Prezentacja przygotowana przez Ewę Kobierską-Maciuszko przedstawiająca Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich i polskie czytelnictwo podczas Zjazdu Bibliotekarzy Nigeryjskich.

1. Thanks His Excellency Dr Samuel Jimba

2. 11 June 2013 NIGERIAN LIBRARY
ASSOCIATION (NLA), Calabar
Libraries in Poland
Two Decades of Modernization
Ewa Kobierska-Maciuszko
Polish Librarians’ Association
University of Warsaw Library

3. Poland in Europe:
• 49o
- 55o
N and 14o
- 25o
E
• 312,679 sq km
• 38.5 million people
• Parliamentary Republic
• Member of EU since 2004
source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/

4. Poland
• Geographical diversity:
from Carpathian Mountains to
Baltic seacoast
• Climate: moderate
• Etnic groups: Polish 93.72%,
most of them declare themselves
as Roman Catholics
• Official language: Polish
• Biggest Cities:
– Warsaw (capital), 2.5 mln
people
– Cracow (capital XI-XVI cent.)
• 16 provinces
• GDP (per capita): $13,540

5. Famous people
• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543),
astronomer who formulated a heliocentric
model of the universe
• Frideric Chopin (1810-1849), composer
and virtuoso pianist
• Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
• Lech Wałęsa (1949- ), „SOLIDARITY”
trade union leader

6. Very short book’s history
• 10-15 c. (Middle Ages) – manuscripts gathered by
church libraries and Jagiellonian University (Cracow, 1364)
• 16 c. - 18 c. – prints deluge, Enlightment Age and first
idea of National Library in Poland
• 19 c. – Poland participated between three power
(Russia, Prussia and Austria), lost of governement,
battle for keeping Polish language and culture
• 20 c. – very hard and long century:
– I world war – independent Poland once again
– II world war – lost of 60% library collections
– 1945-1989 – communistic Poland (it was time for industry, not
for libraries:-)
• after 1989 and 21 c. - new ICT and digital libraries

7. Why so great change in 1989 ?
• Policy transformation from communism to
western style democracy
• The end of ‚Cold War’ in Europe
• Economic transformation from ‚soviet
style’ economy to free market
• Openess for new technologies
• Access to European Union (EU) in 2004

8. Libraries in Poland
• 12,000 libraries of all types
• They store over 150 million volumes
• They serve about 8 million users a year
• They employ approximately 70,000
librarians and other staff

9. Library policy in Poland
The libraries in Poland are currently governed by
three ministries:
• the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
– matters relating to the National Library and
public library network;
• the Ministry of Science and Higher Education
– matters relating to academic and research
libraries;
• the Ministry of Education – matters relating to
school and pedagogical libraries.

10. The National Library of Poland
(est. 1928)

11. The National Library of Poland:
• 9 mln vol.
• Legal deposit (two copies of each
publication issued in Poland)
• Two research institutes:
– National Bibliography Institute
– Institute of Books and Reading
• Digital full-text library: POLONA (since 2006)
>> EUROPEANA (www.europeana.eu/portal/ )
• Supervising 16 provincial public libraries

12. Public Libraries [1]
• 16 provincial public libraries financed by regional
governments
• Each regional library supervises a network of
smaller provincial libraries in their region
(district, urban and rural municipalities)
• 8,500 such local libraries in Poland
• They record about 6.5 million visits a year, with
one reader borrowing 18.4 volumes a year on
average.

13. Public Libraries [2]
• In 2011 degree of computerization
reached 91 % for urban libraries and 79 %
for rural libraries.
• This was possible thanks to, among other
sources, EU structural funds and in the
last five years – support from the
Bill&Mel. Gates Foundation

14. School libraries
• 14,500 primary schools,
• 7,000 lower secondary schools
• 12,000 upper secondary schools
• By law all of these are obliged to keep a
school library as an integral part of their
facilities

15. Pedagogical libraries for teachers
• The network of school libraries actively
cooperates with pedagogical libraries, which are
designed to support the training and
professional development of teachers at all
levels.
• Pedagogical libraries are located in provincial
capitals and additionally have branch libraries in
small towns.
• In 2011 there were 350 pedagogical libraries in
Poland.

16. Academic and research libraries
• ~ 370 academic institutions various type
126 public
18 universities (classic)
• ~ 1,9 mln students (360% increase through last 20 years)
• ~ 96,7 thousands academic staf
29,8 thousands university academic staff
• Library budget as a part of University budget: 4,14%
• Library staff as a part of University staff: 4.97%
Certified librarians: 74,15%

17. European environment
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the
Sciences and Humanities:
http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html
• IFLA's three pillars & World Summit on the Information
Society Declaration of Principles:
http://www.ifla.org/III/ThreePillars-compact.pdf
• LIBER: http://www.libereurope.eu/

18. OPAC – library catalogues on-line in Polish
acad.&research libraries
• Access to catalogues via internet:
100%
• Library collection in OPAC as a % of all holdings:
54,49%
• Circulation on-line (booking, reservation etc.):
90,71%

19. University of Warsaw Library (BUW)
- the ‘old’ and ‘new’ building
1895 1999

20. University of Warsaw Library and
Information System – basic information
• The main library (BUW) and 47 faculty libraries
• 6 mln printed volumes (BUW + faculty libr.)
• 1.8 mln volumes circulated per year(BUW + faculty libr.)
• 1.2 mln visits per year (BUW)
• Integrated library system VTLS/Virtua (BUW & 33 faculty
libr.)
• E-resources accessible via internet for students & acad.
staff

21. New Library Building
• The new edifice of the Warsaw University Library is
located on the Vistula river bank within a ten minute walk
from the old Campus; this part of the city is meant by the
municipal authorities to become a new university district
in future, as the direction to the river is the only
possibility for the expansion of the University

23. All routes meet in
the central point, i.e.
the main entrance to
the library under an
open book with the
Latin inscription
”HINC OMNIA”

24. Basic Information
• Investor Warsaw University Foundation
• General design prof.. Marek Budzyński,
Zbigniew Badowski
• General contractor PORR International GmbH
• Total surface 61,000 square meters
• Technical space 12,300 square meters
• Library surface 41,510 square meters
• Cubic content 260,300 cubic meters
• Overground levels 4
• Underground levels 2

25. Basic Information... continued
• Storage capacity 4,000,000 volume
• Readers seats 1,000
• Library staff 275
• Computer network Windows 2003/XP/NT, LINUX
• Library system VTLS/VIRTUA
• Library system server cluster server DELL_INTEL x86
(4*CPU, 128 GB RAM, 2*FC)
• Annual budget [2012] ~5,000,000 EUR

26. Level Zero:
• the entrance complex with
a restaurant, an exhibition
hall and cloakrooms;
• closed compact storage
(45.000 running metres of
shelves, 1.5 million of
volumes );
• staff entrance with the
central dispatcher’s office
supervising all technical
installations;
• conservation and
preservation labs;

27. Level Zero: close compact storage

28. Level 1:
The main catalogue hall
with the main information
stand;
Open stacks area for the
following branches
according to the Library of
Congress Classification:
1) Philosophy,
Psychology, Education,
Religion
2) History
3) Linguistics, Literature
4)Geography,
Mathematics, Natural and
applied Sciences

30. The main catalogue and
information hall

31. Główny hol
katalogowo-
informacyjny

33. Level 2
• main reading room (A-Z
classes – general
reference collection)
• open stacks area for the
following branches
according Library of
Congress Classification:
1) Social Sciences.
Anthropology
2) Law. Political Science
3) Music. Architecture. Fine
Arts
• open stacks area for
current periodicals

34. Main reading room (general reference
collection)

35. Open access area

36. Additional
readers seats
in the ranges
of stocks

37. Current
journals area
and our
youngest
visitor

38. Level 3
• special collection area
with a separate
storeroom for each
collection and small
reading rooms
• stacks area for the
19th
century collection
• single studies on the
mezzanine over the
main reading room

39. Computers in the Library
• Reader’s interface of VTLS/Virtua: on-line catalogue,
login, circulation;
• Access to National Union Catalogue: www.nukat.edu.pl
• Access to e-resources subscribed by the University;
• Access to www (on selected computers)
• Microsoft Office, e-mail (on selected computers)
• Wi-fi at public area

40. History…last 20 years
• 90. – local OPACs development
• After 2000:
– E-journals and database subscription
– NUKAT: the Union Catalog of Polish Research
Libraries
• After 2005 r. – digital libraries (historical
collection)
• Next step: fulltext academic repositoria with
open access to current research and papers

41. After 2000 – NUKAT
Union Catalog of Polish Research Libraries
• 80 academic and research libraries including all
university ones
• More than 1 mln biliographic records with item records
and their location in libraries
• NUKAT Center – a department in University of Warsaw
Library for managment, coordnation and supervising the
work about 800 librarians all over Poland
• Common funds: A. Mellon Foundation, Ministry of
Science special donation, BUW budget

42. 782 364
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748 301
764 653
639 131
449 908
427 693
204 966
152 714
105 132
802 273
857 501913 772
964 382
1 575 590
1 677 6641 731 072
1 620 379
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700 000
900 000
1 100 000
1 300 000
1 500 000
1 700 000
1 900 000
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
pobrania
wypożyczenia
University of Warsaw Libraries. E-resources and printed
books (loading and borrowing)
2003-2012

43. Library and Information Science Education
• Staff training for librarians takes place on professional
and academic levels and meets the standards and
procedures of the Bologna Process:
http://www.ehea.info/.
• LIS Institutes at 8 universities
• Librarians’ mobility has increased with the opening of
European borders. Librarians participate in life-long
training available under various EU programmes with the
participation of libraries from other European countries.

44. Polish Librarians Association - PLA
(Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich – SBP)
www.sbp.pl
• Est. 1917
• The biggest self-governed non-profit
organization at the book, library &
information brand
• Gates’ Foundation partner with Global
Libraries Program

45. Mission
Acting for librarianship development,
building professional identity, community
integration and creating positive social
image of our profession.

46. Strategy 2013-2021: strategic objectives
• Getting real impact for library policy-making and
library practice in Poland
• Being partner for other gov. and non-gov.
organizations and institutions with building the
information society
• Increasing of librarian’s profession social
prestige
• Increasing role of PLA for LIS community
integration
• Increasing access to all forms of modern
education for every librarian

47. References
• Books in Poland : past and present / by Barbara Bieńkowska and Halina Chamerska ; ed. and
transl. by Wojciech Zalewski and Eleanor R. Payne. Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz, 1990
• Library automation in transitional societies: lessons from Eastern Europe/ ed. By Andrew
Lass&Richard E. Quandt. New York; Oxford 2000
• Dżurak, E., Kasprzyk, A. Metamorphosis of academic libraries in post-communist Poland:
focusing on access. “Journal of Academic Librarianship”, 2010, Vol. 36 Issue 4, s. 354-358
• All the figures in this presentation after: http://www.stat.gov.pl/gus/index_ENG_HTML.htm;
http://ssk2.bu.amu.edu.pl/standaryzacja/; http://biurose.sejm.gov.pl/teksty_pdf_01/i-797.pdf
• The success story of Digital Libraries in Poland [e-document] : from a software to a national
federated system : case study / Matylda Filas, Karolina Mnich, Zuzanna Wiorogórska.
Warszawa : Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, 2010: http://ebuw.uw.edu.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=16094
• Public Libraries in figures, 2010: http://www.bn.org.pl/download/document/1314087448.pdf
• Polish Libraries Today: http://www.bn.org.pl/wydawnictwa/czasopisma-bn/polish-libraries-
today
• EBIB - Electronic Library – portal for librarians: http://www.nowyebib.info/en/bulletin-ebib-
abstracts
• The Act of Sept. 7, 1991 on the System of Education:
http://bip.men.gov.pl/men_bip/akty_pr_1997-2006/ustawa_o_systemie_%20oswiaty.pdf

48. Thank you for your attention
e.maciuszko@uw.edu.pl
www.sbp.pl
www.buw.uw.edu.pl