In the spring of 1936, a delegation from Matica Slovenska (The Slovak Institute of Arts and Sciences) traveled to a number of cities in America which had large Slovak immigrant populations. They brought with them thousands of books in crates (shown above) to, in part, strengthen the cultural ties in America between Slovak-Americans and their homeland in Slovakia. The Cleveland Slovak community received 3,000 of these books from the delegation. These books today form the core of the collection of books at the Slovak Institute.
