City Library of Zagreb / Gradska Knjižnica

Croatia

The City Library of Zagreb was founded in 1907 and Božidar Adžija Library in 1927, and they are the oldest public libraries in Zagreb and among the first public libraries founded in Croatia with their long-standing tradition of serving the local community and offering the access to many valuable local, national and international sources of information as well as all sorts of librarian and cultural services to wide age groups of citizens.

From its beginnings the City Library of Zagreb is distinguished as a “free, public and modern library, founded and settled for all citizens of Zagreb” (from the Rules of Procedure dated 1908). It still operates according to the same theses.

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