Center for Economic Research & Graduate Education - Economics Institute

Library Rooms and Facilities

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Reading Room

Collection: Current and last year’s journals, newspapers (Mladá Fronta Dnes, Lidové Noviny, Právo, Prague Post), and selected working papers, UPCES materials.

Facilities: 2 computers with access to the library catalog and special databases; 14 study seats.

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Lending Library

Circulation desk: Lending, returns and renewal activities, registration of new users, and all other user services.

Collection: Main monograph collection (over 15 000) available on open access, sorted according to the Dewey Decimal Classification; textbooks (marked by red labels); reference textbooks and other reference material (marked by yellow labels); display of new books.

Facilities: 2 computers with access to the library catalog and special databases, 1 computer with free access to the internet for registered users (reservations can be made at the circulation desk), 1 self-operated scan and copy machine; 5 study seats; personal lockers, entrance to restrooms.

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2nd Hall

Collection: 2,500 publications of the World Bank: monographs, statistics, reports, studies (from 1994 the library has been a Depository Library of the WB).

Facilities: 1 copy machine, 2 seats; entrance to restroom for the disabled.

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Study Room

Quiet study area.

Collection: Retrospective collection of Core journals (list); CSU publications; reference books.

Facilities: 2 computers for CERGE-EI members (password needed); 17 study seats.

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Back Study Room

Very Quiet study area.

Collection: Statistical monographs, OECD and IMF collections; books and other materials from the former Economics Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (EU CSAV) (published approx. between 1950 – 1992).

Facilities: 2 computers for CERGE-EI members (password needed); 6 study seats.

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The library possesses two Stock Rooms that are not open to the public. For access to materials stored there, please ask the librarian at the circulation desk.

Basement

Collection: Older working papers, textbook stock, historical materials (books published before 1950), CERGE-EI dissertations, dissertations of the EU CSAV, other materials published by EU CSAV, housed in a room dating back centuries.

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Stock Room

Collection: Over 35 000 issues of economics journals (except core journals).

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Wifi connection is available throughout the whole library.

The library entrance is secured by a turnstile. All registered users have to use a valid library card (ISIC) to get into the library. If you are new to the library, or if you face difficulties to get in, please ring the bell.