Lenka Prucková Municipal 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 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 libraries4669  City/town libraries809  Regional libraries14 Special libraries  University libraries51  Research libraries72  Medicine libraries86  Museum libraries116  Archive libraries22  Administrative libraries22  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 Centre 2. Extramural training in information technologies for library staff 3. Establishment of public library information centres 4. Digital library and archives for library information services 5. National programme of retrospective conversion of Czech library catalogues 6. National programme of digital access to valuable documents - Memoriae Mundi Series Bohemica 7. National programme for microfilming and digital access to documents threatened by degradation of acidic paper - Kramerius 8. Digital information sources, Uniform Information Gateway 9.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 protocol  SKAT Union Catalogue  Union Catalogue of medical libraries

 Uniform Information Gateway ◦ Library and Information Science Subject Gateway  Libraries.cz  Czech Library and information science portal

 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  Infosources

 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 o Catalogue scanning o Conversion of records into the database o Data transfer into the union catalogue  Data are created according to standards and they are available for all libraries

 Memoriae Mundi Series Bohemica the National Programme of Digitization of Rare Documents  Kramerius -The National Programme for Microfilming and Digital Access to Documents Threatened by Degradation of Acidic Paper  Webarchiv  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 Librarianship ◦ The Faculty of Art, Masaryk University, Brno Department of Czech Literature and Library Studies - Library Studies Section ◦ The Faculty of Art and Natural Science, Silesia University, Opava Czech Studies and Library Science - Department of Librarianship Institute of Infomatics - Department of Information Science

 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