@ARTICLE{Binkowska_Dagmara_Danziger_2018, author={Binkowska, Dagmara}, volume={vol. 35}, journal={Libri Gedanenses}, pages={7-39}, howpublished={online}, year={2018}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk, Biblioteka Gdańska}, abstract={1905 was a milestone year for the Gdansk Municipal Library – its collections were relocated for the very first time in their history to a building erected especially for the purpose, and the entire institution stepped into the 20th century and the world of modern librarianship: a planned collection, scientific cataloguing and indexing, and streamlined circulation. The article presents the specific nature of work at the Library as a Prussian and German facility, as an institution of the Free City of Danzig (Gdansk) and during the two world wars, and shows how it changed over the period of forty years under the supervision of its subsequent directors – Otton Günther, Friedrich Schwarz, and Hermann Hassbargen. In 1945 the century-and-a-half long period of the history of the Gdansk Library as Danziger Stadtbibliothek, the successor of Bibliotheca Senatus Gedanensis and the predecessor of the Gdansk PAS Library, came to an end.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Danziger Stadtbibliothek in the period 1905–1945}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/122411/PDF/01_Binkowska.pdf}, keywords={Danziger Stadtbibliothek, Municipal Library in Gdansk, Free City of Danzig (Gdansk), Otto Günther (1864–1924), Friedrich Schwarz (1875–1968), Hermann Hassbargen (1893–1955)}, }