Lenka PruckováMunicipal Library of Olomouc

Prague 2008

1919 – General Public Libraries Act

1959 – Unified System of Libraries Act

2001 – Libraries and Term of Operating Public Library and Information Services

be connected to the Internet by the end of 2007

register of libraries (possibility obtain state benefits and an exclusive position as to other related laws)

inter-library loan services the regional functions keeping

are provided by regional libraries and accredited cities libraries

are paid by relevant regional authorities◦ consulting◦ education◦ formation exchange collections and lending sets

of library documents◦ helping with computer technology◦ other necessary activities supporting the

development of libraries and their public library and information services

lending works from the state budget by the National Library of the Czech Republic (about 0.017 Euro for one loan, roughly 900,000 Euros per year)

lending audio recordings by state budget (156,000 Euros per year)

The National Library (2 copies) The Moravian Library in Brno The Scientific Library in Olomouc

National Library 1

Public libraries Municipal libraries 4669 City/town libraries 809 Regional libraries 14

Special libraries University libraries 51 Research libraries 72 Medicine libraries 86 Museum libraries 116 Archive libraries 22 Administrative libraries 22

Other specialized libraries 147

Total 5998

1) The Ministry of Culture◦ Auxiliary services programme for small public

libraries ◦ Public Library and Information Services◦ Library of the 21st century◦ The Czech library

2) The Ministry of Informatics (now The Ministry of Interior of the Czech republic)

◦ Internet for Libraries 3) The Ministry of Education

◦ Information sources for research and development

1. The Programme's Coordination Centre2. Extramural training in information technologies for

library staff3. Establishment of public library information centres4. Digital library and archives for library information services5. National programme of retrospective conversion of

Czech library catalogues6. National programme of digital access to valuable documents - Memoriae Mundi Series Bohemica7. National programme for microfilming and digital access to documents threatened by degradation of acidic paper - Kramerius8. Digital information sources, Uniform Information Gateway9.Union catalogue of the Czech Republic, system of

national authorities

1) The Ministry of Culture◦ Auxiliary services programme for small public

libraries ◦ Public Library and Information Services◦ Library of the 21st century◦ The Czech library

2) The Ministry of Informatics (now Ministry of Interior of the Czech republic)

◦ Internet for Libraries 3) The Ministry of Education

◦ Information sources for research and development

Cataloguing standards (AACR2R, ISBD, LCSH, UDT)

Data exchange standards (MARC 21, Z39.50) Digitization standards – recommendations for

creation of digital data and metadata Standard for description of manuscripts MASTER Microfilming standards Standard for public and information services for

public libraries of communities and towns and cities

ALEPH - regional libraries, university libraries

Tinlib - university libraries LANius, Claivus – public libraries KpSys, KpWin – public libraries Rapid Library –- special libraries and public

libraries Diamon - special libraries

Union Catalogue of the Czech Republic (books, serials, types of documents)

◦ connected with the National Authorities base

◦ be taken over free of charge using the Z 39.50 protocol

SKAT Union Catalogue

Union Catalogue of medical libraries

Uniform Information Gateway

www.jib.cz

◦ Library and Information

Science Subject Gateway

http://kiv.jib.cz

Libraries.cz

www.knihovny.cz

Czech Library and information science portal

http://knihovnam.nkp.cz

EBSCO, ProQuest 5000, ProQuest Digital Dissertations, PCI Fulltext, PCI Web…

Elsevier, Kluwer, Springerlink, Blackwell Synergy, WileyInterscience, Silver Linker…

Web of Science, Science Citation Index, Science Direct Current Content, Journal Citation Reports…

OCLC FirstSearch, ECONbase, Engineered Materials Abstracts, EnvironmentBase, Agris, Bibliomedica, Biological Abstract, Biotechnology Abstracts, CrossFire, MEDLINE, Patrologia Latina…

Czech portals: STM www.portalstm.cz Infosources www.infozdroje.cz

A retrospective conversion of catalogues is belated for 15 years

Completely finished data retroconversion of publications published in 20th century

Support of the RETROKON programme Three stages of retroconversion oCatalogue scanning oConversion of records into the databaseoData transfer into the union catalogue

Data are created according to standards and they are available for all libraries

http://retrokon.nkp.cz

Memoriae Mundi Series Bohemica

the National Programme of Digitization

of Rare Documents

www.manuscriptorium.com

Kramerius -The National Programme

for Microfilming and Digital Access

to Documents Threatened by Degradation

of Acidic Paper http://kramerius.nkp.cz

Webarchiv www.webarchiv.cz

National Digital Library

special secondary schools in 7 cities

full time and external studies on 3 universities◦ The Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague

Institute of Information Studies and Librarianshiphttp://uisk.ff.cuni.cz◦ The Faculty of Art, Masaryk University, Brno

Department of Czech Literature and Library Studies - Library Studies Section

http://www.muni.cz◦ The Faculty of Art and Natural Science, Silesia University, Opava

Czech Studies and Library Science - Department of LibrarianshipInstitute of Infomatics - Department of Information Science

http://www.fpf.slu.cz

courses, training, seminars, lectures requalification training computer/information literacy courses workshops, conferences, visits of other

Czech and foreign libraries

Association of Library and information professionals of the Czech Republic

The Czech Republic‘s library association

Association of libraries of Czech Universities