Grzegorz Czapnik

My main areas of academic interest are issues related to automation, digitisation and modernisation of libraries, infobrokering, and the application of data analysis and exploration techniques in library research.

My current teaching activities include:

• Networked work environment
• Typesetting and computer graphics
• Digital publication editing
• Information processing methods
• Databases
• Data entry into computerised systems
• Information audit
• Information management 1: Data analysis tools
• Information management 2: Website design and positioning

As the Education Quality Coordinator, I participate in all work related to the development, modernisation and evaluation of education programmes conducted at the Department of Information, Library and Book Science.

I also serve as Secretary of the scientific journal ‘Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Librorum’ and am responsible for the graphic design, typesetting and layout of this periodical.

• analysis and exploration of data from library systems (bibliomining)
• information audit
• digital libraries
• information brokering
• editing of scientific publications
• electronic books
• quantitative methods in library research
• wayfinding

2021 University of Łódź Rector's Award, team category, 3rd degree, for the book entitled ‘Łódzkie biblioteki publiczne. Czas zmian, czas wyzwań [Łódź Public Libraries: A Time of Change, A Time of Challenges]’; Łódź: University of Łódź Press, 2020.

2016 University of Łódź Rector's Award, team category, 3rd degree, for the book entitled ‘Życie książki: edycja krytyczna na podstawie wydania z 1951 r. / Jan Muszkowski’ (The Life of a Book: Critical Edition Based on the 1951 Publication / Jan Muszkowski); Łódź-Warsaw: University of Łódź Press; Polish Librarians' Association Press, 2015.

2013 University of Łódź Rector's Award for a co-authored book – Prof. H. Tadeusiewicz, Dr G. Czapnik, Dr Z. Gruszka (‘Podręczny słownik bibliotekarza [Handbook for Librarians]’. Łódź 2012.