ČITALIŠTE: the scientific journal on theory and practice of librarianship, is dedicated to development and fostering scientific researches in the areas such as library history, cultural, communicational and educational functions of librarianship, sociology of the book and reading, information literacy, knowledge organization, bibliography, library management, management of library information systems, as well as information and media technologies in the context of development of libraries.

By publishing competent, peer-reviewed papers in aforementioned areas, ČITALIŠTE makes efforts to contribute to strengthening of librarianship as a science in Serbia, to promote the dialogue between theoreticians and practitioners, and to promote libraries and librarians as carriers of the social development.

Since 2002, when it first appeared under the title PANČEVAČKO ČITALIŠTE, the journal is being published regularly, in semi-annual intervals, in May and November. The first editor-in-chief of the journal was Goran Trailović. Since 2009 it is being edited by Gordana Stokić Simončić as the editor-in-chief and Goran Trailović as the managing editor. The City Library of Pančevo is the publisher of the journal for a full decade, and since November 2011 its co-publisher is the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. In 2012 ČITALIŠTE was ranked as a scientific journal of the national importance (M52).

So far the journal has had more than five hundred contributors, librarians and academics from all types of libraries and the faculties of Library Science and IT in Serbia and abroad.





ČITALIŠTE is the copyright holder of the published articles under the terms of the license
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Serbia.