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The objective of this paper is to present and summarize the achievements of Polish researchers in recording Poland’s cultural heritage. It also presents the current state of research on recording Polonica outside Poland. A search in library catalogues and internet sources was made for this purpose and on its basis a bibliographic specification including catalogues of Polonica published within the last 150 years was prepared. The main thesis of the paper is that research is conducted in an unsystematic, chaotic manner, which was documented throughout this search. This important issue has not yet been duly examined. Even the bibliography of the subject has not been drawn up. The subsequent parts of the paper discuss geographical directions towards which interests of Polish researchers recording Polonica turn, institutions undertaking such projects, and present conclusions and bibliography of catalogues of Polonica in chronological order.
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The paper attempts to reveal the significance of archive collections and Manuscript repository for investigation of development of higher education in Ukraine at the end of 19th – beginning of 20th century. It is emphasized that active appeal to the original sources by the authors is an important criterion of quality of modern research works. The analysis allows to state diversity and resourcefulness of documentation on the selected issue. The basic array of sources is concentrated in classic «university cities» in Ukraine namely Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Chernivtsi. The available resources are supplemented by materials collected in regional state archives in Dnipropetrovsk, Chernigiv, Poltava. Many documents are written in German, Polish, French and other languages which require respective language competency for independent work with original sources. Among foreign archive collections, those of Austria and Russia, which historically used to comprise Ukrainian territories, are notable for their significant informational potential while investigating development of higher education during 19th – beginning of 20th century. If categorized by content the sources collected in the archives contain mainly personal documents of teachers and students, statistical data on student and teacher population, student youth organizations and fraternities of political affiliation of professors and student youth. The most scientific value for researchers of history of education in the aforesaid period have such official and private documents as statutes of higher educational establishments, syllabi, curricula, schemes of instruction, annual reports on the activity of the universities, institutes, higher women’s courses, protocols of scientific councils’ meetings and faculty meetings, aimed at improvement and organization of learning process, alumni accounts of their alma mater and teachers. It is concluded that representativeness and richness of the source base which are concentrated in the native and foreign archives, create favorable conditions for implementing thorough systemic analysis of development of higher school in Ukraine in the late 19th – early 20th century.
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