Abstract
This article examines the complex changes that have occurred in Polish academic libraries, focusing on University of Warsaw Library (UWL) after the fall of communism in 1989. An accelerated transformation of libraries begun shortly after the initiation of political and economical changes and was sped up by the series of grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation followed by Polish government funds. The library automation was the first major task for libraries. In preparation for automation the first in Poland authority file was created and thus the process of introducing and following international standards of bibliographic description in the climate of interlibrary cooperation had begun. As a part of transformation the open stacks and the Library of Congress classification were introduced for the first time in Poland in a newly constructed UWL building. A crowning achievement of transformation is the first Polish union catalog called, Narodowy Uniwersalny Katalog Centralny (NUKAT) launched in 2002.
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