Bibliografie specjalne: rozwój i otwartość

The present volume contains 14 papers written by 17 practitioners and academics. All articles discuss different asp ects of special bibliographies. The purpose of the first article written by Elżbieta Nowosielska is to present the lostGalician periodicals published from 1865 to 1918. Many journals from this period do not survive to our times, yet they are still an object of interest for bibliographers and historians. The article focuses on the places of publication, languages and types of lostjournals. The author attempts to give reasons why some periodicals did not survive. The next article discusses the process of the uniformization of descriptive catalo-ging rules in the Second Polish Republic. 123 years after the third partition, Poland gained independence from Austria, Germany and Russia in 1918. However, the new country needed unification in all fields of life, e.g. in librarianship. The author, Dorota Grabowska, describes the efforts made by Polish librarians so as to produce rules that would fit local needs and con-ditions. The third paper explores foreign Polonica in comparison to other European bibliographies of materials about the country published abroad. The international rules concerning this type of documents, selection criteria, the impact of ethnic languages, number of published documents and forms of publication of bibliographies are analyzed. Małgorzata Pawlak and Karol Sanojca track the evolution of the internal structure of the content of Polish and German bibliography of the History of Silesia. They explore changes and relations between the ordering systems of bibliographies and indexes. Agnieszka Łakomy-Chłosta and Agnieszka Gołda conduct a comparative analysis of Polish and German bibliographic databases of territorial bibliographies. They are particularly interested in the organization of work and the subject and forms of collected publications. In the next article, Bożena Lech-Jabłońska presents the process of adjustment of Bibliography of the Lublin region to the expectations of users. The changes affect, among others, the form of access to the bibliography and the range of documents described in the bibliography. Interoperability with other systems seems to be one of the mostimport ant elements for modern bibliographical databases. Mariusz Balcerek asks a question whether users can export citations from Polish regional bibliography databases using popular reference management software. The analysis reveals that it is possible only to a small extent. It was concluded that Polish bibliographers should pay more attention to the issue of interoperability. ‘Polish Medical Bibliography’ is the topic of the next paper written by Dorota Ubysz and Wojciech Giermaziak. The authors describe the interface of the bibliography and databases developed in order to supportusers in searching for medical resources. They also present plans, e.g. the broader promotion of medical databases. Agata Olkowska underlines in her article that topicality is a priority for the creators of the ‘Polish Legal Bibliography’. According to her, the solution to the problem lies in the cooperation between bibliographers and journal editors. The next article describes an attempt to adapt the Polish Literary Bibliography to scientific research. Beata Koper shows that it can be used not only as a source of references but also as a material for literary and cultural studies. The volume contains also article presenting local solutions used in a specific institution. Elżbieta Tomczyńska describes two internal databases: University of Szczecin Employee Publications Database and Employee Achievements Database. The major role of them is to help in assessing the scientific production of academics. The content of ‘Electronic Bibliography of Theological Sciences‘ is the topic of the next article. Bogumiła Warz ąchowska explores the bibliography looking for and analyzing the documents about book studies. Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus can be seen both as resources for bibliometric analysis and the sources of references. Witold Sygocki looks at these databases from a bibliographical point of view. The author stresses that the aforementioned databases can only be a complement to special bibliographies. Finally, Bartłomiej Włodarczyk explores the use of the National Library Descriptors, the new Polish system for describing library resources, in regional bibliographies. The editors thank all the authors for their contribution to the volume. We hope that it would be a valuable resource for both bibliographers and information scientists.