Jagiellonian Library

Biblioteka Jagiellońska
(Jagiellonian Library)

Main entrance to the library
Country	Poland
Type	National library
Established	1364 (653 years ago) (1364)
Location	Kraków
Collection
Size	6,603,824
Access and use
Circulation	600,198 in reading rooms and outside
Other information
Director	Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Pietrzyk
Website	http://www.bj.uj.edu.pl/

Jagiellonian Library (Polish: Biblioteka Jagiellońska, popular nickname Jagiellonka) is the library of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and with almost 6.7 million volumes, one of the biggest libraries in Poland, serving as a public library, university library and part of the Polish national library system. It has a large collection of medieval manuscripts, for example Copernicus' De Revolutionibus or Jan Długosz's Banderia Prutenorum, and a large collection of underground literature (so-called drugi obieg or samizdat) from the period of communist rule in Poland (1945-1989).

More controversially, the Jagiellonian houses the Berlinka art collection.

The Deputy Directors of Administration and Construction, 19th and 20th Century Materials, and Special Collections oversee a staff of 283 employees in fourteen different library departments.

Jagiellonian Library is one of the largest and most famous libraries in Poland; over its history it has received many donations and inherited many private collections.

Its collection contains 1,503,178 volumes of monographs, 557,199 volumes of periodicals, 104,012 early printed books, 3,586 incunabula, 24,258 manuscripts, 12,819 maps, 35,105 music scores, and 77,336 microforms. Among its music scores are many of Mozart's original autographs.