![]() This mission is complemented by keeping track of, and acquiring, publications issued abroad. It operates in conformity with the statutory provisions introduced over 200 years ago about a deposit library compiling and permanently archiving a compulsory copy of Slovenian publications: issued, published, produced or distributed in Slovenia. The collection of printed sheet music falling under slovenika constitutes the central national compilation of published works by Slovenian composers, artists working at home or abroad as members of a Slovenian national minority or expatriates. Printed scores and manuscripts make for the bulk of the collection, followed by music audio recordings, programme notes, written and pictorial archives of music magazines, music societies and institutions, Slovenian musicians’ correspondence and other documentary materials. The musical collection of the National and University Library (NUK) compiles print and manuscript sheet music, music audio recordings and documentary materials about Slovenian music creativity, composition and performance, as well as reference and bibliographic literature concerning musicians and musical works. Being a university library, in addition to its basic mission, the institution contains the core collection of the national and foreign scholarly literature used, or consulted in, educational and scientific research at the University of Ljubljana. By compiling current and retrospective Slovenian national bibliography and other databases, the subdivision provides access to information on library materials and maintains bibliographic control over print and digital publications that fall under the slovenika heading. the National Library’s core holdings related to national studies known as slovenika). Forming part of the National Library’s holdings, the department provides for collecting, processing, maintaining, providing access to, as well as safekeeping and preserving the core national collection of library materials in Slovenian, about Slovenia and Slovenians, about Slovenian authors, Slovenian record companies, members of the Italian and Hungarian national minorities, the Roma community and other ethnic minorities living in Slovenia (i.e. In 1948, a musical collection was instated as a subdivision of the National and University Library’s Special Collections Division. ![]()
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