Organizacija i očuvanje zbirki legata u Gazi Husrev-begovoj biblioteci

Given the specificity of legacies as a collection, preservation and organization of legacies often represent a challenge for libraries and librarians. In the Gazi Husrevbey’s Library, legacies represent one of the key components of replenishing the funds, and the three legacies presented within this paper are the legacies of Osman Asaf Sokolović, Sinanudin Sokolović, and Nedžib Šaćirbegović. The aim of this research was to see what methods of processing, organization and preservation of legacies are applied in Gazi Husrev-bey’s library, with recommendations from theory and good practices on how to standardize the processing and preserve the aforementioned legacies in the best way for generations to come. Using comparative and analytical methods, the current state of these three legacies was identified, and the methods of their processing, placement, and storage conditions were analyzed. The analysis method was used to investigate the legacy fund as a whole, and then all the parts and elements that make it up were analyzed, while the comparative method was used to compare the processing, placement, and organization of the three aforementioned legacies, along with an analysis of their differences, similarities, advantages, and disadvantages. With the help of the inductive method, based on the analysis of individual facts about these legacies, general conclusions were reached, and the entire research was started with a descriptive method, describing the formal characteristics of these three legacies. The results of the research show that signing and cataloging are uneven and that much work still needs to be done in this segment so that everything is standardized within each individual legacy. This is the basic problem that this work attempts to solve, along with problems in other legacy preservation processes, such as digitization or placement within the Library’s depot. Based on the research conducted in theory and practice, a regulation on the handover, processing, protection and preservation of legacies was developed. This set a clear framework for future legacies that would arrive at Gazi Husrev-bey’s library. This rulebook will be a good basis for other libraries that do not yet have clear regulations on this issue.