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Other libraries were also established, and in 1938 there were libraries in 50 locations in Prague (library fund of 640 thousand volumes, number of borrowings about 2 million). Dr. Jan Thon played an important role in the development of the library and was its director in 1920-1942 and 1945-1948.
The National Library is the biggest library in the Czech Republic, housing around 6 million documents. The library currently has 20 627 registered readers. [1] Although comprising mostly Czech texts, the library also stores older material from Turkey, Iran and India. [4] The library also houses books for Charles University in Prague. [5]
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 ...
Over the next two centuries, the library grew as part of the Estates School of Engineering and other predecessors to the present-day Czech Technical University in Prague between 1786 and the outbreak of World War II in various locations. The library moved to the Clementinum as the Technical Universities Library (TUL) in 1935.
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 Slavonic Library provides library and information services concerning the political, economic and cultural life of the Slavic nations, their mutual relations and their relations to other nations in the past as well as the present. Documents can be studied in the library's public reading room, provided with free internet access, an extensive ...
Alongside its headquarters in Prague, SKIP is organised into 11 regional committees. The association's objectives are to improve the standards of library and information services, to increase the profession’s prestige, to support the development of libraries and information institutions, and to represent the interests of its members.
The collections comprise library items specialised in the development of Czech education in the European context, of an archive of written documents by classical authors in the field of pedagogy (including the so-called Slavín), a photo-archive and a collection of precious teaching aids including school pictures, graphic sheets, artistic ...