Editing Jagiellonian University (section)

==Libraries==
[[Image:BibliotekaJagiellońska-AlejaAdamaMickiewicza22-POL, Kraków.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Jagiellonian Library|Jagiellonian Library's]] main site]]
[[Image:Krakau bibliothek anbeu neu.jpg|upright|thumb|The Jagiellonian Library extension]]
The university's main library, the [[Jagiellonian Library]] ({{Lang|pl|Biblioteka Jagiellońska}}), is one of Poland's largest, with almost 6.5&nbsp;million volumes; it is a constituent of the Polish National Libraries system.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/18320 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110613151435/http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/18320 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 June 2011 |first=Teresa |last=Bętkowska |title=Jagiellonian University: Cracow's Alma Mater |newspaper=Warsaw Voice |date=18 May 2008 |access-date=28 September 2010 }}</ref> It is home to a world-renowned collection of [[medieval]] manuscripts,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bj.uj.edu.pl/bjmanus/manus_e.html |title=BJ: Medieval manuscripts |publisher=Bj.uj.edu.pl |access-date=28 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514110651/http://www.bj.uj.edu.pl/bjmanus/manus_e.html |archive-date=14 May 2011 }}</ref> which includes [[Nicolaus Copernicus|Copernicus']] [[De revolutionibus orbium coelestium|''De Revolutionibus'']], the ''[[Balthasar Behem Codex]]'' and the ''[[Berlinka (art collection)|Berlinka]].'' The library also has an extensive collection of underground political literature (so-called ''drugi obieg'' or ''[[samizdat]]'') from [[Communist Poland|Poland's period of Communist rule]] between 1945 and 1989.

The beginning of the Jagiellonian Library is traditionally considered the same as that of the entire university – in 1364;<ref name="ColCa">[http://www.collectionscanada.ca/bulletin/015017-9903-04-e.html Visiting the Biblioteka Jagiellonska (Jagiellonian Library) in Cracow] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050908230448/http://www.collectionscanada.ca/bulletin/015017-9903-04-e.html |date=8 September 2005 }}. Last accessed on 4 May 2007.</ref> however, instead of having one central library it had several smaller branches at buildings of various departments (the largest collection was in ''[[Collegium Maius]]'', where works related to theology and [[liberal arts]] were kept). After 1775, during the reforms of [[Komisja Edukacji Narodowej]], which established the first [[Ministry (government department)|Ministry]] of Education in the world, various small libraries of the university were formally centralised into one public collection in ''Collegium Maius''. During the [[partitions of Poland]], the library continued to grow thanks to the support of such people as [[Karol Józef Teofil Estreicher]] and [[Karol Estreicher (junior)|Karol Estreicher]]. Its collections were made public in 1812. Since 1932, it has been recognised as a [[legal deposit]] library, comparable to the [[Bodleian Library]] at the [[University of Oxford]] or [[Cambridge University Library]] or [[Trinity College Library]] in Dublin, and thus has the right to receive a copy of any book issued by Polish publishers within Poland. In 1940, the library finally obtained a new building of its own, which has subsequently been expanded on two occasions, most recently in 1995–2001. During the [[Second World War]], library workers cooperated with [[Education in Poland during World War II|underground universities]]. Since the 1990s, the library's collection has become increasingly digitised.

In addition to the Jagiellonian Library, the university maintains a large medical library (''Biblioteka Medyczna'') and many other subject specialised libraries in its various faculties and institutes. Finally, the collections of the university libraries' collections are enriched by the presence of the university's archives, which date back to the university's own foundation and record the entire history of its development up to the present day.