Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences (LCAS) is a public research institution whose purpose is to conduct scientific research in the area of scientific information and library science, to establish a research-oriented information infrastructure, and to provide library-based, informational, and reprographic services to the institutes of Czech Academy of Sciences and other users active in research and science. More information about the library may be found here.
News
Christmas holidays closure
The library will be closed from 23 December 2021 to 2 January 2022.
Unless the government measures change, the library will be open from Monday, 3 January 2022, under the same conditions as now. Read more »
New items: October 2021
Check out the news that came into our library collection in October.
As every month, we bring you a full list of new printed books along with 10 selected ones, which we want to drag your attention to. The chosen ones are displayed in the study, you can borrow or reserved them right away. They are also available in the Digital Library of CAS via reserved computers in the library area. Read more »
Notice: Exceptional closure of the library on 1 November 2021 and 5 November 2021 to 1 p.m.
The library will be closed on Monday 1 November 2021 for the whole day and on Friday 5 November 2021 to 1 p.m. for operational reasons.
During the closure the loaned documents can be returned into book returns box located to the right under the stairs beyond the entry door to the LCAS (accessible to 8 p.m.) or into book returns box located next to the entry to the pharmacy at the address Vodičkova 792/40, Prague 1 (accessible uninterruptedly). Read more »
New items: September 2021
What September news can you find in our collection? As every month, we bring you a full list of new printed books along with 10 selected ones, which we want to drag your attention to.
The chosen ones are displayed in the study, you can borrow or reserved them right away. They are also available in the Computer Study via the Digital Library of the LCAS. Read more »
Notice: Exceptional closure of the library on 27. 9. 2021 and 29. 9. 2021 from 1 p.m.
The library will be closed on Monday 27. 9. 2021 for the whole day and on Wednesday 29. 9. 2021 from 1 p.m. for operational reasons. On the public holiday, on Tuesday 28. 9. 2021, the library will be closed for the whole day. On other days, the library will be operating in the standard regime (Thu–Fri, 9 a.m.–7 p.m.).
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New items: July–August 2021
Find out which books we added to our library collection during the summer holidays. We picked out ten of the new additions and you can borrow them imediately or check out their digitized version in the Digital Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Read more »
New items: June 2021
What June news can you find in our collection? As every month, we bring you a full list of new printed books along with 10 selected ones, which we want to drag your attention to.
The chosen ones are displayed in the study, you can borrow or reserved them right away. They are also available in the Computer Study via the Digital Library of the LCAS. Read more »
Summer library closure
The library will be closed from August 2, 2021 to August 31, 2021.
The loan services will be unavailable. The main study, computer study, research room and cloak room will be closed.