National Library of Poland
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The National Library (Polish: Biblioteka Narodowa) is the central Polish library, subject directly to the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.
National Library | |
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Biblioteka Narodowa | |
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Location | Warsaw, Poland |
Type | National library |
Established | August 8, 1747 (276 years ago) (1747-08-08) as Załuski Library February 24, 1928 (96 years ago) (1928-02-24) as National Library |
Collection | |
Size | 9,728,855 (As of 2019)[1] |
Legal deposit | Yes |
Other information | |
Director | Tomasz Makowski |
Website | www |
The library collects books, journals, electronic and audiovisual publications published in the territory of Poland, as well as Polonica published abroad. It is the most important humanities research library, the main archive of Polish writing and the state centre of bibliographic information about books. It also plays a significant role as a research facility and is an important methodological center for other Polish libraries.
The National Library was one of the first libraries in Europe that fulfilled the tasks of a modern national library in developing collections covering the entire body of Polish literature and making available to the public.[2]
Literature and making those works accessible to the public receives a copy of every book published in Poland as legal deposit. The Jagiellonian Library is the only other library in Poland to have a national library status.