Dr. Dorota Sidorowicz-Mulak – literary scholar. She has been in this position since 2020.
A graduate of the University of Wroclaw and post-graduate studies in management at the University of Economics in Wroclaw. She has been working at the Ossolineum Library since 1996. She deals with the history of the Ossolineum Library's collections, research on historical book collections and antique book bindings. She is a member of the National Library Resources Council under the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Polish Committee of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme, and the President of the National Provenance Working Group.
+48 71 335 64 29
dorota.sidorowicz@ossolineum.pl
Photo by Mirosław Emil Koch
The Director's advisory and support body is the Collegium of the National Ossolineum Library, which is made up of the heads of the Unit's divisions (including studios with divisional status).
The National Ossolineum Library is a department of the National Ossolinski Institute. It belongs to the group of scientific libraries. The Ossolineum collections, in accordance with the will of its founder, are mainly Polish and Slavic humanities. They are accessible only on site in seven reading rooms. The most valuable collections are part of the National Library Collection.
Within the Ossolineum Library there are basic divisions, special divisions and a division serving the entire Ossolineum.
Basic divisions:
Special divisions:
A division serving the entire Ossolineum:
Contact details of the employees of the particular divisions can be found in the CONTACT tab.
The main aims of the Ossolineum Library:
On 5 January 1995, the Sejm of the Republic of Poland adopted an Act re-establishing the National Ossolinski Institute. Since then, the Act has been amended twice - on 11 May 2007 and on 5 July 2007 (consolidated text). As the Institute is a foundation, the rules of its operation are laid down in its Statute (in Polish). The supervision over the Institute is supervised by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
