A treasury of the legume lore in the libraries of Serbia

Abstract

The largest number of books in Serbia is deposited at the National Library of Serbia and Matica srpska in Novi Sad, with an approximate total number of more than 6.4 million copies. This survey was aimed at assessing the number of the general publications on legumes in the libraries of Serbia, such as books, monographs and handbooks and excluding journal and conference articles and other simpler categories, by an online search of the COBBIS regional network. A vast majority of the publications specialised in grain legumes is devoted to soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) with 71 titles. The oldest one is a book in Serbian by Nikola Angelov Soja: kineski pasulj: buduća hrana čovečanstva [Soybean: Chinese Bean: The Future Food of the Mankind] from 1929. The next one is common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), with 41 titles. The oldest one is a book in Serbian by Miloš N. Lukićević called Pasulj (grah), sočivo i grašak: naša najglavnija variva [Common bean, lentil and pea: Our major pulses], dating from 1902.