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Janina Wójcicka Hoskins (February 19, 1912 – October 19, 1996) was a Polish-American librarian. She worked at the Library of Congress from 1951 to 1989 and was responsible for assembling there the largest collection of Polish material in the United States.
Janina Hoskins, Polish Area Specialist at the Library of Congress for almost thirty years, passed away in Menlo Park, California, on October 19, 1996. The legacy she left behind is the best Polish collection outside of Poland. Her lifelong work was dedicated to breaching the cultural "iron.
Nov 29, 2011 · In this article the author provides a glimpse of the life and work of Janina Wójcicka Hoskins, an influential Slavic librarian, who worked at the Library of Congress (LC) from 1951 to 1989. She emigrated from Poland during World War II.
Janina Wójcicka Hoskins (ur. 19 lutego 1912 w Kupowie, zm. 19 października 1996 w Menlo Park) – amerykańska bibliotekarka polskiego pochodzenia, dzięki jej pracy Biblioteka Kongresu w Waszyngtonie uzyskała największy zbiór polskich dzieł w całych Stanach Zjednoczonych. Życiorys
Oct 1, 2011 · In this article the author provides a glimpse of the life and work of Janina Wójcicka Hoskins, an influential Slavic librarian, who worked at the Library of Congress (LC) from 1951 to 1989.
Janina W. Hoskins, retired area specialist for Poland and Eastem Europę for the Library of Congress, died on October 19 in Menlo Park, CA. Dr. Hoskins was bom in Kuprovo, currently in Latvia, and received masters and doctoral degrees from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, where she taught history.
Personal and professional correspondence, reference files and written drafts of various articles and books dealing particularly with Thaddeus Kosciuszko, I. J. Paderewski, the memoirs of Krystyna Narbutt, music collections in Poland, Polish printing and rare books, Polish manuscripts in the Library of Congress, the visual arts in Poland, and personal memoirs including information about ...
