The Institute for Biographical and Bibliographical Studies which started it's activities in January 2000, as an completely autonomous entity and as a successor of the Section for biography, bibliography and documentation of the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Science, dedicated the most of its documentary, research and publishing work in the years1999-2003 to three principal fields: biographical and bibliographical data base, researching and publishing of various methodological and other biographical and bibliographical research studies, and the long term preparation work for the new edition of the Slovenian Biographical Lexicon. The basic field of the research of the Institute are the Slovenian personalities from the past and the present, from Slovenia and abroad (Slovenian minorities in border states, members of Slovenian emigration) which had or still have an importatn impact on various fields of human activities