The poet, the literary and cultural historian, profesor Janko Glazer
devoted himself intensivly from his childhood to the Slovene literary
history and to literature in general. Therefore he applied for a librarian's
place in the Reference Library at Maribor in 1926. he was selected among
many reputable applicants and so he became the first regularly appointed
librarian in that institution. He was charged with putting it up on a new
basis corresponding to up-to date librarianship. He did his woik excellently
and this was one of the main motives that he was appointet director
of the library in 1931.