Art.1: Malgorzata Jaskowska
Meta-information regarding scientific publications on national universities' web pages

This article evaluates the quality of information of printed scientific publications posted on university home pages - these publications authored by the staff of Polish universities. All kinds of www.pages were scrutinised; the information being analysed according to its presentation and placement. The data (its contents, the ways of obtaining it) was analysed with the use of traditional (bibliographies, catalogues), as well as new (electronic) scientific sources.

Art.2: Andrzej Benski, Teresa E. Szymorowska
The legal situation of public libraries

The legal situation of public libraries - the post-reform stage. There has been a dramatic change in the status of all public libraries' network. With the number of voivodship libraries radically reduced, a new level has been introduced - that of county libraries. Unfortunately, up until 17 of February, 2000, only 98 county libraries had started operations (per 360 counties) and, at the present time, they still do not function independently. Taking the libraries' post-reform experience into consideration, the outlook for their future cannot be optimistic, as the Polish public library system seems to be markedly loosing its consistency, thus weakening the position of the libraries as centres of information, education and culture.