„Pamięć” i „historia” instytucji. Ossolineum w międzypokoleniowej refleksji Polaków (do 1939 r.)

The author accepting the distinction between history and memory in her article refers it to the institution which was perceived as important in a topographic and cultural sense in the lives of Poles (mainly intelligentsia) in the modern era – to the Lviv Ossolineum. She does not present the history of the Ossolineum but she is interested in finding answer to the question about the process of creating the exceptional status of the Lviv library and the transmission on the significance of that place and values connected with it to the society in the individual and social awareness. It is an attempt to analyze the memory about the institution through the prism of scientific knowledge about it. The writer pays attention to the fact that the Ossolineum owed the most to its employees who did the task of presenting its achievements in a longer or shorter time span. Indicating various approaches to studies on the history of the Ossolineum and possibilities of further research the author focuses her attention on the process of shaping social memory of the Ossolineum distinguishing within it such elements as the establishing idea, development of the institution and the role of its directors, scholarship holders of the Lviv foundation which included two, namely Stanisław Łempicki and Stanisław Wasylewski, who played a key role in preserving the Ossolineum memory thanks to their high mental culture and literary abilities