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In 1966, the library became a co-organiser of the Prague Symposium on Large City Libraries and one of the initiators of INTAMEL (International Association of Large City Libraries). In 1968, the library joined the demands of the so-called Prague Spring with its action programme. Twelve new branches were opened and other specialised departments ...
The library's main building is located in the historical Clementinum building in the centre of Prague, where approximately half of its books are kept. The other half of the collection is stored in the district of Hostivař. [3] The National Library is the biggest library in the Czech Republic, housing around 6 million documents.
The National Library was founded in 1781 and from 1782 the Clementinum was a legal deposit library. In 1791, the Clementinum was the site of the first World's Fair . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This industrial exhibition was held to celebrate the coronation of Leopold II as king of Bohemia , and served to highlight the sophistication of manufacturing in ...
The Czech National Library of Technology (Czech: Národní technická knihovna, abbreviated as NTK) is located at Technická 6 in Prague 6. The building also houses a branch of the Municipal Library of Prague .
The Slavonic Library (Czech: Slovanská knihovna) in Prague is a publicly accessible specialised research library for the field of Slavic Studies. It is one of the largest and most important Slavic libraries in Europe.
Libri Prohibiti is a nonprofit, private, independent, archival research library located in Prague, Czech Republic that collects samizdat and exile literature. The organization is maintained and run by Jiří Gruntorád and includes more than 29,200 monographs and periodicals, about 2,900 reference resources, and over 5,000 audiovisual materials.
The Pedagogical Library of J. A. Comenius in Prague is a public specialized pedagogical library contains books and magazines of education, upbringing and related sciences. The beginnings of the library are closely linked with the modern history of the independent Czechoslovak state.
The reading room in the IIR library. The library provides informational, librarian, rental, bibliographical and search services. It cooperates with a number of Czech but mainly with foreign professional libraries and informational institutions. At the end of 2016 it contained over 84 600 books and yearbooks and 419 journals. [21]