Anton Melik Geographical Institute
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The Anton Melik Geographical Institute was founded in 1946 by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in 1976 it was named after the greatest Slovenian geographer, academician Anton Melik (1890-1966), who was the first head of the Institute. Since 1981, the Institute has been one of the constituent members of the Scientific research centre of the Slovenian academy of sciences and arts. Until 1992 the Institute was mainly engaged with researching glaciers, glacial and fluvial transformation of the land surface, flooded areas, natural disasters, mountain farms in Slovenia and social geography. But since 1993 the Institute's main task has been to conduct geographical researches of Slovenia and its landscapes and to prepare basic geographical texts on Slovenia as a country and as a part of the World. Research is mostly directed towards physical, social and regional geography and thematic cartography. Today it has nine organization units: the Department of physical geography, the Department of social geography the Department of regional geography, the Department of natural disasters, the Department of environmental protection, the Department of geographical information system, the Department of thematic cartography, Geographical museum, and Geographical library. The Institute also houses a cartographic collection and three specialized geographical collections: Landscapes of Slovenia, Settlements of Slovenia and Glaciers of Slovenia. The Institute is also headquarters of the Commission for the standardization of geographical names of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia (Komisija za standardizacijo zemljepisnih imen Vlade Republike Slovenije). The Institute publishes three scientific publications. Geografija Slovenije (Geography of Slovenia) is a series of books appears in Slovenian once or twice a year. Acta geographica Slovenica/Geografski zbornik is a review published twice a year in English and Slovenian. The articles can be downloaded on the computer in either Slovenian or English from the institute homepage (http://www.zrc-sazu.si/gi/publications.htm). Geografski informacijski sistemi v Sloveniji (Geographical information systems in Slovenia) is a bulletin published every second (even) year in Slovenian.
