TY - JOUR TI - Social Archives in Poland — Overview and Perspectives AU - Ziętal, Katarzyna TI - Social Archives in Poland — Overview and Perspectives AB - There are 460 social archives in Poland. The KARTA centre records these entities and supports their activities. The article summarises the discussions about defining a social archive, describes the organisations that maintain such archives, and their collections. Social archives are distinguished by their activities, which are addressed to the local community — and the article describes the scope of these activities. The article concludes with reflections on the perspectives of social archives. VL - 2018 IS - 119 PY - 2018 SN - 0066-6041 C1 - 2658-1264 SP - 287 EP - 296 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/archeion/article/archiwa-spoleczne-w-polsce-ogolna-sytuacja-i-perspektywy KW - archives KW - bottom-up digitisation KW - civil society KW - non-public archive resources