There are very few preserved written documents about the origin of the school library. They are primarily based on the annual records of the civic school before World War II and, after the war, on the faded memories of retired teachers, individual resolutions (such as the resolution on the independent educational institution from 1963 and the resolution on the registration of the library in 1997), and inventory books.
Based on the annual records of the Civic School "ÉRTESíTŐJE" from the 1908/1909 school year written in Hungarian, we learn about the textbooks used in teaching, but not about the number of books or the librarian who issued them. Reading this record, we learn much more about the number and distribution of non-book materials and how much money was spent on their purchase.
From the "REPORT" of the State Civic School from the 1934/35 school year, we see that the school had a library, divided into a teachers' and a students' library, with the librarian being teacher Marčić Z. Blagoje. The teachers' library in the state language had 1141 works, mostly fiction by domestic authors, while the foreign language section held 1347 works. The students' library had 390 works, mostly by domestic writers. During the 1934/35 school year, the library was enriched with 102 works. The school received the magazines "Serbian Literary Gazette," "The Annals of the Matica Srpska," "The Red Cross Youth Gazette," "Civic School," and "Dawn." Both teachers and students used the books, with students reading 326 works during that school year.
Today, the "Miloje Čiplić" Elementary School has about 350 preserved books from the time of the civic school, along with a significant number of magazines: "Records" and "Wreath." The "Records" magazine dealt with science and literature, while "Wreath" focused exclusively on literature. The school had its own library immediately after World War II, but there is no written document in the school's possession to confirm this. The library owns a magazine "Our Literature" from 1946 as material evidence of the library's existence.
In 1963, the "Miloje Čiplić" Elementary School was registered as an independent institution. From that year, the first inventory books are preserved. According to them, the library had 366 books in the teachers' library and 458 books in the students' library in Hungarian (the students' inventory book in Serbian was probably not maintained. The first inventory book in Serbian dates from 1969). From that year until the 1980s, the library was significantly enriched with books and magazines. The school has preserved magazines: "Pedagogical Reality," "School Economy," "Psychology," "Teacher," "A testnevelés tanítasa," and "Létünk."
At that time, the school did not have a librarian but functioned at the level of a section of Serbian and Hungarian language teachers. The school librarians were teachers Ilona Senji and Jovanka Levai.
During that period, in memory of the Čiplić family and their contribution to the school's development, there was a room in the institution where part of the Čiplić family's furniture, with a small number of books and paintings (drawings and watercolors) by Miloje and Bogdan Čiplić, was kept. In addition to their books, there were titles by other authors.
With the opening of the new wing of the building in 1982, the library got its first librarian. The school librarian's duties (with 100% norm) were performed by German language teacher Olivera Bito. At that time, the school had a total of 9690 books (the students' library in Serbian had 4749 books, the Hungarian language section had 2752 books, and the teachers' library had 2189 books). Serial publications were purchased, but inventory books for them were not maintained, and not all issues of "Pedagogical Reality," "Psychologist," "Teacher," "Magyar-tanítas," "A testnevelés tanítasa," "Létünk" have been preserved.
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