This is a list of libraries in Poland. As of 2015, there were around 8,050 public libraries and 1,001 research libraries in the country. In 2012 there were around 20,400 school libraries.^[1]

Libraries by province

Defunct

• Baworowscy Library, Lwow

See also

• Legal deposit in Poland
• List of libraries damaged during World War II#Poland
• Mass media in Poland
• Open access in Poland
• Polish literature

in Polish

• Libraries in Poland (in Polish)
• Public libraries in Poland (in Polish)
• Federation of Digital Libraries, Poland (in Polish)^[6]
• List of state archives in Poland (in Polish)

References

Further reading

• "Libraries: Poland", Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 14 (14th ed.), London, 1929, p. 20 – via HathiTrust{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Adam Lewak; Anna M. Lipska; Irene M. Sokol (1962). "The Archives and Libraries of Warsaw During World War II, 1939-1945". The Polish Review. 7. JSTOR 25776401.
• Danuta M. Gorecki (1976). "The Development of Public Libraries in Poland: Some Socio-Historical Considerations". Journal of Library History. 11. JSTOR 25540669.
• Stefan Kubów (1990). "Publications on the History of Books and Libraries in Poland, 1981-1988". Libraries & Culture. 25. JSTOR 25542227.
• Marek Sroka (November 2000). "Soldiers of the Cultural Revolution: The Stalinization of Libraries and Librarianship in Poland, 1945-1953". Library History. 16. doi:10.1179/lib.2000.16.2.105.
• Edward Kasinec; Robert H. Davis Jr. (2001). "Central and Eastern European Libraries". In David H. Stam (ed.). International Dictionary of Library Histories. Vol. 1. Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 39+. ISBN 1579582443. (includes brief section about Poland)
• "Poland". World Guide to Libraries 2017. Vol. 1 (32nd ed.). Germany: De Gruyter Saur. 2017. p. 550+. ISBN 9783110517514 – via Internet Archive.
• Polish Libraries, National Library of Poland, ISSN 2353-1835, 2017–present. In English.
• Jadwiga Woźniak-Kasperek (2017), "Poland: Libraries and Archives", in John D. McDonald; Michael Levine-Clark (eds.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, vol. 6 (4th ed.), US: CRC Press

External links

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• "Bibliography Search: Poland", Bibliography of Library History, 1990-Present, US: American Library Association Library History Round Table – via Penn State University Libraries
• "Library Map of the World: Poland", ifla.org, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions