Folia Toruniensia

Zdzisław Gębołyś
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Department of the Institute of Philosophy
Poland

Dr hab. Zdzisław Gębołyś, profesor of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (hereinafter: KWU) at the Department of the Institute of Philosophy of KWU. Main research interests: librarian’s profession - history, modern times, problems of the ethics of the librarian’s profession; bibliography - methodology and theory; organization and management of libraries; libraries of the Polish minority in Lithuania and the Czech Republic, and libraries of the German minority in Poland. Author of about 300 scientific publications, incl. Librarian profession in Germany in the years 1789 - 1871 (2002); Libraries of the German minority in the Second Polish Republic (2012). Co-editor of the world's first complete anthology of national codes of library ethics (2008), 2012 - English version. Translator and editor of the critical edition of Paul Ladewig's Catechism of the library (2016) into Polish, English and Slovak. Author of several bibliographies, including: Bibliography of prints in Polish published in Lithuania from 1944 to 2014 (2015). Editor of the Chronicle in Przegląd Biblioteczny (2005–2009). Member of many professional and scientific associations, both Polish and foreign. Scholarship holder of German foundations. Participation in conferences, study trips, research and teaching trips under the Erasmus program. Member of the Polish-German-Czech Team for the Bibliography of the History of Silesia (1997–); member of the team of the Association of Polish Librarians for developing a code of professional ethics for a librarian and information worker (2005).