The Matica Srpska Library is the oldest Serbian national library. It is the first public and scientific library of the Serbs. It was founded in 1826 in Budapest, and it was moved to Novi Sad in 1864.
It has the world’s largest collection of Serbian old and rare books. It receives the sample copy of all publications printed in Serbia since 1948. The Library’s collections include around 3.5 million books, in the Serbian as well as in 109 different languages. The Library exchanges publications with 250 institutions around the world. It is the central library for the region of Vojvodina since 1948.
The Library has the research center for citations of Serbian scientific workers in international scientific journals.
It is the first library in Serbia with over 1 million items in electronic catalogue. Restoration, conservation, microfilming and digitization are done in the Library.
The Library publishes catalogues, bibliographies, news, books about bibliology and other editions.