Subject catalogs in the Jagiellonian Library and subject information regarding philological publications

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The article presents various types of catalogs in the Jagiellonian Library as well as various forms of subject data, with particular emphasis on information relating to books devoted to linguistics and literature:

1. catalogs based on systematic classifications of sources (Systematic Catalog, the so called Estreicher Catalog, the Old Systematic Catalog, Systematic Catalogs to a reference library, Polonica Catalog and Judaica Catalog);
2. languages of subject entries: the language of the National Library which is used in the card Subject Catalog and the language of subject entries in the Automatic Catalogs of Academic Libraries; the latter is used in the documents contained in the Computer Catalog of Jagiellonian Univeristy Library Collections as well as in the Polish Internet Library;
3. subject information in the alphabetic catalogs: in the Basic Catalog of the Jagiellonian Library (in the form of cards as well as in the electronic form) and in the Catalog of manuscript acquisitions;
4. languages of key words and descriptive languages (the so called “second circulation” Catalog containing printed materials published without the knowledge of censorship in the years 1976-1990; the MeSH language (Medical Subject Headings); access to data bases and internet libraries. Similarly as the majority of academic libraries in Poland, the Jagiellonian Library is already a hybrid type of library which combines elements of a traditional and an electronic (digital) library; it is a library which constantly broadens its access to on-line electronic sources and which gradually increases the number of its own documents that are available online. On the other hand, in a library which has such a long tradition as the Jagiellonian one, the older type of subject information relating to books, recorded in “old”, often historical catalogs - continues to be used and is not only treated as a historical curiosity.