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The National Library is the biggest library in the Czech Republic, housing around 6 million documents. The library currently has around 20,000 registered readers. Although comprising mostly Czech texts, the library also stores older material from Turkey, Iran and India. The library also houses books for Charles University in Prague.
Its collection also includes a part of the personal library of A. F. Smiridin. The National Library is one of the principal driving forces behind the CASLIN project (a library information network linking Czech and Slovak libraries) which resulted in a programme to build the Union Catalogue of the Czech Republic - CASLIN.
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Margo Paran (Israel), a painter and poet born in the Czechoslovakia, donated her poetry collection "And I Saw" and several other books to the National Library of the Czech Republic. Today's opening Main Hall : 9:00 - 19:00
The Clementinum ( Czech: Klementinum) is a historic complex of buildings in Prague which houses the National Library of the Czech Republic. Until recently the complex hosted the National, University and Technical libraries; the City Library was also nearby on Mariánské Náměstí. In 2009, the Technical library and the Municipal library moved ...
The library’s main building is located in the historical Clementinum building in the centre of Prague, where approximately half of its books are kept. The other half of the collection is stored in the district of Hostivař. The National Library is the biggest library in the Czech Republic, housing around 7 million documents.
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