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Akcja zabezpieczania księgozbiorów i bibliotek w latach 1944–1955
Action to secure book collections and libraries in 1944–1955

Author(s): Agnieszka Fabiańska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Library and Information Science
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: restricted collections; storage places of restricted collections; Recovered Territories; former manors houses’ libraries; library collections

Summary/Abstract: The article comprises a definition of the term “restricted collections” and an enumeration of legal regulations from the period 1944–1955. Mentioned arrangements contained circumscription of securing’s policy. The restricting libraries action was held on territory named Ziemie Odzyskane (Recovered Territories), the other type of collections were former manors houses’ libraries regardless of storage area. Next paragraphs contain short history of each of five main storage places based in: Kraków, Poznań, Wrocław, Szczecin, Gdańsk i Katowice. The last paragraph discusses principles regarding filing (the main was library provenance), rules of description and criteria of division and manuscripts and books into libraries in Poland.

  • Issue Year: 17/2023
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 771-789
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish
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