Name and coverage of file
The project was hosted at Wroclaw University Library and comprised the cataloguing and production of microfilms of Silesian Collections.
A total of 34.944 bibliographic records derived from the project.
Project partners
- National Library of Poland | Biblioteka Narodowa
14.301 items - Wroclaw University Library | Biblioteka Uniwersytecka we Wrocławiu
17.070 items - Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdańsk Library | Biblioteka Gdańsk Polskiej Akademii Nauk
2.366 items - The Pomeranian Library in Szczecin | Książnica Pomorska, Szczecin
4.291 items
More information is available at the Wroclaw University Library website:
“[…] Processing of the Silesian Collections was possible due to the donations from German foundations (Bosch Fund, Volkswagen Fund). In effect of this collaboration, Silesian old prints and journals have been transferred into microfilms and were created publications about light prints and funeral sermons from Old Print Department of Wroclaw University Library. […]” Attempts were made to prevent the sale but an appeal to the Charity Commission was unsuccessful and following further unsuccessful legal steps, the first tranche of the sale took place on 5 June 2013. The future of the remaining volumes in the collection is currently uncertain. CERL intends to retain the file of the Mendham Collection on the HPB database as a record of a historic collection which has now been partly dispersed.