Figure 1 – Area of the Silesian Voivodeship

Figure 2 – Bibliography of Silesia 1986 [5]

Figure 3 – Current Bibliography [6]

The regional bibliography databases of the Silesian Library are presented in the OPACWWW Catalog and are available HERE, divided into individual sub-bases – separate regional and thematic bibliographies.

2. Municipal Public Library in Sosnowiec

The library creates the Bibliography of the Zagłębie Dąbrowskie covering Sosnowiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza, and the Będzin district (communes: Będzin, Czeladź, Wojkowice, Sławków, Siewierz, Bobrowniki, Psary, and Mierzęcice), collecting data from an area of almost 460 km2.

The bibliographic database is presented in the OPACWWW Catalog HERE.”

Note: “TUTAJ” and “HERE” are placeholders for actual links. If you have a specific URL or hyperlink to replace them with, you can do so.

Figure 4 – Będzin County and the cities of Sosnowiec and Dąbrowa Górnicza [7]

3. Municipal Public Library in Tychy

The bibliography of this library covers the city of Tychy and the historically affiliated localities of the city (including Paprocany, Wilkowyje, and Bieruń Stary, Lędziny, Wyry, Imielin, Chełm Śląski). Two volumes were published in print: the first volume chronologically covered the period from 1928 to 1991, while the second volume – generated from the REGA Bibliography – covered the years 1992-1996

Figure 5 – Cover of Volume 2 [8]

Figure 6 – Cover of Volume 1 [9]

Figure 7 – Area of the city of Tychy

4. Municipal Public Library in Tarnowskie Góry

The bibliography collects literature related to the city and the district of Tarnowskie Góry. The territorial scope includes the area of the city of Tarnowskie Góry along with all its districts, and the cities and communes of the Tarnowskie Góry district: Kalety, Krupski Młyn, Miasteczko Śląskie, Ożarowice, Radzionków, Świerklaniec, Tworóg, and Zbrosławice (over 644 km²).”

Figure 8 – Cover of Volume 2018 – 2019 [10]

Figure 9 – Tarnowskie Góry County [11]

Based on the data generated from the REGA Bibliography, the following publications were released:

Bibliography for the years 2018-2019,
Bibliography for the years 2016-2017,
Bibliography for the years 2014-2015,
Bibliography for the years 2012-2013,
Bibliography for the years 2010-2011,
Bibliography for the years 2008-2010,
Bibliography for the years 2006-2007,
Bibliography for the years 2004-2005.

The publications in electronic format are available on the library’s website.

5. Municipal Public Library in Katowice

The Bibliography of the City of Katowice includes literature from all fields of knowledge related to the city and also catalogs the literary works of people residing in Katowice. It is both a retrospective and current bibliography, documenting publications since 2014.

Figure 11 – Bibliography Logo [12]

Figure 10 – Area of the city of Katowice

The catalog is available HERE

6. Municipal Public Library in Jastrzębie Zdrój

The library records in the REGA module bibliographic databases:

• Bibliography of the city Jastrzębie Zdrój,
• Bibliography of the Municipal Public Library in Jastrzębie-Zdrój,
• Bibliography of the contents of the magazine “Jastrząb”,
• Bibliography of the contents of the magazine “Jastrzębski Węgiel”,
• Bibliography of the contents of the magazine “Nasze Problemy” 1974-1982.

The thematic scope of the bibliography is comprehensive, taking into account materials from all fields of knowledge. It includes bibliographic descriptions of various types of publications: books, book excerpts, maps, annual journals, articles from magazines, and other documents concerning the city of Jastrzębie-Zdrój. In 2013, the Bibliography of the City Jastrzębie-Zdrój 2006-2010 was published in print.

Figure 12 – Area of the city of Jastrzębie Zdrój

Figure 13 – Cover of “Nasze Problemy” 1974-1982 [13]

Figure 14 – Cover of the Bibliography for the years 2006-2010 [14]

The bibliographic databases are available HERE.

7.  Municipal Public Library in Zabrze

The Bibliography of the City of Zabrze includes materials related to the city within its current and historical boundaries. The catalog is available HERE.

Figure 15 – Area of the city of Zabrze

8. Municipal Public Library in Bytom

The library creates a current Bibliography of Bytom in the REGA module, and the catalog includes publications since 2011. The data contained therein relates to the city within its contemporary and historical boundaries. The database can be searched through the OPAC Catalog available HERE.

Additionally, in the REGA module, Biographies of Bytom residents are recorded, as well as a bibliography dedicated to publications about the Municipal Public Library in Bytom and its staff. Earlier bibliographic publications for the years 1989-2000 are available in electronic form.”

Figure 16 – Area of the city of Bytom within its current boundaries

Figure 17 – PDF version cover, version not created in the REGA bibliography [15]

9. Municipal Public Library in Mikołów

The library records publications associated with long-established databases: The Bibliography of the City of Mikołów and the Bibliography of the Mikołów County, which encompasses the cities of Mikołów, Łaziska Górne, Orzesze, as well as the municipalities of Ornontowice and Wyry

Figure 18 – Area of the city of Mikołów

The WWW catalog is available at the address: HERE.

10. Municipal Public Library in Pszczyna

The Regional Bibliography created in the REGA module includes publications related to the city of Pszczyna within its current and historical boundaries.

The database is available HERE.

Figure 19 – Area of the city of Pszczyna

11. County and Municipal Public Library in Rybnik

The library simultaneously manages several databases, all of which are available in the WWW catalog HERE.

These databases include:

• Regional Bibliography of the city of Rybnik and the Rybnik region,
• Social Life Documents,
• Literary Works Catalog, database maintained until 2018,
• Personal File, maintained until 2018.

Thematic, Subject Catalog.

Figure 20 – Area of the city of Rybnik

12. Municipal and Communal Public Library in Nysa

The regional bibliography covers the city and commune of Nysa. It is created in the REGA module and is available HERE.

Figure 21 – Area of the city and commune of Nysa

13. Municipal Public Library in Wschowa

The Bibliography of Wschowa Land includes publications related to the city of Wschowa and the Wschowa county (communes of Sława, Szlichtyngowa, and Wschowa). The catalog is available HERE.

Figure 22 – Area of the city and county of Wschowa

14. Municipal Public Library in Nowa Sól

The Regional Bibliography, compiled in the Regional Reading Room, records materials published in nationwide, regional, and local press related to the Nowa Sól county and the city of Nowa Sól. The bibliographic database includes literature published from 2013 to 2019 and is continuously updated, with descriptions from earlier years also being progressively added.

The catalog is available HERE.

Figure 23 – Area of the city and county of Nowa Sól

15. Copernican Book Collection in Toruń

Libraries: Copernican Book Collection in Toruń, Voivodeship Public Library in Bydgoszcz, and the Pedagogical Voivodeship Library in Bydgoszcz operate within the REGA Bibliography module, which is shared by all libraries. However, each bibliographic database constitutes a separate logical base, commonly referred to as a sub-base within the bibliographic module. In total, the databases hold over 231 thousand records. All databases are accessible via the OAI-PMH protocol in the library catalog.

The Toruń library conducts the Regional Bibliography of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. It includes literature concerning the Toruń-Włocławek region, encompassing the following counties: Aleksandrów, Brodnica, Chełmno, Golub-Dobrzyń, Grudziądz, Lipno, Radziejów, Rypin, Toruń, Wąbrzeźno, and Włocławek [16].

All databases are available HERE.

Figure 24 – Area of the city of Toruń

• Bibliography of publications by the employees of WBP-KK Toruń,
• Bibliography of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (Toruń-Włocławek region 2005- ),
• Bibliography of the Voivodeship Public Library – Copernican Library

16. Voivodeship and City Public Library in Bydgoszcz

The Current Regional Bibliography is compiled in the Information and Bibliography Department and includes materials related to the following counties: Bydgoszcz County, Inowrocław County, Mogilno County, Nakło County, Sępólno County, Świecie County, Tuchola County, Żnin County. It has a subject-subject character, and its thematic scope is comprehensive, encompassing materials from all fields of knowledge, registering both self-contained and non-self-contained published documents. Bibliographic descriptions for the years 1987-2007 are available in print form (11 volumes), and from 1993 to the present day, they are available in electronic form. The databases are accessible HERE and through the OAI-PMH protocol in the library catalog.

Drawing 25 – Area of the city of Bydgoszcz

An independent of the current bibliography is the retrospective bibliography of the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship for the years 1945-1975, available in both print and electronic versions. Additionally, the Bydgoszcz Library has also compiled a database covering the former Toruń and Włocławek Voivodeships for the years 2010-2014 (selected materials) and a bibliography of the content of the Bydgoszcz Chronicle from 1962-2021.

17. Provincial and City Public Library in Gorzów Wielkopolski

The Lubusz Regional Bibliography is compiled in the REGA Bibliography module by the Regional Collections Department and the Information and Bibliography Department. Its thematic scope is comprehensive, encompassing materials from all fields of knowledge related to the region, its history, culture, literature, economy, politics, and geographical environment. Initially, its coverage included the Gorzów Voivodeship within the borders of 1975-1998. After the administrative reform in 1999 and the creation of the Lubusz Voivodeship, its territorial scope underwent changes and currently includes publications related to the counties in the northern part of the Lubusz Voivodeship: Gorzów County, Międzyrzecz County, Strzelce-Drezdenko County, Sulęcin County, Słubice County, and the historical territory of Nowa Marchia, along with the Torzym Land and the Lubusz-Pomeranian-Greater Poland border region.

Additionally, databases related to regional literature and publications by Library staff are maintained in parallel.

Drawing 26 – Area of the city of Gorzów Wielkopolski

The catalog with databases is available HERE and through the OAI-PMH protocol in the library catalog.

18. Provincial and City Public Library in Zielona Góra

The Lubusz Regional Bibliography contains descriptions of books, articles, and other documents related to the social life of the Lubusz Land: Zielonogórskie Voivodeship until 1975, Gorzów and Zielona Góra Voivodeships from 1975-1999, and Lubusz Voivodeship from 1999 onwards. It also includes biographies of individuals originating from the region but active outside its area.

The database is available at the following address: https://opac.wimbp.zgora.pl/cgi-bin/wspd_cgi.sh/bibm21.p?ln=pl&IdKart=1 and also through the library catalog at https://opac.wimbp.zgora.pl/ via the OAI-PMH protocol. It contains over 145,000 records.

Drawing 27 – Area of the city of Zielona Góra

SUBJECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES

In addition to region-specific bibliographies that collect documentation and literature dedicated to the regions where the library operates, the REGA Bibliography module also allows for the creation of various types of subject bibliographies. Within a single module, due to the ability to assign specific bibliographies to so-called sub-databases, you can maintain multiple types of databases and card catalogs. While pedagogical libraries mainly use this module to create bibliographies that serve as card catalogs for pedagogical topics, other libraries use it for specific listings and thematic card catalogs.

19. Central Military Library in Warsaw

The Central Military Library in Warsaw creates subject bibliographies dedicated to specific themes and the main, current bibliography devoted to military literature, published quarterly as the Polish Military Bibliography [19]. All bibliographic databases are maintained in the REGA module.

Drawing 28 – Cover of Volume XC, Issue 2/3 [20]

20. Main Institute of Mining in Katowice

The library creates the bibliographic database PROL-gig, which contains over 74,000 bibliographic descriptions along with abstracts, compiled from articles published in Polish and foreign journals as well as conference materials. The database is available in the library for a fee. The publication based on this database is the monthly magazine ‘Przegląd Dokumentacyjny GIG’.”

Figure 29 – Sample cover [31]

21. KOMAG Gliwice

The Technical Library publishes a quarterly titled ‘Nowości w Światowej Literaturze Górniczej’, which is a bibliographic compilation containing current and specialized information related to mining technology and the extraction industry.

Archived issues are available HERE.

Figure 30 – Cover of issue 1/2022 [32]

22. Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław

The library uses the REGA Bibliography module for the documentation of works by university staff. The database is used locally and is not presented externally.

23. Pedagogical Provincial Library in Krakow

The library maintains in its database a collection of articles from pedagogical journals and related sciences. The database is available HERE.

Based on the data gathered in the catalog, as well as in the bibliography, thematic compilations are created [33]. They are supplemented with collection signatures.

24. Pedagogical Library in Toruń

The article database registered in the REGA Bibliography module in the PROLIB system was launched on February 1, 2011. It registers content from over a hundred titles of pedagogical, psychological, and sociological journals. Based on the library’s collections and the materials gathered in the bibliography, various thematic bibliographies are created [34]. These lists are often supplemented with sigils of Toruń libraries where the presented materials are collected.

The database is available HERE.

25. Pedagogical Provincial Library in Bydgoszcz

The library conducts the Bibliography of Pedagogical Issues. This database is available both as one of the sub-bases of the library network Infobibnet of Bydgoszcz-Toruń libraries (shared catalog of bibliographic bases of WiMBP Bydgoszcz, PBW Bydgoszcz, and Książnica Kopernikańska Toruń) HERE, and in the INTEGRO library catalog as one of the digital data sources.

Based on the collections and data contained in the bibliography, bibliographic compilations are created for readers [35]. They are available for download on the library’s website.

26. Pedagogical Provincial Library in Lublin

Databases of Lublin pedagogical libraries are created in the Bibliography-REGA module, which is common for all pedagogical libraries of the province (PBW Lublin, BP Biała Podlaska, BP Chełm, and BP Zamość along with their branches). Each bibliographic database constitutes a separate logical base, so-called sub-base in the bibliographic module. In total, the databases have about 750,000 records.

PBW Lublin creates two databases:

• The Bibliography of education and schooling in the Lublin region, which continues the previously published in printed form bibliography: “Selected issues of education and schooling in Lublin in the years 1944-1974” (in two parts), “Selected issues of education and schooling in the Lublin region: annotated bibliography for the years 1975-1994”, “Selected issues of education and schooling in the Lublin region: annotated bibliography for the years 1995-1998” [36]. The bibliography includes publications concerning Lublin education. It does not address higher education and kindergarten issues. It covers compact prints and journal articles.
• Database of articles dedicated to pedagogical issues.

Additionally, the library branch in Janów Lubelski creates a database of articles dedicated to the city and the region.

Figure 31 – Area of the Lublin Voivodeship

Figure 32 – Area of the city of Janów Lubelski

The data contained in the bibliographic databases serve as the basis for the bibliographic lists created by the library [37]. In addition to the ready-made lists, the Information and Computerization Department staff also conducts sessions to assist in searching for and selecting literature for educational and scientific purposes.

The databases are available in the INTEGRO catalog as electronic resources and can be accessed HERE.

 27. Pedagogical Library in Zamość

The Zamość Library creates a current database of pedagogical articles, while its branches additionally create regional databases:

Branch in Tomaszów Lubelski – Tomasoviana database, Branch in Biłgoraj – Biłgorajana database, Branch in Hrubieszów – Hrubiesoviana database.

Figure 33 – Area of the city of Tomaszów Lubelski

Figure 34 – Area of the city of Biłgoraj

Figure 35 – Area of the city of Hrubieszów

Based on the materials contained in the bibliographic databases, bibliographic compilations [38] are created, available to all readers. The databases are available in the catalog.

28. Pedagogical Library in Chełm

The Chełm Library creates a current database of pedagogical articles in the REGA module. This database is available HERE.

These data are the basis for the bibliographic compilations [39] created by the library for readers, which, in addition to articles from the REGA database, include publications available in the library catalog.

29. Pedagogical Library in Biała Podlaska

The library in Biała Podlaska, along with its branches in Parczew and Łuków, creates a current database of pedagogical articles in the REGA module. All these three databases are available HERE.

Moreover, the Pedagogical Library in Biała Podlaska creates bibliographic compilations for readers based on the library’s collections [40].

30.  Pedagogical Provincial Library in Rzeszów

Pedagogical Provincial Library in Przemyśl

Pedagogical Provincial Library in Krosno

Pedagogical Library in Tarnobrzeg

The databases of Podkarpackie pedagogical libraries are created in the REGA Bibliography module, which is common to all pedagogical libraries of Podkarpackie Voivodeship (PBW Rzeszów, PBW Krosno, BP Tarnobrzeg and PBW Przemyśl with their branches). Each bibliographic database is a separate logical database (subbase). It is available as part of the Bibliography web catalogue – or the INTEGRO joint library catalogue (library and bibliographic collections). The database contains bibliographic descriptions of articles from journals subscribed by libraries, dissertations from collective works and selected book items. In total, the database contains more than 190 thousand records. These data are the basis of bibliographic summaries [42] created in front of the library, including, in addition to articles from the REGA database, publications available to readers along with signatures from all branches of the network of Podkarpackian pedagogical libraries.

31. Pedagogical Library in Radom

The bibliography records articles from 130 magazines subscribed to by the Library. Currently, it has over 28,000 descriptions and is constantly updated. In addition to the bibliography of pedagogical literature, reviews and repertoire materials are registered in the REGA bibliography as part of separate bibliographic databases. The WWW catalog for the bibliography is available HERE.

The bibliographic descriptions contained in the Bibliography serve as the basis for the bibliographic compilations [42] created by the library.

32. Central Police Library in Legionowo

The library creates two bibliographic databases:

• Police magazine database.
• Database of the contents of the Police Quarterly.

The WWW catalog is available HERE.

The REGA Bibliography is one of the modules of the PROLIB system created by the company Sygnity Business Solutions S.A. It allows for the registration of bibliographic data along with domain classification and presentation on the WWW website. In one module (database), you can simultaneously store many different regional, field, and specialist bibliographies in separate sub-databases. A single bibliographic record can be used multiple times in any sub-database, additionally, it can have a local classification appropriate for a given sub-database. In addition, records can be copied from databases creating a catalog of bibliographic descriptions and linked with a cover, multimedia, or table of contents and links to the library catalog. Additional tools allow for professional printing of bibliographies using the LaTeX text layout system.

A map allowing a look at the distribution of libraries using the REGA module is available HERE.