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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 library was founded in 1907 by the Public Library Society, which was formed by foremost Polish educators and intelligentsia, such as Stanisław Leszczyński, Samuel Dickstein, Ludwik Krzywicki and Stefan Żeromski. Since 1914, the library had been located on Koszykowa Street in a building originally designed by Jan Fryderyk Heurich ...
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 Jagiellonian Library (Polish: Biblioteka Jagiellońska, popular nickname Jagiellonka) is the library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and with almost 6.7 million volumes, one of the largest libraries in Poland, serving as a public library, university library and part of the Polish national library system. [2]
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.
Stanisława Staszica) is a Regional Library based in Szczecin (formerly Stettin), Poland. It is the largest humanities oriented library in West Pomerania, with a focus on social sciences, Pomeranian, Scandinavian and German subjects and Seamanship. The library possesses also general scientific reading room with books from other fields of ...
Pages in category "Libraries in Poland" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Voivodeship and Municipal Public Library, Bydgoszcz
Pages in category "National Library of Poland" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.