Rosyjskie biblioteki publiczne na terenie guberni kaliskiej. Przyczynek do dziejów bibliotekarstwa początków XX wieku

Abstract

The article provides information about the initiatives of the Russian authorities to organize libraries on the territory of the Kingdom of Poland, an act which aimed at promoting Russian language and culture within Polish society. The author discusses sources of information for the actions taken by the tsarist authorities in the province of Kalisz, and then he presents subsequent initiatives: the foundation and activity of the Russian public library in Kalisz and the history of the people’s libraries network that were supplied with mixed collections of Russian and Polish books. To present the collections found in the libraries, which were being established in the municipalities of the Kingdom of Poland, the contents of the catalogue of the Russian-Polish people’s libraries, issued at the request of the Governor-General of Warsaw, was included in the appendix, and it provided information about the books – both in Russian and in Polish – authorized for use in these libraries.