Meeting of COBISS.BH members held at National and University Library of BiH

On 11 December 2019, a meeting of representatives of COBISS.BH (Co-operative Online Bibliographic System and Services) members, who make up the Virtual Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina (VIBBiH), was held at the National and University Library of BiH. The gathering was attended by librarians from thirty libraries, and they were welcomed by the National and University Library of BiH Director, Dr. Ismet Ovčina.

The Head of the Virtual Library of BiH, Nevenka Hajdarović, reminded that COBISS system is constantly developing and providing new opportunities for users, pointing out that all announcements related to system upgrading are available at https://cobiss.ba.  
During the meeting, many activities related to the implementation of COBISS in Bosnia and Herzegovina were discussed. Thus, Dženana Tuzlak, editor of the mutual catalog, introduced the new capabilities that the system provides for search purposes, while Adisa Žero introduced the new OPAC (COBISS +). Some other novelties that have recently been implemented in the system have also been touched upon.

The COBISS.BH system includes 57 libraries, as well as all public universities, two private universities, a large number of public libraries and special libraries (BiH Academy of Sciences and Arts, BiH Parliamentary Assembly and others).

COBISS.Net is a network of national COBISS systems (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania) with 1,377 libraries.

From the COBISS.BH reciprocal database, one can access the national library information systems of COBISS.Net members, the Catalog of the Library of Congress in Washington (www.loc.gov) and the ISSN Agency, based in Paris (www.issn.org) and download materials.

An integral part of COBISS.BH is the information system on research in Bosnia and Herzegovina called E-CRIS.BH (www.ecris.ba). E-CRIS.BH contains information on researchers, research organizations, departments and projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

We remind you that the information system on research activity in BiH E-CRIS.BH contains data on 85 research organizations and 2,169 researchers.