Government purchase of books by the Ministry of culture and the Ministry of science, education and sports - The impact on collection building of the City and university library Osijek in the period from 1998. to 2013.

Rad predstavlja istraživanje o važnosti, udjelu i utjecaju otkupa Ministarstva kulture i Ministarstva znanosti, obrazovanja i sporta na izgradnju fonda Gradske i sveučilišne knjižnice Osijek. Prvi dio sadrži teorijska razmatranja temeljena na stručnim standardima, načelima vezanim uz izgradnju zbirki, potrebama korisnika, dostupnosti pisane riječi te utjecaju otkupa na promicanje i stvaranje kulture čitanja. Nadalje se u teoriji daje kratak povijesni prikaz primjene otkupa dvaju ministarstava kao jednog od načina nabave građe za knjižnice. Drugi dio rada daje analizu otkupljene građe tijekom istraživanoga razdoblja u kojem su prikazani podaci o knjigama namijenjenim odraslim korisnicima, kao i onim namijenjenim djeci. Uz statističke smo podatke utvrdili brojne pozitivne, ali i znatne negativne aspekte poslovanja Knjižnice promatrane u perspektivi otkupa knjiga od strane dvaju ministarstava.The paper is a study about the importance and infl uence of the book purchase by the Croatian Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports on collection building in the City and University Library in Osijek. The first part discusses the theoretical considerations based on the professional library standards, principles related to collection building, user needs, the availability of the written word, and the impact of the government book purchase policy on promoting and creating the culture of reading. Furthermore, the theoretical part provides a brief historical overview of the use of book purchase by the Ministries as one of the ways of library materials acquisition. The second part of the paper provides an analysis of the items purchased through the researched period and presents the data about the books for adults and the books for children. The statistical data gained from this study, through the analysis of the book purchase by the Ministries, have shown many positive, but also a number of negative aspects of the Library management