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HincOmnia-theIdeaoftheConference
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ofPolishResearchLibraryCollections),
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withnosignificantresearchor
scientificpresentations.
ConcludingthisintroductiontotheideaoftheHincOmniaConference,
Iwouldliketothankallthosewhohaveparticipatedinthesubstantiveprepa-
rationandorganisationofthisveryimportantandneededconference:the
ProgrammeBoard(especiallyProfessorsMarzennaCiechańska,ArturJazdon,and
AndrzejPieńkos),ColleaguesfromtheUniversityofWarsawLibraryinvolved
intheideaofcreatingtheHincOmniaConferenceandtheworkonthepro-
grammeofthefirsteditionanditsimplementation.Iwouldliketothankthe
entireteamoftheNineteenth-CenturyPublicationsDepartment-Wojciech
Dołęgiewicz,ViktoryiaBartsevich,andespeciallyMartaM.Kacprzak,PhD,and
thethenheadcuratorZbigniewOlczakfortheirsubstantivesupportandmany
brilliantideas,thePromotion,ExhibitionsandCooperationDepartment(Beata
Feliszewska,FilipŁazicki,MarcinLaszczkowski)fortheperfectorganisation,
AgnieszkaKościelniak-Osiakinparticularforthesupervisionandaveryapt
nameoftheconference,MariaFronczakfortheexcellentwebsiteofthecon-
ference,ColleaguesfromtheSpecialCollectionsDepartmentfortheircontribu-
tion,presentations,anddiscussions.IwouldliketothankBarbaraChmielewska,
ViktoryiaBartsevich,andZbigniewOlczakfortakingcareofourRussianguests
andtranslatingtheirpresentationsandvoicesinthediscussions.Myspecialthanks
gotoRenataGierakandtheadministrationstańforthepreparationofrooms,
technicalservice,andhugecontributiontotherealisationoftheprojectofthe
readingroomoftheNineteenth-CenturyPublicationsDepartment,theopening
ofwhichwasinitiallyplannedtotakeplaceduringtheconference.
ItisworthnotingthatthefirstHincOmniaConference,underthehonorary
patronageoftheNationalInstituteforMuseumsandPublicCollections,wasthe
maineventclosingthecelebrationofthe200thanniversaryoftheUniversity
ofWarsawLibrary,whichastheDirectoroftheLibraryatthetimeIhadthe
honourandprivilegetoorganisetogetherwiththeextremelycommittedstań.
Inthetimeofglobalisation,whenverysimilarfundamentalcollectionsofbooks,
periodicals,andelectronicdatabasescanbefoundinonlinelibrarycatalogues,
weshouldstudyandpromotewhatmakesusdistinctiveandrepresentsourtra-
ditionanduniqueidentity.Andsucharethediverseandrichhistorical,artistic,
andspecialcollections.
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TeUnionCatalogofPolishResearchLibraryCollections,initiatedasaproject,hasbeencontinued
andmanagedbytheUniversityofWarsawLibrary,asacollaborativeserviceofapproximately
200Polishresearchlibraries.