@ARTICLE{Pelczar_Maria_Municipal_2018,
 author={Pelczar, Maria},
 volume={vol. 35},
 journal={Libri Gedanenses},
 pages={41-89},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2018},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk, Biblioteka Gdańska},
 abstract={On 9 April 1945, Polish authorities officially took over one of the most valuable library holdings in Europe collected at the Danziger Stadtbibliothek (previously Bibliotheca Senatus Gedanensis). The most important tasks included the protection of the building and the bringing back of the most valuable items which towards the end of the war were taken away from Gdansk. They were found in the cellars of the Old Town Hall, in the Malbork Castle, and in the Pelplin Seminary. The team of devoted librarians headed by dr. Marian Pelczar, director, spent the first year of their work on the tidying of the interior of the building, cleaning and shelving the relocated book collections and safeguarding the abandoned libraries in Gdansk and in its vicinity. Despite the extremely difficult conditions, it was as early as on 22 June 1946 that the readers and Polish science were provided with access to the Library’s resources which, in particular as regards Polonica, to that date were little known to scholars, not only Polish ones. The tasks of the reborn Municipal Library were determined in its Organisational Charter adopted by the College of the City Board on 25 April 1946. The facility had a double nature: it functioned both as an educational library (the centre of a network of public reading rooms and libraries) and a scientific library (which included an information and bibliography centre). These two directions of activity determined the history of the Library until the end of 1954, when its scientific department was taken over by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the educational one was merged with the Provincial Library.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={Municipal Library in Gdansk between 1945 and 1954},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/122412/PDF/02_Pelczar.pdf},
 keywords={Municipal Library in Gdansk, Gdansk – history of library collections, replevin of library collections, Marian Pelczar (1905–1983), “Gdansk Library”},
}