Some of these libraries were completely burnt, others were seriously damaged. It is hard to describe those days - even during air raids, the librarians often helped by the readers tried to protect damaged buildings and put the library collections in safer places. The mostly wounded and damaged libraries were those in eastern and southern part of Croatia. The western part including Zagreb remained relatively spared from attacks and destruction. I could not get the exact number of the libraries connected to the CARNet and Internet, but the approximate number is about 50 libraries.
Scientific libraries differ greatly in size of the inventory.
The largest libraries are situated in Zagreb. In the applied sciences the most important libraries belongs to the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture , Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and the Faculty Pharmacy and Biochemistry . I am working in the Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library which is the largest scientific library in the field of natural sciences in Croatia. Library holdings includes about 30000 books and 390 current periodicals. Taking all that into account there are a few dozen databases which should be weekly or monthly updated what is rather a hard work.