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(EN) The National Library's collection includes over 6 million volumes and yearly, it acquires about 80 thousand new titles. It provides services to around one million users every year, most of whom are university or college students, teachers, academics, scientist, and scholars. Each year, around one million books are lent. The library services are available for everybody over the age of 15.
The National Library is one of the oldest public libraries in the Czech Republic with collections of a size far outranking any other library in the country. The value of its collections makes it one of the most important libraries both in Europe and in the world. It acquires, preserves, continuously updates, and provides access to rich collections of both domestic and foreign documents, especially of Bohemica and documents from the spheres of social and natural sciences. Historical collections are mostly of Czech and European origin. Main part of them consist of Bohemica, too. The core of the manuscript collection is formed by a set of codices donated by Charles IV to Prague University after the foundation of its first college in 1366. In addition, there are also oriental manuscripts and Greek papyri to be found there. The manuscript collection includes a large number of unique pieces as, for example, the Vysehrad Codex from the year 1085, created for the coronation of the first Czech King Vratislav, the Passional of the Abbess Kunhuta from the year 1312, produced in the scriptorium of the Convent of St. George at Prague Castle, the Velislav Pictorial Bible from the first half of the fourteenth century.
The National Library preserves, among others, the surviving part of Tycho de Brahe´s library, a collection of Comeniana, the personal libraries of Bernard Bolzano, F. X. Salda, and Jan Vlcek. There are large private libraries, some of them preserved intact - as, for example, the library of the Counts Kinsky, and the Prague Lobkowitz library.
One of the frequently consulted collections is that of Mozartiana - the Mozart's Memorial. It belongs to the Music Department.
The Slavonic Library constitutes a part of the National Library. It is a public, research library, the largest one in Central Europe specialized in Slavonic studies. Besides original Slavonic countries literature, the documents are thematically oriented onto professional Slavonic literature from all over the world and focus mainly on history, philosophy, linguistics, literary science, folklore studies, ethnology, political science, sociology, and art. Its collection also includes a part of the personal library of A. F. Smiridin.
The National Library is one of the principal driving forces behind the CASLIN project (a library information network linking Czech and Slovak libraries) which resulted in a programme to build the Union Catalogue of the Czech Republic - CASLIN. A number of significant public and scientific libraries have been contributing to this programme.

Regular climatological measurements are taken on published coordinates. An uninterrupted series of measurements taken every day dates back to January 1st 1775 (oldest measurements taken only in Hofdorf - from 1715 and Padova - from 1725).



(CZ) Národní knihovna Ceské republiky (NK CR) je rozsahem svých fondu nejvetší a zároven jednou z nejstarších verejných knihoven v Ceské republice, radí se mezi nejvýznamnejší evropské i svetové knihovny.

Soubor historické a novodobé literatury obsahuje více než 6 milionu dokumentu s rocním prírustkem 70 tisíc titulu. Informace o dokumentech jsou dnes zprístupneny v elektronické podobe podle mezinárodních standardu, postupne jsou digitalizovány vzácné rukopisy a ohrožené tiskoviny. Rocne knihovnou projde pres pul milionu návštevníku, vcetne témer 60ti tisíc registrovaných uživatelu.

Sídlem NK CR je bývalá jezuitská kolej Klementinum, jež je národní kulturní památkou a patrí mezi nejrozsáhlejší barokní stavby na území našeho státu. 4 miliony dokumentu jsou od roku 1996 uloženy v Centrálním depozitári v Hostivari.

Na uvedených souradnicích jsou od r. 1775 provádena známá klementinská klimatologická merení, jejichž hodnota je v tom, že od té doby do soucasnosti nebyly prerušeny. Starší neprerušená merení se realizují pouze v Hofdorfu (od r. 1715) a Padove (od r.1725).

Classification of Library: Public Library (Open to all) Internet access available: Yes - Library Terminal: Register with Library Clerk to use Hours of Operation: usually Mon - Sat: 9.00 - 19.00, Sun: closed, for details visit: http://www.nkp.cz/_en/pages/page.php3?page=sluz_hours.htm Library Website: [Web Link] Additional Internet Connection Options: Not listed Approximate date of opening.: Not listed

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