The National Library of the Czech Republic Fees and Services Price List

Library Cards and Registration

Registration fee

• Library card or its renewal

100,-

1.2.

• People with disabilities, seniors over 70 (except for users of Scholars Reading Room)

free

1.3

• Others (and all users of the Scholars Reading Room)

100,-

Fee for every new library card issue (except for the Slavonic Library)

10,-

3

Fee for library card replacement

50,-

4

One day admission ticket

10,-

5.1

5.1.1

• Loan from any library in the Czech Republic

free

• Paper photocopies from any library in the Czech Republic

acc. to the price list of the supplying library

• Paper photocopies supplied to libraries in the Czech Republic – every ten pages of the original or part thereof

• For each loan from abroad – published in Europe except for Great Britain

• For each loan from abroad – published in Great Britain and outside Europe

• Paper photocopies of every 5 pages of the original or part thereof

• Administration fee

• Compensation for damages acc. to the Rules and Regulations of the NL and acc. to a request of the foreign (lending) library

Prices may be subject to additional charges - see item 9.6. and other

• Basic chargé (self - service)

• People with disabilities - applies for all items in 6.1.

• Made to order from archival or rare material acc. to user’s instructions

• Made to order on special equipment as determined by the librarian (dimensions, condition of the original)

• Printout from microfilm or microfiche - self-service (black and white print only)

• Printout from microfilm or microfiche in the NL collection made to order (black and white print only)

• standard user quality (Photoshop 3, RGB, JPG, 300 dpi)

• print quality (Photoshop 11-12, sRGB, JPG, 300 dpi)

24x30 cm

• Digitized to order - for each page of item

• Additional charge for 300 dpi quality for each page

• Digital images downloaded from NL digitized databases - for each image

• Digital images of microfilm, microfiche in the NL collection - for each image

Research services

• For librarians, library science students and libraries

Fees for late return of library material, additional fees

• For each volume of physical unit – regular loan

• For each volume of physical unit – special loan

• For each volume of physical unit – interlibrary loan

Fee for preparatory steps for litigation (for each library unit)

The amount of financial compensation is either governed by the current market price of the document (publication) to which the handling fee for liquidation of damages (9.4.) is added,

Additional charge for using originals from archival and rare collections – photoduplicating services

Fee for issuing a certificate for export of items of cultural value

• CD, including sleeve

• DVD, including sleeve

30,00

In accordance with Copyright Act No. 121/2000 Coll., as amended, the National Library of the Czech Republic shall accept an order for digital copying, inter alia, only if it is verified that the economic copyright of all the works contained in the subject of copying has expired. Verification of the condition mentioned in the previous sentence is not part of the order acceptance.

Additional fee might be charged for postage (par. 9.12.), package (par. 9.7.), data carrier (par. 10), work with archival and rare material (par. 9.6.) etc.

General rules