Sprawozdawczość źródłem do badań polityki bibliotecznej w Bibliotece KUL w latach 1918-1939
Reporting as a source of research on the library policy in the KUL University Library in the years 1918-1939

Summary/Abstract: The reports prepared in 1925–1939 for the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education and the Central Statistical Office – copies of which survived in the KUL University Archive – are one of the sources for reconstructing the library policy of the KUL University Library at its beginning. These reports contain the first numerical data which were later reproduced and published in the statistical yearbooks of the Republic of Poland. They also provide information on the library’s collection, acquisitions, personnel, and regulations on making the collection available to the public. The reports under study show that the books were primarily given to the library as gifts; the university did not have enough financial resources to purchase a large number of books, and its library became a legal depository only for a short time. Readers and researchers could access books and magazines in the reading room or borrow them; and due to the difficult housing conditions and the short opening hours of the library, it was mainly magazines that were read on-site.

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