An outline of the history of libraries in Lenart and its vicinity up to world war II

Abstract

In his contribution, the author describes the development of libraries (except school ones) in the region of the administrative unit of Lenart. We find the first origins of libraries at aristocratic castles and manors; public libraries developed in a larger extent not earlier than at the end of the 19^th century with the establishing of the so-called reading societies. The author ascertains that the turn from the 19^th to the 20^th century was the height of their activity. After the end of World War I, libraries were even more ideologically profiled. World War II and the changed circumstances after it violently interrupted their development.