Weronika Pawłowicz
Biblioteka Śląska, Katowice, Poland
werpaw5@gmail.com

doi: 10.19090/cit.2017.31.33-37
No. 31 (November 2017), p. 33–37

Silesian Library in Katowice and Its Collection

Summary

The Silesian Library in Katowice is a public library with a scientific profile which also performs the functions of a regional library. It was founded in 1922 as the Library of the Silesian Parliament and in 1936 became an independent institution named Józef Piłsudski Silesian Public Library. In 1952, the Library received the name Silesian Library and was proclaimed a scientific library. Today the collection of the Silesian Library counts more than 2.5 million items: books, periodicals, social life documents as well as special collections: manuscripts, old prints, cartographic materials, graphics, leaflets, music, records and films. Among them are many very valuable and a few unique ones, like Exercitia spiritualia by Saint Ignatius of Loyola (Amacusa 1596) and Jakob en zijn Heer by Diderot (Hague 1793). A lot of items from the collection of the Silesian Library can be seen in their digital version via the Silesian Digital Library.

Keywords:

Silesian Library, Katowice, special collections, manuscripts, Library of the Lviv Theatre, old prints, graphics, cartographic materials, ephemera, Silesian Digital Library

Submitted: 9th September 2017
Correction to the manuscript: 3rd October 2017
Accepted for publication: 7th October 2017

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