Report on the 1st. National Student and Postgraduate Bibliological Conference (Poznań, 3–4.04.2019)

Abstract

This year’s conference was organised by the Inventory Team of the Cathedral Library in Gniezno, attached to the Institute of History at Adam Mickiewicz University, and by the Poznań branch of the Poznań Society of Friends of Arts. The seventeen conference papers presented in this reporting article cover a variety of the problems and issues raised during the conference, encompassing a number of diverse aspects of old and rare books; this year with a slightly higher proportion of papers on book production and binding techniques and tegumentology. The conference was highly appraised for its scientific aptitude, while much appreciation was given to the overall high level of presentations given by the participants and the sheer number of participants, though none of the them represented an academic centre that was strictly involved in research on the history and science of books as physical objects, representing different research centres in Poland and abroad (Kraków, Lublin, Mińsk, Poznań, Słupsk, Tel Awiw, Toruń and Warszawa). The conference was accompanied by an exhibition presenting the special collections of the library of the PSFA (prepared by Michał Bartoszak and Wojciech Graś) documenting the history of the expansion of the resources of this library in the contexts of the donations made by its most notable donators.