Siedemnastowieczny bibliotekarz zakonny – zaszczytna funkcja czy niewdzięczny strażnik wiedzy?
Monastic Librarian in the 17th Century – Honourable Function or Invidious Guardian of Knowledge?

Summary/Abstract: Duties of monastic librarian were strictly specified in monastic regulations. Behaviour of readers in library and conditions of lending books were also surrounded by regulations. There are questions if monks were trespassing rules in those cases despite severe punishment including caning, solitary confinement and excommunication? Was librarian, who should have been looking after order in library, lending books and his collections and preventing access to heretic books, sometimes winking his eye and letting to use library more freely, without any dilemmas? We can find partial answers for those questions in historical materials.

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