Catalogues and Databases
 

National Library of the Czech Republic makes accessible its collections as well as those of other libraries through its catalogues and databases. Traditional card catalogues of individual library collections and union catalogues of the Union Catalogue of foreign language publications in the Czech libraries (CEZL in Czech) are accessible in the library building only. The scanned form of the General Catalogue and other important card catalogues (KATIF) is also accessible via internet including the possibility of searching and holding requests. The electronic catalogue of the National Library and other databases built by the library allow the adequate access to the library collections in the internet environment – searches, requests, reservations, administration of one´s own user´s account. The library also builds the Union Catalogue of the Czech Republic in the electronic form as an aid in finding documents in collections of other Czech libraries. The whole set of information sources is completed with the purchased licences for access to bibliographic and full-text databases, which are made accessible online in the library either through internet, or internal library network, or from local CD-ROMs in the individual reading rooms.
 

Hanuš Hemola