The 2015 Act Amending the Librarianship Act, specifically Article 39, includes school libraries into the national co-operative bibliographic system – COBISS. The school libraries that were at the time not full members of COBISS.si, had to make the transition in an implementation period of three years. The goal of this master thesis is to examine the current state of school libraries in 2020, when most libraries should have already completed the transition. The research was conducted using a questionnaire distributed to a random sample of 200 school libraries. Out of 146 returned questionnaires, 92 were valid; these mostly reported the overwhelming scope and difficulty of the process, alongside with librarians' negative opinions on the transition itself and the programme required. The answers indicated three different variants with regard to the plan for the transition, which largely complies with the literature. The plan, as outlined in the literature, suggests the transition begins by choosing the integrated library system provider, which was not applicable to the case of Slovenian libraries as the provider had been chosen for them by the Librarianship Act. The plan continues with preparation for the introduction of the new system, which includes the examination and cleaning of the local database, followed by the introduction of the new system. The transition concludes with a system evaluation after a longer period of use. Moving forward, interesting data could be gathered with an expert analysis of the COBISS programme from the standpoint of the school librarian.
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