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The National Library of the Czech Republic Fees and Services Price List

Supplement to the Rules and Regulations of the National Library of the Czech Republic valid as of August 29, 2022

Library Cards and Registration

1

Registration fee

1.1 Registration at the library in person and each renewal thereof
1.1.1
  • Natural person aged 26-69

150,00

1.1.2
  • Natural person aged 15-25

100,00
1.1.3
  • Natural person aged 70+

free
1.1.4
  • Natural person, ZTP/P, ZTP, TP holder
free
1.1.5
  • Users of the Scholars Reading Room regardless of age
150,00

1.2.

Online registration of a natural person and each renewal thereof

 

1.2.1
  • Natural person aged 15-69 (when changed to full registration the provision of 1.1.2 is not applied)
150,00
1.2.2
  • Natural person aged 70+
free
1.2.3
  • Natural person, ZTP/P, ZTP, TP holder
free

1.3

  • Others (and all users of the Scholars Reading Room)

100,00

2

Fee for every new library card issue

10,00

3

Fee for library card replacement

50,00

4

One day admission ticket

20,00

5 Interlibrary services

5.1

Within the Czech Republic

5.1.1

  • Loan from any library in the Czech Republic

free

5.1.2
  • Paper photocopies from any library in the Czech Republic

acc. to the price list of the supplying library

5.1.3
  • Paper photocopies supplied to libraries in the Czech Republic – every ten pages of the original or part thereof
20,00
5.1.4
  • Loan from any library in the Czech Republic provided on the basis of an order on the knihovny.cz portal (ZÍSKEJ service)
according to the ZÍSKEJ service price list available at https://ziskej-info.techlib.cz/pro-ctenare
International interlibrary services
5.2.1
  • For each loan from abroad – published in Europe except for Great Britain
250,00
5.2.2
  • For each loan from abroad – published in Great Britain and outside Europe
450,00
5.2.3
  • Paper photocopies of every 5 pages of the original or part thereof
40,00
5.3 Compensation for a loss of a material obtained via ILL (fees are added up)
5.3.1
  • Administration fee
200,00
5.3.2
  • Compensation for damages acc. to the Rules and Regulations of the NL and acc. to a request of the foreign (lending) library
6.

Prices may be subject to additional charges - see item 9.6. and other

6.1 Paper copies and prints - 1 page black/white black/white colour colour
format A4 A3 A4 A3
6.1.1
  • Basic chargé (self - service)
2,00 4,00 9,00 18,00
6.1.2
  • People with disabilities - applies for all items in 6.1.
2,00 4,00 9,00 18,00
6.1.3
  • Made to order from archival or rare material acc. to user’s instructions
6,00 12,00 14,00 23,00
6.1.4
  • Made to order on special equipment as determined by the librarian (dimensions, condition of the original)
12,00 16,00 14,00 23,00
6.1.5
  • Printout from microfilm or microfiche - self-service (black and white print only)
2,00 4,00
6.1.6
  • Printout from microfilm or microfiche in the NL collection made to order (black and white print only)
10,00 11,00
6.2 Lamination of copies
6.2.1 A3 format 1 sheet 20,00
6.2.2 A4 format 1 sheet 10,00
6.2.3 A5 format 1 sheet 8,00
6.3 Spiral binding
6.3.1 up to 20 sheets 20,00
6.3.2 up to 100 sheets 30,00
6.3.3 up to 180 sheets 40,00
6.4 Photographic reproduction - digital output without data carrier
6.4.1
  • standard user quality (Photoshop 3, RGB, JPG, 300 dpi)
126,00
6.4.2
  • print quality (Photoshop 11-12, sRGB, JPG, 300 dpi)
250,00
6.5 Photographic reproduction colour print

6.5.1 9x12 cm
100,00
6.5.2 13x18 cm 100,00
6.5.3 18x24 cm 106,00
6.5.4

24x30 cm

114,00
6.5.5 30x40 cm 126,00
6.6 Digital copy (standard user quality, 200 dpi) without data carrier
6.6.1
  • Digitized to order - for each page of item
12,00
6.6.2
  • Additional charge for 300 dpi quality for each page
50%
6.6.3
  • Digital images downloaded from NL digitized databases - for each image
10,00
6.6.4
  • Digital images of microfilm, microfiche in the NL collection - for each image
12,00
6.6.5
  • Self-service copy from a document containing only works not protected by copyright
2,00
6.7 Electronic document delivery acc. to the price list of the supplier
6.8 eBooks on Demand https://www.nkp.cz/sluzby/eod
6.9 Provision of 1 page of a digitised document from NDK for works not protected by copyright (automated processing, minimum number of ordered pages: 150) 0,40
7.

Research services

7.1 Fee for ordered search (each half hour or part thereof of librarian’s work) 100,00
7.2 For librarians and libraries in the Library Science Library free
7.3 Bibliographic search (each half hour or part thereof of librarian’s work) 100,00
7.4 Information retrieval in documents (each half hour or part thereof of librarian’s work) 100,00
8.
Library tours for librarians, library science students and libraries (maximum 30 people allowed) free
9.

Fees for late return of library material, additional fees

9.1
Fine per day for late return of library material
9.1.1
  • For each volume of physical unit – regular loan
5,00
9.1.2
  • For each volume of physical unit – special loan
10,00
9.1.3
  • For each volume of physical unit – interlibrary loan
10,00
9.2 Reminder fee (NL director registered letter) 70,00
9.3

Fee for preparatory steps for litigation (for each library unit)

200,00
9.4 Administration fee for handling user caused damage as a consequence of loss or damage of library unit (for each library unit). The non-refundable amount of CZK 100 is collected when reporting the loss of a loan. 200,00
9.4.1 Financial compensation for loss or damage of the library unit in case the restoration of the original condition is not possible or purposeful. According to the NL Rules and Regulations, the National Library of the Czech Republic decides on the method of replacement.

The amount of financial compensation is either governed by the current market price of the document (publication) to which the handling fee for liquidation of damages (9.4.) is added,

or is calculated as a combination of the price of a copy (6.1.), the price of binding (according to the price list of the external supplier), and the handling fee for liquidation of damages (9.4.).
9.5 Fee for reservation notification (by mail o telephone) 19,00
9.6

Additional charge for using originals from archival and rare collections – photoduplicating services

9.6.1 1-10 pages of each item 20,00
9.6.2 11-50 pages of each item 100,00
9.6.3 over 50 pages of each item 500,00
9.7 Packing fee 35,00
9.7.1 Packing - mass distribution of brochures and calendars 10,00
9.8 Additional charge for incomplete order 20,00
9.9 Additional charge for cut-out (photoduplicating services)
4,00
9.10 Additional fee for preparation of order (orders by letter in case of incomplete references)
9.10.1 Up to 10 citations
30,00
9.10.2 11th and each additional citation 3,00
9.11 Fee for express service 50%
9.12 Postage is charged in full, insurance fee included
9.13

Fee for issuing a certificate for export of items of cultural value

500,00
9.14 Refundable deposit for borrowing a lock 100,00
9.15 Fee for a lost lock 100,00
9.16 Fee for a storage box in the Scholar´s Reading Room
9.16.1 Fee (monthly) for a storage box in the Scholar´s Reading Room 25,00
9.16.2 Fee for storing unauthorized items 100,00
9.17 Fee for the issue of uncollected objects left in lockers 200,00
9.18 Fee for a lost or damaged cloakroom number 50,00
Data carrier
10.1
  • CD, including sleeve
15,00
10.2
  • DVD, including sleeve

30,00

In accordance with Copyright Act No. 121/2000 Coll., as amended, the National Library of the Czech Republic shall accept an order for digital copying, inter alia, only if it is verified that the economic copyright of all the works contained in the subject of copying has expired. Verification of the condition mentioned in the previous sentence is not part of the order acceptance.


Additional fee might be charged for postage (par. 9.12.), package (par. 9.7.), data carrier (par. 10), work with archival and rare material (par. 9.6.) etc.

General rules

11. Based on the provisions of Section 2 of Act No. 526/1990 Coll., On prices, as amended, it is possible to to agree with the user the contract price in justified cases (e.g. more expensive material, more labor, higher costs, copies from originals that do not come from the NL collections).
12.
The National Library of the CR reserves the right to collect advance payment for orders before their fulfillment.
13.
Price list of payments provided under the Act No. 106/1999 Coll., on Free Access to Information, as ammended
13.1 Black & white paper print A4 size - 1 page 2,00
13.2 Colour paper print A4 size - 1 page 4,00
13.3 Electronic copy A4 size – 1 page 1,00
13.4 CD, including sleeve 15,00
13.5 Sending information to an applicant by post according to the actual costs of the postal service provider
13.6 Information retrieval and its processing for the purpose of providing it 250,00 per hour