BOŽO BIŠKUPIĆ, M.A.

Minister of Culture of the Republic of Croatia

Božo Biškupić was born in 1938 in Mala Mlaka ( Zagreb). He graduated from the Faculty of law and in 1980 got an MA - degree in museology on postgraduate study of librarianship, documentation and information sciences.
He is a publisher and editor of 125 literary and fine art bibliophile books of Croatian and foreign authors, as a part of the Biškupić Collection, which he founded in 1964, and which was registered with and placed under protection of the Administration for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in 1976. He is an author and editor of numerous art monographs and fine art editions.
In 1992 he initiated and implemented the project of the Vukovar Museum in Exile (Collection of Contemporary Croatian and World Art), and in 1995 led the project of Contemporary Croatian Art for the Museum of Croatian Art in Mostar.
Božo Biškupić was appointed minister of culture from 1995 - 2000 and again in 2003. He is an active member of numerous Croatian associations, winner of many awards and tributes, such as Annual Vladimir Nazor Award in 1993, which is the highest state award for achievements in the field of culture.

Cultural policy in the Republic of Croatia

In this presentation Croatian cultural heritage and national tradition will be presented, as well as the cultural development with a particular emphasis on the cultural policy in the regional and global context as the crucial defining factor of culture in the modern society.
The role of the Ministry of culture and its projects regarding the library system in the Republic of Croatia will be presented as well.
The particular emphasis will be put on the multiculturalism and digitalization of cultural heritage, which emerge as the key issues in nearly all segments of cultural policy and which are as well in the compliance with the Croatian governmental policy towards the culture.
The public libraries are access institutions of knowledge and their role in the creation of society in which dominates the culture of entrepreneurship, freedom, initiative and openness toward new ideas, cannot and must not be neglected.

JENS THORHAUGE

Director of Danish National Library Authority
Since 1997 director general in the Danish National Library Authority
1996-97 director in the Danish Library Association
1975-96 various positions as teacher, researcher, consultant, head at the Royal School of Library and Information Science
1975 M.A. comparative literature
Author and co-author to many articles and books, in English for instance Public Libraries and the Information Society (EU-study, 1997) Danish Library Policy (2002), Nordic Public Libraries (2002).

The role of libraries in national policy

Globalisation and development of ICT are the two strongest drivers in a development where libraries must reconsider not only their concepts and services but the basic roles they play in societies. The paper suggests to turn library policy up-side down and ask what libraries can do for society. How can the resources and competencies in libraries help solve problems in modern European societies? To do so we must define these resources and competencies and test them in new contexts. The purpose is to redefine and revitalize the library strategy in the knowledge society.

JOSIP STIPANOV, Ph.D.

Chief Director of the National and University Library in Zagreb, Republic of Croatia

After finishing his PhD in the early seventies, he started his career in the National and University Library as a bibliographer, working on National, current and retrospective bibliographies.
Later, he became head of the Development Section. In the late eighties, he took on the position of Deputy Director, and from 1997, he is Director of the National and University Library.
He is an author of a number of papers on various subjects of Library Science, as well as of numerous (exposes) position papers delivered at seminars and conferences.
From his career projects, one that stands out most is his active participation in the process of building the new National and University Library building.
Continuous programs which advance the progressive development of national networks in Croatia are in the centre of his activities.

Knowledge Society and Public Libraries

This paper examines the role of public libraries in the process of building societies that are based on knowledge.
The main characteristics of societies where knowledge, which is today considerably more complex, is a common good, the decisive factor, the main trigger and the source for advancement and development, are analyzed.
In this context, public libraries have special duties and an irreplaceable role in providing access to the source of that knowledge. In order to ensure this process, public libraries must strengthen their position and stay tuned to the changes affecting their societies, and act accordingly. Only then will they be able to successfully fulfil their mission and their irreplaceable role in tomorrow's world.

CHRIS BATT

Chief Executive of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), United Kingdom

CHRIS BATT OBE is Chief Executive of The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). MLA is the Government's development agency for the sector and is responsible for leading strategic advice on the delivery of services to users, opening up access to the collections held in museums, libraries and archives.
Previously Chris advised on the use of information and communication technologies in museums, archives and libraries, and led the Government's People's Network programme. His task was to connect all 4,300 public libraries to the Information Superhighway by the end of 2002, giving universal public access to the rich information and learning resources that are now being created in Cyberspace. It was a project completed on time and in budget.
Until August 1999 Chris was Director of Leisure Services for the London Borough of Croydon where he had worked for over 20 years. Closely involved in the development of Croydon Clocktower, the award winning cultural centre, his responsibilities as Director of Leisure Services included libraries, museums and heritage, the arts, sport and recreation, parks and open spaces, and tourism.
Chris has a keen interest in the development of information technology for public use having been involved with the development of computer systems to support cultural heritage and learning since the mid-seventies. He continues to lecture in many countries around the world and has written many books and papers.

Investing in knowledge

This paper will consider the growing importance of knowledge within society in support of learning, the economy and social development and demonstrate the central importance of public libraries as knowledge institutions. It will argue that public library managers must work to raise awareness of the significance of their services in policy formulation at local, regional and national levels
It will demonstrate through the example of public libraries in England the need to review basic service principles and build a shared vision of public libraries at the heart of the community driving forward the knowledge society. It will also explore networking of resources is changing the relationship between libraries and other knowledge institutions such as museums and archives.

NORMA McDERMOTT

Director of the Library Council of Ireland

Norma McDermott has been the Director of the Library Council of Ireland since 1993.  The Council is the state agency that advises the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government on public library planning development. The Council also advises local authorities on improving their library services.  Mrs McDermott has served on the major policy bodies producing strategic reports on libraries including Branching Out (public libraries); Joining Forces (national policy on all libraries); Arts and the Magic of the Words (Arts & Library partnerships); Information Society Commission reports (Lifelong Learning and Access for All) and on the steering group on Archives in Local Authorities. She was also the consulting editor of the recent publication 'The University of the People: celebrating Ireland's public libraries', featuring the contents from the Thomas Davis Lectures 2002 broadcast by RTÉ (the national broadcaster).

Informing the Future: Translating Library Policy into Practice

This presentation will briefly outline Ireland's Branching Out report which set out an eight-year national development programme for public libraries.  The value of having a nationally agreed policy involving a wide range of partners will be outlined, as will the importance of systems and structures for the delivery of the programme. The success and challenges of the programme will be discussed.

JADRANKA SLOBOĐANAC

Adviser in the Croatian Institute for Librarianship, National and University Library in Zagreb

Jadranka Slobođanac was born in Koprivnica 1969.
She graduated in information sciences and she also completed a Study of Librarianship at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.
After her professional work in City library of Koprivnica, she spent some time in the Washington library having been supported by the Open Society Croatia Institute.
She is an advisor for public libraries in the Croatian Institute for Librarianship at the National and University Library in Zagreb.
She took an active part in numerous professional gatherings and published articles on library profession and projects, thus contributing the promotion of librarianship.
She is a winner of the "Eva Verona" prize for young librarians due to her committed work, implementing innovations and developing librarianship in Croatia.

ANKICA JANKOVIĆ

Head of Department for Library Activities, Ministry of culture of the Republic of Croatia

She was born in Split in 1946, where she completed an elementary education.
She graduated comparative literature and English language at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb in 1969.
Since the year 1970, when she came to the Ministry of culture, she has been actively engaged in numerous activities regarding book and libraries policies, having taken part in numerous projects. She is a head of Department in a Ministry of culture and represents Ministry of culture in several Program boards organizing numerous conferences, symposia and workshops which she also participated in.

JADRANKA SLOBOĐANAC / ANKICA JANKOVIĆ

Croatian Public Libraries serving multicultural population

In the global society public libraries necessarily face the multicultural challenge. Nowadays most of multicultural services in Croatian public libraries are based on the principles of serving information needs of national minorities that exist in Croatia, according to Standards for multicultural public library service. The model of establishing central libraries for each minority represented in Croatia (with more than 5.000 inhabitants according to international standard), which cooperate among themselves and with national libraries of the ancestral countries, was found the best for the situation in Croatia at that time. This model has anticipated employment of at least one librarian belonging to ethnic minority in each of the central minority libraries.
The Government's Office for National Minorities provided funds for book acquisition, library equipment and the salaries for librarians working in those libraries.
In the year 2000 the financing was passed to the Ministry of Culture.

KATARINA TLUSTENKO

Head of the Central Library of Rusins and Ukrainians of Republic of Croatia, Libraries of the City of Zagreb

Katarina Tlustenko was born in 1962 in the Ukraine, where she completed studies in Russian and Ukrainian Languages and Literature. Her nationality is Ukrainian and has been living in Croatia since 1990. Since 1996, she is Head of the Central Library of the Rusins and Ukrainians of the Republic of Croatia (Libraries of the City of Zagreb) and in 1997 completed her degree in Library Studies. She deals with issues concerning central libraries for minorities. In 1999, she participated in the International Conference Ukrainian Culture in the Diaspora, in Kiev, where she presented The Model on Central Libraries for National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia as an Institution for the Preservation of National Heritage of Ancestral Lands. Since 2004, she is president of the Working group for minority libraries of the Section for public libraries of the Croatian Society of Libraries.

Model and Problem of Central Libraries of National Minorities on the Example of the Central Library of Rusins and Ukrainians of the Republic of Croatia

The Central Library of the Rusins and Ukrainians was opened in 1995 within the Libraries of the City of Zagreb and as a part of a project of the Government of the Republic of Croatia. The main collection is located in the City Library of Zagreb and a part of it can be found in and borrowed from the public libraries in Vinkovci, Lipovljani, Slavonski Brod, and Vukovar, as well as Cultural Societies in Petrovci and Rijeka. The collection contains a variety of materials (in total 2.521 volumes of books and 929 items of non-book materials), is available through an e-catalogue, and the users are members of the Rusin and Ukrainian national minority as well as numerous Croatian citizens and institutions. The Library is an abundant source of information in the mother language of the minorities, it functions as a kind of cultural centre for publicity purposes, animation and familiarization with cultural heritage. An overview of the ten years of work of the Library shows its' significant role in the promotion of multiculturalism.

VELIMIR SEKULIĆ

Head of the Central Library of Serbs in the Republic of Croatia, Serbian Cultural Society Prosvjeta

VELIMIR SEKULIĆ was born in 1947. He completed his primary and secondary studies in Daruvar. In 1971 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb with a degree in Yugoslav Languages and Literature & Comparative Literature. Since then he has worked as a secondary school teacher and as chief editor of a local radio station in Daruvar; from 1976 until 1992 at the Police Academy (Interior Educational Centre) in Zagreb; and from 1993 until 1996 he was president of the Serbian Cultural Society (SKD) Prosvjeta. In 1996 he formed the Central Library of Serbs in Zagreb and has been in charge of it since.

Decade of Development of the Central Library of Serbs in Zagreb

The paper will cover the ten years of development of the Central Library of Serbs in Zagreb, the initial collection and membership in 1996, the working concept, the current collection including multimedia materials, current membership, donations from other libraries and cooperation with other Serbian librarians. It will present the activities the library is involved in and emphasize the lack of space for the already existing and future library collection. In respect to the opening of the Orthodox Gymnasium in Zagreb, it will also mention the need for an increased acquisition of reading materials. Further development of the initiated concept of work of the Central Library of Serbs in Zagreb should include the establishment of a children's department and reading room.

LIANA DIKOVIĆ

Head Librarian of the Italian department, Public library in Pula, Republic of Croatia

Liana Diković was born in Pula in 1966. She finished elementary and Grammar school in Italian language in Pula. In 1991 she graduated from Pula's university where she had studied Italian language and Literature. A year later she acquired a diploma of a librarian in Zagreb. She has been working as head librarian of the Italian department in the Public library in Pula and has been in charge of all the libraries of the Italian national minority in Croatia. She has been a member of The Istrian Society of Librarians since 1992

Multiculturalism as an Asset: Central Library for the Italian National Minority in the Republic of Croatia

In this short overview we are presenting foundation of the Central library of the Italian national minority in 1991: from the acquisition of books in Italian language and their spreading, through various cultural initiatives, exhibitions, book promotions and meetings with authors in cooperation with numerous Italian institutions.

By this review of Library's activities since its foundation we wish to emphasize its importance in spreading of the Italian language and information in Italian in general, and also the preservation of the Italian national minority identity.

The main idea of this text is that the minority must be valued since it means mutual enrichment in an environment in which two languages and two cultures coexist.

BARBORA HOŘAVOVÁ

Executive Director of the Multicultural centre Prague, Czech Republic

BARBORA HOŘAVOVÁ (*1975, Prague, Czech Republic)

She studied Political Science at Charles University in Prague and Faculty of Arts in Maastricht in the Netherlands. She has been working at non-profit organisation Multicultural Centre Prague for 5 years as a coordinator of several projects such as Media and Minority or intercultural workshops for children. Since 2003 she coordinated the project called Diversity to Libraries that consider the use of Public Libraries as vehicles for ethnic minority integration into society. Within this project she was responsible mainly for the international conferences and the regional workshops for librarians. In 2005, she manages the project called Libraries as gateways to the integration of immigrants in the EU that is held under the EU INTI budget line. She is an executive director of Multicultural Centre Prague since 2004.

Multicultural Librarianship in the Czech Republic (NGO´s point of view)

The focus of this paper is on the multicultural librarianship in the Czech Republic and on the methods how Czech librarians enhance their awareness of cultural understanding and multicultural issues. Until 1989, people rarely encountered foreigners in the Czech Republic and ethnic minorities such as Roms were not considered. The situation has now changed and people from Vietnam, Ukraine and the Arab world amongst others happen to be a part of Czech multicultural reality.
The first part of the paper provides the basic information about the Diversity to Libraries project, which is run by the non government organization Multicultural Centre Prague and was supported by the Office of the Czech Government. The project is aimed to help libraries to build up multicultural book collections and their enhance role as regards the acceptance of minorities through educating and informing librarians about intercultural topics. The following parts of the paper closely focus on introducing individual activities concerning the building of competencies of library staff on multicultural issues, such as: Interactive workshops of librarians in the different regions, a conference "Us and the others" and provision of information support for libraries. The final part concentrates on the running project entitled Libraries as Gateways to the Integration of Immigrants in the EU that won the support of the EU's INTI program (projects on integration of third country nationals). This project aims at best possible local integration of immigrants in different EU countries through educational opportunities and information provided by public libraries.

REINIER DEINUM

Project coordinator of the Memory of the Netherlands (National Library of Netherlands)

Reinier Deinum (38) is coordinator of the Memory of the Netherlands. He studied History in Leiden, where he specialised in Dutch history. After obtaining his degree he carried out some projects for several archives and historic research institutions. Next, Reinier was employed by an auction house for old letters and stamps. Since 2002, he has been working as a coordinator of the Memory project for the National Library of the Netherlands.
Memory of the Netherlands: co-operation in digitization. Towards a national collection of digitised cultural heritage

Memory of the Netherlands: Co-operation in digitization. Towards a national collection of digitised cultural heritage.

Memory of the Netherlands is a large-scale digitization programme carried out by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands. It represents a new point of view on digitization of heritage collections. The aim of the programme was to digitise as many objects as possible in a relatively short period of time (3 years). The programme was developed on the basis of the following leading principles: good quality images (sufficient for access on the internet by a general public), reduced costs, adherence to strict regulations and standards, little effort spent on selection, and no development of contextual material.
Up to now in similar projects, only relatively small amounts of digitised materials were produced. Most of the money was spent on technical issues and the development of contextual material. Lack of co-operation resulted in money being wasted on re-inventing the same solutions. In many cases the digital objects could not be re-used in other applications after the project had ended. In the Memory programme we aimed to avoid these pitfalls.
The programme is based on co-operation between institutions in the various cultural heritage domains: museums, archives, libraries, archaeological institutions and organisations dedicated to the conservation of monuments and historical buildings. The institutions' digitised collections, representing various media types (still images, video, audio, and text), are presented in the website www.memoryofthenetherlands.nl. The site enables visitors from all over the world to view large parts of the Dutch cultural heritage, 24 hours a day. Cross-searching in a domain as extensive as cultural heritage should provide new opportunities for entertainment, research or just satisfying one's curiosity.
The storage of images and metadata is scalable. In realising this programme, the National Library of the Netherlands has not only built a large digital collection, but also a stable, robust and scalable infrastructure for future digitization projects.

DUNJA SEITER-ŠVERKO

Senior Adviser, Department for Library Activities, Ministry of culture of the Republic of Croatia

Dunja Seiter - Šverko was born in Karlovac in 1959, where she completed an elementary education. She graduated in Croatian language and Southslavic Literature, as well as Librarianship study at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.
Until 2004 she worked in Zagreb City Libraries and also was a secretary and president of Zagreb Library Association. Since 2001 she has been an editor and leader of Literary Friday, a public discussion, with 50 years tradition in Zagreb. Since 2004 she works in Ministry of Culture, as a senior adviser in the Department for Library Activities.
She participated in various conferences, having presentations regarding to librarianship. She has a special interest in digitization of cultural heritage, as well as sociological role of public libraries.

LANA KRIŽAJ

Head of Cultural Heritage Information and Documentation Department, Ministry of culture of the Republic of Croatia

Lana Križaj was born in 1968 in Zagreb. Holds BA Degree in History of art and Archaeology. Postgraduate student of information sciences (field: Museology) at the Information Science Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. Completed her MA thesis Thesaurus of Monument Types: data standard in the architectural heritage inventories.
Works in the Ministry of Culture, Administration for Cultural Development and Cultural Policy as a Head of Cultural Heritage Information and Documentation Department.
Croatian national correspondent for the European Heritage Network (HEREIN), ran by the Council of Europe.
Member of the Technical Committee 546 for the cultural heritage protection at the State office for standardization and metrology.

DUNJA SEITER-ŠVERKO / LANA KRIŽAJ

Digitization of cultural heritage in the Republic of Croatia: from the current situation assessment towards the national strategy

This paper will briefly outline institutional and legal framework within which the digitization of cultural heritage in the Republic of Croatia is carried out, as well as the leading national projects and achievements in that field. Also, the efforts of the professional "heritage" community lasting for several years will be pointed out, aimed to the improvement of cooperation and mutual understanding within archival, museum and library sector in the framework of global information infrastructure. In spite of those efforts and considerable achievements in the field of digitization of cultural heritage, incoherence, fragmentariness and uneconomical effects of such a method of operation have been recognised. For that reason, Ministry of culture has initiated the drawing up of the National programme for the digitization of archival, museum and library holdings. Thus, the national Working group, comprised of experts from archival, museum and library domain has been appointed by the Minister of culture, with the task of setting up of the proposal of national programme in the course of the year 2005.

Following issues have been recognised by the Working group as the key ones:

- how to create/initiate the creation of the quality digital content
- how to create/initiate the creation of the quality services laid upon digital content
- how to ensure long-term preservation and usability of digitised and other digital content
- how to improve resources, institutional abilities, exchange of experiences and knowledge

(Extracted from the 1st version of the Proposal of national programme of digitization of archival, library and museum materials, prepared by member of the Working group, Jozo Ivanović, Croatian State Archive, august 2005.)

SOFIJA KLARIN

Senior Librarian, The Croatian Institute for Librarianship, National and University Library in Zagreb

Sofija Klarin is a senior librarian at the Croatian Institute for Librarianship, National and University Library in Zagreb. She is involved in library automation and digital library projects. Her current work focuses on bibliographic standards and formats, digitization and taxonomy&web archiving. She is a member of the Working Group on Digitization of ALM Material and works on the research project "Digital Archive of Croatian Web Publications".

Access to the digital Heritage

The main goals of many digitization projects have been the opening of valuable library collections to wider public, the possibility to use digital reproductions online and the integration of digitized cultural and historical heritage into the education processes. The role of libraries in the communication between the digital cultural heritage and users includes selection and production of digital reproductions, their processing, storing, long-term preservation and access as well as encouraging their use for the purpose of their better understanding and generating new knowledge. To provide a complete research framework to the users, digital reproductions could be presented in the context of traditional library material and digitally born resources.

GORAN ZLODI, MA

Assistant, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Republic of Croatia

Goran Zlodi is working as assistant at Department of Information Sciences, Chair of Museology (Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb) on scientific project "Preservation and Communication of Cultural Heritage". Participating in work of Technical Committee 46 for Library science, documentation and information at State office for standardization and metrology. His scientific and practical focus is concentrated on metadata interoperability in cultural heritage sector.

Digitization of Cultural Heritage - the Museum Perspective

This presentation attempts to present museum perspectives on digitization of cultural heritage according to museological functions of preservation, research and communication. Presentation will emphasize implications of digitization of museum material and increasing importance of museums as a trusted content provider in global information environment. This presentation also attempts to provide an overview of the key technologies and conceptual changes needed to achieve interoperability of different systems managing digitized content in libraries, archives and museums, towards the knowledge society.

VLATKA LEMIĆ

Head of Documentation Department, Croatian State Archives

Vlatka Lemić was born in 1972 in Zagreb, Republic of Croatia. Has University degree in archaeology, librarianship, museology and archivistics. Currently works on master's thesis on the subject information systems in archives. Works in the Croatian State Archives as Head of Documentation Department. Lectures on the subject Description of archival records at the Department of Informational Sciences- Archivistics Division on Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. Member of CALIMERA Support Group for Croatia.

Digitization issues from archive's perspective: past experiences & future prospects

Contemporary technology development has influenced professional, organizational and technical aspects of preserving, processing and ensuring availability of information sources, where, because of their uniqueness and significance archival records also belong. Accordingly, archival community fosters to spread public knowledge on archival sources and encourage easy access to archives on the international level. Expectations of public government, as well as broad social changes, also have significance for role shaping, goals planning and work strategy of state archives. Globalisation of contemporary information environment and international trends of involving of culture in all spheres of public life have impact on archives as well. For that reason archival programs in most countries are connected with information society development policy in general. Projects under the EU framework are mostly focused on programs which are related to "digital heritage" and access to cultural heritage. Implementation and possibilities of contemporary technologies, especially digital one, lead to emphasis of common characteristics and similar problems of traditionally different heritage institutions. In that sense, libraries, archives, museums, documentation centres and similar institutions cooperate more and more in the creation of shared cultural facilities directed towards user and community within they operate, instead on institutions themselves and their specifics. For that reason, professional standards and practical technical solutions tend to coordinate and joined projects are encouraged. Digitalisation in archives is mostly applying in the fields of protection and access to archival material. That, from the modern perspective, most important activities in archives are considerably extended and improved thanks to digitization. Digital access through different directories, on-line catalogues and registers as well as larger number of documents on the Internet facilitate availability of sources. Instead only microfilming, records are, for security reasons, digitized which indirectly influence, often opposed, interests of protection and use. There are two types of problems concerning digitization. Those technical, like migration and technology obsolescence, are characteristic not only for archives, but are common to many other institutions. With professional ones, like providing context and authenticity of digital records, archives deal for some time now, mostly developing their own practices and strategies. Issues concerning digitization archives are faced with mostly refer on choosing records for digitization, its organisation and presentation, as well as availability. Such condition is a reflection of complex nature of archival material and differences in provenances, arrangement and types of records kept in archives. Future programs of digitization in archives certainly need to be based on former experiences in digitization of cultural heritage and in cooperation with experts of various profiles.

ZVONIMIR BARIČEVIĆ

Head of Central Photo-laboratory, Croatian State Archives, Zagreb

Zvonimir Baričević was born in 1954 in Zadar. He has been engaged in photography since, when he began working on photographic documentation of preservation of cultural monuments in Zadar region. During his study of economics in Zagreb (1975-1980) he participated at photograph exhibitions and worked in Fotosavez Hrvatske /Croatian Photo Association as an organizer. From 1980-1993 he was the Association's secretary. After that, he went to work in Hrvatski državni arhiv / Croatian State Archives as head of Photo-service, today Central Photo-laboratory. He has initiated and in cooperation with his associates, carried out projects involving the security copying of films on nitrate base as projects on the Archive's phototeque and microteque digitalization. He organized courses and workshops on photography, micrography, reprography and published a number of professional articles on those topics.

Transparent media - copying, doubling and digitization

Transparent media are used for the authentic capturing of pictures from the very beginning of the development of photography. Archives, libraries and museums keep large amounts of valuable records stored on the glass or film, in various techniques, shapes, formats or polarities. Transparent media are copied with change or doubled with retention of polarity, because of production of enlargement or replacement of originals, as well as, for security and safe reasons. During last, nearly two hundred years, techniques of coping and doubling were considerable changed while, in the same period, needs for the use of copies were growing. In the present time, copies of transparent media were made, almost always, in the digital form by applying different specialized scanners or digital cameras with required systematic control of digital products. This also, in the best way, complies with growing requirements of increased requests for the making of copies of archival and library material. Proper choice of technical resources for digitization of transparent media, as well as selection of shapes, formats and media for the storage of digital copies are of special importance for the long term preservation of records. Complex procedures of coping and doubling glasses and films in analogue and digital forms were displayed at the example of protection of photo and microfilm collections of the Croatian State Archives.