Jagiellonian Library
The Jagiellonian Library—Biblioteka Jagiellońska, nicknamed “Jagiellonka”—dates its origin to 1364 and serves as the library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Today it holds almost 6.7 million volumes, making it one of the largest libraries in Poland and also a public library, a university library, and part of Poland’s national library system. Its collections are built for more than daily research. Among its medieval holdings are an autograph of Nicolaus Copernicus’ _De revolutionibus_ and Jan Długosz’s _Banderia Prutenorum_. The library is also a major center for modern political literature: it preserves underground publications from 1945–1989, known as drugi obieg or samizdat, from the communist period in Poland. This place also contains the Berlinka art collection, tied to a dispute over its legal status with Germany. …
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