Warsaw City Library
| Warsaw City Library | |
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 Facade of the library
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| founding | 1907 |
| Duration | over 1,380,000 |
| Library type | library |
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Warsaw 
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| Website | www.koszykowa.pl |
The Warsaw Capital Public Library - Main Library of the Masovian Voivodeship - (Polish: Biblioteka Publiczna m. St. Warszawy - Biblioteka Główna Województwa Mazowieckiego ) is a universal library and the largest public library in Warsaw.
history
The establishment of a public library for scientific and general literature had been the subject of public discussion in Russian-dominated Warsaw since the late 19th century. In 1906 a library society was finally founded for the rapidly growing Polish city, whose members included the mathematician Samuel Dickstein , the writer and librarian Stefan Żeromski and the anthropologist and economist Ludwik Krzywicki . A year later, the Warsaw City Library was established. With the support of Eugenia Kierbedź , which financed a new building and furnishings, the building of the city library in the historicizing style (architect: Jan Fryderyk Heurich ) could be moved into in 1914 . In the time of the Second Republic , the city library played an important role, as it received the right to deposit copies , trained librarians and published a specialist library journal. Before the outbreak of World War II, the library holdings reached a size of around 500,000 items, of which around 300,000 were destroyed and a further 100,000 were stolen. As early as May 26, 1945, the library could be resumed through donations, which had been prevented by the German occupation. The right to deposit copies, granted again in 1946, ensured a steady influx of publications. Overall, it was already possible to resume operations as a public library system with many branches in the different parts of the city. From 1968 to 1973 a new section of the library was constructed. In 1975, the Warsaw City Library became a central national library in Poland. From 1987 to 1991 extensive renovation work was carried out in the building and in 2005/2006 the 100th anniversary of the establishment was celebrated.
Duration
The library's holdings include around 1.5 million books, manuscripts, magazines and other media, both academic and popular, and are open to the public. Special collection areas include media on literature, book studies, art, children and young people, cartography and tourism. The Polish Museum of Children's and Young People's Literature collects its media and conducts research here. The magazine collection of the Warsaw City Library not only covers magazines from the beginning of the 19th century , but also foreign periodicals, journals and reports. The magazine collection comprises a total of over 240,000 copies of which around 25,000 are available in the reading room on site. The collection of old prints comprises 15,000 (including 83 incunabula , the first cookbook in the Polish language, copies from the collections of several Polish kings). The manuscript collection includes 4000.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book and His House - The Warsaw City Library
- ↑ Biblioteka na Koszykowej: O nas ( Memento from October 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )