Special libraries

The book heritage with just under two thousand titles was incorporated into the SASA Library holdings in 1950. Since this was a collection of non-mathematical works, a selection was made and books deemed not to be for the Library of the Academy were entrusted to the National Library. The majority of the books is for entertainment, on fishing and hunting, there are few in the field of mathematics, several books in other scientific fields (medicine, mechanics, military, politics, philosophy etc). Accepted titles have been processed and placed into the general collection, but the original card catalogue of titles was put under call number PB1 and is available to the users in the Library catalogue. The electronic processing of these books in the COBISSANU catalogue is currently underway.

The Committee on Public Health Protection donated the library of M. J. Batut to the SASA Library in 1948. Most of the titles, around two thousand of them are in the field of medical sciences. The library was processed and card catalogued under the call number of PB2. It is currently being processed in the electronic catalogue. Certificates and orders being kept at the SASA Library are part of the donation.

The SASA Library received this library in March 1958 from the Geographical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences. It contains 537 titles of monographs and journals, with over 1,500 volumes. The majority of the titles are in the fields Academician Bošković studied: geodesy, topography, cartography. The library was processed in the card catalogue under the call number PB 3, it is currently being electronically processed.

The library and study of Milutin Milanković became the SASA Library property in 1954 when it was presented by Milanković’s spouse Hristina Milanković. His desk with a chair, leather seating furniture set and a table, as well as the original bookshelves made in Vienna according to his idea, are kept at the first floor of the SASA Palace, at the room 123. The Milankovic bust and several works of art are also preserved. The library of Milutin Milankovic has about 800 books, listed and described under the call number PB 4. These are valuable and rare titles in the fields of climatology, meteorology, mathematics, geophysics and other scientific disciplines, as well as a small number of fiction titles. A printed catalogue of titles has been prepared and the processing is being finalized in the COBISSANU electronic catalogue.

These are the titles published during the Second World War. The date and manner of the acquisition of these books are unknown. The Library contains 172 titles overall and they were processed in the electronic catalogue COBISSANU under the call number PB 5.

The library encompasses around 4,000 books which the Academy was presented with by the Institute for Rural Studies in 1954.

Academician Vojislav Mišković bestowed his library consisting of 397 monographs and 26 periodicals mostly in the field of astronomy with accompanying bureau in 1972. The books have been completely processed in the electronic catalogue COBISSANU, under the call number PB 7.

Academician Dejan Medaković donated 1,880 titles to the SASA Library, which were listed in the previous SANUBIB electronic catalogue under the call number PB 8. Academician Medaković bequeathed the greatest and the most valuable portion of his library to the Library of Matica Srpska.

Academician Valtazar Bogisic left his library to the town of Cavtat. The legacy at the SASA Library was created in 1979 by copying the original portion of the library holdings in Cavtat and was acquired thanks to the Academy’s Board for Reprint Editions. The SANUBIB electronic catalogue describes 112 titles, mainly in the field of folk literature of different nations. This library unit is assigned the call number PB 9. Each title is microfilmed and microfilms are attached to the collection.

The library of Svetozar Radojčić forms a unit with the library of Nikola Radojčić and was procured in 1982 from Svetozar Radojčić’s daughters. The library has around 10,000 books, mostly in the field of history, literature, literary history and history of art. A hundred or so titles of old and rare books are of particular value to the Library. It is available in the SANUBIB electronic catalogue under the call number PB 10.

The SASA Library purchased the library of Viktor Novak from his daughter Nada Stevin in 1983. It contains around 10,000 items (books, records, geographical maps) in field of the history of Slavonic people, art history, monographs on our towns and personalities, national histories, diplomacy, freemasonry, history of the Vatican and Concordat, palaeography, epigraphy and heraldry. It is available in the card catalogue and the processing in the electronic catalogue COBISSANU is underway. It was listed under the call number PB 11. A wooden seating furniture set (a table and three chairs) from the study of Viktor Novak is being kept at the SASA Library.

On behalf of the Budimir family and according to the wishes of Milan Budimir, the library was donated to the Academy by M. Budimir’s daughter Radena Plavišić in 1982. The library holdings consist of 600 books and offprints in the field of general and comparative linguistics, onomastics, classical philology and ancient literature, Slavonic philology, Balkanology, Byzantology and the history of religion. It is available both in the card and COBISSANU electronic catalogue. It was assigned PB12 call number.

Academician Anton Bilimović presented his library to the SASA, but it was acquired only in 1971, when the book triage was carried out. Mathematics papers, papers with inscriptions, books and offprints in the fields of mechanics and mathematics were singled out for the legacy. His library was assigned PB 13 call number and it is currently being processed in the electronic catalogue COBISSANU.

The SASA Library received the library of the late Stjepan Kuljbakin as a present from his son Mihail Kuljbakin in 1982. It contains 38 books, mainly in the field of Slavonic philology, particularly old-Slavonic language. It is available in the SANUBIB electronic catalogue under PB 14 call number.

Sima Simić, a journalist, bequeathed his library to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1980, and the Academy acquired it in 1986 per his request. There are around 10,000 books in the library, mostly in the fields of south-Slavonic history and politics. The majority of the holdings has been processed in the SANUBIB electronic catalogue under PB 15 call number.

The donors of this library are nieces of Academician Miodrag Ibrovac, Gordana and Sloboda Bogić. The library of Academician Ibrovac has 750 titles, 120 of which are periodicals. These are mostly French and Serbian literature works or studies on literature. The SASA obtained this library in 1986 and the holdings were processed in the SANUBIB electronic catalogue under PB 16 call number. Only a part of his library was handed over to the SASA Library. The books in French were donated to the Library of the Department of Romance Languages, Literature and Cultures, at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade.

A standout in terms of its beauty, exclusiveness and significance is the special library of Ljubivoje Stefanović, founded in 1986, as the legacy of Olivera and Velimir Stefanović, the wife and son of Ljubivoje Stefanović’s, whose dedicated work went beyond our country’s borders. The legacy comprises 59 monographic publications, most of which are luxuriously produced facsimile editions: Codex Atlanticus and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Trattato di architettura by Francesco di Giorgio, the Bible of Juraj Dalmatinac from 1584, etc. The library was processed in the SANUBIB electronic catalogue under PB 17 call number.
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The special library of Academician Miroslav Pantić, a literary historian and university professor, was formed in 1987 and it includes publications which he donated to the SASA Library, which his beneficiaries continued even after his death. This library unit is still being updated with new publications. The library holdings have around 5,000 titles, mainly monographs with Dubrovnik literary works and studies about them being the most prominent. The books received until 2012 were listed and described in the SANUBIB electronic catalogue (2,131 titles), and the influx is regularly being electronically catalogued in the COBISSANU. The library has been assigned the call number PB 18.

The special library of Miroljub Todorović was established at the SASA Library in 1988. The holdings are constantly being enriched by new entries, either presented or purchased. The items are mostly art and literary works belonging to Signalism, whose founder and devoted proponent was Todorović himself. This thematic library has preserved around 1,210 titles so far. The books received until 2012 were listed and described in the electronic catalogue SANUBIB, while the books arriving since 2012 have been processed in the electronic catalogue COBISSANU, under PB 19 call name.
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The library unit is a gift from the family of Vladan and Svetlana Nedić and it has been continually expanded by editions about the folklore and literature of the Slavonic people since 2003. It contains 368 titles of monographic publications and periodicals described in the electronic catalogue SANUBIB under the call number PB 20.

This library unit was created in 1990 by the integration of the Serbian editions printed abroad which were part of the SASA Library, to produce a bibliography of the Serbian literature in emigration. Thanks to this action, the SASA nowadays has the richest and most comprehensive collection of the Serbian editions printed in emigration and the diaspora in the period 1941–1991. It includes over 500 titles and its call number is PB 21. It was processed in the card catalogue.
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This personal library of the distinguished professor of law is a present from Dr Nada Nedeljković from Dubrovnik to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The books arrived at the SASA Library from Dubrovnik in 1989. The holdings contain over 3,000 titles in various fields. Among others, the collection contains a great number of editions of SASA, JAZU, ANUBiH and it was processed in the card catalogue by the call number PB 22.

The book heritage of the renowned bibliographer and bibliophile Ljubomir Nikić is one of the most treasured among the holdings of the SASA Library. Dr Zorica Nikić-Božinović donated the entire library which Nikić meticulously collected all his life and which incorporates over 25,000 entries to the library holdings. It consists of the works in the field of literature, linguistics, history, history of art, law, church history. Additionally, a part of the donation is a rich photographic archive. The Library has partially processed it in the electronic catalogue SANUBIB, under the call name PB 23.

The SASA Library enriched its holdings with significant historical entries in the field of church history when it was presented with the collection of the eminent historian Rajko Veselinović in 1990. The holdings with over 1,000 items of monographic material and periodicals were completely listed and described in the electronic catalogue SANUBIB under the call name PB 24.

The collection represents the personal library of Academician Vasko Popa which came to the SASA Library as a donation in 2002, following the death of his spouse Jovanka Singer Popa. It encompasses  3,116 items of monographic material and 223 journal titles with 573 individual editions. The holdings of this valuable library, carrying a personal touch of its endower through numerous inscriptions, consists of various editions of Vasko Popa’s works in Serbian and foreign languages, as well as the author’s works in French, English, German, Romanian and other languages. The collection was fully described and listed in the electronic catalogue SANUBIB under the call name PB 25.

This valuable book heritage, with over 8,000 publications, Dr Ljubomir Duraković-Jakšić, a historian and theologist, donated to the SASA Library in late 1991. The literature published around the world relating to the life and work of Peter II Petrović Njegoš is particularly valuable. Additionally, the library contains numerous publications dedicated to Yugoslav-Polish relations, as well as the papers in the field of librarian science and Polish studies. The collection was mostly listed and described in the SANUBIB electronic catalogue under the call name PB 26.

The book collection of Academician Nedeljković arrived at the SASA Library in 1991 as a present from his spouse Prof. Marija Nedeljković. It predominantly contains philosophical works (Marxist literature), ethnology, as well as academic papers of Academician Nedeljkovic. The holdings’ call number PB 27 of approximately 1,600 units of monographic materials and periodicals is mostly listed and described in the SANUBIB electronic catalogue.

This library unit, which was acquired in 1993, represents a bestowal gift of the civil engineer and professor of the Spanish language and literature Andrija Stanojević to the SASA Library. The donated holdings consist of works in Spanish and French, primarily dictionaries, mostly encyclopedic ones, encyclopaedias, works in the history of Spain and France, art histories, as well as works in the history of French, Spanish and Hispano-American literature. The holdings of this library consisting of 1,050 monographic units and 17 titles of periodicals, under PB 28 call name, were processed in the electronic catalogue SANUBIB.

PB 29 The book heritage of Academician Gojko Nikoliš includes books in several scientific fields – medicine, philosophy, applied sciences, technology, as well as literature, history, geography, political history and art. The books are mainly in Serbian, English and French. In 1993, Academician Nikoliš personally presented the library with nearly a thousand publications, with 133 being periodicals, to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The library was listed in the card catalogue and periodicals in the electronic catalogue SANUBIB. It has the call number PB 29.

The personal library of Danilo Kiš was donated to the SASA Library by his heirs Mirjana Miočinović and Pascale Delpech. The library was transferred to the SASA in 1994 and was installed at the Hall of Academicians, in book-cabinets which were also the gift from the benefactor. Currently, the holdings contain 1,670 titles, but the heir M. Miočinović regularly sends the latest editions of Kiš’s works, mostly translations. All books are processed in the electronic catalogue, under the call number PB 30. Apart from the books, the SASA Library houses Danilo Kiš’s desk, with his typewriter and several smaller items, as well as two Radomir Reljić’s drawings.

Branko Ćopić’s spouse, Bogdanka Ilić-Ćopić founded the Branko Ćopić Endowment in 1989 in her declaration of will and the complete property bequeathed to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Following Ćopić’s spouse death in 1994, the SASA inherited the entire property, including the library of over 4,000 books. The work on classification and processing of Branko Ćopić’s library started in October 1996 in the apartment of the Ćopić family, in Kralja Milana Street. The library was transferred into the Academy building in 2003, to the room on the first floor, which nowadays represents Memorial room of Branko Ćopić. This memorial room was arranged in the same manner as Ćopic’s study. The library was assigned the call number PB 31. Overall it contains 2,990 entries with 4,559 volumes. The books are classified in the following groups: Branko Ćopić’s works, other authors’ monographs, serial publications, handbooks etc. It was listed in the card catalogue, and it has been processed for the most part in the electronic catalogue COBISSANU.

Marko Ristić’s personal library was relocated to the SASA Library based on the agreement between the City Hall of Belgrade which was presented with the library by Marko’s spouse Ševa, and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The library was entrusted to the SASA for safekeeping, caretaking, protection, expert processing and use. The Library was listed in the electronic catalogue SANUBIB under the call name PB 32. It is being kept in the memorial room on the first floor of the SASA Palace together with Ristić’s desk, chair and his grandfather Jovan Ristić’s escritoire. This is the largest, completely preserved private library of Surrealism and therefore this legacy is one of the most valuable ones in the SASA Library, with over 10,000 entries, including the entire first edition of Diderot’s encyclopedia in 35 volumes, numerous French surrealistic editions with authors’ inscriptions, bibliographical editions, and rare journal issues.

The library unit of the eminent poet and essay writer Miodrag Pavlović was most probably created in 1996, encompassing books which Academician donated to the SASA Library to help create his bibliography. It contains 125 titles, with 114 being monographic publications, the rest being periodicals. The holdings are mostly editions of Pavlović’s works in Serbian and foreign languages and it was fully described in the SANUBIB electronic catalogue under the call number PB 33.

The books of this library reached the SASA Library in 1996, as a present from Jelena Grol, the widow of Vojislav Grol. This valuable book heritage of 248 titles contains publications of Serbian and French literature, the history of Serbs and other South Slavonic people, as well as books dealing with the Yugoslav idea and unification. Marginalia, autographs and inscriptions of the author to Milan Grol, Mita Rakić, Ljuba Kovačević etc. The library was fully described in the SANUBIB electronic catalogue under the call number PB 34.

Academician Momčilo M. Ristić presented a part of his personal library with 1,240 titles to the SASA Library. The books were incorporated into the Library holdings in 1999, and by the end of 2000, the listing in the electronic catalogue SANUBIB was finished under the call number PB 35. The books cover mainly the field Academician M. Ristić studies, the science on materials. Most books are in foreign languages: Russian, German and English.

The Bishop of Šumadija and SASA Corresponding Member Sava Vuković left his collection of church calendars with over 1,300 units having the call number PB 36, to the Academy. The holdings were fully described in the SANUBIB electronic catalogue, where there are 287 entries, with 11 monographic publications and 276 periodicals. The invaluable personal library of Bishop Sava is seated in Šumadija eparchy.

This collection was donated to the SASA Library by Mrs Radmila Bunuševac-Dedinac, Milan Dedinac’s spouse in 1999. The collection is extraordinarily valuable and it came to the SASA Library in 2005, after Mrs Bunuševac-Dedinac’s death, and it represents the personal library of the poet Milan Dedinac. Along with Marko Ristić’s legacy, this special library contains the most significant material for the research of Surrealism. Numerous autographs, signatures and inscriptions provide the library of 3,015 units of monographic materials and 189 titles of journals with a particular value. The library is completely listed in the electronic catalogue COBISSANU, under the call number PB 37.

From 2011, Academician Dinko Davidov regularly donated books from his personal library to the holdings of the SASA Library, where these books are kept as a separate unit under the call number PB 38. These are mostly books in the field of history of art, art in general, history, literature and general culture. Many editions contain authors’ inscriptions to Academician Davidov. Around 500 titles were accepted and were processed in the electronic catalogue.

Since 2015, Academician Dragoslav Mihailović has been donating titles for production of bibliography on the camp for political prisoners in Goli Otok in the period 1949–1956. Thus this library unit was formed and it was processed in the COBISSANU electronic catalogue under the call name PB 39.

This book collection includes around 300 titles of monographs, thirty titles of specialist journals and 140 offprints from the personal library of Academician Borislav Jovanovic. The titles are mostly in archaeology and history. The collection was donated by the wife of Academician Jovanovic Katarina Jovanović and his daughter Tamara Jovanovic Šljukić in 2017 to the SASA Library. The inventorying and title listing in the electronic catalogue is currently in progress under the call number of PB 40. The current number of titles is 196.