Rozwój metod opracowania polskich zbiorów rękopiśmiennych w świetle katalogów drukowanych
The article analyses 91 manuscript catalogues of major scientific polish libraries that contain over 15000 manuscripts
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The article analyses 91 manuscript catalogues of major scientific polish libraries that contain over 15000 manuscripts
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This paper presents the origins, activities and results of the work of seven Polish Warehousing Centres for Protected Book Collections
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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).
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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
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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
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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This study attempts to assess which areas of cultural life, associated with books had the biggest impact amongst the Jews of Łódź.
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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.
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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.
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The article presents the newest statistical data on school libraries in Poland based on the System of Information on Education. Results are based on research conducted in rural districts of Poland in 2012. Findings refer to such factors as: network of the libraries in Polish schools, average area of school libraries, average size of book collection and computerization. The author presents profiles of five main types of libraries. In addition, paper contains the results of the survey conducted among pupils of primary (6th class) and secondary schools (2nd class) concerning the ability to take advantage of the school libraries’ potential. In conclusion author focuses on evaluation of the chances and risks concerning school libraries.
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The paper presents the research project which is carried out by teachers and students of the Institute of the Czech Language and Library Science, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava, and is focused on determining the meaning, purpose and role of a library in an intergenerational perspective. In the first part of the contribution the philosophy and methodology of the research project, the main goals and sub-targets are presented. There are also analysed basic motivation for choosing a qualitative approach and reason for the use of the behavior research methods (psychometry) for data acquisition. The advantage of using mixed-methods strategy for data analysis in this kind of library research is discussed as well. In general, the first part of the paper offers the way, which can be very effective in exploring both general and specific library user’s attitudes. The second part of the paper is focused on main results obtained from the qualitative research section – individual interviews. Data obtained from elementary school children and teen adolescents are presented and interpreted. At the end of the paper the research project and all presented outcomes are related to the ideas of community library open to intergenerational meeting of values.
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The aim of the article is to reveal teenagers’ perception of a contemporary library. The research is carried out in accordance with the original study conducted by the author. Written answers given by Latvian teenagers (n=61) to the open-ended question “What should a contemporary library be like?” were analysed using NVivo software. All the respondents were 14-16 years old students (Form 8 or Form 9) from five comprehensive day schools of big cities of Latvia. The study resulted in a mind map, containing three hierarchy levels with 51 categories and subcategories in total. Five main categories for classifying teenagers’ associations are as follows: “library and technologies” (n=48), “information resources” (n=48), “premises” (n=39), “general description” (n=19) and “user- -friendly staff” (n=11). Most of the associations classified as “library and technologies” are devoted to a perception of a library as a place providing public access to computers and internet. Meanwhile “information resource” mainly contains references to a library as a place where printed books are kept. The study results show that it is vital to perform activities in order to change teenagers’ perception of a contemporary library as a physical space which mainly operates as an access point to computers and printed books.
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The paper discusses a problem of Internet websites’ role in stimulating development of children’s reading interests. The main objective of the study was to compare the results of the research carried out in 2012, with similar projects conducted in 2014. Cracow primary school libraries’ websites were analyzed qualitatively to discover the extent and type of elements supporting the process of activating reading among children. The analysis included: information about the current library offerings, listings of new acquisitions, publishing news, reviews, the lists of recommended books, information about reading promotion actions, lists of recommended links to web resources, multimedia, educational games, activating elements of Web 2.0, etc. Frequency of occurrence of these elements on the surveyed websites was analyzed quantitatively. As a result, conclusions regarding dynamics of changes in the scope and ways of using libraries websites as potential tools for supporting development of children’s interests in reading were formulated.
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The aim of this paper is presentation of common reading experience and distances in the activities, preferences and reading motivations of twelve and fifteen year olds. Author tries to answer the questions: what is the place of reading books in teens’ everyday life, what are the patterns of reading initiations in Polish families, what kind of literature is the most popular among Polish young readers? Shared and diverse habits of reading books belonging to students on different stage of adolescence will be demonstrated, particularly the strategies in reading paper books and reading on screen. The paper will be based on outcome of research of children and adolescents readership conducted in 2013, consisting of two stages: quantitative research (48 IDI) and national survey of students from sixth classes of primary schools and third classes of lower secondary school: total 3 537 pupils from 202 schools in Poland.
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The survey aimed at description and verification of the reading culture of the group of teenagers (11 and 12 years old Łódź inhabitants), including evaluation of its scale, and comparison of opinions expressed by the youth and their parents. Both the students and their parents (although in slightly different form) were asked to present their opinions about: attitudes towards reading, reading preferences, their private book collections, as well as the role of parents and other people in shaping their reading habits.
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The aim of the article is to characterize the reading preferences of Cracow teenagers. The work opens with the recall of key trends of contemporary youth readership (eg. use of electronic publications, preferring other forms of leisure, fashion not-to-read, etc.). Then the methodology of the survey conducted among selected Cracow teenagers is described. Reflections on current trends in readership teens can be found at the last part of the text.
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