THE KUL UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

Director: Dr. Janina Gawrysiak

The University Archives carries out its mission on the basis of a Statute adopted by the University Senate December 5, 1980, to collect, protect, preserve, edit and make available archival materials connected with the activities of KUL and its related entities. There are currently approximately 400 meters of ongoing documents preserved by the Archives.

The Archives is divided into two sections: Archival Documentation and Theses. The Archival Documentation Section is divided into two parts: 1918-39 and 1944-present. The prewar part is made up of documents connected with the founding and early activities of the University; documents of the Faculties of Canon Law, Theology and Moral Sciences, Law and Socio-Economic Sciences, and Humanities; individual records of students and personnel; and documents related to entities acting in collaboration with the University. The postwar part is ongoing and contains documents of the University administration; the Faculties of Law, Canon Law and Administration; Theology; Humanities; Philosophy; Social Sciences; Law and Socio-Economic Sciences (1944-53); and Mathematics and Natural Sciences; the University Library; associated institutes and research centers; administrative and budgetary documents; and documents of the Learned Society of the Catholic University of Lublin and of the Association of the Friends of KUL. Archival users can avail themselves of scholarly resources like the catalog of documents from 1918-39, a card catalog for the 1944-present collection, and a computer inventory.

The Theses Section contains master’s and licentiate theses and doctoral and habilitation dissertations which have not been published. All these works are catalogued: works prior to 1994 are in a card catalog, works subsequent to 1994 are on computer. Approximately 6,200 records exist.