Address:
Pl. Krasińskich 1A
00-207 Warszawa
Tel. (22) 50 48 256
e-mail: library@ispan.pl

Opening hours:
Tuesday - Thursday: 9 a.m. - 3.30 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.

Books kept in the store room must be ordered by 1.30 p.m.
 

Library in July and August

1-31 July: Tue. 10.00-14.00, 1-31 August: closed

Chief Librarian: Jolanta Ewa Jankowska, MA
Tel. (22) 50 48 260;
 

Reading Room:
Krystyna Ciesielska, Ewa Staszewska, Maria Małgorzata Sobieraj, PhD
Tel. (22) 50 48 256

Staff: Bożena Boćkowska, MA, Ewa Taranienko, MA, Elżbieta Barczewska, MA
Tel. (22) 50 48 252

Store Room:
Piotr Drewniak
Tel. (22) 50 48 261

CATALOGUE
The following catalogues are available in the Library: alphabetical and by class using the Dewey Decimal Classification system for books; alphabetical order for magazines, alphabetical order for reference books, as well as topographic files for the reference library. A computer catalogue is also available on line: katalog online Biblioteki Instytutu Sztuki PAN
You can learn about recent acquisitions here acquisitions [nabytków]

For reader comfort we have compiled a selection of Catalogues of Polish and Foreign Libraries available on-line.

COOPERATION
The IS PAN Library kindly requests your cooperation concerning Interlibrary loans and supplementing any missing items among IS PAN publications. We have also been given earlier publications for use by readers.

HISTORY
The idea of organizing a library in the capital city, gathering materials on the history of art and serving as a resource for academic projects, was born in the inter-war period.  In 1930, the Instytut Propagandy Sztuki [Institute for the Propaganda of Art - (IPS)] was established in Warsaw.  Its scope of activity, which initially focused exclusively on expositions, expanded considerably in the second half of the 1930s, gaining an academic and documentative character.  It was then that proposals to organize a specialist library in the Institute were first raised.