The National Library of the Czech Republic is the central library of the Czech Republic . It is subordinate to the Czech Ministry of Culture. The main library building is located in the historic Clementinum building in Prague , where about half of its collection is stored. The other half of the collection is stored in a building in the Gostivarge district [2] . The National Library is the largest library in the Czech Republic: in its collections there are about 7 million copies [3] , including 4200 incunabula [4] . The number of readers registered in the library is about 60,000. In addition to Czech texts, its collections also contain old books from Turkey, Iran and India [5] . In addition, books from Charles University in Prague are stored in the library [6] .
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The library received international recognition in 2005, receiving the first UNESCO Jikji Prize for the Memory of the World program for its contribution to digitizing old texts [7] [8] . The project, which began work in 1992, over the first 13 years of work, completed the digitization of 1700 documents [5] .
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- ↑ 1 2 Access to Registers of Economic Subjects
- ↑ Need for new library intensifies unopened (inaccessible link) . The Prague Post (May 28, 2008). Date of treatment May 8, 2014. Archived on May 9, 2014.
- ↑ Národní knihovna České republiky: Výroční zpráva 2013 .-- 2014 .-- ISBN 978-80-7050-633-2 .
- ↑ Incunabula . www.nlp.cz. National Library of the Czech Republic. Date of treatment June 29, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 National Library's rare prints and manuscripts at the click of a mouse . Radio Prague (November 24, 2005). Date of treatment May 8, 2014.
- ↑ Tucker, Aviezer Opinion (February 18–24, 2009). Date of treatment May 8, 2014. Archived on May 9, 2014.
- ↑ National Library wins UNESCO award for pioneering digitisation work . Radio Prague (September 7, 2005). Date of treatment May 8, 2014.
- ↑ 2005 - The National Library of the Czech Republic . UNESCO Date of treatment May 9, 2014.