Działania bibliotek naukowych w zakresie ochrony oraz udostępniania dziedzictwa kulturowego na przykładzie Pedagogicznej Biblioteki Cyfrowej Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w Krakowie
Scientific Libraries in the Protection and Sharing of National Cultural Heritage in Example of Pedagogical Digital Library of Pedagogical University of Cracow

Summary/Abstract: Digital libraries have a huge role in sharing cultural resources. Digital departments are almost in every significant cultural institution in Poland. All of them have the same primary objective, namely protection and securing the national heritage and serve as an access platform for digitized content for all users, including students. Academic Digital Libraries are also an important tool of promoting the achievements of their employees inside scientific community. Their overall shape and effectiveness is affected by in addition to formal factors such as IT infrastructure, and legal factors, cooperation with University units – institutes, research libraries. Pedagogical Digital Library of Pedagogical University of Cracow was used as an example to present the role and and activities of scientific libraries in creating virtual didactic platform, with particular emphasis on the promotion by PBC’s scientific achievements of its employees (exhibition websites, conference materials), as well as international contacts (contacts with Kitaplığı Atatürk Public Library, Istanbul, Turkey).

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