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 subject of analysis were articles from Polish journals on library and information science, published between 1956 and 2006. The author indicates the main lines of research and demonstrates the impact of foreign literature ...

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 ...

During the time of territorial expansion of the Kingdom of Sweden, military commanders appropriated entire book collections, including many precious polonica. General Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613-1676) placed his literary ...