GLEETT - University of Washington

director. We negotiated an exthange in the aimxint of $500 with an
exthanga rate of $1 to 140 dinars (about half of the cificial earqs
rate at the tire, ithith thangea daily In a outxy where lnflaticei is
rated 80%). We will receive all Sexbian cadesrj pblicaticea In the
lbp*nitiea aid n'1,i1. Scietxms, ilidin Wosic, aid we shall eid
thea en a regular basis Yankee Book ler yellow slits for selection
of American university press pjblicaticn.. Ms. Wecilovic took ma to
the boa for the University Library "Svetozar Markavic" where I had a
four-hour meeting with the director, Stanija Gligorijevic, Vera Sekulic,
the lntire aange librarian whose ,rk will soon be entirely taken
over by Mirela Djokic, a og university-trained librarian .to speaks
fluent American E1ish. The University of Vinglnia Library had had very
little ccxtact with the Belgrade University Library until srj visit. I was
surprised to flid auth eagerness en the part of my colleagues at
"Syatosar Markxwic" for activatieg enthanges with American libraries.
ligain I offered an exthange of $500 for Serbian isp?ints in the
anities g,4.1 with selection lists sent to me before
books are ehirced. I was told that they can send books ru.t theaper
since they are net held to ctharge official ociasercial rates.
)y cnly evening in Belgrade I spent in the delirtful ar' of
Fasnija Gacinovic, is the eweoutive director of the lbright
Caasission in Yugoslavia. Having been born In Pittehurgh, she speaks
native American with ease. I bad made her acquaintance in tharlottesville
in April, 1985, then abe vistad the University en a PuThright-apcnaorei
tour of the Eastern Seaboard e was very helpful in erving hotel
Mtirss for ma, a rather threnic problea in Belgrade. The
next sorning I took off to D.ibrovnik by plane for a axh-neeied
three-day rest to try to ours w bronrthitis and 1axitis en the blue
Adriatic coast, 'where the weather was decidedly sore cheerful aid
warmer than in rairy apeet and Belgrade.
Since late June and early July is still low season, I was
forthnate to flid loc%ing for $14 per night in a clean aid rather elegant
private lune 4xee windows overlooked the Old n aid the Adriatic.
*at sore wild one ask for.
Fxra flbronhJc I lky to catth a boat for an eight-hour trip to
Split with its magnificent Diocletian palace, ithicth is so big that it
the Renan center of town. Slice I arrived en a Saturday,
libraries were closed aid I was free to rose the asn labyrinth before
taking off en Sunday for Zagrth, the capital of the Croatian Haç*iblic.
Mirjana Gross, esinent Tugoslaw historian, r seni-retired, who
taught at the University of Virginia several years ago, was a meet
gracious hcetesa aid saw to it that I got a wry good fesslen of the
lovely old city. The next sorning I was plcJced t at the madam aid
very afortable. Hotel llbrovnlJc by Dzdica VUJvlc, he handles the
American aid other sc*angee at the Naciemaina i Svsucilisna
Biblioteka (National aid Uhiversity Library). She had made the hotel
reservation for ma aid also played host to ma during the ..tole day.
Croatia's National Library is housed in a mast meiable balding built
in the Secession style of 1913, which thviously eurvived World War II
with only minimal damage. Brenko HanS, the dity director of the libraxy,
Elsara Saric, head af Acquisiticms aid Unrdica Vuic, spent the
marning together disoussing our eiuthange prc.am, which is set at $2,500
per year, again with the exdaare rate of $1 to 140 diners for Fl 1985/86.
We also agreed that Zagrab will, true now on, send us preselection
lists of Croatian titles in order for us to better coordinate our Yugoelav
earqes and avoid duplication. &anko Hans told ma that the National
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