Despite the fact that bibliotherapy is a relatively new subject of academic study, its origins as a cultural phenomenon date back to the ancient times. In European culture one can find numerous metaphors related to the ...

The article discusses the history of persecution of Jewish books after Hitler’s gained power. It also describes the fate of Jewish libraries and books in the Lodz ghetto. Apart from the pre-war J. W. Zonnenberg’s Lending ...

Since 2008, the staff of the Institute of Scientific Information and Book Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun established the scientific journal entitled “Bibliological Studies of Torun”. The basic idea ...

The article features traditions and fates of Cracow press related with “Solidarity” movement following 1989. In a period preceding this date, 281 newspapers with roots in the Solidarity movement were published in Cracow ...

The article focuses on Internet magazines which specialise in fantasy. Nowadays many writers make their debut via Internet periodicals, although writers who are already well known to the public also publish there. It ...

The paper presents the development of educational programs of the Chair of Library and Information Science at the University of Lodz. It also gives a brief overview of evolving its syllabuses. The comparative analysis ...

The novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1911, has been on school reading lists and enjoyed great popularity since the beginning, a proof of which can be seen from the number of over 150 reprints. The work has been ...

This article analyses most important phenomena, events and trends connected with the history of literature and readership at the time of the German Democratic Republic and after 1990 in the eastern part of Germany. The ...

The survey was held in the middle of 2011 which aimed to establish the existing employment policy in Lodz academic and public libraries. The authors attempted to examine the actual state of employment and personnel policy ...