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This article presents the pre-war director of the University Library in Poznań, Prof. Aleksander Birkenmajer, to commemorate this year’s 50th anniversary of Birkenmajer’s death. Prof. Birkenmajer took the reins of the University Library in March 1939, shortly before the outbreak of WW II. During the occupation, Birkenmajer was released of his duties and did not see his co-workers for a number of years. He came back to the Library in March 1945 to re-establish and commence regular duties of the institution between 1945–1947. The present article is based on the archival materials currently kept in the Archives of the University Library in Poznań.
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Artykuł przedstawia profesora Aleksandra Birkenmajera, przedwojennego dyrektora Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Poznaniu. Okazją do jego przypomnienia jest przypadająca w 2017 roku 50. rocznica śmierci. Kierownictwo Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej rozpoczął w marcu 1939 roku, tuż przed wybuchem II wojny światowej. Podczas okupacji na kilka lat rozstał się ze współpracownikami. Do Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Poznaniu powrócił w marcu 1945 roku, aby uczestniczyć w niezwykle trudnej odbudowie życia bibliotecznego w latach 1945–1947. Do napisania artykułu zostały wykorzystane materiały archiwalne zachowane w Archiwum Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Poznaniu.
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The figure of Alexander Birkenmaier is well known among modern medievalists and it was several times presented (e.g. by M. Kurdziałek, B. Korolec and Th. d’Alverny), notwithstanding, it is worth to be re-analyzed and re-estimated along the changing context in which his studies are read. Though for Birkenmaier a history of medieval philosophy was not the main point of interest, he managed to formulate many theses that paved the way for the next generations of scholars. Among his academic achievements the discovery of the fragments of Quaternuli by David of Dinant and the sketch of the Aristoteles Latinus project have and will be always recalled. From the today’s perspective the effects and style of Birkenmaier’s research evoke a kind of nostalgia for the pioneer’s period of the medieval studies that offered much broader possibilities than the times, in which we work now.
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The article presents Aleksander Birkenmajer’s services and contribution to the development of form and content of librarians’ education in Poland, with particular consideration for academic librarianship education at the Warsaw University. Birkenmajer’s activities at the University described in the article cover the years from the beginning of librarianship education (creation of the Librarianship Department), i.e. from the 1951/1952 academic year, through 1960 (Birkenmajer’s retirement), to 2016, when the Institute of Scientific Information and Librarian Studies was dissolved. Major organisational and curricular changes that were made in those years are shown in the article. Reader’s attention is drawn to Birkenmajer’s contribution to acquiring by librarianship (today: bibliology and informatology) a permanent place among other scientific disciplines of higher education.
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One of the most prominent Polish bibliologists of the twentieth century, Prof. Aleksander Birkenmajer, conducted in 1949 his first ever library inspection, commissioned by the Ministry of Education, at the University Library and the Secured Book Collection Repository in Wrocław. Both institutions held at the time library materials that were under special surveillance. Between 1947 and 1949, the Repository received about 900,000 volumes of mainly German provenience from Lower Silesia. In his subsequent report, Birkenmajer indicated the existing problems and proposed some ways to overcome them. He also highly praised the staff in charge of the collections who demonstrated their commitment and expertise in such harsh working conditions in this hard post-war period. Aleksander Birkenmajer proved to have been an insightful, solid, highly efficient and objective inspector. His Report is a valuable document and source material for a better understanding of the history of the Wrocław-based Repository and the University Library in Wrocław. Undoubtedly, the report should be included in any future research work concerning the reconstruction and rebuilding of libraries and librarianship in Lower Silesia and in Poland.
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Jeden z najwybitniejszych polskich bibliologów XX wieku prof. Aleksander Birkenmajer przeprowadził w 1949 roku na zlecenie Ministerstwa Oświaty pierwszą w swojej karierze bibliotekarskiej wizytację Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej oraz Zbiornicy Księgozbiorów Zabezpieczonych we Wrocławiu. W instytucjach znajdowały się poddane ochronie materiały biblioteczne. Do Zbiornicy Księgozbiorów Zabezpieczonych w latach 1947–1949 zwieziono z terenu Dolnego Śląska około 900 000 tomów, głównie poniemieckiej proweniencji. Bibliolog w sporządzonym sprawozdaniu wskazał na występujące problemy oraz sposoby ich przezwyciężenia. Wysoko ocenił pracowników, którym przyszło działać w trudnym powojennym okresie. Birkenmajer okazał się wnikliwym, rzetelnym oraz obiektywnym wizytatorem. Sprawozdanie jest cennym dokumentem źródłowym pozwalającym poznać fragment historii wrocławskiej zbiornicy oraz Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej. Powinno być wykorzystane w przyszłych pracach badawczych związanych z odbudową bibliotek i bibliotekarstwa na Dolnym Śląsku oraz w Polsce.
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