Gdańsk University of Technology Library, Academic library in Gdańsk, Poland.
Gdańsk University of Technology Library occupies the central part of the first floor and the ground floor of the university's Main Building, with two branch reading rooms in the same building for Architecture and for Civil and Environmental Engineering. Eight further faculty branches, including the Nanotechnology Regional Library, are housed in department buildings across the campus.
The library began in 1904 as part of a technical university and has grown substantially since its founding. Its collection expanded and evolved through different periods to meet changing research needs.
The library's oldest holdings come from the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, founded in 1742; its collection of over 30,000 volumes was deposited with the university in 1923 under an agreement with the Free City of Gdańsk Senate, with each book marked as the Society's property. In 2000 Bremen returned about 850 early printed books and manuscripts, now part of the historic collections and partly digitised in the Pomeranian Digital Library.
The facility is equipped with search tools and computer terminals to help locate materials. Access and hours may vary depending on visitor status as a student, researcher, or the public.
In 2000 the University of Bremen Senate returned about 850 early printed books and manuscripts that Professor Ernst Witt had evacuated in 1945; these now form the library's most valuable historic collection, partly digitised in the Pomeranian Digital Library.
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