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Exhibition: The Imprint of Civilization
The unique exhibition, organized by the National Library of the CR in association with the National Central Library, Taiwan, features in detail the invention and history...
Dicţionarul romanului central-european
In June 2023, the National Libraray acquired the Romanian publication Dicţionarul romanului central-european din secolul XX (Polirom, 2022). It was donated by its main editor...
Trial access to Bentham Science
National Library offers to its users until the end of the month, June 30, 2023 trial access to the entire collection of science journals and e-books from Bentham Science Publishers.
British Ambassador visited the NL
On Tuesday, 30 May, 2023, the British Ambassador, Matt Field, visited the National Library. He was welcomed by the NL General Director, Tomáš Foltýn, and the Deputy Director for Science...
Exhibition: The Great Books of Music
A joint exhibition of the National Library of the CR and the National Museum, which presents music manuscripts made to order of and used by Confraternities of Litterati in the period before...
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain
On May 4, 2023, Alberto Moreno Humet, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain to the Czech Republic, accompanied by Gonzales Manglano de Garay, Director of the Cervantes Institute...
Special Magnesia Award for Adolf Knoll
On April 17, 2023, Adolf Knoll, Deputy Director for Science, Research and International Relations of the NL, was awarded the special Magnesia Prize for the Contribution to Book Culture.
Looking back: Book World Prague 2023
The National Library exhibition at the International Book Fair and Literary Festival Book World Prague 2023, May 11-14, 2023, Prague Exhibition Grounds - Holešovice.
Hello, Armenia, "Բարև Չեխիա"
The exhibition has been organized by the National Library of CR and the Embassy of the Republic of Armenia to the CR in association with University of Pardubice and the Czech...
Exhibit of the Month: The Czech Bible (1529)
The Czech Bible Printed in the Old Town of Prague (1529). The printing house of Pavel Severin z Kapí Hory (died 1553/1554) had been working in Prague since 1520, and today thirty anonymous...
Exhibit of the Month: Confudarium maius
This paper codex belongs among three preserved manuscripts of Matthaeus Beran († 1461), one of the few mediaeval scribes about whom we have more detailed biographical data...
The Ugly Manuscripts of Crux of Telč
Most of the medieval manuscripts stored in the National Library date from the 14th and 15th centuries. These codices are often untidy or "ugly" paper volumes for practical use.
What Library? The National Library!
Do you know, what happens when a library is flooded? How many football teams would be made of Czech librarians? Why books were chained in the past? You can find answers...
