
Clio
CLIO was founded in 1990 as a private publishing company. It has initiated fifteen libraries within which around 850 titles in total have been published so far. These titles include modern literature from all over the world, collections of short stories, essays and criticism, history, social sciences, ecology, multimedia, marketing. The ARS project, for example, consists of seceral libraries: theatre, music, film, art, etc. A special library includes monographies on individual artists. Agora has been initiated to publish books on culture, sociology and anthropology, and in Polis we publish history. CLIO also publishes two periodicals, one dealing with music and the other with Slavic cultures.
The main characteristic of the company is a consistent publishing policy based on permanent cultural and democratic values and constant endeavour to supply readers with impartial and objective information, to create a dialogue, and to offer a high-quality choice which encourages an active relationship between the publishing company and readers. After all, these are necessary steps to be taken in order to follow the path of democratic progress, and books do encourage an open type of communications with the public.
Facing numerous and different difficulties in its activities, which are due to the presently prevailing circumstances in Serbia, CLIO has nevertheless managed to form a team of people for each of its libraries (concerning history, ecology and enviromental studies, sociology of culture and anthropology, world’s literature, marketing, arts, multimedia and museology) trying to do their best in order to promote the values represented by the company. To that purpose, great efforts have been done to publish Serbian editions of various famous publishing companies’ titles and to make them accepted as textbooks at the local universities. That is an important step towards promoting knowledge, high-quality and non-ideological approach to information of all kinds which is the basis for achieving a better education.