Regional Bibliography

Employees of the Section of Regional Research, Documents, and Information:

Nataša Lajdová – lajdova@krajskakniznicazilina.sk

Ivana Uríková – urikova@krajskakniznicazilina.sk

Business hours during the 2020 reconstruction:

Monday: 10:00 – 14:30
Tuesday: 10:00 – 15:30
Wednesday: 10:00 – 14:30
Thursday: 10:00 – 15:30
Friday: 10:00 – 14:30

Business hours during the summer break
Monday – Friday: 10:00 – 14:00

Presentations of regional bibliography

Editorial activity

List of literature searches

The Section of Regional Research, Documents, and Information, in accordance with the Organizational Guidelines of the Regional Library in Žilina, is a specialized workplace which documents the Žilina and Bytča districts. It documents their economic, social, public, and cultural life, and natural characteristics. It acquires, processes, and preserves regional documents, compiles bibliographic records, offers addressal bibliographic information, and builds electronic bibliographic databases with a regional content focus. It publishes personal, thematic, and recommending bibliographies, calendars, almanacs, and other bibliographic records. The section organizes cultural and educational events and exhibitions with regional themes. As a methodical center for other libraries in the region, it coordinates, analyzes, and evaluates bibliographic, informational, and editorial activity of regional libraries in the Žilina Self-governing Region.

Regional bibliography content is defined by:

  • content aspect – documents whose content is partly or completely focused on the respective region (phenomenon, event, thing, person),
  • territorial aspect – all documents published in the region’s territory which are not the subject of national bibliography,
  • personal aspect – documents and information about figures who lived and worked in the region or still work and influence the respective region, also literature whose author is a regional figure.

Roles of the Section of Regional Research, Documents, and Information of the Regional Library in Žilina:

  • It offers bibliographic-informational and factual information.
  • It is systematically building a collection of regional literature and periodical and non-periodical documents. The subject of acquisition and processing is all types of regional documents – printed books, periodicals, company literature, fine print, invitations, postcards, posters, official documents, music, audio documents, audio and video tapes, CD, DVD, cartographic documents, graphics, 3D documents, mixed documents – multimedia, electronic versions of documents, digital sources.
  • It processes concurrent regional bibliography:
  • it monitors the nationwide print and district and township region periodicals,
  • it builds a regional electronic basis of data from processed articles with references to where the articles are saved,
  • it builds albums from cut outs or copies of articles,
  • it builds an electronic database from scanned articles with regional focus.
  • It retrospectively processes articles from regional print and chapters from regional almanacs.
  • It builds a database of regional nominal and corporate authorities, lineages, actions, and geographical names.
  • It monitors print for selected institutions.
  • It builds a collection of students’ qualification works with regional focus (bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral thesis), as well as the year’s works, and students’ professional activities (SOČ).
  • It executes tasks connected with the coordination of bibliographic activity in the region.
  • It secures tasks connected with bibliographic registration and coordination of bibliographic activity in the Žilina Self-governing Region. It manages an archive of published titles of editorial activity of respective bibliographic workplaces in the Žilina region.
  • It publishes bibliographic records – overviews of literature, which is connected to the region in its content, bibliographies (thematic, selective, personal, union), dictionaries, and almanacs from events and calendars.
  • It builds a database of personalities of cultural, social, and public life of the Žilina and Bytča districts and updates it regularly.
  • It researches literary personalities of the Žilina and Bytča regions.
  • It researches other significant personalities of the Žilina and Bytča districts and publishes their dictionaries, personal bibliographies, and yearly creates calendars and makes them available – personalities anniversaries.
  • It builds electronic and photo databases of regional figures and classic card files of their photos.
  • It builds a database of regional institutions.
  • It builds a database of events in the Žilina and Bytča districts.
  • It builds a database of towns and villages in the Žilina and Bytča regions: monographies of towns and villages, photo documentation, surveys, maps of commemorative plaques, commemorative places, cultural-historical monuments.
  • It preserves important electronic documents of villages from their websites on CDs, DVDs, or in print form.
  • It builds a database of cultural-historical monuments and commemorative places – memorials, commemorative plaques, busts, and other monuments in the Žilina and Bytča districts.
  • Based on user requests, it administers literature searches focused on regional themes. It maintains a list and a database of already processed literature searches.
  • It carries out exhibitions, secures and installs exhibitions with regional focus.
  • It cares for regional print and its maintenance – it secures the binding of regional periodicals and their archiving and treatment.
  • It participates on the creation and realization of the library projects related to the region.

Division of documents in the Section of Regional Research, Documents, and Information

Regional document collection is made of documents:

  1. which record cultural, social, historical, geographic, and economic development of the Žilina and Bytča districts – content regional documents,
  2. whose authors are connected to the region by their place of birth, death, or work – author regional documents.

Division of regional documents from a formal point of view:

  1. book publications whose content is connected to the region, or they are written by a regional author,
  2. regional periodicals – regular regional periodicals: school, company, periodicals published by city and local self-governments and institutions…
  3. special types of documents – fine print, postcards, posters, invitations, programs, exhibition catalogues, photos, maps, CD, DVD with a regional focus, etc.

Collection of regional documents is a significant source of factual and bibliographic information about the Žilina and Bytča district. By acquiring, processing, and keeping the regional documents collection, the Regional Library in Žilina fulfills an important archiving function.