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Warsaw Public Library – Central Library of the Masovian Voivodeship (Polish: Biblioteka Publiczna m.st. Warszawy – Biblioteka Główna Województwa Mazowieckiego) is a public library serving as the main city public library of Warsaw, as well as of the Masovian Voivodeship, and one of the largest in Poland.
The National Library (Polish: Biblioteka Narodowa, BN) is the national library of Poland, subject directly to the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.The main seat of the National Library is located in the Ochota district of Warsaw, adjacent to the Mokotów Field.
The University of Warsaw Library (Polish: Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie, BUW) is a library of the University of Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816 following the formation of the Royal Warsaw University, it was led by the first director Samuel Linde, a linguist and educator. By 1831, the library housed over 134,000 volumes.
The library was the first Polish public library, the largest library in Poland, and one of the earliest public libraries in Europe. [1] [2] After the Kościuszko Uprising (1794), Russian troops, acting on orders from Czarina Catherine II, seized the library's holdings and transported them to her personal collection at Saint Petersburg, where a year later it formed the cornerstone of the newly ...
The library preserves most valuable items and arranges their conservation and restoration process. Since 2016, digital copies are published in Fides' Digital Library and Polona (National Library of Poland digital library). The Main Library building has 1507 m 2 of space. Users can access the library's collection in two Reading Rooms (main and ...
The most important library in terms of historic document collections is the National Library of Poland. The library holds 8.2 million volumes in its collection. [205] Formed in 1928, [206] it sees itself as a successor to the Załuski Library, the biggest in Poland and one of the first and biggest libraries in the world. [206] [207]
Krasiński Library (Biblioteka Krasińskich w Warszawie) was a library in Warsaw, founded in 1844. During the German invasion and occupation of Poland, part of the building was destroyed and its collections were stolen, redistributed, or burned. Its surviving collections are now at the National Library of Poland.
National Library of Poland (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Libraries in Warsaw" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.