Documentation in Poland

• Published in: American Documentation Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 279 - 284
• Main Author: Wepsiec, Jan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.10.1961; American Documentation Institute; Wiley Periodicals Inc
• Subjects: Academic discourse; Bibliographic literature; Documentation; Factories; Librarians; Libraries; Literary translation; Planning; Polish language; Science; Poland
• ISSN: 0096-946X; 0002-8231; 1936-6108; 1097-4571
• DOI: 10.1002/asi.5090120407

Documentation services in the field of technology in Poland, organized in 1950, were reorganized in 1960. The network of services, structurally decentralized, consists of: (1) the Central Institute for Scientific, Technical and Economic Information which coordinates all services and reproduces, stores and distributes documentation materials, (2) the Departmental Information Centers which coordinate documentation services for groups of related industries, (3) Branch Information Centers which prepare s and other documentation materials, and (4) Factory Information Centers which serve as reference units for particular factories or groups of factories. Polish documentation services selectively cover foreign and Polish technical literature. They supply cards, periodical publications containing s for particular industries, special bibliographies, analytical surveys of current developments, and translations of foreign materials. Intensive training of ors and information officers is conducted by the Central Institute and the Branch Information Centers.