This year’s Polish Libraries issue has hit the net and bookshelves
The newest, 13th issue of Polish Libraries, uniquely broad, contains 14 articles presenting a broad spectre of research on book history, libraries, and archives, intertwining Polish and international perspectives.
It opens with 3 articles focusing on discoveries and analyses of private and institutional collections. Prof. Markus Eberharter looks at a recently discovered Berlin-stored collection of books belonging to Aleksander Brückner.
Dr Jacek Kordel presents a similar perspective while researching the collection of Gdańsk (Danzig) lawyer Marian Bielewicz stored in Dresden. Then, professors Paweł Zarychta and Iwona Piechnik discuss Humbold’s legacy (the Jagellonian Library).
Doctor Giulio Vaccaro explores a philological and linguistic motive describing the CorTIM project – a corpus of texts coming from middle Italy; a starting point for research on the history of the Italian language, its changes and regional literature.
A priest, doctor Michał Sołomieniuk takes the reader to the Middle Ages, analysing 9th through 12th liturgy books and manuscripts from the archdiocese of Gniezno.
Dr Elżbieta Zarych examines autographs of von Arnim and Brentano families from the Berlin collection stored at the Jagellonian Library.
Professor László Kálmán Nagy, doctor Patrícia Pászt and professor Iwona Piechnik present 2 so-far unknown letters by József Teleka and János Nagy, dated 1838 and 1851 and related to the beginnings of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Professor Agnieszka Chamera-Nowak takes the typo graphist profession in Poland during the communis times under her scrutiny.
Professor Grzegorz Gmiterek presents original empirical studies presenting a picture of the degree public libraries in smaller locations used Facebook recently.
Dr Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos draws the reader’s attention to the importance of manuscript metadata in online catalogues.
Dr Sebastian Kotuła reflects on the transformation of book culture transformation in modern librarian culture, especially in the light of information technologies.
Then come articles focusing on social roles of the institutions of culture. Doctor Przemysław Krysiński, doctor Natalia Pamuła and doctor Giulia Conti describe how Italian GLAM institutions support variety in modern societies.
Professor Monika Rudaś-Grodzka and professor Katarzyna Nadana-Sokołowska present the works of Archiwum Kobiet, the Ladies Archive – a women web database of auto biographical memories.
The issue closes with a bibliometric study by professor Małgorzata Kowalska-Chrzanowska, professor Mariola Antczak and doctor Zbigniew Gruszka analysing the interest in Polish academic libraries.
The whole publication is available free of charge at polishlibraries.bn.org.pl and in print in the web store.