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

Szczecin Szczecin (, , german: Stettin ; sv, Stettin ; Latin: ''Sedinum'' or ''Stetinum'') is the capital and largest city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in northwestern Poland. Located near the Baltic Sea and the German border, it is a major s ...

(formerly Stettin),

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. It is the largest humanities oriented library in

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, with a focus on social sciences,

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n and

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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.

German stage of the history

It was decided to establish a public library in 1901, and material was acquired from the Council Library, the library of the Pomeranian Museum and in 1904 the city school library. The library itself was opened 3 October 1905, and material has been acquired from various sources subsequently.

Polish stage of the history

On July 12, 1945, the City Library in Szczecin, resumed its activities as the first Polish library in the city destroyed during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. Systematic removal of the effects of war and ordering of the collections were undergone from the first months after the end of the war. Ownership was transferred from central to local government in 1990. Książnica organizes scientific meetings, among others on the history of

, and exhibitions with artistic works and presentations on the history of books in the region of Szczecin and entire Pomerania. Recent projects have included microfilming the most valuable documents. The library has about 300,000 registered readers. The English name of 'Książnica' in catalogue (database) http://www.worldcat.org is 'Central Library of the West Pomeranian Province'.

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