Shared European Heritage
16th
– 18th century prints from the collections of the University Library of Wrocław,
the National Library, Pomeranian Library in Szczecin, and Gdańsk Library of the
Polish Academy of Sciences
Catalog
of Microfilms
Prints
were cataloged and microfilmed thanks to the financial support of
the
Foundation for the Polish-German Cooperation with the means of the Federal
Republic of Germany, and thanks to
the
Foundation Robert-Bosch-Stiftung, within the frames of the project called
“Shared European Heritage”.
The
goal of the project was to microfilm and to create a computer database including
records covering 16th – 18th century prints published
within the territory of Silesia, Pomerania, and Eastern Prussia. To some extent
the project included also prints published in the central Poland, restricting
however the scope to language and contents criteria. In the case of publications
consisting of physically separate items bound together into one unit, the
assumption was made to catalog and microfilm all prints bound together, no
matter of their publication place.
The
catalog covers collections of four libraries: the National Library in Warsaw,
the University Library of Wrocław, Pomeranian Library in Szczecin, and Gdańsk
Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The cumulated database provides access
to almost 35,000 uniform bibliographic descriptions of microfilms in MARC 21
format (ca. 39,000 item records). Publishing offices from Silesia are predominantly
represented in the database: almost 10,000 descriptions of prints published
in Wrocław, 1,500 – in Legnica, over 1,000 – in Brzeg, and the same number –
in Oleśnica. Prints from Królewiec constitute a rich collection – 3,500. From
those published in Pomerania, 3,000 prints had been published in Szczecin, whereas
2,500 in Gdańsk.
Name headings’ selection was based on entries derived from national bibliographies. Publication place names, now within the territory of Poland, are given in Polish, whereas the remaining names – in the form used in the country of publication. However, there are three exceptions from this rule – Królewiec, Wilno and Lwów – to comply with the long tradition of their use in Polish libraries.
Catalog
description contains basic bibliographic data covering microfilmed print, i.e.,
author, title, imprint (place of publication, distribution, etc., name of
publisher, distributor, etc., date of publication, distribution, etc.), and
microfilm holdings information, as well as its physical description (library,
kind of film, number of rolls, frames). One can search the database via 9
indexes: name [osobowy], corporate bodies [korporatywny], title [tytułowy],
publication/printing place [miejsc_wyd.], publication date [chronol.], microfilm
call number [sygnatur], microfilm number [nr_mikrof.], library [bibliotek], and
words in titles [słów_w_tyt.]. Name index includes name headings of authors and
of the other authors of the book (e.g. printer, distributor, translator).
Library index can provide access to descriptions of microfilms preserved in a
particular library.
The National Library in Warsaw
–
14,500 microfilms
Pomeranian Library in Szczecin – 2,500 microfilms
Gdańsk Library of the Polish
Academy of Sciences
– 2,500 microfilms
Any
remarks relating to bibliographic descriptions should be directed to:
Requests pertaining to the access of microfilms should be directed to libraries that preserve them.
Note! While searching the database
we recommend the use of Internet Explorer browser
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letters with diacritical marks shall not display correctly.
Biblioteka Narodowa
al. Niepodległości 213
02-086 Warszawa
