Language, literature
Sections
P – Language. Philology (gen.)
PA – Classical Philology. Greek and Roman Literature
PB – Modern languages. Celtic Languages
PC – Romance Languages
PD – Germanic Languages. Scandinavian Languages
PE – English Language
PF – West Germanic Languages (Duch. German)
PG – Baltic, Slavic, Albanian Languages and Literatures
PG 6000-7900 – Polish Language and Literature
PH – Uralic Languages
PJ – Semitic Languages and Literatures
PK – Indo-Iranian Languages and Literatures
PL – Languages and Literatures of Eastern Asia
PM – Hyperborean and Artificial Languages. Esperanto
PN – Literature (gen.). Theatre. Radio. Television. Film. Press
PQ – Romanic Literatures
PR – English Literature
PS – American Literature
PT – German, Dutch and Scandinavian Literatures
Specialist library catalogues at BUW
Dictionaries
Dictionaries generally available:
Cambridge Dictionary English-Polish
Polish-language Parallel Corpora
Dictionaries available at the University of Warsaw:
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Dictionaries
On Ibuk Libra:
Wielki Słownik PWN OXFORD (pol.-ang., ang.-pol.)
Bibliographies
Field bibliographies generally available:
iSybislaw Bibliographic Database of World Slavic Linguistics Publications
The Polish Literary Bibliography
Polish Literature in English Translation (autor: Constance J. Ostrowski)
Polish Literature in English Translation 1999–2009
New Books from Poland Catalogue (2007-2017)
Bibliographies available at the University of Warsaw:
MLA International Bibliography online
In the building of BUW on the Open Stacks:
Linguistic Bibliography for the Year …, publ. by the Permanent International Committee of Linguists with grant from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, Utrecht : Spectrum, 1949-, Call Number WD: P1 .A1 L485
Subject area resources online
Ressources available at the University of Warsaw:
- Ibuk Libra – polish science books (e. g. English at Work. An English-Polish Dictionary of Selected Collocations and other useful phrases / Dorota Osuchowska; Difficult Words In Polish-English Translation. Wyrazy i wyrażenia trudne do przetłumaczenia na język angielski / Christian Douglas-Kozłowska; Successful Polish-English Translation. Tricks of the Trade / Aniela Korzeniowska, Piotr Kuhiwczak).
- Academic Research Source – electronic books from renowned scientific publishing houses.
- VLeBooks – mainly academic textbooks.
- Wiley Ebooks – access to items marked with an open padlock symbol.
- CEEOL – Central and Eastern European Online Library.
- Kindle in BUW
Ressources generally available:
http://wolnelektury.pl/ – 5323 free readings you have right to (in polish)
www.otworzksiazke.pl –English books e.g.:
A theory of second language acquisition within the framework of natural phonology: a Polish – English contrastive study / Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk.
Muslims
in Poland
and Eastern Europe. Widening the European Discourse on Islam / Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska (red.).
Recommended portals
11 Great Polish Books You Have to Read
7 Words in English You Didn’t Know Came From Polish
Kultura Paryska – the journal “Kultura” red. Jerzy Giedroyc texts currently available in English
Polish Literature Autors Index
Poetry Foundation – informations about polish poets, poems of Wisława Szymborska, Adam Zagajewski, Czesław Miłosz, Zbigniew Herbert etc.
Polish film
National Film Archive–Audiovisual Institute – films
https://culture.pl/en/topic/film
Theatre
http://culture.pl/en/category/performance
http://www.e-teatr.pl/pl/index.html (only in polish)
NiNAteka National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute –theatre, literature, music
Institutions
Specialized libraries in Warsaw
National Library of Poland
Warsaw Public Library Central Library of the Masovian Voivodeship
Others Institutions
Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw
Institute of the Polish Language at the Polish Academy of Sciences (IJP PAN)
Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (ISS PAS)
Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Film
Theatre
The Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute
Theatres in Warsaw:
Nowy Teatr (artistic director Krzysztof Warlikowski)
TR Warszawa (artistic director Grzegorz Jarzyna)