Biblioteki w systemie powiatowej oświaty pozaszkolnej w okresie międzywojennym. Na przykładzie powiatu kaliskiego i tureckiego

The topic of the paper are the contests of a document, titled ”Guidelines for arranging and conducting non-formal education” and activities based on it which were conducted in Kalisz and Turek district. The paper presents the works of education authorities which were led in the interwar period in a more or less spontaneous way and sets some rules of non-formal educational work, as one of the most important fragments of Polish education within this time period. Big emphasis was placed on the activities of libraries which were an essential element of supporting non-formal education. The author of the work describes the forms and methods of the library work for the non-formal education, showing the less known side of the library and educational activities, conducted by the newly-reborn Polish state.