National Library of the Czech Republic

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National Libraryof the Czech Republic

• Bohdana Stoklasová
• Director of Library Collections and Services
• bohdana.stoklasova_at_nkp.cz

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Content

• History
• Functions and mission
• Organizational structure
• New library building
• National digital library
• Questions?

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History

• 11th century first records attesting the
  existence of St. Clement's Chapel (Sv. Kliment)
• 13th - 14th century Studium generale - a latin
  school at a Dominican monastery - it eventually
  merges with the Prague university
• 1366 Charles IV donates a set of codices to the
  university
• 1556 Jesuits came to Bohemia and built a college
  upon the ruins of the Dominican monastery - its
  name is Klementinum
• 1622 from now the Charles University is
  administered by Jesuits who transfer the Charles
  University libraries to Klementinum
• 17th - 18th century an important Jesuit press, an
  astronomical observatory, and the university,
  then called Charles-Ferdinand's University all
  are housed in Klementinum
• 1773 Jesuits leave Klementinum
• 1777 the empress Mary Theresa - the title of
  Imperial-Royal Public and University Library,
  open to the public

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History

• 1781 K. R. Ungar founds the National Library
  (Bibliotheca nationalis)
• 1782 since now the Prague printers hand in a
  legal deposit copy to the library
• 1807 the duty of legal deposit copy is extended
  to cover all Czech printers
• 1918 the Public and University Library is taken
  over by the newly founded Czechoslovakia
• 1924 Slavonic Library is founded, 1929
  transferred to Klementinum
• 1935 the library is renamed to National and
  University Library, a law is passed stipulating
  the legal deposit copy duty
• 1939 after the closure of Czech universities and
  colleges, it continues under the name of
  Municipal and University Library
• 1958 all large Prague libraries are merged into a
  single centralized one with the name of State
  Library of the Czech Republic
• 1990 the library is renamed - the National
  Library
• 1996 Central Depository in Hostivar
• 2006 new library building competition, winnner
  March 2007
• 2007- ??? fight for the new library building

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Functions and mission

• National Library
• Universal Library
• Special Library
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• Hybrid library

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Organizational structure
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Collections
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Services

• local users
• remote users

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New library building
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National Digital Library and Trusted Digital
Repository
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National policy

• Broader context
• Concept of long-term preservation of and access
  to national document cultural heritage (both
  analogue and digital) prepared by the Ministry
  of Culture, to be approved by the Czech
  Government
• Czech Digital Library - conceptualizes a new
  national integration of the different digital
  libraries in the CR with digital repositories of
  other cultural heritage and research institutions

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National policy

• Digital preservation
• Central trusted repository national digital
  cultural heritage funding Ministry of Culture
  (Manuscriptorium for digitised historical and
  rare documents, Kramerius for digitised books and
  periodicals, WebArchiv for archiving of web all
  the projects have national framework),
  opportunity for others funding from other
  resources
• Institutional repositories subject-oriented,
  regional... inst. funding

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Central repository

• Data storage As the central disk storage two IBM
  Systems Storage DS 4800 are installed, one in
  Klementinum and the second one in Hostivar data
  centre. These data centres are connected via dark
  fibre with CWDM modules and fibre channel
  switches SAN16B-2 built Storage Area Network
  (SAN) are used in each of above mentioned
  localities. For the backup and archiving services
  the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) together with an
  IBM tape library is used. The currently
  implemented solution for the Central Data Storage
  provides the possibility to store digitalized
  data on the safe platform with flexible capacity.
  The CDS offers also services concerning Disaster
  Recovery. Data are replicated between two data
  centres more than 20 km distant. Both this
  replication and distance between localities
  protect data against the physical destruction of
  the building, long power outage, etc. Together
  with CDS both backup and archiving systems are
  available to protect operating data against human
  or software error. Next steps beside appropriate
  CDS capacity for digitalization in year 2008 are
  to be finalization of backup and archiving
  strategy for selected applications to enhance
  data security.
• DOMS to be selected in 2009 (commercial system
  DIAS, DPS, other ???)
• Internal audit DRAMBORA - recommendation

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Institutional repositories

• Data storage different solutions
• Institutional repositories management systems
  research institutions mainly open-source
  (Fedora, DSpace etc., some commercial -
  DigiTool)

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Thank you for your attention

• Bohdana Stoklasová
• bohdana.stoklasova_at_nkp.cz