Marijana Tomić, PhD, assistant professor

Marijana Tomić, PhD, assistant professor

Department of Library and Information Sciences
University of Zadar
Ulica dr. Franje Tuđmana 24i, Zadar
+385 (0)23 345054, +385 (0)98 665139
mtomic@unizd.hr, marijana.tomic@gmail.com
http://ozk.unizd.hr

Professional background

  • 2015: assistant professor at the Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of Zadar
  • 2013 – 2014: senior assistant at the Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of Zadar
  • 2007 – 2013: assistant at the Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of Zadar
  • 2006 – 2007: Bachelor of Arts in Library Studies – University Library, Zadar
  • 2001 – 2006: language editor – Croatian Railways, General Manager’s Office, Public Relations

Teaching engagements

  • 2007 – to date: active lecturer for a number of courses at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels at the Department of Library and Information Sciences, and coordinator of some courses
  • Undergraduate study programme: Information Organisation 1, Information Organisation 2, Analysis of Old and Rare Sources, Information Sources and Services 1, Introduction into Theory of Information Sciences, Oral and Written Culture
  • Graduate study programme: Theory and Practice of Information Organisation, Digital Humanities
  • Part-time study programme: Theory and Practice of Information Organisation
  • Doctoral study programme: Book Heritage in European Libraries
  • Mentor and co-mentor of a number of final and graduation theses, students’ pilot-project leader and member and chair of Dissertation Abstract Evaluation and Defence Commissions and Dissertation Evaluation and Defence Commissions
  • From 2015 to date: mentor of a doctoral dissertation in the doctoral study programme Knowledge Society and Information Transfer, University of Zadar
  • Lecture given in the framework of the postgraduate doctoral study programme of medieval studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Academic background

  • 2013: PhD degree from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (dissertation: Organizacija i aproprijacija tekstova hrvatskoglagoljskih brevijara na razmeđu rukopisne i tiskane tradicije, mentors: Prof. Mateo Žagar, PhD and Associate Professor Zoran Velagić, PhD), postgraduate study programme of medieval studies
  • 2002 – 2004: Bachelor of Arts in Library Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, Osijek
  • 1994 – 2001: Bachelor of Arts in Croatian and Russian Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Research visits to foreign universities/institutions

  • University of Graz, Austria, Vestigia Manuscript Research Centre, 23 – 27 March 2009
  • University of Graz, Austria, Vestigia Manuscript Research Centre – Vestigia fellow, 1 October 2010 – 31 December 2010
  • University of Vilnius, Lithuania, ERASMUS scholarship (lectures on the topic of Digital Humanities), 24 – 26 September 2012

Research projects

  • Collaborator on the project: Digital Library of Croatian Heritage Printed until 1800: Performing Assumptions (MSES project leader: Assistant Professor Zoran Velagić, PhD)

Other projects

  • 2014 – 2016: Establishment, Publication and Maintenance of the National Cataloguing Rules, secretary of the Expert Committee
  • Project coordinator for Monastery of St. Francis’ Library Organisation, Zadar (project leader: Assistant Professor Zoran Velagić, PhD; 2008 – 2012)
  • Project coordinator for Organisation of the Collection of New Sources of St. Michael’s Monastery, Zadar (pending for the second half of 2015)
  • Project coordinator for Organisation of the Library of the Generalate of the Congregation of Daughters of Mercy of the Third Order of St. Francis, Rome (project leader: Prof. Tatjana Aparac Jelušić, PhD)

Activites

Conference participation 

  1. Tomašević, Nives, Marijana Tomić.Early printed Glagolitic books as a message of a cultural identity. International book science conference, The minority book: historical experiences and modern expressions in the global world, 24 – 25 September 2015, Vilnius, Litvania  (accepted paper)
  2. Žagar, Mateo, Marijana Tomić, Mario Essert. Mogućnosti i ograničenja digitalne paleografije i kodikologije u istraživanju hrvatskoglagoljske baštine. Present Status and Perspectives of the Archival Glagolitic Heritage, Pazin, Rijeka, 28 – 29 May 2015
  3. Tomić, Marijana, Marijana Majić-Mazul, Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić. Mogućnosti izobrazbe studenata informacijskih znanosti u području očuvanja kulturne baštine. The Fifth Days of Šime and Ante Starčević, Odjel za nastavničke studije u Gospiću, Sveučilište u Zadru, 7 – 8 May 2015.
  4. Tomić, Marijana. Digitalna humanistika kao izazov: promjena paradigme istraživanja u humanistici i praksa digitalizacije. The Fifth Festival of Croatian Digitalisation Projects, Zagreb, 20 – 21 April 2015. (invited lecture)
  5. Tomić, Marijana, Mario Essert. Mogućnosti istraživanja stare i rijetke građe pomoću računalnog programa DocMark. The Fifth Festival of Croatian Digitalisation Projects, Zagreb, 20 – 21 April 2015.
  6. Tomić, Marijana. Knjižnični katalog – od knjižničarskog alata do pomagala za korisnike. 4. samostalni stručni skup Hrvatske udruge školskih knjižničara Sine qua non školskog knjižničarstva (invited lecture)
  7. Willer, Mirna, Marijana Tomić. UNIMARC formati za opis i pristup arhivskom gradivu. Archives, Libraries, Museums: Cooperation Potentials in the Context of Global Information Infrastructure, Rovinj, 26 – 28 November 2014.
  8. Tomić, Marijana. From shelf to screen: digitization and access to specific features of old and rare material. Utrecht Summer School - Hidden Libraries : Making Historical Libraries Visible, University of Graz, Austria, 30 June – 11 July 2014.
  9. Tomić, Marijana. Challenges of old and rare material description in semantic web environment. Utrecht Summer School - Hidden Libraries : Making Historical Libraries Visible, University of Graz, Austria, 30 June – 11 July 2014.
  10. Tomić, Marijana. From manuscript to printed book. Utrecht Summer School - Hidden Libraries : Making Historical Libraries Visible, University of Graz, Austria, 30 June – 11 July 2014.
  11. Tomić, Marijana. Prema novoj paradigmi istraživanja i opisa rukopisa i stare tiskane građe: digitalna humanistika u službi korisnika baštinskih ustanova. Archives, Libraries, Museums: Cooperation Potentials in the Context of Global Information Infrastructure , Poreč, 27 – 29 November 2013.
  12. Willer, Mirna; Marijana Tomić. Towards inclusion of digital humanities into the semantic web : case study of Croatian Medieval manuscripts and incunabula. // Creators of scholarly disciplines : (book science, codicology, documentation, media science) : international books science conference, 27 – 28 September 2012, Vilnius University, Faculty of Communication, Institut of book science and documentation
  13. Tomić, Marijana. DocMark računalni program i njegova uporaba u istraživanjima u humanistici. // Scriptrunner WEB-sustava. Fakultet strojarstva i brodogradnje Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 20 February 2012.
  14. Essert, Mario; Boris Bosančić, Marijana Tomić, Mario Lončarić. XML to Visual Tagging Migration // Summer School in the Study of Historical Manuscripts, University in Zadar, Zadar, Croatia, 26 to 30 September 2011. (workshop)
  15. Essert, Mario; Nikola Glumac, Marijana Tomić. Označivanje i analiza digitaliziranog dokumenta // Archives, Libraries, Museums: Cooperation Potentials in the Context of Global Information Infrastructure, Poreč, 17 – 19 November 2010.
  16. Bosančić, Boris; Tomić, Marijana. Early printed books in research process: meeting specific needs of researchers of Croatian glagolitic early printed books using the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) // LIDA, Libraries in the Digital Age 2010 May 24 – 28 2010, Zadar, Croatia / University of Zadar, Department of Library and Information Science Rutgers University, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (ur.). Zadar : Universtiy in Zadar, 2010. (workshop)
  17. Bosančić, Boris; Tomić, Marijana; Jakopec, Tomislav. Text encoding of Croatian glagolitic early printed books in digital library environment // CLS 2010 30 June – 11 July 2014, Computer Linguistics Panel and Workshop. Zadar, Hrvatska, 22 August – 3 Septemebr 2010.
  18. Willer, Mirna; Marijana Tomić. Kataložna pravila i praksa u regiji // Conference COBISS, Maribor, 11 – 12 November 2009.

Posters in international conferences

1. Šmider, Marinela; Špoljarić, Ivan; Petr Balog, Kornelija; Jadrijević, Romana; Lovrić, Gorica, Tomić, Marijana. Croatian Public Libraries: Physical or Virtual? : pilot study of Zadar and Osijek public library. // 17th Bobcatsss Symposium, Porto, Portugal, 2009: Challenges for the new information professional
2. Ćurić, fra Tomislav; Velagić, Zoran; Tomić, Marijana; Vukušić, Maja. How to prepare dusty old ladies for showing up in public: organizing library collection of a Monastery of St. Frane in Zadar // LIDA 2009, Zadar
3. Velagić, Zoran; Tomić, Marijana; Gavranović, Drahomira; Čizmin, Iva; Lakić, Duško; Vukušić, Maja. Where did those books come from? : a model of cataloguing of old and rare books in the monastery of St. Francis in Zadar // 18th Bobcatsss Symposium, Parma, Italy, 2010.
 

Other activities

  • Project leader of the preparation for digitalisation of non-Latin manuscripts conserved in wider Zadar region (cooperation between Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of Zadar and Vestigia Manuscript Research Centre, University of Graz, Austria; since May 2015)
  • In the framework of work on the doctoral dissertation she participates in design of DocMark software for marking of digitalised versions of manuscripts and old printed sources with collaborators from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, under leadership of Prof. Mario Essert, PhD. The software has been presented in national professional conferences, and at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Croatian State Archives and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture.

Awards and distinctions

  • Winner of Judita Award for the best book or study on Croatian literary heritage, especially on Renaissance Humanism in 2014 given by the Croatian Writers’ Association on the occasion of the Croatian Book Day (for the book: Marijana Tomić. Hrvatskoglagoljski brevijari na razmeđu rukopisne i tiskane tradicije. Zagreb: Ljevak Press, 2014)
  • Winner of Eva Verona Award given to young librarians, members of the Croatian Library Association, for special dedication to work, innovation and promotion of library profession

Membership

  • Croatian Library Association, Zadar Librarians’ Association (member, the first Vice President in one mandate)
  • Croatian Library Association, Commission for Book and Library History
  • Croatian Reading Association
  • Central Croatian Cultural and Publishing Society
  • Society of Friends of the Glagolitic Script
  • Zadar Glagolitic Association
  • SHARP – Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (regular member)

Editorial Boards

  • Executive editor of Libellarium journal, University of Zadar (2008 – 2013)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Book of Proceedings Summer School in the Study of Old Books, Zadar, University of Zadar, Department of Library and Information Sciences, 28 September – 2 October 2009: proceedings / ed. by Mirna Willer and Marijana Tomić. Zadar: University of Zadar, 2010
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Book of Proceedings Summer School in the Study of Historical Manuscripts, Zadar, University of Zadar, Department of Library and Information Sciences, 26 – 30 September 2011: proceedings / ed. by Mirna Willer and Marijana Tomić. Zadar: University of Zadar, 2013
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Book of Proceedings Selected Papers from the Conference and School on Records, Archives and Memory Studies, University of Zadar, Croatia, May 2013 / ed. by Mirna Willer, Anne J. Gilliland and Marijana Tomić. Zadar: University of Zadar, 2015 (forthcoming)

Organising Committees of international conferences

  • Member of the Organising Committee of the International Symposium of Information Science – ISI 2015. Reinventing information science in the networked society, 19 – 21 May 2015, University of Zadar, Croatia
  • Member of the Organising Committee of the Conference and School on Records, Archives and Memory Studies (RAMS), 2013
  • Member of the Organising Committee of the Summer School in the Study of Historical Manuscripts, University of Zadar, 2011
  • Member of the Organising Committee of the Summer School in the Study of Old Books, University of Zadar, 2009
  • Member of the Organising Committee of the International Conferences: Libraries in Digital Age (LIDA) 2008, 2009, 2010

Programme Committees

  • Member of the Programme Committee of the 19th Seminar: Archives, Libraries, Museums: Cooperation Potentials in the Context of Global Information Infrastructure  (2015)

Bibliography

Books

Tomić, Marijana. Hrvatskoglagoljski brevijari na razmeđu rukopisne i tiskane tradicije. Zagreb: Naklada Ljevak, 2014.

Papers

  1. Tomić, Marijana; Mirna Willer. Possibilities of extending digital humanities into the semantic web environment the case study of Croatian medieval manuscripts and incunabula and their fragments.
  2.  Essert, Mario; Boris Bosančić, Marijana Tomić, Mario Lončarić. XML to visual taggs migration : proposed methodologies for the research of digitized Croatian medieval Glagolitic material. // Summer school in the study of historical manuscripts, Zadar, University of Zadar, Department of Library and Information Sciences, 26 – 30 September 2011: proceedings / ed. By Mirna Willer and Marijana Tomić. Zadar, University in Zadar, 2013, 173 - 196.
  3. Mirna Willer, Alenka Šauperl, Marija Petek, Marijana Tomić. Jedinstveni stvarni naslov : zašto nam je potreban više nego ikad? // Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske. 54(2011), 1/2, 93 – 119. http://www.hkdrustvo.hr/vbh/
  4. Tomić, Marijana. Stara i rijetka građa u digitalno doba : je li povjesničarima knjige dovoljan bibliografski opis? // Pančevačko čitalište 18(2011). 21-24. http://www.citaliste.rs/casopis/br18/tomic_marijana.pdf
  5. 5. Tomić, Marijana. Provenance information in catalogues of Croatian heritage collection // Summer school in the study of old books, Zadar, University in Zadar, Departement of Library and Information Sciences, 28 September – 2 October 2009 : proceedings / ed. by Mirna Willer and Marijana Tomić. Zadar : University in Zadar, 2010, 173 – 199.
  6. Essert, Mario; Nikola Glumac, Marijana Tomić. Označivanje i analiza digitaliziranog dokumenta // Zbornik radova : 14. seminar Arhivi knjižnice muzeji: mogućnosti suradnje u okruženju globalne informacijske infrastructure, Poreč, 17.-19. studenoga 2010. / Hasenay, Damir ; Faletar Tanacković, Sanjica (ur.).Zagreb: Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo, 2011, 79 – 90.
  7. Willer, Mirna; Marijana Tomić. Kataložna pravila i praksa u zemljama jugoistočne Europe: istraživanje stanja u odnosu na suvremene trendove u području bibliografske kontrole. // Organizacija znanja 14, 4(2009), 148 – 158.
  8. Tomić, Marijana. Knjižarski katalozi kao izvori za povijest knjige: primjer kataloga Novoselske knjižare u Zagrebu (1794.-1825.). // Libellarium 2(2008), 161 – 179.
  9. UNIMARC bibliografski format / hrvatski prijevod formata iz 1999. osuvremenila Marijana Tomić. Zagreb : Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo; Zadar: Sveučilište, 2009. 

Rewievs

1.   Zadar, Bibliotheque du Monastere Saint-Francois // Nouvelles du livre ancien. 125(2011), 6
2. Sveučilišni časopis Libellarium : časopis za povijes pisane riječi, knjige i baštinskih ustanova // Zadarska smotra : časopis za kulturu, znanosti i umjetnost LX(2011), 4, 215-219
3. Tomić, Marijana. Prikaz seminara With quality in mind : digitisation and preservation seminar (Mikkeli, Finska, 23. rujna 2010.) // Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske. 54(2011), 1/2; 170-176. http://www.hkdrustvo.hr/vbh/
4. Tomić, Marijana. Mateo Žagar, Grafolingvistika srednjovjekovnih tekstova. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2009. // Libellarium, god.2, 1(2009), 113-114
5. Tomić, Marijana. Aleksandar Stipčević, Socijalna povijest knjige u Hrvata. Knjiga I.Srednji vijek (Od prvih početaka do glagoljskog prvotiska iz 1483 godine). Zagreb: Školska knjiga, 2004. Aleksandar Stipčević, Socijalna povijest knjige u Hrvata. Knjiga II., Od glagoljskog prvotiska (1483.) do hrvatskoga narodnog preporoda (1835.). Zagreb: Školska knjiga, 2005.  // Libellarium 1(2008), 157-158. 
6. Velagić, Zoran; Marijana Tomić. Projekt uređenja knjižnice samostana sv. Frane u Zadru (izvještaj od 13. prosinca 2008.) //  Libellarium 2(2008), 301-303
7. Tomić, Marijana. Ljetna škola o staroj knjizi, Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za knjižničarstvo, 28. rujna - 2. listopada 2009. // Novosti : Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo 45(2009). http://www.hkdrustvo.hr/hkdnovosti/clanak/173
8. Tomić, Marijana. IFLA-ina pretkonferencija: Early printed books as material objects: principles, problems and perspectives : München, 19. – 21. kolovoza 2009. // Novosti : Hrvatsko knjižničarsko društvo 45(2009). http://www.hkdrustvo.hr/hkdnovosti/clanak/175
9. Tomić, Marijana. Trinaest stoljeća pismenosti u Hrvata // Hrvatski iseljenički zbornik. Zagreb : Hrvatska matica iseljenika, 2003. http://www.matis.hr/zbornici/2003/r_ba_h.htm 20-12-2006

 

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