Zbigniew Gruszka, assistant professor in the Department of Information, Book and Library Science at the University of Łódź. He obtained his PhD degree in 2012 at the University of Warsaw on the basis of his thesis Library Review as the oldest scientific organ of Polish librarianship: a monograph of the journal. Co-editor of The Concise Librarian'sHandy Dictionary (2011), co-author of the critical edition of Jan Muszkowski's Life of a Book (2015). He has presented papers at international conferences in Poland, Croatia, Czech Republic, Canada, Malaysia and Italy.

He has been employed in the Department since 2013.

library management, library strategies, regional studies, digital literacy.

Major publications:

1. Do We Have Any L-Vision? Multi-level Comparison of Selected Global Library Visions / Zbigniew Gruszka // Libri 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2021-0049

https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2021-00492. Library model of community resilience during the war. Activities of selected Polish academic libraries addressed to Ukrainians / Mariola Antczak, & Zbigniew Gruszka. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2023 49(5), 102752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102752

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.1027523. What May Library and Information Science Offer to Personal Information Management? / Zbigniew Gruszka // Zagadnienia Informacji Naukowej 2020 nr 2, s. 40-55

4. Institutional contexts of LIS education in Poland / Zbigniew Gruszka // Education for Information 2020 vol 36, p. 457–469. https://doi.org/10.3233/EFI-1902

https://doi.org/10.3233/EFI-19025. Wątki ideologiczne w ofercie wydawniczej Stowarzyszenia Bibliotekarzy Polskich do 1956 roku / Zbigniew Gruszka // Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Ad Bibliothecarum Scientiam Pertinentia 2018 nr 16, s. 139-153. DOI: 10.24917/20811861.16.10

Winner of the Adam Łysakowski Scientific Award (2013).