The Literary Lexicography Department was set up on May 1st, 2010 and its main task is to work on the Dictonary of the Czech Literature after 1945 On-line. The work has been started in 2005; at the time the team was a part of the Department for Research into 20th Century and Contemporary Literature.
In the first phase of the project, the Dictionary linked and expanded the content of Janoušek´s two-volume Dictionary of Czech Writers after 1945 with Dokoupil´s Dictionary of Czech Literary Periodicals, Periodical Literary Anthologies and Almanachs, two lexicographic works created in the Institute of Czech Literature AS CR in the 1990s. The web side http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz thus offers to the public a reliable and rich source of lexicographic information, continuously up-dated and enlarged.
Since 2009, the Department has been adding entries for institutions associated with post-war literary life, namely publishing houses which produced fiction, artistic publications, scholarship in literature and works publicizing and popularizing these topics; however, other institutions are also involved, e. g. associations of writers etc. Until 2013, the project is supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.