Międzynarodowa współpraca bibliotek w świetle traktatów o przyjaźni zawartych przez Polskę po 1989 r.

The present article is devoted to the international cooperation of libraries in the light of treaties on friendship and cooperation concluded by Poland following the 1989 transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. When examining the provisions of the treaties, it could be noted that cooperation of libraries has not been accorded an appropriate position among the fields of common interest of states. Only in a few treaties on friendship and cooperation we can find provisions that directly relate to libraries, and only in one – the Polish-Greek Treaty of 1996, cooperation of libraries is specified. Naturally, this kind of cooperation, on the basis of the analysis made, can be deduced from the provisions of the treaties on scientific and cultural cooperation, nevertheless in the future, it should be given an appropriate position in the treaties on friendship and cooperation concluded by Poland and thus it has to be distinguished among priority areas of common interest of the states.