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Public Library of Sarajevo

DIGITIZATION OF LOCAL HISTORY DIGITIZATION OF LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION AS THE MAIN PROMOTOR COLLECTION AS THE MAIN PROMOTOR

CULTURAL HERITAGE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE OF LOCAL COMMUNITY LOCAL COMMUNITY

Vaska Sotirov-Vaska Sotirov-DjDjukiukicc

Department of Local History Collection Department of Local History Collection and Bibliographyand Bibliography - - Public Library of SarajevoPublic Library of Sarajevo

[email protected]@bih.net.ba


The Definiton of Local History Collection

●The local history collection is not only keeper of materials which in its content has reference to local history ●but it is too keeper of ●„ethnical, cultural, language and religious diversities, cultural identity and social integration, especially by involving local citizens and different groups in the creation of a “Memory of Local Community” of digital resources accessible by all.“●PULMAN PULMAN planplan for e-Europe. Manifest from Oeirasa for e-Europe. Manifest from Oeirasa (CALIMERA) (CALIMERA)


The New Role of Librarien

● Conect local inhabitants, NGO’s, ethnical and cultural groups of the local community ● Collect and to digitize „memory of local community“● Organize materials in thematic collections interesting for the local environment● Create and link multimedia datas ● Build rich and complex structures of knowledge● Encourage the communication in the community ● Develope a new chain of associations


The great cultural impact● Impact of digital collections on various categories of user populations and in various contexts: specific cultures, regions, disciplines, professions, age groups● Cross-cultural of the opportunities and barriers to development and use of digital libraries● Instead informations, encourage development of communication in environment● Digitalization of the culturale heritage as opportunities for popularization of the local life to global via Internet with direct impact to the touristic development and initiatives of the local community


DIGITAL COLLECTIONSDIGITAL COLLECTIONS

Application of various theories and guidlines PULMAN/CALIMERA

in practice of Public Library of Sarajevo


“Goodness of existence : Hasan Kikic on its own“ ● The first digital collection of manuscripts in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

● Project is carried out in

cooperation with Local

history collection of

Public Library from

Gradacac “Alija

Isakovic”, hometown of

the writer Hasan Kikic.

May 2003

All project has done in the program Macromedia Dreamweaver.


Collection manuscripts

documents on starting the

literature magazine “Putokaz”

(1937-1939)

three photos of Hasan Kikić

four letters

poems he wrote in one

school notebook

five pages of preparations

for lecturing in school

four postcards

two reviews on his published

books from 1947. in Prague.


Bibliography

bibliography of published works of

Hasan Kikic till 2003.

bibliography of

literature study about

Hasan Kikic

bibliography Hasan

Kikic in literature about

him that is published in

magazines

links with articles or

title pages


Conclusion

• cheapness of the project

• easiness of the presentation to the public (libraries, schools etc.)

• interest for multimedia presentation in mass media

✔ all that assured us that we are on the right track!

✔ On the other hand, most institutions (museums, libraries) didn’t want to get involved in this project and digitalize their collections because of fear to endanger their institutions?!

✔ “If we put all materials on the Internet, then nobody comes to our institutions!”


“Digital colllection of photographs Hadzici“

Content: Rare pictures before 1992

from tha war ruin place

outskirts of Sarajevo

• Accidentally contact in a

bus with old Albanian

from Hadzici who had

family album with rare

photos resulted with this

spontaneously project

March 2004


Method of work

scanned photographs PowerPoint Each pictures have element of description: name of events, place or people; date; place or region; dimension of original photos; owner of photos; basic information about photos on which were not possible to identify persons and locations


Citizens as volunteers

● Cooperation with Municipality Hadzici, Tourist community Hadzici and schools

● Citizens as volunteers

collected materials of

destroyed area by war

● They help us to identify

people and places

during organized the

exhibition and

multimedia presentation● CD has been for sale

Rare picture of the mosque in Down Hadzici destroid during war 1992.


Conclusion

✔ Consequences of war from 1992 – 1995 led to strong need of survivers to explore and gather informations about theirs family and the local history of community

✔ Municipality Hadzici was robbed and devastated to family albums and personal documents as well as archives of local government

✔ Great interest of diaspora and young people who started the portal about Hadzici convinced us that a project like that are necessary for our community


„My name is poet : Aco Mrnjevica“October - November 2004

✔ digital collection manuscripts of Sarajevo's anonymous poet Aco Mrnjevica who killed 1993. in Sarajevo by shell why he was sitting and writing poems in his room

✔ scanned manuscripts link with other datas

✔ Macromedia Dreamweaver


The Collection

collection of unpublished manuscripts of seventy eight

poems

one story

few personal documents and

family photos

digitalized video recording of

Aco's amater theatrical

performance „Bus“, where he

was the actor on 1991.

documentary on poet and

digital collection of his friends


Friends as volunteers

The author never published any poem

so there were no any bibliographic data,

but instead that, we had organized the literary evening on

his birthday anniversary and

called all people that knew him to talk

about him, his life and poetry.


The Literature Evening devote to Aco by his friends

Remembrance of friends:

They read Aco’s poems

They critical analize his poems

They spoke jokes about Aco

They came from Suica (villiage from

Herzegovina, Banjaluka, Amsterdam,

Sarajevo ...)

Who couldn’t come to evening, send

their memories as text

All recorded by digital camera and put

on CD


Movie about Aco

One poet’s friend, journalist, made ten

minutes documentary move, where he

showed Aco’s parents, room and desk where

he was killed while writing poems on

1993.


Video inserts from amater performance

Digitalized video recording of Aco's amater theatrical

performance „Bus“, where he was the

actor on 1991.


Goals and conclusion

• digitalization of collective memory survived people from Sarajevo

• animate citizens to collect: - documents- audio and video records- others

• popularization of poetry for young poets of Sarajevo that are not accepted

• experience of work with volunteers was far better than expected, because many people took initiative for the project and were investing their sources in its realization


Founded on June 17, 2005, as part of Department for Local History Collection and Bibliography Public library of Sarajevo

Four volunteers had organized in Club of friend’s Sarajevo.

THE CLUB OF FRIEND’S SARAJEVO


The Association Friends of Town Sarajevo

● As the part of Department for Local History Collection, Club has started with their activites in the one of the most popular place of Public Library of Sarajevo – Multimedia center “Mak”

● All members are volunturees

● One of the main direction of Club is:“We are keeper of ethnical, cultural, language and religious diversities, cultural identity and social integration of Sarajevo”

● Since December 2006, Club has registered as NGO and now has about 150 members


December 2005 - January 2006

Content:

• 184 picturesof Sarajevo in the period 1932 - 1945.

• citizens volunteers gathered in Club of Sarajevo friends collected pictures from theirs family albums

“Sarajevo on old family photographs”


Exceptionally valuable was photo album of Sarajevo in the period from 1932. to 1938.

Rare pictures

Photos of market day on Wednesday, 17th July 1932 on Bascarsija with

portraits of peasants and their goods and peasant costumes.


Description

Method of work:

Scanned pictures

PowerPoint

Only necessary information:

Above picture TitleUnder picture DateWith italic Owner of

photographsIdentification of people,

places, buildings and events which don’t exist

today lead us to gathering new

informations about local history


Exhibition with multimedia presentation

In this project the main part was volunteers work, while librarian was only responsible for digitalization and systematic organization of materials which were gathered by volunteers.

Organized exhibition with multimedia presentation and the lecture on content of photographs

The old architect from Sarajevo, Borislav Spasojevic, has interpreted pictures explained customs of that time. Together with audience, he has tried to guess time and places, spontaneous series of new informations were acquired that are not existing in official history of town.


The Main Activities● Exibitions● Workshops● Forums, public discussions● Lessons and presentations about

local history ● Visits of culture institutions in

Sarajevo (museums, arhives and etc.)

● Thematic excursions of old historic places in Sarajevo


Wilson’s boulevardOctober 2005

Exibition and public discussions about the road

construction over the Wilson’s boulevard


The involvement of local administration


Public discussions


The Winter Olympic games 1984, Sarajevo - February 2006

Exibition and public discussions

about the missing chances for development winter

tourism in Sarajevo, after 1984.


Lessons about neolithic site in the center of Sarajevo - Debelo Brdo

March 2006

Architecture Borislav Spasojevic lectured about this prehistoric site and gave elaborate about a new touristic site in Sarajevo


Maybe a new touristic site in the center of Sarajevo?


The historic lesson about the building of

Sarajevo’s aqueduct May 2006

Leopold Gaspar had rare materials about the building aqueduct from 1889 until 1962.


Visual communication in SarajevoJune 1, 2006.

Architecture Tatjana Neidhart presented

necessary needs for atractive touristic

panelings in Sarajevo and to build green

zone in the center of town, using existing

fasades of buildings in the main street.


Sarajevo’s old gardens

Ljerka Latal, retired horticulture engineer, lectured about the old Oriental

culture of garden (“avlija”), with the list about 100 autochtonous plants of

Sarajevo. She presented the project about reconstruction this gardens and

put them in the regular touristic offer for Bascarsija.


Is that left only one “igda” in Sarajevo?(the sort of osier)


Exibition of autochtonous plants

Sponsor of this plants was a

private flower shop in Sarajevo!


CONCLUSION

✔ Digitalization of local history collection offers new methods in processing and presentation of material, interactive and more direct approach of users to cultural heritage of local community as well as effective protection of original examples.

✔ Task of librarians is to organize and digitalize materials in thematic collections, according to needs of the local community

✔ Arouse attention and awareness of a public and mass media for the culturale heritage with multimedia presentations and exibitons

✔ User’s as interactive creators of a new collections


The Evolution of Libraries

New approach to the culturale heritage


Culturale institutions and a heritage

● New cultural, economic, technical changes lead to the new focus: instead in the limelight as book/document/object we have now information● Barriers have been deleted between cultural institutions and they aren’t anymore only storages of materials ... ● Now, they are storages of the knowledge of their communities or “the knowledge heritage”: culturale, science, informatic, music, art, etc. ●The main activites of this instutions are: management, digitalization, presentation, sharing and distribution of the culturale heritage not only local, yet global!


Passive access to knowledge

● Librarians focus to underpaid projects● They loose their time of work on so many jobs which are invisible and far away of the end user● Local administration and sponsors haven’t any access to libraries projects and ongoing jobs ● Local community haven’t insights in abilities and competence of culture institutions to organize and present knowledge or culturale heritage to the end user● Many existing collections are “dead” and “invisible” for the user


Active access to knowledge

● If information is money, why aren’t then culturale institutions, special libraries, so rich!?● The main priority: explore and discover needs of their local community and users for knowledge ● Create thematic collections according users needs and what is the most importance subjects for the environment ● Make interesting presentations of the culturale heritage and promote the culturale tourisam ● Only then, libraries can expect interests for their acvities from local administration and sponsors


Active access to user

● Increase our undestanding of the needs, interests and experiences of users in the context of digital libraries● Attention on users’ information behavior● Presentation, design, development and searching of digital collections must be adapt to user● New approach to the culturale heritage, local history, genealogy in the cooperation with local museums, archives and touristic agencies


The Digital Collection

● How can a small library create the digital collection from the existing heritage and fund which would have large effect to the local community and the end user?●The postulate is the open information environment where the useful informations would be free and accessable for everybody●The selection of suitable thematic informations for the local community ●The organization of the culturale heritage on the new way, with the rich associative structure and with many options for the searching


Web site

● Hypertext includes endless options for the building a complex structure with multimedia datas and links● It has deleted boundaries between book/document/object or text/image/sound/movie

● With adecquate navigation, each user has endless opportunities for the individual searching● The accessable and free informations for users, moving a wave of new communications●The communication creates new associations and informations which we can update to the existing collection


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what you can do,

where are you and

with that what you have!

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