The Progress and Development of the Digital Library of “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu Since 2007

Author(s): Rodica-Maria Volovici,Cristina Pârvu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In 2007, when the city of Sibiu (Romania) received the title of European Capital of Culture, the “Lucian Blaga” University Library was involved in its first digitization projects, the first one being SCRIBe - System for Processing and Visualization of the Old Book Fund. The main objective of the SCRIBe project was the development of an informational system offering the beneficiaries access to the old book fund, to which normal access was limited due to the scarcity of copies and due to the need of protecting documents with a high degree of wear. In the following years, we have concluded partnerships with local and county authorities developing our own digital library, which has since been growing continuously.

Dzieje polskich badań nad polonikami ze zbiorów zamku Skokloster

Author(s): Maria Wichowa / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

In 1911 the Academy of Skills sent their expedition represented by Eugeniusz Barwiński,Ludwik Birkenmajer and Jan Łoś. They examined the collections in Skokloster with relatively little attention to detail. It has not been until recently that the polonica were thoroughly investigated and analyzed. The academic study of those literary texts was performed by a group of scholars under the supervision of professor Alina Nowicka-Jeżowa, forming a part of a Literary Studies Research Group of the Section of Old Polish Literature and Culture. They have published a catalogue of antique books and a few volumes of inedita (unpublished literary works).

Rosyjskie biblioteki publiczne na terenie guberni kaliskiej. Przyczynek do dziejów bibliotekarstwa początków XX wieku

Author(s): Krzysztof Walczak / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The article provides information about the initiatives of the Russian authorities to organize libraries on the territory of the Kingdom of Poland, an act which aimed at promoting Russian language and culture within Polish society

Sprawozdania z działalności krakowskich gimnazjów jako źródło do badań dziejów bibliotekarstwa szkolnego w 1. połowie XX wieku (na przykładzie II Państwowego Gimnazjum i Liceum im. św. Jacka)

Author(s): Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

In Cracow, in the first half of the twentieth century, worked eleven main middle schools, each of which had its own library, often accumulated already in the nineteenth century or earlier. For example, saved printed reports (55 yearbooks) management of II National Middle School and High School named St. Jack (1857-1950) in the text an attempt is made to present the activities of the school library. The content associated with it were divided into several groups: people, finance, standardization, statistics. Based on this information, we can recreate some basic processes in contemporary educational library – collections, preparation, structure, store and share collections.

Rozwój metod opracowania polskich zbiorów rękopiśmiennych w świetle katalogów drukowanych

Author(s): Joanna Stawińska / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The article analyses 91 manuscript catalogues of major scientific polish libraries that contain over 15000 manuscripts

Polskie zbiornice księgozbiorów zabezpieczonych w latach 1947-1955

Author(s): Ryszard Nowicki / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

This paper presents the origins, activities and results of the work of seven Polish Warehousing Centres for Protected Book Collections

Działalność Centralnego Zarządu Bibliotek (1951-1957)

Author(s): Andrzej Dróżdż / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The publication covers the following topics: Circumstances of regime change and ideological upheaval in Poland (1945-1951), importance of librarianship in the policy of the communist regime’s propaganda, responsibility of the Central Board Libraries for errors and distortions” in the environment of librarians (1952-1953), social effects of central supervision of the functioning of libraries and stopping of the stalinization in polish libraries (1956).

Księgarstwo w polskich badaniach nad książką do 1989 roku

Author(s): Grzegorz Nieć / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The theme of book-selling, while present in the oldest texts on a history of books, has been considerably neglected for a long time. One of the main reasons was the nature of the market dealing with the selling of old books: many companies were responsible for two different kinds of services – publishing as well as book-selling. A significant change came in the second half of the nineteenth century

Życie książki 1. połowy XX wieku w świetle „Myśli Narodowej” (1921-1939)

Author(s): Danuta Wańka / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of the paper is to show “Myśl Narodowa” (1921-1939) as a source that can be used to research the culture of the book in the first half of the twentieth century

Formy promocji książki w katolickich czasopismach społeczno-kulturalnych 1. połowy XX wieku w Polsce

Author(s): Evelina Kristanova / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

Book and press relationship is important element of cultural phenomenon. Its particular dynamism appeared in 19th and first half of 20th century. Book was promoted mainly in social-cultural periodicals which existed since thirtieth years of 20th century. The catholic papers between 1918 and 1939, 1945 and 1953 were the another group of them. Author wrote in the article about most popular of them like „Kultura” (1936-1939), „Tęcza”(1927-1939), „Verbum” (1927-1939), „Tygodnik Powszechny” (1945-1953), „Tygodnik Warszawski” (1945-1948), „Głos Katolicki” (1945-1948). Frequently form of encourage mentto read books were advertisements of publishing companies and book stores. After them were books reviews, information of the latest publications, notes of book events, articles about books and reading.

Świat książki Łodzi powojennej. Początek czy kontynuacja?

Author(s): Jadwiga Konieczna / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of this article is to present the process of organising the book system in Lodz in 1945-1950. In this period many different kinds of book institutions were created (libraries, publishing houses, printing-houses, professional organisations, didactic, scientific and research institutions connected with books), which was presented in context of,both local and outside, cultural, scientific, educational and social-political conditions. In this study the author also took into consideration the historical aspect of the analysed issue – the relations of the presented system (or their scarceness) to the world of books of the pre-war Lodz.

Źródła do dziejów ruchu wydawniczego w spuściźnie Jana Muszkowskiego przechowywanej w Bibliotece Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Author(s): Magdalena Kwiatkowska / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

Within the manuscript resources of the Library of the Lodz University, among the materials remaining after professor Jan Muszkowski, are stored documents referring to “Czytelnik” Publishing Cooperative. The fragmented and uneven collection of preserved materials to some extend reflects the works, which professor was in charge of after 1945. It also indicates the nature of his contacts with the leadership of the institution in Warsaw, as well as its authors, co-workers and petitioners. The article presents notes (both hand-written and typed) made by Jan Muszkowski on editorial meetings, as well as addendums and comments to the lists of manuscripts being considered and sent to print, correspondence relating to the editorial work and organizational matters of the publishing house. The fragments of the archive discussed in the paper date back to the period between the beginning of April 1945 and the end of June 1946

Andrzej Kempa jako badacz biografii ludzi książki

Author(s): Monika Sulejewicz-Nowicka / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

Andrzej Kempa (1936-2009) is the author of many works on the lovers of words. His research was concentrated on the biograms of book people (journalists, writers, bibliophiles, librarians, bibliologists, publishers, book-sellers, printers, illustrators) published in Encyklopedia wiedzy o książce, Polski słownik biograficzny and Słownik pracowników książki polskiej and small articles published in the pages of local and national press. He presented a little-known writers, publishers and booksellers. He discussed their education, career, research and teaching work. Kempa verified their biographical data (date and place of birth). He also discussed the issues of attributions of little-known writers’ works, the history of the publishing and the bookshop market and the history of local press

Życie kulturalne i naukowe w Łodzi na łamach „Dziennika Łódzkiego” w latach 1945-1953

Author(s): Martyna Augustyniak / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

“Dziennik Łódzki” from the postwar period is for the present-day researchers valuable source of information. apart from the news from Poland and the World, this paper contained a lot of information about science and cultural life of Lodz. repertoire and art review, radio programs, concert information, films, performances and museum exhibitions, invitations for readings, science meetings, articles about developments and works of science environment in Lodz are only a small part of news printed in “Dziennik Łódzki” but depicting the cultural and scientific life of Lodz in the years 1945-1953.

Józef Grycz (1890-1954). Bibliotekarz i bibliolog

Author(s): Adrian Uljasz / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

Józef Grycz, one of the most eminent librarians, significantly contributed to organizing libraries. In 1928-1930 he managed the Kórnik Library. Later he worked in the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment, and was responsible for establishing the National Library. A proposal for organizing a network of public libraries, elaborated by Grycz, was brought to a parliamentary commission in 1934, yet it was implemented only during the times of the People’s Republic of Poland. Most notably,in the times of the Second Republic Grycz developed unified rules for alphabetical catalogues which he then introduced throughout Poland. During the Nazi occupation he was the manager of the National Library, transformed into the Second Branch of Staatsbibliothek Warschau. Approved at this position by Polish underground resistance movement, he provided illicit access to and protected the library holdings. The course book entitled Bibliotekarstwo praktyczne w zarysie (1945) written by Grycz provided foundations for the process of restoring Polish libraries.

Historia Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich biografiami jego twórców pisana

Author(s): Marta Pękalska / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

200 years of history of the Ossolinski National Institut (founded in 1817) is also extremely interesting stories of his many employees, including prominent librarians and researchers. Performed in the article detailed review of current literature on the staff of the Institut shaw that there is no current studies on even the most eminent people,including the founder of the Institute, count Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński. The author points out, at the same time, the most urgent needs for biographical studies on the staff of the Ossolinski National Institut.

Bibliotekarze, księgarze, wydawcy, bibliofile łódzcy w wydawnictwie słownikowym Oficyny Bibliofilów

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

This study attempts to assess which areas of cultural life, associated with books had the biggest impact amongst the Jews of Łódź.

„Poznańczycy”: Edward Kuntze, Stefan Vrtel-Wierczyński, Aleksander Birkenmajer i ich reformatorska polityka biblioteczna

Author(s): Barbara Góra / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The author presents, in five points, the scientific and professional profiles of librarians, directors of Poznań University Library, related not only to Poznań environment: E. Kuntze, A. Birkenmajer, S. Vrtel-Wierczyński. In the article it is shown their role in the creation of modern librarianship in Poland in XX century.

Stan badań nad biografistyką introligatorstwa polskiego

Author(s): Elżbieta Pokorzyńska / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The author discusses foreign reference books devoted bookbinders. Researches where were published biographical articles devoted to Polish bookbinders, both in bibliological publications and general. Presents own research, which is collected in the form of files. The author reports proposal of publication of the collected material in electronic form.

Wirtualna biblioteczka jako miejsce spotkań miłośników literatury

Author(s): Dominika Kobylska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0