Belgrade University Library

Belgrade University Library
Универзитетска библиотека Светозар Марковић
Façade of the library
44°48′22.13″N 20°28′29.24″E / 44.8061472°N 20.4747889°E / 44.8061472; 20.4747889
Location	Belgrade, Serbia
Type	Academic library
Established	1844 (180 years ago) (1844)
Collection
Items collected	Books, journals, newspapers, magazines, maps, prints and manuscripts
Size	1.5 million items (approx.)
Access and use
Population served	University of Belgrade and worldwide
Members	University of Belgrade and other groups on application
Other information
Director	prof. dr Aleksandar Jerkov
Website	www.unilib.bg.ac.rs

The University Library Svetozar Marković (Serbian: Универзитетска библиотека Светозар Марковић) is the main library in the University of Belgrade system, named after Svetozar Marković, a Serbian political activist in the 19th century. It is located on King Alexander Boulevard, close to the Faculty of Law and adjacent to the Faculties of Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Architecture.^[1] Serves the educational and scientific needs of students, academics, and scientists. Library Day is 24 May, a day commemorating Slavic educators St. Cyril and Methodius. At the founding of the library, the collection contained 57,254 publications consisting of monographs and serials. Today, the library contains roughly 1,700,000 publications.

The library holdings include seminal works from all scientific fields, a large collection of local and foreign encyclopedias, bibliographies, dictionaries, professional and scientific journals, university publications, textbooks, and a significant collection of doctoral dissertations. The library also includes a collection of rare objects where manuscripts, old printed books, old magazines and newspapers, archival collections, as well as a collection of maps, doctoral, master's and specialist works are housed. In particular in the library's manuscript collection, there are several invaluable Cyrillic and oriental books.