In March 1826 the founder of the Ossolineum, Count Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński, died in Vienna. A year later, in March 1827, Ossoliński's Viennese collection was transferred to Lwów (Lviv), and in June Prince Henryk Lubomirski became the literary curator of the Ossolineum. The Ossolineum Library began to operate with Father Franciszek Siarczyński as its first director. In the same year, the Ossolineum received permission to establish a printing house, and a year later (1828) it published the first issue of its journal: "Czasopism Naukowy Księgozbioru Publicznego imienia Ossolińskich". In 1832 the Ossolineum Library began to open its collections to the public in a research reading room, and in the same year the printing house was opened.
However, the modern printing house was closed in 1834 and the second director of the Ossolineum, Konstanty Słotwiński, was imprisoned for his independence activities. The printing house and lithographic workshop were successfully reopened in 1847 by the third director, Adam Kłodziński. The Ossolineum collections survived the Springtime of Nations (1848) unscathed, although Lwów (Lviv) was bombed by Austrian troops.
