Kornik Library - Polish Academy of Sciences
The Kornik Library is situated in Kórnik Castle 20 km far from Poznań, the capital of Wielkopolska region in western part of Poland. The Library was founded by Tytus count Działyński in 1826. Since the beginning it was a humanistic library but it also contains books concerning other sciences such as mathematics, physics and astronomy. Since 1953 the Kórnik Library is part of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The Library involves over 434.000 volumes (including over 30.000 old prints, almost 16.000 manuscripts and over 87.000 journals and other prints). Very valuable are also the collection of 14.000 of graphics and drawings, the collection of postcards, unique photographs from 19th and 20th century and book ex libris.
One can find here many sources for the history of Polish parliamentary system, the Reformation movement in Poland and Europe, documents from the Polish Royal Chancellery and materials connected with Polish Great Exile after 1831. Very interesting is also a collection with books about history of chess game and a mathematic collection of Joseph Maria Hoene-Wroński.
In Kórnik Library the most prized are: medieval manuscripts like the commentary to St. Benedict’s monastery rules from 9th century, autographs of emperor Napoleon I, famous composer Frederick Chopin and Nobel Prize winners like Maria Skłodowska-Curie, autographs of Polish famous poets, graphics of John Paul Norblin and photographs by Henry E. Fox Talbot .
Since 1828 the Library has its own publications.
In 2002 Kórnik Library started digitization of its most valuable and most interesting resources. Digital copies of old prints, manuscripts, 19th century books, newspapers, etc. are available in collections of Wielkopolska Digital Library. Over 55.000 publications (60%) in this largest digital library in Poland, are provided by Kórnik Library. All those objects are also available through the PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation.
Kórnik Library contribution to the CACAO project concerns mainly WP5 (Aggregation) and WP6 (Assessment and Evaluation). Significant amount of digital content and catalogue records were provided for CACAO. As the WP6 leader, Kornik Library performed the assessment of user satisfaction regarding the project.
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