Main Hall

• Card catalogues (name and subject)
• Scanned catalogues
• National Library Online Catalogue
• Survey of databases

It is still necessary to search older documents in the card catalogues.

• information on the National Library collections and services
• main public catalogues
• readers registration
  • permanent library card (good for reading rooms and borrowing books) is issued for one year
  • admission ticket to the reading rooms (validity 1 day, good for open access colections)
• ordering of library materials
• circulation services
(lending outside loans)
• Fill out the order form
• Your book(s) should arrive within 2-3 hours, and it will be kept for you for 14 days
• Books located outside the Klementinum in the Central Depository should be available the next day in the afternoon
• The loan period is one month, and you may ask for a renewal.
• renewals
• reservations
• self-service photocopying
• on the self-service photocopiers you may copy library material or your own material

1 page A4 - self-service....................2,- Kč
1 page A3 - self-service....................4,- Kč

• we provide further photoduplication services (only NL materials) such as reproductions, microfilms and paper copies of microfilms
• out-of town users may order photocopies by mail C.O.D. It takes about three weeks and billing is done according to the current price list