Dynamika systematycznego wzrostu, nowoczesna przestrzeń intelektu, labirynt znaków, magia zaangażowanych w swoją pracę ludzi z pasją – to tylko kilka haseł, które przychodzą na myśl, kiedy chcemy przywołać nazwę Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego i 70 lat jej historii. Łódź przed dwoma wiekami powstawała z tradycji niejednorodnych, i podobnie powstawał – jako mozaika różnych treści intelektualnych – Uniwersytet Łódzki.The article presents the collection of posters located in The Special Collection Department in the Library of Łódź University. This collection mainly includes the film posters, but also the theatre, the social, the sports and the circus ones. Some posters were the mainstream of The Polish School of Posters – the phenomenon that influenced post-war fine arts in our country. Their authors were affiliated with the young generation of artists longing to find their own place in new reality. Here, the names of Henryk Tomaszewski, Eryk Lipiński, Tadeusz Trepkowski, and Józef Mroszczak should be mentioned.
The Library collection of film posters consists of 2000 items. The article mainly focuses on those that were the mainstream of The Polish School of Poster
