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10 things about moravian library
1. 10 Things
You Should Know About
Moravian Library in Brno
Michal Škop & Jan Lidmila
2. 1. Important Institution
Founded in 1808
2nd largest library in Czech Republic
4 000 000 items in collection
21 000 registered users
600 000 visitors per year
Over 520 000 loans in 2013
660 study places
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4. 1. Important Institution
Funded by Ministry of Culture
Regional Function
Consulting, Training and Coordination
Services for Smaller Libraries
Research Organization
Publishing of our own Duha (Rainbow)
Magazine
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5. 2. Diverse selection
of documents
Legal Deposit
everything is available to our users
(loan or in-house use only)
2 000 of required Reading titles (Fiction)
for students in open shelves
Opening Hours Mon – Fri 08:30 – 22:00
Sat 10:00 – 18:00
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6. UDC – classification system
Main Subjects:
0 Knowledge. Management. Computer Science. Iinformation …
1 Philosophy. Psychology
3 Social Sciences
5 Mathematics. Natural Sciences
6 Applied Sciences. Medicine. Technology
7 The Arts. Recreation. Entertainment. Sport
8 Language. Linguistics. Literature
9 Geography. Biography. History
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7. 3. Online Services
www.mzk.cz
OPAC: VuFind (LIS: Aleph):
ordering, reservation, lists, ILS, EoD service
integration
16 licenced electronic resources
Facebook / Twitter
Ask a Librarian Service
newsletter (email, printable version available)
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11. 4. Easy Registration
on-line pre-registration (on-line form)
Users can use their student card
Students 12 – 19 for free
20 – 26 100 CZK per Year
General Public 200 CZK per Year
1 month registration for 20 CZK
immediate possibility of borrowing
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12. 5. Connecting to the Network
2 PC with access internet for
unregistered users
120 PC for registered users
Secured WiFi accessible anywhere in
the building + Eduroam WiFi
Print & Copy
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13. 6. New items in collection
Montly list with links to our OPAC
available on our web
New books are available in 30 days
from delivery
periodicals in 7 days
(about 5 000 titles)
Everyone could submit a suggestion to
puchare new item via online form
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14. 7. Digitized Documents
National Digital Library
Digital library Kramerius
– more than 4 500 monographs
– more than 800 maps
– more than 400 manuscripts
Old Maps Online
e-readers, tablets
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15. 8. Foreign Libraries
Deutsche Bibliothek
Österreich Bibliothek
English Library
InfoUSA
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16. 9. Interesting events
Movie Mondays and Thursdays
lectures, seminars
readings, theater
travelogue lectures
trainings
exhibitions
For general public, usually free of charge
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17. 10. Place to Study & Leisure
Possibility to visit library without
restriction / registration
Foyer
Studyrooms
Team study rooms
and study carrels
Cafe on the ground
floor
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28. Thank you for your attention!
Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně
www.mzk.cz
Editor's Notes
2nd largest by collection volume (?), about 150 employes, new building opened in 2001
62 % of our users in 2013 was in age 18-26 years, than the second largest group, 26-35 years, has only 18 %...
MK – in common only with another one, Natinal Library in Prague.
The Moravian Library in Brno is a research organisation whose main purpose is to carry out basic research, applied research or experimental development, and to disseminate their results by means of education, publications or transfer of technologies.
National Digital Library, old maps and manuscripts, georeferencing, OPAC VuFind, book covers,
We should have every book and periodical published in Czech Republic since 1935.
Legal deposit is available only for in-house you, because we have an obligation to keep these documents in the long term. And this way we could reduce the risk of damage or loss.
In Autumn we will buy first few self-check units and Self Service Book Scanner.
+ bibliobox, that can be used to returning book when library is closed.
Mezinárodní desetinné třídění = Universal Decimal Classification: is a document indexing language in the form of a classification scheme covering the whole universe of knowledge. The UDC is designed for subject description and indexing of content of information resources irrespective of the carrier, form, format or language, more @ http://www.udcc.org/index.php/site/page?view=factsheet
3 language mutation available, based on open source drupal (2 external companies – design & coding)
Our coleague Vaclav Rosecky is actively participating on VuFind development, particularly on Aleph services integration
Ebooks on Demand: allow user to order Digitisation of older books by few clics and in reasonable price (final result is PDF with OCR and printed copy of book, and it cost about 15 EUR). It was EU funded project (2006-2013), Moravian Library participate almost from the beginning (As Far as I know No FIN libraries, but Estonian and Swedish). Service is still availble.
Various types of databases – Proquest and EBSCO, newspapers, tourist information, music database for listening – NAXOS – we try to licence resources that are already not available at universities.
100 Kč = cca 4 EUR +
We are planning to build one other unsecured wifi network, that will be availabe for public / unregistered
Kramerius – currently we are adding some old music recordings from digitized LPs (gramophone records). Items still under copyright protection are available only on site on our computers.
Integral part of Moravian Libraries. Partenership with various institution – borrow books in other languages (teachers, students and foreigners)
254 events in last year – almost 10 000 participants
Still quite new building from 2001, near the five faculties of universities in Brno – it has three underground floors and 9 floors overground
The street facade is made by glass wall and dimensional sculpture on the wall according to Comenius' Labyrinth.
Building design respects the existing vegetation and state protected poplar was an impulse to a shaped arrangement of storage towers. Black Depot towers represent a solid indestructible source of knowledge and information. It was awarded as „Building of the Year 2001“
We will show you some photos in a while.
Public part of building underwent and constantly undergoing transformation from more closed scientific library to widely open public library. Few years ago, unregistered users could visit only some parts of our building, and it was forbidden to take your bag with you – you had to store it the locker room.
Still quite new building from 2001, near the five faculties of universities in Brno – it has three underground floors and 9 floors overground
The street facade is made by glass wall and dimensional sculpture on the wall according to Comenius' Labyrinth.
Building design respects the existing vegetation and state protected poplar was an impulse to a shaped arrangement of storage towers. Black Depot towers represent a solid indestructible source of knowledge and information. It was awarded as „Building of the Year 2001“
We will show you some photos in a while.
Public part of building underwent and constantly undergoing transformation from more closed scientific library to widely open public library. Few years ago, unregistered users could visit only some parts of our building, and it was forbidden to take your bag with you – you had to store it the locker room.
Still quite new building from 2001, near the five faculties of universities in Brno – it has three underground floors and 9 floors overground
The street facade is made by glass wall and dimensional sculpture on the wall according to Comenius' Labyrinth.
Building design respects the existing vegetation and state protected poplar was an impulse to a shaped arrangement of storage towers. Black Depot towers represent a solid indestructible source of knowledge and information. It was awarded as „Building of the Year 2001“
We will show you some photos in a while.
Public part of building underwent and constantly undergoing transformation from more closed scientific library to widely open public library. Few years ago, unregistered users could visit only some parts of our building, and it was forbidden to take your bag with you – you had to store it the locker room.
Still quite new building from 2001, near the five faculties of universities in Brno – it has three underground floors and 9 floors overground
The street facade is made by glass wall and dimensional sculpture on the wall according to Comenius' Labyrinth.
Building design respects the existing vegetation and state protected poplar was an impulse to a shaped arrangement of storage towers. Black Depot towers represent a solid indestructible source of knowledge and information. It was awarded as „Building of the Year 2001“
We will show you some photos in a while.
Public part of building underwent and constantly undergoing transformation from more closed scientific library to widely open public library. Few years ago, unregistered users could visit only some parts of our building, and it was forbidden to take your bag with you – you had to store it the locker room.
Still quite new building from 2001, near the five faculties of universities in Brno – it has three underground floors and 9 floors overground
The street facade is made by glass wall and dimensional sculpture on the wall according to Comenius' Labyrinth.
Building design respects the existing vegetation and state protected poplar was an impulse to a shaped arrangement of storage towers. Black Depot towers represent a solid indestructible source of knowledge and information. It was awarded as „Building of the Year 2001“
We will show you some photos in a while.
Public part of building underwent and constantly undergoing transformation from more closed scientific library to widely open public library. Few years ago, unregistered users could visit only some parts of our building, and it was forbidden to take your bag with you – you had to store it the locker room.
Still quite new building from 2001, near the five faculties of universities in Brno – it has three underground floors and 9 floors overground
The street facade is made by glass wall and dimensional sculpture on the wall according to Comenius' Labyrinth.
Building design respects the existing vegetation and state protected poplar was an impulse to a shaped arrangement of storage towers. Black Depot towers represent a solid indestructible source of knowledge and information. It was awarded as „Building of the Year 2001“
We will show you some photos in a while.
Public part of building underwent and constantly undergoing transformation from more closed scientific library to widely open public library. Few years ago, unregistered users could visit only some parts of our building, and it was forbidden to take your bag with you – you had to store it the locker room.
Still quite new building from 2001, near the five faculties of universities in Brno – it has three underground floors and 9 floors overground
The street facade is made by glass wall and dimensional sculpture on the wall according to Comenius' Labyrinth.
Building design respects the existing vegetation and state protected poplar was an impulse to a shaped arrangement of storage towers. Black Depot towers represent a solid indestructible source of knowledge and information. It was awarded as „Building of the Year 2001“
We will show you some photos in a while.
Public part of building underwent and constantly undergoing transformation from more closed scientific library to widely open public library. Few years ago, unregistered users could visit only some parts of our building, and it was forbidden to take your bag with you – you had to store it the locker room.
Still quite new building from 2001, near the five faculties of universities in Brno – it has three underground floors and 9 floors overground
The street facade is made by glass wall and dimensional sculpture on the wall according to Comenius' Labyrinth.
Building design respects the existing vegetation and state protected poplar was an impulse to a shaped arrangement of storage towers. Black Depot towers represent a solid indestructible source of knowledge and information. It was awarded as „Building of the Year 2001“
We will show you some photos in a while.
Public part of building underwent and constantly undergoing transformation from more closed scientific library to widely open public library. Few years ago, unregistered users could visit only some parts of our building, and it was forbidden to take your bag with you – you had to store it the locker room.
Still quite new building from 2001, near the five faculties of universities in Brno – it has three underground floors and 9 floors overground
The street facade is made by glass wall and dimensional sculpture on the wall according to Comenius' Labyrinth.
Building design respects the existing vegetation and state protected poplar was an impulse to a shaped arrangement of storage towers. Black Depot towers represent a solid indestructible source of knowledge and information. It was awarded as „Building of the Year 2001“
We will show you some photos in a while.
Public part of building underwent and constantly undergoing transformation from more closed scientific library to widely open public library. Few years ago, unregistered users could visit only some parts of our building, and it was forbidden to take your bag with you – you had to store it the locker room.
Still quite new building from 2001, near the five faculties of universities in Brno – it has three underground floors and 9 floors overground
The street facade is made by glass wall and dimensional sculpture on the wall according to Comenius' Labyrinth.
Building design respects the existing vegetation and state protected poplar was an impulse to a shaped arrangement of storage towers. Black Depot towers represent a solid indestructible source of knowledge and information. It was awarded as „Building of the Year 2001“
We will show you some photos in a while.
Public part of building underwent and constantly undergoing transformation from more closed scientific library to widely open public library. Few years ago, unregistered users could visit only some parts of our building, and it was forbidden to take your bag with you – you had to store it the locker room.
Still quite new building from 2001, near the five faculties of universities in Brno – it has three underground floors and 9 floors overground
The street facade is made by glass wall and dimensional sculpture on the wall according to Comenius' Labyrinth.
Building design respects the existing vegetation and state protected poplar was an impulse to a shaped arrangement of storage towers. Black Depot towers represent a solid indestructible source of knowledge and information. It was awarded as „Building of the Year 2001“
We will show you some photos in a while.
Public part of building underwent and constantly undergoing transformation from more closed scientific library to widely open public library. Few years ago, unregistered users could visit only some parts of our building, and it was forbidden to take your bag with you – you had to store it the locker room.
