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The General Reading Room, a summer refectory of the former Jesuit Collegium Clementinum, is situated on the ground floor. You will find it next to the entrance, through a baroque portal and anteroom, through the door on the right side. |
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| TELEPHONE |
221 663 242
221 663 111 (operator) |
| E-MAIL |
vseobecna@nkp.cz |
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| OPENING HOURS |
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Anybody with a valid National Library card, or one day admission ticket, may use the General Reading Room. |
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General Reading Room Regulations |
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| COLLECTION |
- a library of approx. 12 000 volumes of reference literature in major subject areas - numerous encyclopedias and language dictionaries, both general and specialized; legislative and jurisprudential literature
- volumes are categorized in Classified Arrangement of the General Reading Room
- you will find shelf marks of the Reading Room collection in OPAC (for example BMO II A 002)
-items with a note „open shelves“ – you may pick yourselves
-for items with notes „ask the staff - at the desk“and „ask the staff - adjacent repository“ please ask the librarian
- National Digital Library is made available through the system Kramerius (access on 2 work stations; access to public domain works also through Wi-Fi)
- Licensed online databases (available through Wi-Fi) including
- a selection of Czech newspapers
- a selection of Czech periodicals
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| SERVICES |
- making available of printed materials from NL collections for in-house use (from the year of publication 1801),
- there is a limit of maximum 10 items (see Section 10 of the General Reading Room Regulations)
- in case of newspapers or any large-size volumes, the limit amounts to a maximum of 6 volumes (in principle one year-volume of newspaper)
The hold period is 14 calendar days. If no other user is interested in the library item, this period can be extended via online catalogue , on request to the library staff, via e-mail or phone, even repeatedly
- use of materials from the Reading Room Reference Collection
- referral and consulting services
- photoduplication orders (Price List)
- scanning tent
- Wireless Internet Access (Wi-Fi)
- internet access
- 204 study places, including 2 places for disabled users
Eva Němcová
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