1. 4th Project Workshop
Books Discovered Once Again
Tomas Foltyn, National Library of the Czech Republic
Prague, 7. 12. 2015

2. 1)Progress report from the last project
workshop
2) General overview about project
activities realized so far
Content

3. 1) Progress report
2 – 3. 11. 2015; Kristiansand

4. 1) Progress report
Main goals:
1) Virtual Exhibition Creation – content and interface
2) Administrative and Budgetary issues
3) Presentations about the WWII, Free Masonic
Groups and books history
4) Final events – exhibition, seminars, promotional
tools
5) „Homeworks“ before the second monitoring report
submission

5. 1) Progress report
What happens:
Second monitoring record is submitted.

6. 1) Progress report
What happens:
Four big lectures has been realized.

7. 1) Progress report
What happens:
New provenance signs database released.

8. 1) Progress report
What happens:
Final Seminar Registration Form Open.

9. 1) Progress report
What happens:
First Revision of the Virtual Exhibit is done.

10. 1) Progress report
What happens:
First Project Baby is born.

11. Motivation for project proposing:
 national research project Virtual Deposit Library
 external repository in Neratovice
 unknown period in the history of NL CR and Czech
Republic
 none systematic research in the project area so
far
 act of interdisciplinarity = archival research
 lack of time and staff power to fix it in in-house
mode
Introduction of the project
February 2014 April 2016
Mar 14 Apr 14 May 14 Jun 14 Jul 14 Aug 14 Sep 14 Oct 14 Nov14 Dec 14 Jan15 Feb15 Mar 15 Apr 15 May 15 Jun 15 Jul 15 Aug 15 Sep 15 Oct 15 Nov15 Dec 15 Jan16 Feb16 Mar 16 Apr 16
Feb2014- May 2014
PROJECTPREPARATION
Aug 2014- Nov2014
PROJECTAPPROVAL
May 2014-
Jul 2014
PROJECT
SUBMISSION
Nov 2014-
Jan2015
PROJECT
PREPARATI
ON
Jan 2015 - Apr 2016
PROJECTREALIZATION
TODAY

12. Results:
1) Create at least 12 000 records of confiscated
books (availability in library catalogue)
2) Legal experts report (published via web)
3) Web portal creation (availability via internet)
4) Archival and historical research (information on
via web, research results publishing)
General Overview

13. Outputs – „We have to…“:
1) To organize 2 large proffesional seminars and 4
internal project meetings
2) To create the project web portal
3) To proces at least 12 000 records from Reserve
collection with the direct relationship with
confiscated of brought books
General Overview

14. Outputs – „We have to…“:
4) To manage the creation of the legal expert
report
5) To create the physical and virtual exhibition
6) To realize the consistent archival and historical
research and to create the monograph, exhibition
catalogue or longer paper about the project
results
General Overview

15. Ground results to archieve:
A. To present and promote knowledge about the
processed books
B. To prepare professional analysis about the
legal status of the books processed within the
project
C. PR of the project in the Czech Republic and
Norway
D. Deep archival research into the area of book
confiscations behind the common approaches
General Overview

16. To present and promote knowledge about the
processed books:
- almost 9 400 records done
- available in the library catalogue /internally/
- 3 cataloguers hired are capable to make 16 records
per day
- 2 units creators
- external .xls database with the provenance signs
- more than 1 600 provenance signs were
discovered (not 1 600 formal owners)
- database is transfered to the proffesional
solution
What we already did?

19. http://195.113.132.51:8080/razitka/

21. To present and promote knowledge about the
processed books:
- negotiations with other Czech libraries started
- research libraries in České Budějovice, Liberec,
Hradec Králové
- OAI-PMH protocol set up
- first two library is running, third library needs
to solve some technical problems
What we already did?

22. What we already did?
http://vdk.nkp.cz/vdk/

23. To prepare professional analysis about the
legal status of the books:
- analysis is ready and prepare for our usage (will be
translated to English as well)
- Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague
- prof. JUDr. Jan Kuklík, DrSc.
- Mgr. Daniela Němečková
- the aim of the analysis was to declare the current
legal state-of-art of the books, which are
processed in the project
- National Library can add these books to its
collections and preserve them for the future
What we already did?

25. PR of the project in the Czech Republic and
Norway:
- final conferences dates are agreed
- 16. 3. 2015 – Kristiansad
- 31. 3. 2015 – Prague
- 4 internal Books discovered once again seminars
- first three (Prague,2 x Kristiansand) were
successful
- fourth seminar is runnig
- physical and virtual exhibitions
- physical exhibition will take place in Klementinum
- duration 1,5 month
- close contacts with the library specialist about the
scenario
What we already did?

26. PR of the project in the Czech Republic and
Norway:
- virtual exhibiton
- Stiftelsen Arkivet has made a great job
- National Library of CR prepared as much sources
as it was possible
- separate topic for the running meeting
- getting in the touch with the experts and researches
- promotion:
- social media,
- conferences,
- lectures for university students etc.
What we already did?

28. www.knihyznovunaleze.eu

29. Řešení projektu
01/2015 – 04/2016
C) Prezentace výsledků projektu

30. Introduction of the project

31. Introduction of the project

32. Řešení projektu
01/2015 – 04/2016
C) Prezentace výsledků projektu
 uspořádání standardní a virtuální výstavy

33. What we already did?

34. What we already did?

35. What we already did?
Contacts with various professionals:
- prof. Patricia Grimstead (Harvard University)
- Sebastian Finsterwalder (Landesbibliothek Berlin)
- Peter Prölß (Klassika Stiftung in Weimar)
Connections with other projects:
- Research for Nazi-looted books project
- http://raubgut.zlb.de/index.php/About/Index_en
- join workshop organized in Prague – 19. 11. 2015

36. Deep archival research into the area of book
confiscations:
- outputs for the virtual and physical exhibit, project
webpage, proffesional research paper etc.
- 4 personal libraries and 4 institutional libraries
were selected and prepare for the microstories:
- persons:
- Jiří Arvéd Smíchovský
- Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch
- Vítězslav Kumpera
- August Sauer
- institutions:
- Lese-und Redehalle der deutschen Studenten in Prag
- ZEMGOR
- Akademische Gymnasium
- Deutsche Pestalozzigesellschaft
What we already did?

37. What we already did?
PRAMENY:
• Národní archiv ČR:
• f. Zemský národní výbor Praha
• f. Zemský úřad Praha
• f. Státní památková správa + dodatky
• Archiv ministerstva zahraničních věcí:
• f. Reparace a restituce
• f. Ústřední restituční a reparační komise
• Ústav dějin umění AV ČR
• f. Národní kulturní komise

38. D) Zmapování historie konfiskací

39. Sklady knih
při MNV, ONV
Zasílání do NUK
Výběr úředníky
NUK na místě
NUK
Rezervní
fondy
Fondy
Výběr pro FNO Distribuce
Starý papír
Starý papír Cizina
What we already did?

40. „RESERVE COLLECTIONS“
OF NL CR
What we already did?

41. D) Zmapování historie konfiskací

42. D) Zmapování historie konfiskací
Found Numbers

43. Revision of the outputs:
1) To organize 2 large professional seminars nad 4
internal project meeting
STILL RUNNING – 2/3 ARE CLOSED
2) To create the project web portal
DONE!
3) To process at least 12 000 records
STILL RUNNING - GOOD PROGRESS
Summary

44. Revision of the outputs:
4) To manage the creation of the exhibitions
STILL RUNNING
5) Legal analysis about the status of the processed
books
DONE!
6) To realize the archival and historical reseach
STILL RUNNING - GOOD PROGRESS
Mandatory results

45. 1) STILL RESPECT ALL THE BUDGETARY AND
ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES
2) FINALIZE THE DETAILED AGENDAS FOR THE
SEMINARS IN NORWAY AND CZECH REPUBLIC
3) KEEP ON ENLARGEMENT OF THE WEBPAGE
CONTENT
4) PREPARE THE SCENARIO FOR THE PHYSICAL
EXHIBITION AND BUY THE PROMOTIONAL
TOOLS
5) MANAGE ALL THE NEXT PERIODICAL REPORTS
THINGS TO DO…!

46. tomas.foltyn@nkp.cz
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!