Foundation and First Year of Work of the Association of Librarians of Serbia: 1947-1948

Abstract

This paper deals with the research of foundation and activity of the Association of Librarians of Serbia in 1947 and 1948, in honor of the seven decades of existence of the biggest and oldest library association in Serbia, known today as the Serbian Library Association. An analysis of primary and secondary sources included a time span of one year, which was very important and dynamic in the history of the most important library association, as well as in the history of librarianship in Serbia. Thanks to the fact that preserved archival material are kept in the Serbian Library Association office in Belgrade, and from 2017 this material has been digitized, an analysis of key events, dates and participants was applied, which at the same time provided additional information on major impacts on the overall development of librarianship in Serbia after the Second World War. Applied analysis included the historical, cultural, and socio-political contexts of the postwar society in Yugoslavia.