Folge 6: Piaskowski’s polonica collection

… ist Technikhistorikerin und Kuratorin für Natural Resources und Industrial Design der Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation. Im Juni 2015 war sie als Scholar in Residence zu Gast in der Eisenbibliothek.

Das Buch, in dem ich gerne mitspielen würde...
Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon

Das Buch, von dem ich gerne eine Fortsetzung lesen würde...
M.G. Vassanji: Amriika

Das Buch, das momentan auf meinem Nachttisch liegt...
Zbigniew Herbert: The collected poems

As the archival correspondence reveals, in the mid-1960s the Library approached the Mining and Metallurgy Academy in Krakow asking for help in acquiring publications produced in then communist Poland. One of the professors, Dr. Jerzy Piaskowski, who had a private collection on history of metallurgy, enthusiastically agreed to supply books and magazines in exchange for material published in the Western Europe. This was the only way the books from the West could make it to a scholar from the Eastern Block. The cooperation lasted for almost two decades. As the staff at the library changed and the collecting policies become more practical in the early 1980s, the new Librarian suggested that books in Polish do not offer the best value for the money. "Perhaps, now there are no people who can read my papers"  ̶  replied Dr. Piaskowski  ̶  "but there will be in future."

The collection includes classics such as Mowia Wieki – a series of research publications on history, which was a feature in libraries of Polish intelligentsia; archaeological studies on early metallurgical processing sites located in Poland, such as eleven volumes of the Studies in History of Mining and Metallurgy published by the Polish Academy of Science; scientific reports and chemical analysis of early medieval iron artifacts; and cultural studies on the links between metallurgy and arts, for example The Forge: a Myth, an Allegory and a Symbol (Kuźnia: mit, alegoria, symbol) by Maria Poprzęcka.

Pawel Murza-Mucha: Czlowiek i zelazo [Der Mensch und das Eisen], Warszawa : Iskry, 1967.

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Henryk Jost: O górnictwie i hutnictwie w tatrach Polskich [Über den Bergbau und das Hüttenwesen in der polnischen Tatra], Warszawa : Wyd. naukowo-techn., 1961.

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Walenty Roździeński: "Officina ferraria" abo "Huta i warstat z kuzniami szlachetnego dziela zelaznego" ["Officina ferraria" oder "Hütten- und Schmiedewerkstatt des edlen Eisenmaterials"], Poznan : Pollak Roman, 1933.

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Eine Seite aus Roździeńskis "Officina ferraria" abo "Huta i warstat z kuzniami szlachetnego dziela zelaznego" ["Officina ferraria" oder "Hütten- und Schmiedewerkstatt des edlen Eisenmaterials"].

You can find this book here in our library catalogue.

Eine Seite aus Roździeńskis "Officina ferraria" abo "Huta i warstat z kuzniami szlachetnego dziela zelaznego" ["Officina ferraria" oder "Hütten- und Schmiedewerkstatt des edlen Eisenmaterials"].

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Jan Dominik Piotr Jaskiewicz: Metalurgia : Wyklady z lat 1783-1787 w Szkole Glownej Koronnej [Metallurgie: Vorlesungen der Jahre 1783-1787 an der Kronhauptschule], Krakau, 1969.

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