“So we did not go to politics. It was politics that came to us” – the role of librarian in the stalinist period (in Polish librarianship journals)
Journal Title: Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi - Year 2018, Vol 12, Issue 0
Abstract
Polish librarianship in the stalinist period (1948-1956) had to face new challenges. In the changed political and social reality, both the role of a librarian and the functions performed by public and scientific libraries had to be redefined. The profile of vocational education also changed. From the various materials (papers, guidelines of the party and departmental authorities, reports, protocols of the Polish Librarians and Archivists Union) published in professional journals of the time – „Przegląd Biblioteczny”, „Bibliotekarz” and „Poradnik Bibliotekarza” – it appears that librarians had to focus on the ideological aspect of their work, educating the reader in the socialist spirit.
Authors and Affiliations
Agnieszka Łuszpak
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP431203
- DOI 10.33077/zbkh.2018.12.luszpak
- Views 57
- Downloads 0
«The noblest from among all bookplates». Commentaries to the Book by Arkadiusz Wagner The Polish Supralibros. The study on Bibliophile Culture and Art from Medieval Ages up to the mid 17th Century, Toruń 2016
The article results from a critical lecture of the book, written by the art historian and bibliologist Arkadiusz Wagner from Toruń 2016. This is the first in Polish academic literature complete monography of supralibros...
Polskie kolekcje w Oddziale Rzadkich Ksiąg Obwodowej Uniwersalnej Biblioteki Naukowej w Samarze
Artykuł zawiera krótki opis kolekcji polskich i poloników przechowywanych w Oddziale Rzadkich Ksiąg Obwodowej Uniwersalnej Biblioteki Naukowej w Samarze. Zbiór ten obejmuje ponad 800 publikacji wydanych na terenie Polski...
Libraries and librarians of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PUWP) agendas in Mazovia region in the years 1949-1954 in the light of the documents of Central Committee of Polish Workers’ Party and Warsaw Voivodship PUWP Committee
The article presents situation of the libraries of municipal and local PUWP committees of Warsaw Voivodship (according to then administrative division of a country) as well as their influence on reading behaviour of part...
The search for copies of the Anatome Testudinis Europaeae in European and American libraries
For several years now, Cercle d'Histoire Alsace-Lithuania has been carrying out an action aimed at complementing and popularizing knowledge about Ludwik Henryk Bojanus (1776-1827), an Alsatian naturalist and professor at...
Benedictina from Tyniec in Lviv
Library Collections Manuscripts and printed books have been created, copied and gathered in Poland’s oldest benedictine abbey in Tyniec for centuries. The decision to dissolute the monastery resulted in scattering this r...