The Polish Librarians’ Association in IFLA. Origins of collaboration
Andrzej Mężyński
Abstrakt
Thesis/purpose of the article – The article recalls the historical circumstances in which the Polish Librarians’ Union joined the IFLA in 1928. It describes the contribution of Polish librarians to the work of this organisation, especially to its annual sessions and also to the work of its subcommittees. Methodology – the primary source used is IFLA’s main publication, Actes du Comité international des Bibliothèques. Polish sources and documentary materials were also used. Results/conclusions – Poland joined the IFLA at an early stage, which allowed our country to follow global tendencies in library practice, and to implement some of them domestically. Poland’s contribution to IFLA’s work was not very significant, as at that time the Polish librarians’ community was in its formative stage, following the pe[1]riod of the country’s partition, and its intellectual centres had not developed yet.
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Biogram:
Andrzej Mężyński, Doctor Habilitatus of historical studies (habilitation in Poznań, 1989), worked in the years 1961-2003 at research libraries such as the Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1961-1980), the University of Warsaw Library, and later as the Director of the Sejm Library. In 2003-2009 he was professor at the Institute of Library and Information Science at the University of Wrocław. Co-founder (1988) and Vice-President of the Polish Bibliological Society, he is the author of nine books on library science, the history of the Polish book in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the history of Polish libraries during World War II, the most recent one being Biblioteki Warszawy w latach 1939- 1945 [Warsaw Libraries 1939-1945], published in Warsaw in 2010.
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