Kształtowanie tożsamości polskiej w okresie zaborów oraz umacnianie świadomości narodowej w okresie II Rzeczypospolitej na przykładzie Towarzystwa Czytelni Ludowych w powiecie tucholskim

Author(s): Paweł Redlarski / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: special/2019

The Society of People’s Readings established in 1880 had a great influence on shaping the national consciousness of Poles living under the occupation. The main aim of the society was to be realized through the creation of a library network in the areas of the Prussian partition. People who lead the library of the Society of People’s Readings should not only share books, but above all, broaden the horizons of people from the lower social layer. That is why popular science meetings, reading meetings, evening parties and folk rallies were organized. In the Tuchola County in 1914 there were 12 libraries with 728 books in their collections. In 1921, the Tuchola district committee, consisting of 14 libraries, was one of the most energetic in the Pomeranian Voivodship.

La polonité des Hauts-de-France telle qu’inscrite sur les étendards. Une étude d’objets jusque-là négligés alors que riches d’informations

Author(s): Maryla Laurent,Iwona H. Pugacewicz / Language(s): English,French Issue: special/2019

The authors have considered the topic, rarely mentioned in the scientific literature, which are the inscriptions and symbols placed on polonical banners. A three-volume dissertation by Monika Salmon-Siama, entitled Vexillological heritage of the Polish immigration in northern France (1919-2018), turned out to be a contributing factor to this kind of scientific digression. In the introduction, they analyzed the state of research on Polish emigration, settled in northern France, indicating the main reasons for their poor representativeness in comparison with the entire emigre history of the Polish diaspora. Referring to the proper vexological studies, they brought closer the richness of sources that we deal with in the discussed region, and then showed the complexity of this type of bibliological-semiotic research. Taking up the subject matter from the Westphalian-French borderline, inevitably, after M. Salmon Siama, they showed aesthetic and axiological values, including patriotic values, a group of symbols and inscriptions discussed, and in turn showed the durability of the Polish immigrant identity of subsequent generations living in northern France. The article is also an attempt to show the reader the diversity and richness of organizational and social life over almost a century, introduces the mentality and customs of the Polish Diaspora, and shows the underestimated role of the Polish banner.

Działalność wydawniczna społecznych organizacji galicyjskich Rusinów (Ukraińców) w zakresie rozwoju idei oświaty ludu (lata 50. i 60. XIX w.)

Author(s): Alexander Vladimirovich Sedlyar / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: special/2019

One of the important factors determining the public activity of the Galician Ruthenians (Ukrainians) after 1848 was the realization of the idea of educating the people. In the 1850-1860’s exclusively intellectuals were engaged in educational work; peasants and burghers were only recipients. At the time, the main attention was paid to the publication of educational literature for elementary schools and gymnasiums, as well as scientific, popular and religious lectures for intellectuals and common people. This was done by both private publishers and specially created non-gov0ernmental organizations such as the Russophile society Halytsko-Ruska Matytsia (since 1848) and the Ukrainophile society Prosvita (since 1868). Among the editions of Matytsia prevailing publications for the intelligentsia, Prosvita began its publishing activity mainly from small books for the common people.

Krajobraz w służbie patriotyzmu. Czasopisma krajoznawcze jako narzędzie wychowania patriotycznego w II Rzeczypospolitej

Author(s): Katarzyna Tałuć / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: special/2019

The purpose of this paper is to present the conclusions from analyzing the content of the selected sightseeing periodicals issued in Polish in the Second Republic of Poland, focusing the research on: “Orli Lot”, “Ziemia”. When choosing the particular titles, not only the subject and language category were decisive, but also durability of particular tittles and their addressees. Therefore, we paid attention to periodicals published regularly and targeted to various reader groups, e.g. to adolescents. The research used methods proper to press studies and also was supported by geocriticism tools in order to reconstruct educational ideas propagated in the aforementioned periodicals. The ideas were supposed to, including but not limited to, create permanent system of moral concepts for the Poles, constituting grounds of the “new” citizen construct.

Characteristics of the Polish film press market in the academic literature: from the first film journals until 1939

Author(s): Anita Zawisza / Language(s): English Issue: special/2019

The Polish film press in the first half of the 20th century (1913-1939) tried to find its place in the Polish publishing market. Inspired by film thought and still developing Polish and global cinematography, the Polish press wanted to uphold true art. However, the times of censorship, interference of state authorities, fragile publishing politics, and omnipresent commercialism have all strongly influenced the history of the Polish film press. The article mainly presents the history and characteristics of film journals, dividing them into those loyal to the art of cinematography, as well as those that have been commercially influenced by film in general. It describes their profiles, forms, language, as well as editorial policy of individual editorial offices used to get valuable readers.

Asian paper as writing support

Author(s): Agnieszka Helman-Ważny / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2020

O pożyczaniu książek w Hiszpanii Złotego Wieku

Author(s): Katarzyna Setkowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2020

One of the least investigated aspects of access to literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain is the phenomenon of lending and renting books. This is a complex problem not only due to the necessity of co-occurrence of at least two sides of the procedure and the diversity of their motivation, but also the controversy of the act, around which fierce discussions were taking place then. Some of the humanists casted doubt on the purpose of collecting books in libraries if they were not being used to spread knowledge. At the same time, books, although they were still valuable goods, were no longer considered luxurious objects. The act of borrowing (and not paying for them) was seen as a diminution of their value, a testimony of bad reading, which in addition affected the activities of entities related to the book market. Some booksellers tried to adapt to that reality by offering the possibility of renting books for a fee. The documentation of the phenomenon that we have today is rather fragmentary, and the testaments of people who borrowed the book or awaited its return prove to be the richest source of information. In addition, an important source should be the literature of the period, which not only described the phenomenon of borrowing books, but also participated in discussions related to it.

Traces of a Bibliophile Romantic Book Collection in Polish Libraries. The Dispersion of Ludwig Tieck’s Library and of the Klein Oels Manor Library

Author(s): Paul Ferstl,Theresa Schmidt,Achim Hermann Hölter / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

Since 2015, the research project Ludwig Tieck’s Library. Anatomy of a Romantic Comparatist Book Collection has conducted the virtual reconstruction of the library of German romanticist Ludwig Tieck. About 4.000 volumes have already been located all over Europe, and have been recorded in a database according to current bibliographical standards. Polish libraries verifiably contain a couple dozen of books from Tieck’s collection – it is, however, very probable that many more books from it have been dispersed in Poland after 1945 via the library of Count Yorck von Wartenburg (which was located in today’s Oleśnica Mała in the vicinity of Wrocław). The history of Tieck’s library and its dispersion, and its relevance to Polish library holdings, will be detailed in this paper. In closing, a description of material traits and distinctive features particular to books of Tieck/Yorck provenance will provide information useful to identify respective holdings in Polish libraries.

The Solidarity Collection of Polish Clandestine Publications at the British Library

Author(s): Zuzanna Krzemień / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

This article describes the history and content of the British Library’s Solidarity Collection of Polish clandestine publications. Over the past forty years, the British Library’s curators have collected Polish samizdat publications as valuable documents attesting to the struggle for freedom of speech faced with prevalent censorship. Although named after the Solidarity movement, the collection encompasses clandestine publications and ephemera from the 1970s until the end of the communist rule in Poland. A big part of the repository are donations of items smuggled to the West during the Cold War period. As of today, the collection includes 1759 books, 831 periodical titles and 548 ephemeral publications, encompassing various materials, from political posters and pamphlets to flying university lectures and postcards.

Królewiecki egzemplarz De humani corporis fabrica Andreasa Vesaliusa (Bazylea 1555) w zbiorach Biblioteki Wyższego Seminarium Duchownego Metropolii Warmińskiej „Hosianum” w Olsztynie

Author(s): Krzysztof Nierzwicki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

The author made an attempt to analyse the origin of the book De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius (Basel 1555) from the Library of the Theological Seminary of the Warmia Metropolis “Hosianum” in Olsztyn. In the course of research it was found that the volume belonged to Johann Zell (dates of life unknown) from Cologne and his son Heinrich Zell (1518-1564). Heinrich Zell was a librarian at the Prince Albrecht’s Castle Library in Königsberg. The book was then transferred to the Castle Library. In 1827, the book was placed in Königlicheund Universitätsbibliothek in Królewiec. This library changed its name in 1918 to Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Königsberg. After World War II, the book was placed in the Library of the Seminary in Olsztyn. The copy is in good condition. It was bound in the bookbinding workshop of Kasper Angler in Królewiec around 1560.

„Dar książki dla Wrocławia i Śląska” – powojenne akcje społeczne na rzecz polskich bibliotek w Okręgu II Dolny Śląsk z lat 1945-1948 w świetle wybranych źródeł

Author(s): Aneta Firlej-Buzon / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

Poles displaced to the so-called Recovered Territories, organizing here the social life, struggled with the lack of Polish books. An acute shortage was felt by the entire community, especially by children, pupils and students from Wrocław universities rebuild from the ruins. In order to satisfy the hunger for the Polish word and Polish books, there were organized numerous of social campaigns, both nationwide, regional and local. The authors of this campaigns were the central authorities and representatives of the Lower Silesian administration, as well as associations established in the District II, and finally private persons acting in the field of education, culture or entertainment. Books obtained thanks to social campaigns were the beginning of libraries book collections.

O „książkoróbstwie” – poglądy Andrzeja Tomaszewskiego na temat typografii i projektowania książek

Author(s): Agnieszka Janik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

Andrzej Tomaszewski is a typographer, pressman, and editor. Over the years, he has designed the artwork of more than 260 books and magazines and is currently regarded one of the major authority figures in the field of typography in Poland. Tomaszewski is also the author of many publications on the subject of practical and theoretical aspects of book design. His definition of “typography” is the one (that has been) most often referred to in Polish specialist literature. In 2015, as the commissioner of the contest named “Konkurs PTWK Najpiękniejsza Książka Roku”, he created and systematised the grading criteria for the entres. Biographical research on careers of some eminent typographers constitues a significant part of bibliology studies. It allows the reader to detect complex aspects of designing publications that would be both functional and beautiful. The aim of this article is to introduce and discuss Tomaszewski’s outlook on defining the meaning of “typography,” typographer’s role, book design, and the concept of a beautiful book.

Intrări de carte în biblioteca M.I.N.A.C. (2015)

Author(s): Georgeta Haşotti / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 48-49/2015

This article presents the new book entries in MNHAC library, including romanian and foreign books.

Cărți străine și românești intrate în biblioteca MINAC în 2019

Author(s): Andreea Andrei / Language(s): English,French,Croatian,German Issue: 53/2020

This article presents the main book entries in MNHAC library during 2019.

Informacijska pismenost-ključna kompetencija za 21. stoljeće

Author(s): Jelenka Voćkić-Avdagić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2014

Priručnik ''Informacijska pismenost: smjernice za razvoj inovativnih mrežnih modula autorica Senade Dizdar, Lejle Turčilo, Bebe Ešrefe Rašidović i Lejle Hajdarpašić, Univerzitet u Sarajevu, 2014, drugo izdanje

Catalogue Des Timbres Amphoriques Héracléotes De Kostadin Tchechma

Author(s): Petar Balabanov,Yvon Garlan,Alexandru Avram / Language(s): French Issue: 48-49/2016

Quand bien même nous eussions désiré rassembler dans notre catalogue la totalité des timbres englyphiques recueillis à Kostadin Tchechma, nous en aurions été empêchés par la nature du matériel - qui est plus fragmentaire que n'importe quel autre (parce que les timbres englyphiques étaient généralement apposés sur les parois de col et non sur les anses des amphores). D'une myriade de petits, voire minuscules, tessons inscrits, nous n'avons donc retenu dans ce catalogue que ceux d'entre eux qui étaient à notre disposition (Y.G.) et présentaient un minimum de sens (voir ci-dessus, tableau IV de l'Introduction) : soit quelque 859 exemplaires sur un total de 1500 primitivement dénombrés par les fouilleurs.

Prijedlog modela baze podataka za evidentiranje karata i kartografske građe samostana Duha Svetoga u Fojnici

Author(s): Slobodanka Ključanin / Language(s): English,Croatian Issue: 26/2021

The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Spirit has a valuable collection of books, maps, cartographic materials and other historical documents, collected and preserved during the 650 years of its existence. The treasure in books was catalogued and presented to the public, while maps and cartographic material were never recorded. Therefore, the University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Civil Engineering – Department of Geodesy proposed to the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Fojnica a research project entitled “Inventory of cartographic material”, which involved the formation of a database to record maps and cartographic material. Such a database enables a clear search of data on maps and cartographic material. The Prior of the Monastery accepted the proposed Project, and gave the researchers access to a part of the maps and cartographic materials that they keep in their archive and museum. The project was successfully realized, a database was created which was used to print the “Catalogue of maps and cartographic materials of the monastery of the ‘Holy Spirit’ in Fojnica.” This article describes in detail the process of modelling a database for recording maps and cartographic material of the monastery Holy Spirit in Fojnica.

Uništenje Univerzitetske biblioteke u Luvenu u Prvom svetskom ratu i njena obnova u posleratnom period

Author(s): Vesna R. Živković / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 26/2021

The destruction of libraries and its collections has long been an integral part of wars and conquests: from the destruction of the Library of Alexandria in the old century, Jesuit libraries in China during the 17th and 18th centuries, the National Library in Belgrade in World War II, the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo in 1992, until the manuscript was burned in the library in Timbuktu in 2013. The focus of this paper is the destruction of the University Library in Leuven by the German occupation army in First World War, as well as its restoration in the post-war period.

"Encyklopedia powstań śląskich" – uwspółcześnienie dzieła pilnym zadaniem Instytutu Śląskiego

Author(s): Michał Lis / Language(s): Polish Issue: 88-89/2021

The appearance of the 100th anniversaries of the Silesian Uprisings in the historic calendar of official events in 2019, 2020 and 2021 signifies their place in Poland’s most recent history. Such a state of affairs constitutes the pretext expressed by the author of the paper who postulates an updated and revised edition of the Silesian Uprisings’ Encyclopaedia originally published in 1982. It should include the elimination of errors and lacks exhibited in the critical reviews written by the acclaimed historians as well as the implementation of the contents that were impossible to appear in academic and popular publications due to censorship of the so-called real socialism era. Finally, the paper postulates the enlargement of the perspective by including the German side of the conflict represented by German historians invited to collaboration.

Intervenții de Restaurare Aplicate Suporturilor Papetare Scrise Cu Cerneală Ferogalică șI Cerneală de Carbon

Author(s): Claudia Lupu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2021

The study presents the composition of the two types of inks, used to write documents and books over time. Also, the degradations to which they are subjected over time, and the effects on the paper produced by their composition. At the same time, the criteria according to which an object is chosen to enter a restoration process, and the restoration technique were analyzed.