1. Women and Minority
Documentation and Digital
Presentation
The Serbian Case

2. Archives Network in Serbia
• 1898. The Law of the State Archives – corner stone of
modern archival science in Serbia
• 1900. State Archives was established
• 1950. The Overall Law of State Archives – the first
archival law effective on the whole territory of
Yugoslavia
• 1950. The Archives of Yugoslavia was founded

3. Archives Network in Serbia
• ,,Arhivist” – new federal archival magazine
• 1952. The Archives of Yugoslavia (State archives of FNRY,
nowadays Archives of Serbia and Monte Negro) began its work
• Nowadays, Serbian archives network is comprised of the
Archives of Serbia, as a central archives, two provincial, thirty
inter-municipal archives, and four city archives.
• Preservation of the archival material in the Republic of Serbia is
regulated by the Law on Cultural Assets, adopted in 1994.

4. Archives Network in Serbia
• The information activity of the archives is based on the
draft project called JAIS (Integrated archives
informational system), initiated in 1995.
• The goal of the JAIS is to collect overall information on
the activities/evidence of the central archives (Archives
of Serbia)
• Large number of archives have their own Web
presentations with the lists of funds and collections
they preserve

5. Separate archives institutions for
documents of women and minority
groups
• There are no specialized
archival institutions in Serbia
which preserve the
documentation on the
women and minority groups,
except The Archives of the
Jewish Historic Museum in
Belgrade
• Two archives electronic
databases

6. Separate archives institutions for
documents of women and minority
groups
• The Historical Archives of Belgrade preserve the
following funds that contain documents linked to the
history of women movement:
• The University Educated Women Association
(1922-1941)
• Female Doctors of Belgrade Association (1919-1939)

7. Separate archives institutions for
documents of women and minority
groups
• The Archives of Serbia
preserves a collection of
journals for women: The
World of Women and
Housemaid (end of 19th
century- beginning of
20th century)

8. Separate archives institutions for
documents of women and minority
groups
• Internet presentations of
some minority groups –
presentation of Ruski
Krustur, a small town /
village in Vojvodina,
inhabited with the
majority of 86% of
Rusyns (Ruthenians)

9. Separate archives institutions for
documents of women and minority
groups

10. Separate archives institutions for
documents of women and minority
groups

11. The kind of research access to
documentation on women and
minorities in the archives
• Absence of thematic guides or other finding aids
and sources reliable for the research purposes
on the above specified themes
• Traditional finding aids: inventories, catalogues,
guides, published documents and competent
personnel