Kształcenie bibliotekarzy – dzieło Aleksandra Birkenmajera i jego kontynuacja

The article presents Aleksander Birkenmajer’s services and contribution to the development of form and content of librarians’ education in Poland, with particular consideration for academic librarianship education at the Warsaw University. Birkenmajer’s activities at the University described in the article cover the years from the beginning of librarianship education (creation of the Librarianship Department), i.e. from the 1951/1952 academic year, through 1960 (Birkenmajer’s retirement), to 2016, when the Institute of Scientific Information and Librarian Studies was dissolved. Major organisational and curricular changes that were made in those years are shown in the article. Reader’s attention is drawn to Birkenmajer’s contribution to acquiring by librarianship (today: bibliology and informatology) a permanent place among other scientific disciplines of higher education.