The mission of the PUEB Main Library
The mission of the PUEB Main Library is to keep up with the demands placed on modern academic libraries. We focus on the appropriate acquisition, processing and accessibility of the collections. Our collections include traditional collections (books, journals), electronic collections (e-books, e-journals, databases), as well as special collections (theses, typescripts). The Library aims to provide the most user-friendly access to resources. Our knowledgeable and experienced employees are always keen to help to navigate and utilise the available online and offline collections.
History – timeline
1926
- The establishment of the PUEB Main Library (originally the Library of the Poznań School of Economics). It started its activity with approx. 1,000 volumes.
1932
- The Library moves to a new didactic building at the former Wały Zygmunta Starego Street.
1938
- Change of name: Library of the Academy of Commerce in Poznań.
1945
- Reactivation of the Library after the WWII,
- Collection: approx. 9 300 volumes.
1950
- Nationalisation of the University and the Library,
- Change of name: Main Library of the Poznań School of Economics,
- Collection: approx. 22,000 volumes.
1958
- The Library is the organiser of the National Conference of Libraries of higher economic schools.
1963
- The Library is the organiser of the nationwide meeting of representatives of economic and scientific libraries of Poznań.
1974
- Change of name: Main Library of the Poznań University of Economics,
Collection: approx. 174,000 volumes.
1984
- The Library is the organiser of the international seminar "The participation of the university library in the didactic and educational process of the university (on the examples of libraries of economic universities)".
1995
- Relocation of the Library (without the Lending Library) to the building of the Collegium Altum,
- Collection: approx. 290,000 volumes.
1996
- The Library is awarded the medal "Bibliotheca Magna - Perennisque" by the Main Board of the Polish Librarians' Association.
1999
- Beginning of the online catalog.
2008
- Change of the Library's name to the name currently in force: Main Library of the Poznań University of Economics and Business.
2011
– The Library is one of the main organisers of the VI Young Librarians Forum "OtwarciBibliotekarze.eu".
2012
- The Library co-founds the Consortium of Libraries that develop the BazEkon database.
2014
- Library organiser of the conference of Poznań academic libraries "Our yesterday, today and tomorrow".