Prof. Remigiusz Sapa (Coordinator)
An associate professor in the Institute of Information Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the director of the Jagiellonian Library. He holds a PhD in book science and the habilitation in book and information sciences. His research areas cover contemporary scholarly communication, information behaviour, humans as information agents, information management, academic librarianship, and the theory and methodology of information research. His research has been published by international and Polish journals, including
Library and Information Science Research, Aslib Journal of Information Management, Information Research,
Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies, Scientometrics, Przegląd Biblioteczny, and
Zagadnienia Informacji Naukowej – Studia Informacyjne. He has also authored two books and edited one (in Polish).
Arkadiusz Brzoza, M.Sc. (pol. mgr inż.)
Master's degree in ICT systems engineering with many years of experience in network infrastructure management and server administration. Professionally associated with the Jagiellonian Library, he is responsible for the network and server infrastructure and for some of the applications provided to employees and students of the Jagiellonian University. Participant in many projects including: "Patrimonium - digitizing and providing access to Polish national heritage from the collections of the National Library and the Jagiellonian Library", "Repository of open access to the scientific and didactic output of the Jagiellonian University". In the DiHeLib project responsible for the security of digital resources.
Anna Krzak, MA
Head of the Jagiellonian Digital Library Section. In 2010 she graduated from the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University (Information Science and Library Science) having successfully defended her thesis entitled:
The Structure of Academic Libraries After 1989. The Issues of Financial and Educational Policies, Modernization and Library Organization. In 2011, she finished postgraduate studies, Information Society at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University. She is now the head of the Jagiellonian Digital Library Section in the Digitization Department of the Jagiellonian Library. She has been the coordinator of publishing collections in the following projects: Patrimonium, Patrymonium – Monuments of Literature, Berlinka Polonica. Among her research interests, the most important are the architecture and design of libraries, the behaviour of library users (in particular: high school students and seniors), orphan works, the digitization of collections, and intercultural communication. She will be responsible in the DiHeLib project for publishing digitizers in the Jagiellonian Digital Library.
Justyna Mączka, MA
An employee of the Automation Department of the Jagiellonian Library. She studied information science and library science as well as information management at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University. She is currently working as the administrator of the Alma library system and the Primo library search engine at the Jagiellonian Library. She was also a participant in the Patrimonium project. Her research interests include information behaviour on the Internet, the flow of the information on the Internet, new media, information society, and the new practices of library systems. In the DiHeLib project, she will be responsible for importing the metadata of items developed in the project into the library system of the Jagiellonian Library.
Dr Monika Michalska
She has been an employee of the Jagiellonian Library's Manuscripts Department since 2022. Doctor of humanities in history, member in the research project of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences entitled Correspondence of the Jagiellons. European Dynastic Contacts in the Late Middle Ages. Participant of seminars and workshops on palaeography and digital humanities. Research areas: history of medieval monasticism, in particular the Cistercian Order, history of mentality, medieval correspondence, culture of German-speaking countries, medieval historiography. More important publications: Niecni Słowianie, wyimaginowany fundator, benedyktyni i dzik. Tradycja fundacyjna klasztoru cystersów w Pforcie do końca XV wieku, “Kwartalnik historyczny”, 126 (2019), pp. 213–252; In the Service of Bellona: Images of "Militant Abbots" in Late Twelfth-and Early Thirteenth-Century Historiography of St. Gall (continuationes II and III of Casuum Sancti Galli), in: Between sword and prayer. Warfare and medieval clergy in cultural perspective, eds. R. Kotecki, J. Maciejewski, J. Ott, Leiden 2017, pp. 369–403.
Norbert Nocóń, MA
Head of the Digitization Department of the Jagiellonian Library. He studied information science and library science at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University and public administration at the Faculty of Law, Administration and International Relations of the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski University. In 2019, he defended his MA thesis entitled: The Use of the Internet in Public Administration - Selected Issues. Currently, he is the head of the Digitization Department of the Jagiellonian Library and coordinates the purchase of specialized electronic databases at the Jagiellonian University. He was a participant in the projects: Patrimonium, Patrymonium - Monuments of Literature. Among his numerous research interests, the most important are information society, the behaviour of library users, copyright, digitization, cybersecurity, and the Deep Web. In the DiHeLib project, he will be responsible for managing the process and planning a safe bulk process for scanning and publishing digitizers in the Jagiellonian Digital Library.
Dr Leszek Szafrański
UJ Coordinator for Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data, Deputy Director of the Jagiellonian Library for Digital Resources, lecturer at the Jagiellonian University, and trainer. He supervises the work performed in the creation and management of the Jagiellonian Digital Library, the Jagiellonian University Repository, and the development, access, and archiving of digital resources. He coordinates the work of the Working Team for the Repository of Open Research Data of Krakow Universities (RODBUK). He participated in the work of the Advisory Team of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for Open Access to scientific content. He also participates in the work of expert groups related to the implementation of open science at universities, including Open Science in the network of The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities and the Open Research Cluster within Una Europa. He is the author of academic and popular science publications in the field of information management and the creation of digital libraries and repositories. He has many years of experience in designing and developing systems for managing digital resources, digitization, making library and scientific collections available in Open Access, and the evaluation of scientific activities. In 2019, he was awarded the title of Malopolska Librarian of the Year. In 2020, he was the winner of the SBP Adam Lysakowski Scientific Award in the category of "practical-implementation works."
Aleksandra Szalla-Kleemann, MA
She studied Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, specialising in Conservation of Paper and Leather at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Since 2000, she has been employed at the Jagiellonian Library in the Conservation Section of the Collection Preservation Department of the Jagiellonian Library. Since April 2009, she has been the head of the Conservation Section of the Collection Preservation Branch of the Jagiellonian Library. She has participated in projects at the Library concerning the conservation of collections, including the Multiannual Government Acid Paper Programme, the Jagiellonian Digital Library project, Patrimonium, writing conservation work programmes, supervising conservation work, and representing the Library during presentations at national and international conferences. Her professional interests include the conservation of library, archive and museum collections, a subject she has taught at the Jagiellonian University, the Pedagogical University, and the Pontifical University of John Paul II; and issues concerning the conservation of Far Eastern antiquities, on which she has trained during courses organised in Japan and Berlin by the international organisation, ICCROM. In the DiHeLib project, she provides conservation supervision on the scope and manner of conservation work to be carried out.
Ludwik Węgiel, MA
Head of the Reprography Section of the Digitization Department at the Jagiellonian Library. He is responsible for the scanning of the Library’s collections and has been in charge of the Reprography Section since 2015. From 2005 to 2014, he worked at the Paper Clinic under the Government's multi-year Acid Paper Program. He is a graduate of physics from the Pedagogical University of Krakow.
Tomasz Zacharski, M.Sc. (pol. mgr inż.)
Deputy Director of the Jagiellonian Development Library. Graduate of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology at the Cracow University of Technology. He has been employed at the Jagiellonian Library since 2005 and was initially involved in the introduction of mass deacidification technology and the implementation of the Bookkeeper installation in the Jagiellonian Library Paper Clinic. From 2008 to 2013 he headed the Paper Clinic of the Jagiellonian Library, from 2013 to 2018 he was in charge of the Collection Preservation Department, and since 2018 he has been Deputy Director of the Jagiellonian Library. From 2017 to 2019 he participated in the Patrimonium project, where he was responsible for the development of the equipment infrastructure in the digitisation lab and the digitisation process. In 2019, he participated in the implementation process of the new Alma library system and library resource search engine, and is currently overseeing the work related to their functioning and development. As part of this project, he is responsible for supervising the importing of the metadata from the indexed collections into the Alma system.
University Professor at the Institute of German Studies at the Jagiellonian University and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philology for Research and Development. She studied German philology and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University and the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In 2003, she defended her doctoral thesis entitled Verdichtete Sprachlandschaften. Paul Celans lyrisches Werk als Gegenstand von Interpretation und Übersetzung (Heidelberg 2004), and in 2016 she obtained her habilitation from the Jagiellonian University on the basis of the monograph Jean Paul und das Buch der Bücher. Zur Poetisierung biblischer Metaphern, Texte und Konzepte (Hildesheim/Zürich/New York 2015). She has received fellowships from the DAAD, the Franz Werfel Programme (University of Vienna), the Foundation for Polish Science, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Ruhr-University of Bochum). Her research interests span poetics and aesthetics, the epistolary culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, contemporary German-language literature, the relationship between literature and other media, archival research, and editing. She is the author of the digital edition (together with Prof. J. Paulus) of 'The Female Writers. Female Writers in the Varnhagen Collection. Digital Edition 2023 (http://schriftstellerinnen-varnhagen.eu ).
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A doctoral student at the Jagiellonian University's Doctoral School of the Humanities in the Interdisciplinary and Cross-Domain Programme. She has studied philosophy (defending her MA thesis in 2016) and literary and cultural translation at the Jagiellonian University. She has held foreign scholarships at the University of Vienna and Heidelberg University. A member of the Association of Literary Translators, she translates German-language literature.
He is a researcher at the Institute of Germanic Philology, Jagiellonian University. He studied Germanic philology at the Jagiellonian University and the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen and Nuremberg. He has received scholarships from the DAAD, the Foundation for Polish Science and the University in Würzburg. In 2006 he defended his dissertation Spott und Tadel. Lessings rhetorische Strategien im antiquarischen Streit (ed. Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2007), and in 2023 he obtained his habilitation from the Jagiellonian University on the basis of the monograph Selbstinszenierung und Gedächtnisbildung. Rosa Maria Assing in Briefen und Lebenszeugnissen aus der Sammlung Varnhagen. Edition und Kommentar (ed. Berlin et al. 2021-2). He led the NCN Opus project Legacy and Memory. Strategies for the transmission and preservation of culture in the first half of the nineteenth century on the example of the archive of Rosa Maria and David Assing in the Varnhagen Collection in Kraków, and is participating in the NCN/DFG project Women Writers from the Varnhagen Collection. Letters, works, relations. He has been the co-curator of three exhibitions on German-language manuscript holdings at the Jagiellonian Library. In his scholarly work, he is concerned with German-language literature of the 18th and 19th centuries and specialises in the study of German manuscripts from this period. His fields of interest also include Polish-German literary transfer and the theory and practice of translation.
She holds an MA in psychology and philosophy from Jagiellonian University. In 2022, she defended her interdisciplinary PhD dissertation entitled “Johann Georg Hamann's atopia. Theological, hermeneutic, and aesthetic assumptions underlying the Socratic writings of the Magus of the North” which was awarded in Monographs programme established by the Foundation for Polish Science. She is a graduate of the Inter-University Programme of Interdisciplinary PhD Studies at the Artes Liberales Academy.
