In the last twenty years, libraries in the Czech Republic have undergone
extensive changes, which were evoked by a transition to a democratic
society and market economy. At the beginning of the millennium, the
development of libraries was gradually stabilized; this process culminated
in the adoption of the new library act in 2001. The role of the
Ministry of Culture is characterized in relation to libraries and grant
programs in support of libraries. This paper studies the changes and
trends in the individual areas of library activities, such as library collections
and information resources, the construction of libraries,
the automation of library processes, the retrospective conversion of
Czech library catalogs and portals, the digitization of library collections,
the training of library staff, and the activities of library societies
and associations. An emphasis is placed on the transformations
connected with the development of information technologies. The
paper is complemented by selected statistical data on the development
of libraries.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89806
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2014.0041
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