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10 things about moravian library
The Moravian Library in Brno is the second largest library in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1808 and has over 4 million items in its collection. The library provides a diverse selection of documents for its over 21,000 registered users and 600,000 annual visitors. It offers many online services through its website including an online catalog and access to licensed electronic resources and digitized documents. Users can easily register for access to the library's resources, including borrowing privileges, and it provides spaces for both individual and group studying as well as cultural events.
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10 things about moravian library
- 1. 10 Things YouShould 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 2
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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 4
- 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 5
- 6. UDC – classificationsystem 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 6
- 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) 7
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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 11
- 12. 5. Connecting tothe 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 12
- 13. 6. New itemsin 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 13
- 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 14
- 15. 8. Foreign Libraries Deutsche Bibliothek Österreich Bibliothek English Library InfoUSA 15
- 16. 9. Interesting events Movie Mondays and Thursdays lectures, seminars readings, theater travelogue lectures trainings exhibitions For general public, usually free of charge 16
- 17. 10. Place toStudy & Leisure Possibility to visit library without restriction / registration Foyer Studyrooms Team study rooms and study carrels Cafe on the ground floor 17
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- 28. Thank you foryour attention! Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně www.mzk.cz
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- #3 2nd largest by collection volume (?), about 150 employes, new building opened in 2001
- #4 62 % of our users in 2013 was in age 18-26 years, than the second largest group, 26-35 years, has only 18 %...
- #5 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,
- #6 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.
- #7 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
- #8 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.
- #12 100 Kč = cca 4 EUR +
- #13 We are planning to build one other unsecured wifi network, that will be availabe for public / unregistered
- #15 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.
- #16 Integral part of Moravian Libraries. Partenership with various institution – borrow books in other languages (teachers, students and foreigners)
- #17 254 events in last year – almost 10 000 participants
- #18 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.
- #19 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.
- #20 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.
- #21 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.
- #22 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.
- #23 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.
- #24 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.
- #25 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.
- #26 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.
- #27 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.
- #28 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.