This article discusses functioning of the Library of the Poznan University of Technology in the extraordinary period, unprecedented in the hundred years' history of this institution, i.e. the period of the Covid-19 pandemic and restrictions associated with it. It presents ways of reorganizing current tasks, new solutions applied in usually provided services, and brand new ideas in the new situation. The article emphasizes the great mobility and creativity of the library employees and their willingness to assist the users who were suddenly deprived of access to the library resources, services and above all the space which until then they had been using intensively.

The goal of the paper is to present issues concerning adjusting employees to the workplace and the employing organization within the library field. An overview of subject literature on adjusting employees and organizations has been carried out for the purpose of developing the paper, and survey research among university librarians in Poland has been conducted. The research indicated a good level of the employees' adjustment to the employing libraries. At the same time it has revealed problematic fields, which consist primarily in unfairness of remuneration and an insufficient impact the employees have on the development of the libraries. In conclusion, people who are dissatisfied and stressed out have lower work quality and more often take advantage of medical leaves. Therefore, unsatisfactory adjustment of employees to a company results in negative financial and organizational outcomes. Thus, such research would be useful in libraries because it broadens the knowledge concerning employees and offers new ideas on how to resolve conflicts successfully.

Manuscripts from Qumran (The Dead Sea Scrolls) are a unique collection of Jewish manuscripts written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek nearly 2,000 years ago. Their discovery is associated with extraordinary events and coincidences. In twelve grottos located in the region of Qumran, on the north-west coast of the Dead Sea, in the years 1947-1956 and 2017 around 900 manuscripts were found. To protect and present one of the world's oldest and richest collections of biblical texts, the Shrine of the Book was built as part of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

The collection of the Main Library of the Pedagogical University of Krakow has a special subcollection of textbooks, didactic materials and publications on teaching methods. These books have been withdrawn from the current teaching programs. The collection contains many interesting textbooks from the oldest, from 19th century, to the latest, from the beginning of the 21st century, which were discarded in the last reform of education.

The aim of the article is to present rare and precious documents gathered in the Library of the Cracow University of Technology. The collection consists of books and journals dated back to the 18th-20th centuries. Having a lot of provenances marks (bookplates, stamps, handwritten signatures, notes or author's dedications), these materials are of a great importance to researchers, students and enthusiasts of the European history and heritage. On the one hand, the collection reflects the history of the universities and people associated with them. On the other hand, it provides knowledge about the historical, cultural and scientific heritage of Poland and Europe. The documents have never been exhibited before. To make these materials accessible to society, the CUT librarians have undertaken the cooperation with scientists from the AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH). The aim of this cooperation is to launch an online platform, where digitalized materials can be set. All these tasks are carried out as a part of the project „ European Technical Heritage”.

The article presents a part of a special collection of the Library in Walery Rzewuski Museum of the History of Photography in Krakow. It describes its collection of the Archive of the Rawicz-Kosinski family, with the special emphasis on Zofia Kosinska-Mussilowa's Diaries from 1910-1920 and their published excerpts from 1914-1919.

The purpose of this article is the introduction to the world of gamebooks and presentation of their practical use in libraries. This study contains definitions of this genre and analysis of its strong and weaker points. It also explains types of narration along with examples of their use in text, as well as presents new, non-textual variations of gamebooks, such as an interactive audiobook or an interactive comic book. Furthermore it shows how this genre can be used both as an element of reading promotion and educational material, depending on the type of the given institution. The paper also presents advantages of organizing workshops for writing gamebooks for teachers, thanks to which they can inspire their own students to create their own interactive texts. The article might be a source of new, interesting ideas for various projects for both librarians and teachers.

The article discusses the issue of reporting the usage of e-resources and e-services, which are part of a comprehensive library activity - not always properly exposed in reports and in the recommendations of projects and standards of library statistics. The visits of the users and the size of the shared library in the reading rooms of the scientific libraries and the rental office were compared with the usage of e-resources available in the subscribed databases and own databases. The presented analysis shows that users did not leave libraries, but only changed the form of using their offer, which many years ago began to move to virtual reality. A discussion is also proposed on the creation of a unified template for a library report, containing all library activities in the digital world addressed at its users, starting from e-resources, to the development of collections, to tasks related to running a website and library promotion. A clear library activity report in the digital world will enable abetter understanding of the work performed by its employees.

The article presents the general characteristics and the didactic activity of the Pedagogical Provincial Library in Krakow (PBW). This library is a partner of teachers and all persons implementing the teaching process, and it is also an ambassador of modern education. PBW supports schools and educational institutions. In every school year, an educational offer is prepared, tailored to the needs of recipients and current environmental requirements. The Library promotes different activities on its website and in selected social networks.

The article presents information about public services and access to them using new technologies. One of them is information about library collections. This type of services is realized in libraries using commercial products or open source software. The article presents procedures related to preparing the environment (Debian) for the installation of Koha integrated library system and the process of its installation and configuration.