Analysis and comparison of the national and foreign film collections of the Zagreb City Libraries and the Croatian Film Archives based on famous film awards

Uloga narodne knjižnice i arhiva je promicanje svijesti o kulturnom naslijeđu i baštini, kao i izgradnja zbirke koja će omogućiti pristup širokom i raznolikom spektru građe. Cilj ovog rada je utvrditi utječe li dodjela odabranih filmskih nagrada na nabavnu politiku i postoje li praznine u zastupljenosti nagrađivanih filmova. Zadani ciljevi rada će se postići provjeravanjem nalaze li se u katalogu Knjižnice grada Zagreba i zbirci Hrvatskog filmskog arhiva filmovi koji su dobili odabrane filmske nagrade. Nagrade koje će se koristiti kako bi se to utvrdilo su Oscar za najbolji film, Oscar za najbolji strani film, Zlatna palma s filmskog festivala u Cannesu i Velika zlatna arena. Rezultatima se provjerava raznolikost i zastupljenost prema nagradama, kinematografijama, vremenskom razdoblju, kao i postoje li razlike između građe navedene u katalogu Knjižnica grada Zagreba i gradiva u zbirci Hrvatskog filmskog arhiva. Rad također predstavlja osnovne filmske formate, filmsku industriju i distribuciju, daje povijesni pregled filma u knjižnici i filmskim arhivima te predstavlja kompetencije koje mora imati filmski knjižničar i filmski arhivist.The role of public libraries and archives is promoting awareness of cultural legacy and heritage, as well as creating a collection which would enable access to a wide and diverse range of material. The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether selected movie awards influence procurement policies and whether the award-winning movies are underrepresented. The objectives of this research will be reached by investigating whether the award-winning movies can be found in the Zagreb City Libraries’ and the Croatian Film Archives’ collections. The awards selected for this research are the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or and the Big Golden Arena for Best Film. The findings are used to determine the diversity and representation of the movies according to the awards, national cinemas and time periods, as well as to determine whether there are differences in the Zagreb City Libraries’ and the Croatian Film Archives’ collections. This work also presents the basic film formats, the film industry and distribution, gives a historical overview of films in libraries and film archives, and defines the competences that film librarians and film archivists must have