National Technical Library
| Národní technická knihovna (NTK) | |
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| founding | 1718 |
| Duration | over 1.5 million media units |
| Library type | Special library |
| place | Prague |
| Visitor address | Technická 2710/6, 160 80 Prague 6 - Dejvice |
| operator | Czech Republic |
| management | Martin Svoboda |
| Website | Website of the National Technical Library |
The National Technical Library ( Národní technická knihovna in Czech ; NTK ) in Prague is the largest and oldest specialized scientific and technical library in the Czech Republic . Since 2009, it has been centrally located on the university campus in the Dejvice district and takes on regional and supraregional tasks in providing academic literature and training.
history
The library's origins can be dated back to 1718, when Christian Josef Willenberg , the first professor at the Bohemian Estates School of Engineering , began to build a collection of books and other teaching materials for his students. This collection was initially housed in the so-called Saxon House on Prague's Lesser Town in Willenberg's private apartment, where he also taught. The increase in books soon caused a lack of space and meant that the library had to move to various locations within Prague, initially under Willenberg himself and then under his successors over the course of the following decades.
In 1786, under Professor Franz Anton Leonhard Herget, it was possible for the first time to acquire larger rooms in the former Saint Wenceslas seminary in Prague's old town for the library. This remained there until the 1930s and during that time it underwent an extensive systematic classification of its holdings, especially under Franz Josef von Gerstner , the director of the now German Technical University and his successor Karl Josef Napoleon Balling . In 1935 the collection in the east wing of the Clementinum was reorganized as the Technical University Library and renamed the State Technical Library in 1960 .
Since the capacity limit of the Clementinum's premises was reached by the mid-1990s, the planning of a new building for the National Technical Library was commissioned, which was finally completed between 2006 and 2009 at the new location in Dejvice.
Tasks and profile
The National Technical Library offers its users over five floors around 1,300 jobs and 500,000 books in open access . In addition to a branch of the Prague City Library ( Městská knihovna v Praze ), the building is home to a cafeteria, an art gallery and a bookstore. A special feature of the new building is the artistic interior design by the artist Dan Perjovschi .
The library's academic partners are mainly natural science and technology faculties from various institutions in Prague:
- Czech Technical University Prague ( ČVUT )
- University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague ( VŠCHT )
- Czech Agricultural University Prague ( ČZU )
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences ( AV ČR )
The holdings of many faculty libraries of the above-mentioned institutions were integrated into the NTK in the course of the new building and have been centrally managed from there ever since. The library also organizes access to subject-specific literature databases that are subject to a charge, such as SciFinder and Reaxys via the chem TK project . The CzechELib consortium, whose administration has been located in the NTK, is of great importance for the national literature supply. Following the Finnish model of FinELib, CzechELib enables access to electronic resources (especially to electronic journals ) for research institutions nationwide through a consortial financing model.
In addition to the supply of literature, the library performs important tasks of academic education that the universities on campus are often unable to perform. Above all, this includes imparting information skills , good scientific practice and English as the scientific language. This offer is also aimed at pupils in secondary education in order to sustainably promote the scientific education of students.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About NTK Národní technická knihovna
- ^ NTK: About NTK . Accessed April 28, 2020 (English).
- ^ A b NTK: About NTK - History . Accessed April 28, 2020 (English).
- ↑ archdaily.com: National Library in Prague Tecnical / projectile Architekti . Accessed April 28, 2020 (English).
- ^ NTK: About NTK - Academic Partners . Accessed April 28, 2020 (English).
- ↑ chemTK. Accessed April 28, 2020 (English).
- ↑ FinELib. Accessed April 28, 2020 (English).
- ↑ CzechELib: About CzechELib . Accessed April 28, 2020 (English).
- ^ NTK: Education and Research Support . Accessed April 28, 2020 (English).
- ^ NTK: Information Support for High Schools . Accessed April 28, 2020 (English).
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 14 ″ N , 14 ° 23 ′ 26 ″ E