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Mariola Antczak

POSITION:
associate professor
Department of Information, Library and Book Science, Faculty of Philology, Faculty of Philology
FUNCTION:
Department of Information, Library and Book Science, Faculty of Philology, Faculty of Philology

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Job description

associate professor

Department of Information, Library and Book Science

Head of the Department of Information, Library and Book Science


Mariola Antczak graduated in library science and scientific information (University of Łódź; 1994), habilitated doctor of humanities in the field of bibliology and information science (2012), professor at the University of Łódź (since 2013), head of the Department of Information Science and Bibliology at the University of Łódź (since 2015). Research areas: library marketing, information society, information literacy, reading culture of children and young people, different types of libraries. Author of over a hundred publications, participant in national and international conferences (including Pisa, Osijek, Lviv, Jönköping in Sweden, Çankırı in Turkey). Recent publications: Relevance of Jean Twenge’s publications to research on teenage reading culture Polish Libraries (2021; 9); Łódź public libraries. A time of change, a time of challenges (co-author 2020); Internal library marketing in theory and practice (co-authored, 2019), Organization of scientific conferences (co-edited, 2022); Activities of the National Library of Poland and community resilience building following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 (co-authored, 2023); The glass ceiling? Analysis of the development of research publications on academic libraries in 2013–2022 in the light of bibliometric data from the SCOPUS database (2023, co-authored); Multimedia presentations in scientific speeches (2023, scientific editor); Interest in the issues of academic libraries in Poland in the years 1980-2023 in the light of data from the Scopus database (2025, co-author).


Functions

Bio

Mariola Antczak, associate professor, is head of Department of Information, Library and Book Science at the University of Łódź in Poland. Areas of interest: reading culture, library marketing and management, information culture. The author of many articles published in scientific and professional journals, for example: Relevance of Jean Twenge’s publications to research on teenage reading culture Polish Libraries, 2021, 9: 222-247; Deregulation of the librarian profession in Poland: the course and the consequences (co-author Z. Gruszka). In: Information and technology transforming lives: connection, interaction, innovation: Proceedings of International Symposium Bobcatsss, Osijek 2019.

Interests

  • school libraries
  • reading culture of children and youth
  • the role of librarians in education of the information society
  • library marketing (promotion and advertising of the library, media relations, etc.)
  • organization and management of the library
  • information culture in the perspective of changes in education
  • information and communication technologies in the work of librarians
  • drama
  • the role of school librarians in computer science
  • methods that activate caregivers at work
  • didactics at the university level in the field of book and information science in Poland and abroad
  • development of research and academic libraries in Poland and abroad

Current research topics

  • the reading culture of the young generation
  • global trends in research on academic libraries
  • library marketing
  • scientific conferences
  • presentations at scientific conferences

Office hours

associate professor

Department of Information, Library and Book Science

CYCLICAL DUTY

THURSDAY

15:00 - 16:00

 

Pomorska 171/173 room: 2.10 90-236 Łódź

Contact

associate professor

Department of Information, Library and Book Science

phone: 42-635-53-93

e-mail: mariola.antczak@uni.lodz.pl

www: https://sites.google.com/view/mariolaantczak

Pomorska 171/173 , 90-236 Łódź, room: 2.10

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