Jagiellonian Library

Jagiellonian Library
Biblioteka Jagiellońska
Jagiellonian Library main building
Map
50°03′41″N 19°55′25″E / 50.0615°N 19.9236°E / 50.0615; 19.9236
LocationKraków, Poland
TypeNational library
Established1364 (660 years ago) (1364)
Collection
Size6,603,824[1]
Access and use
Circulation600,198 in reading rooms and outside
Other information
DirectorProf. dr hab. Zdzisław Pietrzyk
Websitewww.bj.uj.edu.pl

The Jagiellonian Library (Polish: Biblioteka Jagiellońska, popular nickname Jagiellonka) is the library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and with almost 6.7 million volumes, one of the largest libraries in Poland, serving as a public library, university library and part of the Polish national library system.[2] It has a large collection of medieval manuscripts, for example the autograph of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus and Jan Długosz's Banderia Prutenorum, and a large collection of underground literature (so-called drugi obieg or samizdat) from the period of communist rule in Poland (1945–1989). The Jagiellonian also houses the Berlinka art collection, whose legal status is in dispute with Germany.[3]

  1. ^ Website of the library, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), last accessed August 20, 2010
  2. ^ Official national library of Poland is the National Library of Poland in Warsaw; however Jagiellonian Library is considered a part of the Narodowy Zasób Biblioteczny. It was the National Library before the creation of the National Library in Warsaw, and today it contains the National Library collection for the period before 1801.
  3. ^ Hermes Malopolska, Zbiory Berlinki w Krakowie Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, last accessed August 18, 2010