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The Museum Library’s holdings number more than 6000 titles, and are complemented through acquisitions, exchange, donations and so on. It serves the Museum’s professional staff, but is also used by others: teachers, pupils and students. The holdings include art, general and military encyclopaedias, the Croatian Encyclopaedia (all five volumes published before 1945), the Forestry Encyclopaedia, and so on, as well as dictionaries and lexicons.
The Library is subscribed to the Papers of the Institute for the History of Art, Yearbooks for the Preservation of Cultural Monuments, The Museologists’ Bulletin, Informatica Museologica, Museology, The Journal of Modern History, Historical Papers and so on, as well as anthologies it receives from other museums in Croatia and abroad.
The Museum is also subscribed to the journals Priroda (Nature), Numizmatika (Numismatics), Obavijesti (News), Kontura (Contour), Zivot umjetnosti (The Life of Art), The Bulletin of the National and University Library, Karlovacki tjednik (The Karlovac Weekly).
Each department also has books from its specialised field, the Ethnological Department books about folk customs, architecture, songs and costumes; the Cultural History Department books about styles in furniture, costumes, clocks, uniforms, musical instruments, photography and architecture.
The Museum Library also has almost all books by people from Karlovac that deal with the history of the town, architecture, education, religious art and so on.
The holdings are regularly updated with catalogues from Slovenian galleries and museums, as well as from the Joanneum in Graz. The Department of Natural History also receives editions from Macedonian museums.
All the departments also have access to books and periodicals in English and German