The Libraries of Charles University in Prague introduce themselves

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The Libraries of Charles University in Prague
introduce themselves

• Marie Paráková, Jitka Stejskalová
• Charles University in Prague

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Some facts about Charles University

• Charles University comprises 17 faculties, 3
  university institutes and 6 further facilities
  for educational, scientific, research and further
  innovative activities or else for providing
  information services, in addition to 5
  university-wide purpose-built facilities and a
  vice-chancellors office which is the centre of
  Charles University executive management
• CHU has more than 7 000 employees, 4 000 of them
  are scientific and academic, more than 49 000
  students (which is almost one fifth of all the
  students in Czech Republic), more than 4 000
  foreign students

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Some facts about CHU Libraries 2007

• Library collections 4 513 231
• Growth in stock 74 178
• Number of printed journals 5 257
• Number of e-journals (approximately) 20 000
• Maximum opening hours in week 56
• Number of outside loans 574 798
• Number of users 98 572
• Number of seats in studying rooms 2 149
• Number of librarians 263

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History of CHU Libraries

• Charles University was founded 1348
• history of Libraries started in the 1460s when
  individual colleges were established, the oldest
  one was the Charles which owned 35 manuscripts
  donated by the King Charles IV
• until the second half of the 15th century gifts
  and bequests from wealthy merchants were the only
  means of increasing the libraries stock
• books were loaned not only to academics but
  outside of university too
• in certain colleges looked after libraries self
  titled bibliothéque-ers

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History of CHU Libraries

• the arrival of Jesuits in Czech Lands in 1556
  gave rise to creation of the Catholic St. Clement
  College which had its own Clementinum Library
• in the second half of 16th century there were two
  important libraries - Charles Library and
  Clementinum
• in the middle of 17th century was established
  Charles-Ferdinand University from the
  ecclesiastical faculties from Clementinum and
  secular faculties from Carolinum but the both
  libraries functioned separately
• In 1777 were both libraries joined and was formed
  new public Imperial University Library in
  Clementinum which 11O years later became the
  Imperial Public and University Library

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History of CHU Libraries

• the administration of the library was greatly
  influenced by library committees which were
  elected by academic senates of universities from
  the ranks of professors
• during the course of years, and even centuries,
  these library committees constantly demonstrated
  that the library should serve the role of
  university library and not a public library
• this constant tug-of-war between the
  administrators of the library and the University
  about the mission of the library lasted through
  the First World War and then on through the
  creation of an independent Republic and continued
  until the end of Second World War

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History of CHU Libraries

• after the Second World War the University lost
  all control over the running of Clementinum
  Library, further developments mainly concerned
  the meaning behind the direction and functions of
  National Library
• from 1975 the university library was not even a
  separate sub-division of Clementinum Library and
  after the Velvet Revolution the library was
  renamed the National Library of Czech Republic,
  also the students and teaching staff from the
  University visit this library
• from the 1950s onwards faculty libraries began to
  be established, as well as small seminary and
  departmental libraries

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Today of CHU Libraries

• there are almost 250 special oriented libraries
  which can be divided into the following types
• Type A - a central library with all services
  provided from a single location, this model is
  used by the following faculties - Law, Pedagogy,
  Physical Education and Sports, all the
  theological faculties and by two of three
  independent university institutes - the Centre
  for Research and Doctoral Study in Economics, the
  Institute of History and the Charles University
  Archive

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Today of CHU Libraries

• Type B a central processing location serving
  departmental libraries. While the central
  location conducts co-ordinated acquisitions and
  stock processing, all other activities are
  transferred to departmental libraries, where
  library administration is sometimes not entrusted
  to professional librarians but to other employees
  of the department (teaching staff, secretary,
  etc.). This model is used at the Faculty of Arts
  although currently a transformation of these
  libraries is taking place, moving towards a
  central study location situated in a single
  shared library

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Today of CHU Libraries

• Type C a central library, with connections to
  partial libraries, on behalf of which the central
  library carries out certain activities
  (acquisition, processing, cataloguing). This is
  the model mainly used by the Medical Faculties,
  Pharmaceutical Faculty and Social Sciences
  Faculty
• Type D subject libraries, between which the
  connecting link is management of activities by a
  head employee. This model is used by the Natural
  Sciences Faculty and by the Mathematics and
  Physics Faculty

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Today of CHU Libraries

• Type E site library, which is located on a site
  where are situated subjects of a similar nature
  from several faculties. This model can be seen in
  the Library of Social Sciences of T. G. Masaryk
  in Jinonice, which is the background for several
  fields of study by the Faculty of Arts, Social
  Science and Faculty of Humanities as well as the
  Charles University Centre for Environmental
  Issues
• at Charles University there exists also the
  Central Library which is not traditional
  university library but is entrusted with
  administration of the specialist research
  collection and coordination of the library
  information service and CHU Computer Centre
  which is the administrator of union catalogue

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Today of CHU Libraries

• CHU has many faculties and institutes which are
  not located in Prague but outside of Prague this
  means that CHU can not have one central library
• in this situation the only possibility is
  cooperation between all the libraries and
  information facilities at the University
• at the beginning of the 1990s the libraries
  progressively moved to towards automated
  operation, the first step was a selection of
  automated library system, most of them chose the
  system Tinlib

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Today of CHU Libraries

• the CHU Computer Centre worked in 1993 on the
  project to build a central cataloging system
• the union catalogue was created from new
  acquisition dating from the beginning of 1993 and
  subsequently supplemented by older so-called
  live library collections
• until 2003 was used batch mode of creation the
  union catalogue which has a number of
  disadvantages - delay in delivery of records,
  great number of duplication, variability of
  indexes

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Today of CHU Libraries

• until 2004 was implemented a centralized model
  for automated library system under Aleph 500 not
  only for cataloging, for loan system,
  administration of serials etc. too
• the completion of the project of centralized
  library system is finishing now

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Participation of libraries on the union catalogue
in 2007
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Number of records in the union catalogue
(in thousands)
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Today of CHU Libraries

• Central Library is responsible for the
  development of further co-operation and a uniform
  approach to library activities in Charles
  University
• arranges the acquisition of many databases both
  for faculties and for their individual parts, as
  well as taking part in consortia in the Czech
  Republic
• the range of e-resources has increased for users
  during the past ten years

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Today of CHU Libraries

• faculty libraries created their own lists of
  electronic resources for their own users
• resources which are prepaid on a university-wide
  basis have been placed on the Central Library web
  site
• a colleague from CHU Computer Center has created
  an information gateway
• the company Albertina Icome Praha a provider of
  e-resources to the Czech Republic offered its
  users product Infosources

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Today of CHU Libraries

• CHU Computer Centre selected and implemented the
  Onelog system for remote access to the e-sources
• this situation formed the basis of the Portal
  for Charles University electronic resources
  (PEZ)
• is designed to offer users a list of all the
  licensed databases accessible on the Charles
  University campus, as well as both summary and
  detailed information about the resources in Czech
  and English and a link for on-site access and
  remote access
• the introductory screen gives information to
  users about how to work with the resources and
  about the penalties for not adhering to the rules

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Today of CHU Libraries

• individual e-periodicals will be accessible via
  the Portal for electronic periodicals (PEC)
  and individual electronic books will be stored on
  the ALEPH system, links from Portal of e-sources
  will lead to both types of documents
• Portal of e-sources offers users a list of
  resources in order according to subject, faculty
  or the alphabet

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PEZ.CUNI.CZ alphabetical order
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PEZ.CUNI.CZ e-resources by faculties
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PEZ.CUNI.CZ description of database
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Today of CHU Libraries

• Charles University libraries collect
  bibliographical records about all the
  publications of employees of the University since
  1995
• known as "Records of publications by the internal
  employees of Charles University "
  (http//novy-certik.ruk.cuni.cz8080/bib06.html)
• each year this database increases by an extra
  10,000 entries, the database now almost has a
  very respectable 120,000 entries

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Today of CHU Libraries

• CHU libraries make the Register of Information
  on the Results of RD
• a means of evaluating achievements in science and
  research
• from 2009 the University will be awarded part of
  its financial resources for research based on
  this evaluation
• from 2011 all its resources for research will be
  granted solely on the results of this evaluation

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Today of CHU Libraries

• only way to ensure a high-quality and effective
  return on the resources expended for a library
  and information service in Charles University is
  to achieve the highest possible level of
  co-ordination in the activities which are common
  to all workplaces

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Thanks for you attention!

• Marie Paráková
• E-mail marie.parakova_at_ruk.cuni.cz
• Jitka Stejskalová
• E-mail jitka.stejskalova_at_lf1.cuni.cz