The guide book referred to this as a major fashion center, but to us it was more quaint Hungarian buildings in international tourist trap style. Along the way it was impossible not to notice that there was building everywhere, and that satellite dishes would interrupt even the most respectably aged skylines . Next to it is a large museum. Jovica is pleased to find staff who speak Serbian, and we spend an hour or so browsing old manuscripts and paintings and icons. As typographers we have a clear vested interest in the typography and lettering, of course.
Next door is the library, although at the moment it is more like an archive in storage .
The archivist is rearranging things and won't let Jovica browse. The library is closed and that's that. Of course, that's the difference between an archivist and a librarian. One is concerned with putting stuff up on shelves and keeping them there, and the other with finding more and better ways of getting information to people who might be interested. This one is definitely an archivist.