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30<br />

pomysł na Śląsk<br />

a concept for Silesia<br />

Do biblioteki nie tylko po książkę<br />

The library – not only books<br />

Nowa siedziba Biblioteki przy placu Rady Europy w Katowicach<br />

The Library's new premises at the Plac Rady Europy in <strong>Katowice</strong><br />

Biblioteka Śląska, jedna z najnowocześniejszych tego typu placówek<br />

w Europie, już od 85. lat działa na kulturalnej i oświatowej<br />

niwie Śląska. Jest jednocześnie największą placówką<br />

publiczną i naukową w regionie. Gmach Biblioteki przy placu<br />

Rady Europy na dobre wrósł w katowicki krajobraz, stając się<br />

ikoną stolicy Śląska.<br />

Początki Biblioteki związane są z powrotem Górnego Śląska<br />

do Polski i powołaniem Sejmu Śląskiego we wrześniu 1922 r.<br />

Biblioteka powstała jako księgozbiór podręczny, gromadzony<br />

w Biurze Sejmu Śląskiego dla potrzeb parlamentarzystów. Mieściła<br />

się w gmachu Śląskiego Urzędu Wojewódzkiego, w którym<br />

odbywały się posiedzenia Sejmu (obecnie siedziba<br />

Akademii Muzycznej przy ul. Wojewódzkiej), a później w gma-<br />

Budynek Szkoły Rzemiosł Artystycznych w Katowicach, obecnie Akademii Muzycznej,<br />

pierwszej siedziby Biblioteki Sejmu Śląskiego / The School of Fine Arts and Handicrafts<br />

building in <strong>Katowice</strong>, the initial premises of the Library of the Silesian Sejm, currently<br />

the Academy of Music<br />

The 85 year-old Silesian Library is one of the most modern libraries<br />

of its type in Europe. It is the largest public and research<br />

institution in the region. The building on the Plac Rady Europy<br />

has become one of <strong>Katowice</strong>’s icons.<br />

The library’s beginnings date back to the return of Upper Silesia<br />

to Poland and the inauguration of the Silesian Parliament in September<br />

1922. It was founded as a reference library for the parliamentarians<br />

and was housed in the building of the Silesian<br />

Governor’s Office, where the Sejm sat (currently the building<br />

housing the Academy of Music on ul. Wojewodzka), until it<br />

moved to the building of the Governor’s Office on ul Jagiellonska.<br />

In 1934 an important decree in the development of the library<br />

was handed down, granting the library access to a copy of<br />

each important publication in the Silesian region. The first significant<br />

acquisition was the private collection of Konstanty Prus<br />

(at that time, the largest in the region) as well as the collection<br />

of the Society of Friends of Learning in Silesia. Particularly important<br />

were the gifts of the Lvovian Ossolineum, which included<br />

Oswald Balzer’s private book collection, and the entire collection<br />

belonging to the director of the Ossolineum, Ludwik Bernacki.<br />

During the difficult war years the library was annexed by the<br />

Schlesische Landesbücherei and was mainly used by the Germans.<br />

After World War ll, the library was moved to ul Francuska<br />

in <strong>Katowice</strong>, where already in January 1945, work was begun on<br />

cataloguing and compiling back copies missing from collections.<br />

In 1952, the Council of Ministers recognised the importance of<br />

the Silesian Library as a research institution and in 1969 decreed<br />

that it would join only a handful of libraries in Poland to hold<br />

stores of obligatory copies of major national publications.

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