Online catalogues

The Main Catalogue currently registers all books available in the Library of the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow and part of the sheet music and phonographic collections. In the case of sheet music, you can also use the Digital Sheet Music Card Catalogue. From the phonographic collections, the Main Cataloue currently registers only CD recordings received by the Record Library after 2012. Other audiovisual collections are listed in the card catalogue available in the Record Library.

The Digital Sheet Music Card Catalogue registers the collections of sheet music received by the Library of the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow until 2013. The only complete catalogue of music prints – the Sheet Music Card Catalogue – is in the Lending Room. You can order the sheet music you are looking for through the Digital Sheet Music Catalogue, but there is no guarantee of its availability.

The catalogue of diploma, master’s and doctoral, theses includes theses defended at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow. To search for a thesis, enter a single word:
  – surname, e.g. Kowalski (not: Kowalski Jan),
  – a term defining the subject of the work, e.g. jazz (not: jazz music).
The thesis should be ordered in the Lending Room and collected within 5 working days. The thesis can be used only in the Reading Room without the possibility of copying by any technique.

Card catalogues

• in the Lending Room

Currently, the Sheet Music Card Catalogue is the only complete catalogue of music prints in the library collection of the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow. It is divided into two parts: alphabetical and classified. It is successively updated and, if possible, refurbished.
Book Card Catalogue was closed in 2007, with the launch of the online request system through the Main Catalogue.

• in the Reading Room

The catalogue is divided into two parts: alphabetical and classified. The alphabetical section includes all titles by authors’ or editors’ surnames. In the classified part, the materials are grouped according to thematic scopes.
The catalogue cards of books contain the main pressmark (e.g. 08940) and the so-called shelf mark (e.g. P-4) indicating the location of the item (bookcase-shelf).

• in the Record Library

The catalogue includes CDs purchased until 2012, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, analogue discs as well as cassette and VHS tapes. For newer CD acquisitions, please search the Main Catalogue. Recordings on CDs and analogue discs are catalogued in two ways: by the names of composers and by the names of performers – and divided into groups of instruments. Other recordings are catalogued by composers’ names only.
When ordering a recording, the full pressmark should always be given, e.g.: CD4425-8, DVD14.

Catalogues of other libraries

Nukat – National Universal Central Catalogue records data on the resources of Polish scientific and academic libraries.

KaRo – Distributed Catalogue of Polish Libraries provides information about collections of various types of libraries in Poland. We suggest choosing a search time longer than 30 seconds for a more accurate result.

Jagiellonian Library

National Library catalogues

KVK – Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue – is a metacatalogue that allows you to search several dozen bibliographic databases at the same time.

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