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For the first time, the paper provides a complete professional biography of Milica Vojinović (1895–1990), a librarian at the Belgrade University Library. Her contributions are evident in founding the Association of Yugoslav Librarians (1931– 1940); being a secretary of the Association and attempting to organize librarianship during the Second World War by preparing drafts for the Librarian’s Course and Instructions for the Work of High School Libraries (1943); teaching young librarians during and after the Second World War; managing the Department for Libraries at the Ministry of Education (1946–1947); participating in the establishment of the Association of Librarians of the People’s Republic of Serbia; editing the journal Bibliotekar (Librarian) (1948–1960), and managing the Section for Mass Libraries of the Association of Librarians of the People’s Republic of Serbia and the District Library Center in Belgrade (1955–1959). She authored over 40 papers in the journal Bibliotekar. This paper is based on rich archival material and more modest published sources, and it concludes that Milica Vojinović played an extremely important role in building librarianship as a profession in Serbia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the structure of employees in libraries attached to higher education institutions of the Republic of Serbia. Data on the level and profile of employee education for 2018 and 2013 were obtained from the Library Network of Serbia database. They show that in university libraries, highly educated employees make up 63% of the total number of employees. In the rest of the libraries that belong to the higher education institutions, which are mostly libraries with one employee, there are more of them (77%). Based on the data for 2018, considering the higher education institution in which they work, and the faculty they graduated from, the librarians of the libraries that belong to the higher education institutions are classified into three groups: the first group consists of LIS graduates (7.23%), the second group includes librarians working in libraries of higher education units whose funds refer to scientific fields that they themselves studied (40%), while the third group includes librarians who are neither LIS graduates nor educated in the field for which the library is intended (53%). University libraries submit data on the educational profile of their employees irregularly, which has made the research of the professional structure of librarians in these institutions impossible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]