Carniola and the Habsburg Monarchy as well as throughout Europe. Therefore, his Ljubljana Palace became a centre of erudition and a gathering place of the provincial and the European scientific and cultural community, too.

His literary salon, along with the library that Zois generously opened to intellectuals of his time, was a juncture of scientific and cultural events in Carniola. Nowadays, the baron's key role in the cultural revival on the Slovenian territory at the turn of the18th to the 19th century is still widely known and recognisable.

Slovenes emigrated from their motherland during different historical periods, leaving traces everywhere they settled. They preserved their culture, language, customs and the written word.

Today, one-fifth members of the Slovenian nation live outside their motherland, the majority in Slovenia's four neighbouring countries. In Croatia, more than ten thousand inhabitants are of the Slovenian nationality, nine thousand speak Slovenian as their mother tongue.

From July 4 to October 5 2019, you are invited to visit the exhibition in the NUK Exhibition Room. On the dlib.si portal, you can browse through digitized Slovenian emigrant heritage, and the heritage of Slovenian national minority living in the neighbouring countries.

A new functionality was added to the Periodicals Section on the dLib.si portal - a calendar that shows all daily newspapers according to the day of their publication. In the calendar, each date has links to daily newspapers on the portal published on a specific day.

It is possible to display a specific month or week, while arrows enable navigation forward or backward through a year, a month or a week. Publications in blue are freely accessible on-line, while others in red only by using computers in the NUK premises.

You are invited to use and research the rich collection of our newspapers.

Beautiful and mysterious places along the Kolpa and Čabranka rivers have been home of Slovenian people for centuries. In his books, Marko Smole is preserving rich cultural and natural heritage of the region on both sides of the border. In the border village of Plešce in Croatia, he maintains the Palčava šiša grange, a cultural monument, a private home, and at the same time, a publicly accessible museum collection. He is the initiator of listing local speeches in the register of intangible heritage in both countries, and he encourages integration of cultural heritage into development projects. He also promoters linking of cultural with natural heritage and cross-border cultural, research and tourism integration.

An early-modern natural science encyclopaedia has returned to NUK. It was taken out of Ljubljana together with the rest of the library of the Counts of Auersperg after the 1895 earthquake. This year, we repurchased it with the help of sponsors, donors and patrons. The book completes the collection of Aldrovandi's works from the Wolfgang Engelbert Auersperg’s (1610-1673) collection, which have remained in the Slovenian territory despite the different historical circumstances. Auersperg’s encyclopaedias of fish, cloven four-hoofed quadrupeds, viviparous quadrupeds with fingers, snakes, dragons, and other bloodless animals, which were most probably donated to the predecessor of the National and University Library, the Lyceum Library by the Auersperg family are now completed with the “History of Unnatural Beings, with the Cases, Previously Omitted in the History of All Animals". All six books also contain a hand-written ownership inscription of the Carniola’s General Governor Wolfgang Engelbert, Count of Auersperg.

The Škofja Loka Passion Play is the oldest preserved Slovenian dramatic text. For twenty years already, the Pasijonski Doneski Publication has been published – it compromises information on old and new facts about the rich Slovenian passion tradition. Due to its inclusion on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Passion has become internationally known.

The National and University Library acquired a valuable gift – a tiny notebook of Slovenian songs. Justina Marolt (later married Kolman), at the age of sixteen, wrote down the songs during the Second World War, while imprisoned in the Schwäbisch Gmünd labour camp. Her family was musically talented: at home, they had been singing every day; in the camp, Slovenian songs were forbidden. The booklet is of high value for its songs so far unknown.

Within the Europeana.eu, a new campaign entitled #AllezLiterature starts today, on the World Poetry Day. In the coming month, poetry from around the world will flood social networks. The power of poetry will point to its amusement and diversity, and its close connection or interlinking with our lives. We are particularly proud that Simon Gregorčič’s poem Soči (To the River Soča) launched the campaign: Filip, a three-year old boy, tells the poem - it is available on Facebook and Twitter.

The Digital Library of Slovenia - dLib.si - has been digitizing old Ljubljana postcards carrying the magic of nostalgia and the historical awareness of the past. We invite you to browse them and go back to time without rush hours and the pace of modern life. Get to know Ljubljana during the time of the salon atmosphere, more about developments in street naming and history of some important buildings, today the principal Slovenian institutions.

The Maribor Theatre Festival, the major theatre event in Slovenia bringing together Slovenian theatres has just finished. The FBS festival bulletin reflects events of the 51st Boršnikovo srečanje. In addition to the best Slovenian theatre productions of the year, Swedish performances within the Focus programme were also on the stage; each year, this programme presents a different country. Two topics were discussed on meetings – the 150th anniversary of the Dramatic Society in Ljubljana and the radio drama. Veteran actor Dare Valič was the recipient of this year's Borštnik Ring for lifetime achievements, the most prestigious accolade in theatre acting.