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Construction and reconstruction of university library buildings in the Czech Republic over the period 2000-2010
Grillová, Jana ; Buřilová, Marcela (advisor) ; Kurka, Ladislav (referee)
The thesis deals with structures of university libraries in the Czech Republic. It is notionally split into two parts. The theoretical part contains the views of Faulkner- Brown (architect), Mr. McDonald (Director of Library of the University of East London), PhDr. Ladislav Kurka and Ing. Martin Svoboda on the appearance and properties of the ideal model of university library in terms of architecture and social factors. The practical part at first contains general information about university libraries and their position relative to the legislation in the CR. The main focus of work is a summary of newly constructed or reconstructed buildings of academic libraries in the Czech Republic in the years 2000-2010. Each library is described on the basis of found information or personal visits of the author. The following assessment describes how the above-described libraries are functional and aesthetically well made. There are scetched basic problems with which the buildings face now or may face in the future and how it can be solved. In conclusion, the author questions subjectively the situation of university libraries in the Czech Republic and their near future.
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Survey of Old Prints and Manuscripts Collections in Faculty Libraries of Charles University in Prague
Kafková, Ivana ; Drobíková, Barbora (advisor) ; Šípek, Richard (referee)
(in English): This study focuses on the faculty libraries of the Charles University in Prague. More precisely, it deals with their collections of manuscripts, old and rare books. The introductory chapters are dedicated to theoretical basis of protection and preservation of historical documents. The main body of the thesis is created by an analysis of historical collections in particular libraries. This analysis is based on a questionnaire survey, on study of sources and on a research carried out during an actual visit to these libraries. Each chapter includes a brief history of the faculty library, the origin of the collection, and other important features such as the size of the collection, its thematic focus and especially the details of the way it is stored and available to readers. Another important focus of this study is to express the needs, the aims and experience of these faculty libraries. A more detailed study is dedicated to the library of The Protestant Theological Faculty. It includes a report about my research into the actual physical condition of the collection. The concluding and summarizing part of this thesis consists of thematically structured chapters, diagrams and tables which try to give an overall perspective on the situation. It tries to define the common grounds and...
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The Gate of Electronic Information Sources of Art On-line at The Janacek Academy of Music and Performings Arts in Brno and Its Services
Kasperkevičová, Romana ; Bratková, Eva (advisor) ; Stöcklová, Anna (referee)
The theme of this doctoral thesis is the gate for free access to the electronic information resources Art On-line at the Library of The Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts /JAMU/ in Brno (see http://knihovna.jamu.cz/index.html or http://dokumenty.jamu.cz/knihovna/eiz). The purposes are analysis and evaluation of the current state of the gate, survey of using information and information services, suggestion of its expansion, suggestion of its organizational and technological innovation and suggestion for completion of electronic information resources. The doctoral thesis consists of seven chapters. The opening part introduces JAMU and the Library of JAMU, the fundamental part presents the gate Art On-line. Chapter 1 The Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno introduces milieu of the art academy. From chapter 2 The Library of JAMU - history, development, services and its critical analysis to chapter 4 Electronic information resources at the Library of JAMU the text deals with problems of the library. Chapter 5 The gate Art On-line - history, development, services and its critical analysis of the current state describes its development and represents its current state. Chapter 6 The questionnaires "Using of the gate Art On-line on the web of the Library of JAMU" presents using...
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Academic libraries of the private universities in the Czech Republic
Josífková, Romana ; Landová, Hana (advisor) ; Římanová, Radka (referee)
Diploma thesis on the topic "Academic libraries of the private universities in the Czech Republic" deals with libraries of the private universities. An introduction into the issue containing history, present, good and bad points of the private universities is mentioned at the beginning. Another part of the work contains information about associations and corporations where the universities are involved in. Foreign private universities and their libraries are also mentioned for better overview. The work describes particular law documents relating to library activities (libraries in general as well as academical libraries). The main part of the thesis is the review of schools and their libraries. The end of the thesis there is a comparison with one public university and one private university and their libraries. Keywords of the thesis: academical libraries, libraries of the universities, private universities, private colleges, history of the private schools or universities, problems of the private school or universities, financing of the private schools.
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Cooking Stone Soup: Porous Workforce Training at the Czech National Library of Technology as a Supplement to (Impermeable) University Education
Chodounská, Alena ; Krueger, Stephanie
As in many other countries around the world, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) libraries in the Czech Republic are facing the difficult challenge of meeting the rapidly-evolving service needs of the communities they support in an environment in which the current university educational system does not provide graduates—neither those from STEM subjects nor those graduating from Czech library/information professional schools—with the appropriate set of skills needed for working in today’s specialized information provision settings. As a result, the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK) has been forced to provide on-the-job workforce training since early 2015 to its reference, instructional, and front-lines services staff simply in order to keep pace with STEM library developments outside the Czech Republic. This weekly workforce training effort, christened NTKu (short for NTKyouniversity), does not resemble traditional university education with its rigid structures and focus on the attainment of a degree. NTKu is, instead, porous: traditional “impermeable,” less flexible university curricula are supplemented with on-demand, ever-changing targeted instruction on specific issues, topics, and skills applied immediately to real-work settings. This manner of instruction, as the authors discuss in the paper, can yield highly effective results; however, unique challenges can emerge in an instructional environment lacking traditional measures of effectiveness (i.e., grades) and requiring voluntary participation by both learners and instructors. Such porous instructional efforts resemble those of open source software (OSS) communities, in which voluntary effort can produce results benefiting a particularly community—but only to the degree of investment provided by contributors. Such initiatives resemble cooking stone soup: the results can be tasty, but everyone involved needs to bring something to the table.
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Slides: idr-1016_2 - PDF
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LIBER 44th Annual Conference: Towards Open Science
Žižková, Štěpánka
Na konferenci LIBER konané ve dnech 24. – 26. 6. 2015 v budově Imperial Colledge v Londýně účastnice této služební cesty vyslechla přednášky zejména z tematického okruhu Open Acces, Open Data a Open Science, metody zpřístupnění informací pro vědeckou a akademickou komunitu a účastnila se jednání jak v rámci četných workshopů, tak i práce a hlasování v plénu.
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35th IATUL conference (The International Association of University Libraries)
Dvořáková, Drahomíra
Ve dnech 2. - 5. 6. 2014 v Helsinkách (Finsko) proběhla 35. výroční konference asociace IATUL (The International Association of University Libraries). Pořadatelem konference byla Aalto University. Za Národní technickou knihovnu se zúčastnila Mgr. Drahomíra Dvořáková. Téma letošní konference bylo zvolené s podtitulem “Measures for Success: Library Resources and Effectiveness under Scrutiny”. Klíčovými pojmy byly přidaná hodnota a měření efektivity vynaložených prostředků (ROI), související v obecné rovině s následujícími prezentovanými tématy: Scientometrie; Marketing; Organizace knihovny a redesign; Knihovna jako prostor; Informační zdroje uvnitř knihovny; Externí informační zdroje a Kompetence a znalosti knihovníků. Mezi klíčové přednášející patřili Carol Tenopir (Měření akademických služeb), Rafael Ball (Bibliometrie), Tom Cochrane (Open Access) a Mikko Hyppönen (Informační bezpečnost). Konference byla velmi přínosná již s ohledem na její úzké zaměření, setkání se zástupci univerzitních knihoven z celého světa a množství příležitostí diskutovat nad aktuálními tématy.
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