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Department of Information, Library and Book Studies at University of Lodz

Department of Information, Library and Book Studies at University of Lodz

Katedra Informatologii i Bibliologii Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Established	1945
Parent institution	University of Lodz
Address	171/173 Pomorska Street , Lodz , Poland

The University of Lodz's Department of Information, Library and Book Studies is a didactic and scientific division that is a component of the Faculty of Philology's organizational framework. Dedicated to book and library science, it was Poland's first establishment, founded in 1945. It took part in putting into practice Poland's first book knowledge study program. The Department's present location is the University of Lodz's new Faculty of Philology building, located at 171/173 Pomorska Street in Lodz.

History

Prof. Jan Muszkowski organized the Department and started conducting scientific and research activities in 1945. Muszkowski started teaching students without waiting for the Ministry of Education to approve the curriculum. In 1948, Adam Łysakowski became the first person in Poland who received a habilitation in book science, even though the field was still in its infancy.

Helena Więckowska took over as the Department's head following the passing of Jan Muszkowski. For seventy years, the University of Lodz has trained librarians exclusively inside the Faculty of Philological Faculty, after the partition of the Faculty of Humanities in 1951 into the Faculty of History and Social Sciences, and the Faculty of Philology. A unified, national library science curriculum was introduced in 1976 and was taught at all Polish universities' training facilities for library science experts.

The department’s location has shifted four times since the 1960s. Starting from the University of Lodz Library Building and moving down Kociuszko Street, Matejki Street, and finally Pomorska Street, the Faculty of Philology's building. The department has been located there since 2014.

Heads of Department

Following Professor J. Muszkowski's passing in 1953, Professor. Helena Więckowska, a historian, bibliologist, librarian, and director of the University Library in Lodz, took over as head of the department. The department's head was appointed prof. dr hab. Boleslaw Swiderski, a librarian and scholar of library science, in 1969. Prof. Hanna Tadeusiewicz, a polonist, bibliologist, and press specialist, has been in charge since 1987. Subsequently, the director of the department was dr hab. Jadwiga Konieczna, who also chairs the editorial committee of the magazine "Bibliotekarz" and the University of Lodz Library Council. Since 2015, prof. UL, dr hab. Mariola Antczak, an information scientist and bibliologist, has held the role of head.

Activities and didactics

the Department's employees have a very broad and diverse range of scientific interests. It has multidisciplinary components in addition to the usual bibliological problems. The employees also organize numerous conferences, workshops, lectures, seminars and exhibitions. They also edit the scientific periodical "Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Librorum".

The department currently offers a bachelor's degree program called Information in the Digital Environment and a master's degree program called Information Science with Business English.

Research workers

• prof. UL, dr hab. Mariola Antczak
• dr Alina Brzuska-Kępa
• dr Grzegorz Czapnik
• dr Zbigniew Gruszka
• dr hab. Stanisława Kurek vel Kokocińska
• dr Monika Wachowicz
• dr hab. Agata Walczak-Niewiadomska
• prof. dr hab. Andrzej Wałkówski
• dr Michał Żytomirski