Abstract
Soon after WWII, seven storehouses and sorting houses were established in Poland (on February 1st, 1947). One of them was the Storehouse of Secured Libraries in Poznan. The storehouse was used to house numerous “abandoned” book collections, in particular those from the Wielkopolska region, Lower Silesia and Western Pomerania. Following formal approval of the authorities, volumes of books were then transferred to various research and scientific institutions. Formally, the Storehouse was liquidated on December 31st, 1949. Its resources, amounting to about 286,000 volumes were taken over by Poznan University Library. The library carried on with the relevant work on segregation, processing, restoration and recovery of books form the designated areas. In 1953, the storehouse still kept more than 250,000 volumes, mainly from former German libraries and book collections. These books were then transferred to the Storehouse of Secured Libraries in Katowice and to Poznan University Library. A number of books deemed to be redundant for the purposes of the libraries involved were subsequently pulped, discarded, or otherwise abused.
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