Social Responsibility of Science II - Support for research libraries
The Wroclaw University Library received funding for the implementation of two projects under the Social Responsibility of Science II – support for research libraries program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Based on the allocated financial resources we will be able to implement the following projects:
Task: Dissemination of information about the musical collections of the Congregation of St. Ursula library in the online catalog of the Wroclaw University Library
The project is co-financed from the state budget, allocated by the Minister of Science under the Social Responsibility of Science II Program.
Total project value: 42,307.00 PLN
Funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education: 38,033.00 PLN
The aim of the project is to catalog 250 music prints and 100 music manuscripts from the collection of the historical school library, operating since the first half of the 19th century at the monastery of St. Ursula in Wroclaw. The collections selected for cataloging within the project constitute an invaluable source on the level of music education and its role both in Wroclaw and in the entire region. The value of the collection is increased by its uniformity of provenance, which is manifested both by the use of unified library bookplates and historical call numbers. Another extremely important element is the presence of signatures of individual students on many copies, as well as ownership notes of nuns.
Cataloging of the collection will undoubtedly supplement the knowledge on music education in the aforementioned monastery school, and thanks to the digital accessibility of information on the cataloged resources, it will enable the Wroclaw musicological community to familiarize themselves with this issue. The value of the collection is also evidenced by the diversity of musical genres and forms, as well as the presence of famous composers from that time in the collection. Thanks to the use of the latest IT systems and advanced bibliographic techniques, it will be possible to make the cataloged collection available to a wide range of recipients all around the world. The works established as part of the project are in line with the mission of the Wroclaw University Library, which has, since its establishment, been storing, protecting and disseminating knowledge from most fields of sciences, with particular emphasis on the Silesian region.
Task: The popularization of pre-war dissertations of the University of Wrocław in the WUL's online catalog
The project is co-financed from the state budget, allocated by the Minister of Science under the Social Responsibility of Science II Program.
Project realized by Wroclaw University Library from 2.12.2024 to 1.03.2026
Total project value: 37,352.00 PLN
Funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education: 33,579.00 PLN
Our goal is electronic (retrospective) cataloging of the dissertations from the former German University in Wrocław, which will result in introducing information about this collection into Polish and international bibliographic and scientific circulation. Online access to extensive descriptions will increase the dissemination of information and facilitate access to source materials for a wide range of recipients - both scientists, researchers of history and history of science as well as specialists in other fields, but also people interested in the intellectual culture of the region. The work planned as part of the project will allow for the expansion of the knowledge base, already partially existing within the electronic catalogs of the Wroclaw University Library, and for the expansion of information about the collection of dissertations.
The project is co-financed from the state budget, allocated by the Minister of Science under the Social Responsibility of Science II Programme.
