О СУДБИНИ ЈЕДНЕ СЕОСКЕ БИБЛИОТЕКЕ
ON THE FATE OF A VILLAGE LIBRARY

Summary/Abstract: The paper traces the fate of a village library in Srpski Semarton. In fact, it follows the successive development of several libraries and reading rooms from the 18th to the 20th century. In a village of about 400 households, a church library existed as early as the beginning of the 18th century. With the development of education, additional institutions were established: the Cooperative Reading Room (1901), the Farmers’ Reading Room (1914), the Reading Room of the “Obilić” Society (1932), the Collective Farm Library (1950), the School Library (1950), and the Literary Circle Library (1965). Under various circumstances, all of them proved to be short-lived. As a model of endurance, the oldest among them—the church library—withstood the trials of time and changing conditions.

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