Records fonds and collections kept in The Historical Archives of
Subotica are directly available to users in the reading room of The
Archives and indirectly through the submission of legal entities' and
individuals' applications. When the application is submitted, according
to Cultural Property Law, Law on General Administrative Procedures and
other acts, The Archives issues certified copies of the documents. The
archival material is also available to users through exhibitions and
publications.
The Archival material is available to foreign visitors only after
they obtain a research permit from the County Secretariat for Education
and Culture.
Reading room
Working hours of the reading room and the library:
Monday 9.30 am – 1.30 pm Tuesday: 9.30 am – 1.30 pm Wednesday: 9.30 am – 1.30 pm Thursday: 9.30 am – 1.30 pm Friday: 9.30 am – 1.30 pm
The usage of archival materials in The Archives' reading room is governed by the Rules and Regulations for records usage. For further information click here.
Fonds and collections
In accordance with the Establishment Act and the Cultural Property
Law, The Historical Archives of Subotica keeps record of, conducts
preliminary protection, collects, takes over, keeps, professionally
describes, makes available for users and publishes cultural property-
active records and archival materials, which are categorized by creators
into fonds and collections. The Archives holds over 5000 shelf meters
of active records and archival materials categorized into 446 fonds and
collections. They are categorized by ordinal number of the fonds and
collection register followed by the inclusive date of the records.
Archives Library is a special type of library. The reason for this is
that the fond of books the library holds concerns only history topics
and topics from other related social sciences with the majority of them
closely connected to the history of the region the archives has
jurisdiction over ( North Backa district – Subotica, Backa Topola and
Mali Idos municipality). It follows and completes the records the
Archives keeps and also consists of publications separated from the
original fonds. Additional book are acquired by purchase, exchange with
other institutions or as gifts. Books and periodicals, in a larger
number having 5000 titles, are available to the researchers in the
reading room, within the working hours.
The record of library users is kept through the identification list
of the archival materials user and the record of the books used for
research that are issued through request forms and requisitions, is kept
through registers (subject registers, name registers). If needed, the
users can get copies of the documents through written requests. The
library fond can be used only in the reading room of The Archives.