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Many of the operational reports concerning so-called „enemy written propaganda” are still in the archives of the Cracow security forces. The most of such cases come from the late 1960s and early 1970s. The preserved materials are a testimony of the growth of the anticommunist opposition for bold actions in 1976 and later. Leaflets distribution, writing on the walls, sending anonymous letters were...
The article presents the activities of the book publishers in Łódź in the years 1945–1956. After the liberation from the German occupation, the city became the seat of nationwide publishers: Czytelnik, Książka, Wiedza. Private publishing houses were established by the pre-war publishers, booksellers and printers, e.g. Kazimierz Pawlak, Stanisław Jamiołkowski, Zbigniew Kozierkiewicz, Władysław Krauze...
The Book Council was established in Poland in 1937. Its aim was to bring about the cooperation of institutions that professionally deal with books: the authors, printers, editors, publishers, booksellers, librarians and educationists. After World War II the Book Council was reactivated by the ordinance of the Minister of Education dated September 20, 1945. The responsibilities of the Council were...
During the period of Stalinism in Poland the catholic clergy was seen by the communist authorities as a covert or overt enemy of the political system of the Polish People's Republic and a rival in the struggle for the rule over people's hearts and minds who enjoyed a huge social authority. The selected memories of priests who were imprisoned for the political reasons during this period were analyzed...
After World War II Poland became a Soviet puppet state. It enforced serious system changes, including changes in the politics of publishing and education. On October 1, 1951 the Ministry of Culture and Arts published The List of Books Subjected to Withdrawal (Wykaz książek podlegających wycofaniu) and the librarians were appointed by the party authorities as responsible for clearing bookshops and...
The article is concerned with the history of the public libraries of Lower Silesia in the postwar period. The upper time limit for the presented analysis and reports is the year 1975, when the administrative reform changed the territorial structure of the voivodeship libraries. Within the 30 years after the war, the libraries of Lower Silesia gathered a wide collection of both fiction and non-fiction...
From 18th to 25th September 2011 Poland was for the second time the host of the 27th Congress of the International Association of Bibliophiles. 134 book lovers and collectors from 22 countries took part in this event. Two greatest Polish libraries – the National Library (Warsaw) and the Jagiellonian Library (Cracow) were the joint hosts. Symposium Cracoviense was responsible for non-merits-related...
The article presents the problems connected with the meaning of information literacy education for a man functioning in the environment that is dominated by information and communications technologies. As information more and more often is seen as a tool for the manipulation of human attitudes and behaviour, there is a need to undertake preventive actions against various pathologies in this respect...
Bibliografia rejestracyjna. Obejmuje publikacje następujacych osób: Wiesław Babik; Adam Bańdo; Hanna Batorowska; Andrzej Dróżdż; Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos; Maria Jazowska-Gumulska; Barbara Kamińska-Czubała; Maria Konopka; Władysław Marek Kolasa; Halina Kosętka; Lilia Kowkiel; Piotr Krywak; Sabina Kwiecień; Beata Langer; Urszula Lisowska-Kożuch; Wanda Matras-Mastalerz; Grzegorz Nieć; Maria Pidłypczak-Majerowicz;...
Niedługo po XX Zjeździe KPZR nastąpiły zmiany destalinizacyjne we wszystkich państwach „bloku socjalistycznego”. Biblioteki publiczne okaleczone akcjami oczyszczania księgozbiorów z dzieł podlegających natychmiastowemu usunięciu na próżno upominały się o ich zwrot w Centralnym Zarządzie Bibliotek Ministerstwa Kultury i Sztuki (pisma nr 1–4). Na początku 1958 roku bibliotekarzom rozesłano Wskazówki...
In what way does a book exist? What is its ontic status? Does the function constitute its essence, as some people believe? In that case, is the forgotten and unread book still a book? Maybe it lives a life that resembles its author’s life, as the supporters of anthropomorphisation of books claim? To what extend the text of a book is self-sufficient as far as the meaning is concerned and how far is...
The article explores the role of the academic community in the Ukrainian publishing movement during the Second World War. It analyzes how the destructive actions on the part of the Soviet and the Nazi regimes (the prohibition of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the systematic repression of prominent scholars, the evacuation of most scientific-research institutions to Ufa, and the curtailment of...
Like other institutions of this type in the old Polish period, the City Council of Lviv, the primary authority in the city, gathered its own book collection. It consisted of books as well as other bibliological documents, initially handwritten, then copied by using the typographic technique. Acquisition of essential books stemmed from the practical needs of the office as they served as reference collection...
The aim of the article is to present textbooks and teaching aids offered by the Lviv companies in the years 1919–1939. The statistical analysis shows that Lviv was an important publishing center which realized the educational policy of the Second Republic of Poland. School literature was primarily published by four companies: Książnica Atlas, Wydawnictwo Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich, Państwowe...
The article presents the results of the research on the private book collection of J.I. Kraszewski whose historical novels were inseparably related to his gathering-antiquarian and scholarly editorial interests. The writer possessed a perfectly organized research workshop in the form of a rich and large library. It consisted of 10 233 items that included 14 389 volumes, 2 300 of which concerned the...
he subject of attention as well as the bibliographic and librarian inquiry is the first biography of Saint Casimir that was written in Polish. The Saint was mentioned by Piotr Skarga in the seventh edition of Lives of the Saints (Krakow 1610) when the author incorporated his own biography of St. Casimir into the collection. Skarga also added information that this biography written in Polish was published...
Artykuł recenzyjny książki: Janusz Kostecki: Trudny proces przenikania. Carska cenzura zagraniczna wobec importu publikacjiw języku polskim w latach 1865–1904, Biblioteka Narodowa, Warszawa 2011
The article presents a definition of documentation culture understood as the motivations, attitudes and behaviours of the authors and users of documentation that occur during its planned and effective creation, gathering, storing, compiling, and sharing by using methods and rules of complex management of documentation by means of tools, techniques and technologies that are available. The article points...
Eleven monasteries of the Dominican Brothers and one of the Dominican Sisters existed in the area of the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi in the first half of the 19th century. Thanks to the visitations preserved from that period, we can find out about the personal makeup, emolument of the monastery, and its book collections. The latter are the subject of this article. Their analysis is based on the...
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