The Pomeranian Library (), in full Stanisław Staszic Pomeranian Library (Polish: ''Książnica Pomorska im. Stanisława Staszica'') is a Regional Library based in

Szczecin Szczecin ( , , ; ; ; or ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the Poland-Germany border, German border, it is a major port, seaport, the la ...

(formerly Stettin),

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. It is the largest humanities oriented library in West Pomerania, with a focus on social sciences,

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subjects and Seamanship. The library possesses also general scientific reading room with books from other fields of science, including mathematics, natural and medical sciences.

History

The library was founded as the City Library of Szczecin in 1905, and housed in a 1868 building originally designed to serve as a secondary school. Ksiaznica Pomorska w Szczecinie wnetrze

During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

part of the library building was destroyed due to air raid bombing. Upon World War II ending, the library reopened on the 12th of July, 1945. It was the first Polish library in the city to reopen post-war. Ownership was transferred from central to local government in 1990. On the 3rd of October 1994 the library was renamed to become the Pomeranian Library. In 2009 the library opened a digital collection, allowing for online access of records and collections.

References

External links

The website i
www.ksiaznica.szczecin.pl
(in Polish).

Literature

* Bernhard Fabian, Marzena Zacharska, Todorka Nikolova: ''Handbuch deutscher historischer Buchbestände in Europa. Polen und Bulgarien''. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1999, , S. 165f. * Książnica Pomorska im. Stanisława Staszica w Szczecinie (Hrsg.): ''Schätze der Pommerschen Bibliothek Szczezin'', 4. veränderte Auflage, Szczecin, Poland (2010), *Stephanie Funk: Östlich der Oder: Polen und sein Bibliothekswesen. In: LIBREAS. Library Ideas 04/2006. Libraries in Poland Libraries established in 1901 {{Poland-stub