After having complete her studies at the Faculty of Philosophy (Department of Serbo-Croatian Language and Literature), in Belgrade, Ljubinka Bašović, Ph.D. (Prnjavor, 1930. – Belgrade, 2002.) works as Librarian in the Library of the Faculty of Agriculture, in Sarajevo, and then in the "parent" Department of the National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On her Post Graduated studies of Librarianship, Documentations and Information Science, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, in Zagreb, she obtained an honours degree in 1968. In 1973, at the Faculty of Philosophy, of the Charles University, in Prague, she received her Doctorate in Librarianship and Information Science, with her Dissertation: Czechoslovakia in the printed and archive materials of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a special overview of the Activity of Jovan Kršić Ph. D.: bibliographic materials 1918.- 1941. She was the first Doctor – Ph.D. of Librarianship in Bosnia and Herzegovina. During 1970. she stays in Russia and Bulgaria, and in 1977. in USA, for her specialization. In 1972, after the foundation of the Department of General Literature, Scenic Art and Librarianship, she participates in formation of the Department of Librarianship, where in 1973, she became Docent. In 1977. she published her first book "Libraries and Librarianship in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1945. -1975." and for her second book "Libraries and Librarianship in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1918. -1945." (Sarajevo, "Veselin Masleša", 1986.), she received a republic recognition, the reward »Veselin Masleša«, for the year 1987. The last years of her life she spent in Belgrade.