Janet Zmroczek

Janet Zmroczek
Position
Head of European and Americas Collections
Department
Collections
Related Offices
represents the BL on The European Library, Library Coordination Group; member of the UCL European Institute Advisory Board; member of the Institute of Modern Language Research Advisory Council; external member of UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library and Information Services Committee; long-serving member in various roles on the committee of the Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services

Janet Zmroczek is Head of European and Americas Collections at the British Library. She is a member of the Institute of Modern Language Research Advisory Council and an external member of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library and Information Services Committee. Janet's principal areas of interest include: Literary translation and dissemination of European literature in the UK; the cultural and social life of the Polish community in Britain; Central Asia and the Caucusus in the Soviet era; European cultural and library collections; and the history and development of the British Library. She holds a degree in Russian Studies from the University of Sussex.

Publications

  • 'The national bibliography of Georgia', Slavonic and East European Information Review, 11 (2010) [with Anna Chelidze]
  • Contributor of numerous articles on Poland and the Baltic to Oxford Companion to the Book (Oxford, 2010)
  • 'Poetry and polemics: the Polish book trade in London, 1836-1867' in Foreign-language printing in London, ed. by Barry Taylor (London, 2002), pp. 241-254
  • '’A national library for the Poles in exile’: the development of the Polish collections of the British Museum Library in the Nineteenth Century', Solanus, 15 (2001), 17-34
  • 'Lietuviškų knygų rinkinys Britų bibliotekoje', Knygotyr, 25 (1998), 249-289 [with Aušra Navickienė]