Digital Library of Slovenia - Collections

Collections

The Digital Library of Slovenia offers access to publications, published on the web and to digitised contents, published on classic carriers. Through a single access and a cross-search feature it unifies collections of a different kind in one place. Searching in collections is possible according to bibliographic data (author, title, publishing date, content, type of material …). Full-text retrieval technology, supported by OCR, is used to allow you to search directly in the text.

Currently available collections:

• Scientific and scholarly articles: there are more than 3,000 articles published in many internationally recognised professional and scientific journals.
• Articles: the collection of articles provides tools for browsing of older newspapers that gave character of the period (Kmetijske in rokodelske novice, Ljubljanski zvon, Dom in svet, Novi akordi, Sodobnost, Štajerc, Nova muzika).
• Photographs: photographs of the poets Anton Aškerc, Karel Destovnik Kajuh, the bishop Anton Jeglič, senators of the Drava Banovina and many others; there are also postcards with Jurij Vega, France Prešeren, and old Ljubljana; caricatures by Maksim Gaspari and Hinko Smrekar; reproductions of Ivan Cankar's drawings and manuscripts…together there are more than 10,500 items.
• Books: the database includes books from 1830 until today. It provides free access to some of the most important works of the Slovenian authors, such as Ivan Cankar's Erotika, Nina, Hlapci; Dragotin Kette's Poezije; Josip Murn's Pesmi in romance. For the admirers of poetic realism, the collection includes Janko Kersnik and his work Kmetske slike. A treasure of special kind is the first translation of the libretto of Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, published as a separate edition.
• Posters: the collection includes advertising, promotional, film and war posters and also political posters by well-known authors, such as Maksim Gaspari and Ive Šubic. All together, there are almost 4,000 posters available.
• Sheet music: in more than 1,000 records, there are works of the Ipavec family, Danilo Fajgelj, Risto Savin, Stanko Premrl, Emil Adamič, Slavko Osterc, Marij Kogoj. The arrangements of the Slovenian folk songs and the songs from the turning points in the Slovene history and one of the first arrangements of Prešeren's Zdravica (Slovenian national anthem) are also included in this database.
• Higher education publications: offers free access to complete scientific research works of various domains, ranging from natural, social to library sciences.
• Maps: the selection of old maps provides access to the famous Peter Kozler's map Zemljovid slovenske dežele in pokrajin, Valvasor's maps of Carniola, and all the others, including Sebastian Münster, who pictured the Slovenian ethnical territory as it was in the 16th century. In addition, the Maps database also includes old plans of the capital of Ljubljana (from 1820 to 1920).
• Sound recordings: it consists of the recordings of solo singers and ensembles dating from the beginning of the 20th century, including a wide range of folk songs.