Past and present activity of St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia is discussed. The library in question, the largest and the oldest cultural institution in Bulgaria, continues performing its traditional tasks alongside the implementation of new technologies and virtual services. Furthermore, it participates in many new international projects and conducts research in the field of library science, book studies, publishing, archiving, restoration and conservation of manuscripts.
At the beginning author presents situations of Catholic press in Poland after 1945. “Tygodnik Warszawski” published between 1945–1948 and was an important organ of Katolickie Towarzystwo Wydawnicze “Rodzina Polska”. The weekly was in group of Catholic social periodicals for educated people and opposing to new communism ideology in Poland after 1945. That is why “Tygodnik Warszawski” was closed and its editorial staff was under arrested in 1948. In the main part of article Kristanova gives general characteristic of the weekly, its programme and writes about people who were in editorial staff. There were Zygmunt Kaczyński, Jerzy Braun, Zygmunt Choromański, Edward Grzechnik, Zygmunt Wądołowski, Marian Grzegorczyk and Józef Kwasiborski. “Tygodnik Warszawski” published religious, social and cultural problems.
Digital libraries provide an easy and convenient source of data for journalistic academic research. In this paper, the author answers the question of whether the most well-known socio-political Polish press titles published between 1918 and 1939 are available online and to what extent they are fully digitised and accessible in digital libraries. Through media content analysis and the press content analysis methods of Walery Pisarek, all the digital resources available for an ordinary Internet user were browsed. The main role of the analysis was to establish which journals and periodicals were published weekly and as daily newspapers. Also, the nature and political leanings of press publications were taken into consideration (each press title was usually associated with a particular party). At the same time, the texts were profiled as regional, national, Catholic, etc. Finally, an attempt to develop a typology of the given titles is made.
The author presents a short history of Bulgarian children’s literature and the most important poets and writers and their books, for example Iwan Wazow, Elin Pelin, Ran Bosiłek and Angeł Karaliiczew. In the second part Evelina Kristanova writes about contemporary publishing houses in Bulgaria editing books for children like Publishing House Egmont, Publishing House PAN, Publishing House Fjut, Public Publishing House Prosweta, Gold Duck, Chermes and Bard etc. The conclusion is that there are two types of publishers, these specialised only in children’s literature and these also publishing books for adults. The author analyses their market offers for children available on the Internet pages. In result E. Kristanova proves that they are many books of the most known Bulgarian writers for children on them. One of the most popular writers is for the years Angeł Karaliiczew.
The article discussed books problems in social-cultural paper ‘‘Tęcza ,, published between 1927–1939 in Poznan´ by The St. Wojciech Bookshop and Printer. The author presents main form of book promotion in ‘‘Tęcza ,, . The book was distributed by means of book advertising, new publishing review, book criticisms, premiums and prizes. There are a lot of examples of Polish and foreign titles. Editorial staff of the paper chose rather religious and social books. There are a lot of novels, stories, diaries, biographies, albums and travel books. ‘‘Tęcza ,, wanted a good book and conscious reader.
The author presents scientific works about Polish historical press of Hanna Tadeusiewicz. The professor wrote many articles about printing periodicals in XIX and XX century like “Czcionka”, “Praca”, “Drukarz i Księgarz” and unknown titles like “Chwila Spoczynku” or “Motyl”. There is the bibliography of works, too.