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Deputy Director for Regional Research Institute Professor Ryszard Kaczmarek Address Ligonia 7 street, 40-036 Katowice Website | ||
Institute of Regional Research of Silesian Library (Polish: Instytut Badań Regionalnych Biblioteki Śląskiej), is a department of Silesian Library and it is located in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship.
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History
Silesian Institute was the first center to deal with regional research in Katowice. The institution was established in 1934 by Roman Lutman. Silesian Institute operated until 1949, however, when the Great War started, the activities of institute were pursued in secrecy. In 1957, effort to continue studying the region by the Jacek Koraszewski Silesian Research Institute was initiated. The Institute ceased its activities in 1992. Institute of Regional Research of the Silesian Library was established in 2011 by the Silesian Parliament of the Voivodeship.
In March 2012 Professor Ryszard Kaczmarek was appointed as director of the newly established Institute of Regional Research of the Silesian Library. Professor Kaczmarek was previously director of the Institute of History and headed the Department of Archive and History of Silesia at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Silesia. He was also a prominent researcher at the National Archives in Katowice.
Silesian Library procured and secured the books of previous institutes, which will now serve as the scientific base of the Institute of Regional Research.
The fundamental purposes of the activities of the Institute
Educational projects
- Encyclopedia of Silesian Voivodeship
- Regional education: The Course Book