Polish books in Minsk in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries

The goal of this article is to present issues related to access to Polish books in Minsk. To this end, Polish activities have been presented in the realm of editing, book-selling and establishing libraries in Minsk in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries.

Polská kniha v Minsku na přelomu 19. a 20. století

The legal status of libraries in Poland was defined by the decree on libraries and the care of collections dated 17 September 1946. This decree was repealed by the Act on libraries, dated April 9, 1968, which was repealed by Article. 31 of Act on libraries, dated 27 June, 1997. The legislature didn’t define the concept of a library, but only pointed out the basic tasks of the library. Not every entity that uses its name in code “library” is a library within the meaning of the Act. Public libraries can’t be combined with other institutions, school libraries or pedagogical libraries. The Act regulates the notion of library materials, the National Resource Library, the competence of the Council for this resource, the tasks and functions of the National Library Council. The problem is in the library policy, which hasn’t been defined in the an appropriate manner. In addition to public libraries, there are scientific, school and pedagogical libraries. The law doesn’t regulate the status of library staff. The important role of libraries show numerous provisions of the Constitution

Current library instructions, textbooks do not adequately address children, because they do not consider children’s (pre)conceptions about information literacy. Using qualitative methods this research tries to describe conceptual frameworks, distinctions to support a more efficient and constructivist library instruction. In our opinion research does not result in adaptive information about conceptions, if the research subject does not investigate relationships from the point of view of information and information literacy generally and in terms of some preferred resources. This study emphasizes a relationship between libraries and learning in children’s conceptions. Four types of conceptions were revealed in this specific sub-field, which influence preparing for autonomous learning and lifelong learning.