National Muzeum in Szczecin
Staromłyńska 27 St.
70-561 Szczecin
phone. (+48) 797 705 213 / 264
fax 91 43 15 204
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The Library of the National Museum in Szczecin collects scientific publications. Its holdings include books, periodicals and special collections – old prints (among others, related to Pomerania), manuscripts, documents of life of the society.
The library holdings amount to ca. ninety thousand volumes. They include Polish and foreign publications, most of all, related to the fields of:
- art (including theory, history and reviews, museum collections catalogues, Polish and foreign exhibition catalogues, monographs on artists),
- archaeology,
- ethnography,
- ethnology,
- history,
- numismatics,
- museum studies,
- relic protection and conservation,
- a range of maritime issues,
- related fields.
The library collectiion owns unique publications related to Pomerania (the 19th and the 20th centuries). They include: Pommersches Urkundenbuch (Stettin 1870–1990), Pomerania (Stettin 1844, 1946), Pommersche Genealogien (Greifswald 1873, 1878; Berlin 1878), M. Wehrmann, Die pommerschen Zeitungen und Zeitschriften in alter und neuer Zeit (Pyritz 1936), Stettiner Museumsverein (Stettin 1934, 1939), or Settin : [Neuere Bauten der Stadt Stettin] (Charlotenburg 1921) and periodicals: Baltische Studien, Monatsblätter, or Pommersches Heimatkalender. The library collection of old prints includes: D. Cramer, Das grosse Pomrische Kirchen Chronicon (Alten Stettin 1628), J. Micraelius, Altes Pommerland (Alten Stettin 1639), Agenda (…) für die Kirchen In Pommern (Alten Stettin 1691), Ch. Neubaurn, Vera architecturae militaris Praxis (Stargard in Pommern 1679) or Pommerscher Kriegs-Postillion (Leipzig 1677).
The Library of the National Museum in Szczecin is a member of Zachodniopomorskie Porozumienie Bibliotek (West-Pomeranian Library Association). Digital catalogue of the library is available on Zachodniopomorskim Systemie Informacji Region@lnej i N@ukowej RoKaBi (West-Pomeranian Regional and Scientific Information System RoKaBi). The Library cooperates with Zachodniopomorską Biblioteką Cyfrową ZBC (West-Pomeranian Digital Library).
Staff
Marta Kurzyńska (manager), mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Adriana Jędrzejczak, mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Reading room
Opening hours
- Monday–Friday, 8.00–15.30
Offer:
- wireless Internet,
- two computers with the access to the Internet,
Collection access and reproduction
- Readers from outside the Museum may use the collection in the reading room only,
- outside borrowings are done on the basis of an inter-library form,
- taking photographs with the reader's own equipment is allowed, unless the objects are not subject to special protection.
Catalogues
Digital catalogues of the Library are in use since November 2012. They fully cover the newest acquirements only. Retrospective records are being made systematically according to the possibilities of the Library. Monthly lists of acquisitions are uploaded in the catalogue site: Wirtualne Półki ► Publ. Nowozainwent._ …
Catalogues
- alphabetical card catalogue of books and periodicals,
- subject card catalogue of the library holdings,
- card catalogue of old prints,
- on-line (KOHA.pl).
Bibliographical databases (own):
- bibliography of content of periodicals (history, art, archaeology of Western Pomerania),
- bibliography of archaeological material of Western Pomerania of "Materiały Zachodniopomorskie" (MZP)
– by M.D Wołągiewicz, by M. Kurzyńska
Digital databases:
Articles related to the Library
- M. Kurzyńska, Biblioteka Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie – burzliwe losy budowania księgozbioru. (The Library of the National Museum in Szczecin – Dramatic Fates of the Building of the Collection) „Bibliotekarz Zachodniopomorski” 2011, nr 3, s. 83–97.
- M. Kurzyńska, Kolekcja starych druków Biblioteki Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie. (The Collection of Old Prints of the Library of the National Museum in Szczecin) „Cenne/Bezcenne, Utracone” 2012, nr 4/73, s. 22–25.
Presentations regarding the Library
- M. Kurzyńska, Druki pomorskie w kolekcji starych druków Biblioteki Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie na tle zasobów bibliotek muzeów Pomorza Zachodniego [prezentacja]. (Pomeranian Prints in the Collection of Old Prints of the Library of the National Museum in Szczecin in the Eye of The Library Holdings of West-Pomeranian Museums) [presentation] Piśmiennictwo na Pomorzu Zachodnim do końca XVIII wieku. Międzynarodowa konferencja naukowa, Uniwersytet Szczeciński, 8–9.12.2014.
- M. Kurzyńska, Biblioteka Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie Przemiany i perspektywy rozwoju [prezentacja] (The Library of the National Museum in Szczecin. Transitions and Development Outlooks). [presentation]. Stan i perspektywy rozwoju bibliotek zachodniopomorskich – 10 lat później. Sympozjum Zachodniopomorskiego Porozumienia Bibliotek, Uniwersytet Szczeciński, 2.12.2014.
- M. Kurzyńska, Kolekcje starych druków w bibliotekach muzealnych obszaru woj. zachodniopomorskiego – historia i współczesność. Zarys problematyki [prezentacja] (Collections of Old Prints in Museum Libraries of West-Pomeranian Voivodeship – the History and the Present. The General Outline of the Subject) [presentation]. Zbiory specjalne w bibliotekach polskich - problematyka badawcza i organizacyjna. Ogólnopolska konferencja naukowa, Książnica Pomorska w Szczecinie, 14–15.11.2013.
- M. Kurzyńska, Powojenne losy Biblioteki Muzeum Narodowego w Szczecinie jako jedno ze świadectw perturbacji poniemieckich księgozbiorów na Ziemiach Odzyskanych [prezentacja] (Postwar History of the Library of the National Museum in Szczecin as a Testimony to Perturbations Regarding Former German Library Collections in Recovered Territories) [presentation]. Księgozbiory rozproszone. Losy księgozbiorów historycznych po II wojnie światowej. Ogólnopolska konferencja naukowa, Muzeum w Malborku, 19.10.2012.
Useful links
On-line catalogues of Polish libraries:
- FIDES - Federacja Bibliotek Kościelnych (Federation of the Church Libraries)
- NUKAT – Centralny Katalog Polskich Bibliotek Naukowych (Central Catalogue of Polish Scientific Libraries)
- KARO – Rozproszony Katalog Bibliotek Polskich (Disturbed Catalogue of Polish Libraries)
On-line catalogues of foreign libraries:
- Biblioteka Europejska (The European Library)
- Biblioteki na świecie (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog KVK)
Western Pomerania
- Bibliografia historii Pomorza Wschodniego i Zachodniego oraz krajów regionu Bałtyku (Bibliography of History of Eastern and Western Pomerania and Countries of the Baltic Sea Region)
- Bibliografia Pomorza Zachodniego (Bibliography of Western Pomerania)
- Bibliografii Pomorza Gdańskiego i Środkowego (Bibliography of Pomerelia and Middle Pomerania)
- Bibliografia Meklemburgii-Pomorza Przedniego (Landesbibliographie Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Bibliography of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
- Encyklopedia Pomorza Zachodniego (Encyclopedia of Western Pomerania)
- Koszalińska Bibliografia Regionalna (Regional Bibliography of Koszalin)
- Lubuska Bibliografia Regionalna (Nowa Marchia) - Lubusz Regional Bibliography (Neumark)
- RoK@Bi - Centralny Katalog Rozproszonych Zasobów Bibliotek Szczecina i Regionu (Central Catalogue of Scattered Library Collections of Szczecin and the Region)
- ZBC Pomerania - Zachodniopomorska Biblioteka Cyfrowa (West-Pomeranian Digital Library)
Varia:
- ART-Dok – repository of art history / University of Heidelberg
- Artlibraries.net – art history / multi-catalogue of libraries of the world
- CeON – repository of Centre for Open Science
- Getty Conservation Institute (full content of the publications)
- Kubikat – art history / multi-catalogue of libraries of German scientific and university institutes