Reports on the activities of Cracow secondary schools as a source for the study of history school librarianship in the first half of the twentieth century (for example II National Middle School and High School named St. Jack) Cover Image

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)
Reports on the activities of Cracow secondary schools as a source for the study of history school librarianship in the first half of the twentieth century (for example II National Middle School and High School named St. Jack)

Author(s): Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos
Subject(s): History, Library and Information Science
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Cracow secondary schools;study of history school librarianship;first half of the twentieth century
Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Page Range: 63-77
  • Page Count: 15
  • Publication Year: 2014
  • Language: English, Polish