Week of Science and Technology is the most extensive scientific festival in the Czech Republic, organized by Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences (LCAS). It takes place each year at the beginning of November and it is going to be already the 12th annual event in 2012.
The Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences has prepared a programme for you as well,
like they do every year. This year the schedule will be especially busy.
We are looking forward to see you!
The Programme of the Week of Science and Technology at the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
SPECIAL OFFER
(applies only November 1-15, 2012)
Free one-day entry into the reading room with the possibility of using reference stock
Free one-day entry (120 min.) into the computer room
Online competition for a 1-year membership card, including remote access
Do you find cemeteries scary at night? Come to the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences before All Souls Day instead!
The library will be open to everyone non-stop for 34 hours from November 1, 2012 (from 9 a.m.) till November 2, 2012 (till 7 p.m.)
What to expext?
- Free entry
- Regular library servies in the reading room throughout the entire period of time
- Learning trail through the library
- Guided tour through the library (no advance booking necessary)
- Helpful and friendly staff
And that is far from everything!
- 18.00 – reading and signing – writer Ivan Kraus (in Czech only)
- 20.00 – lecture “Enlightened” sleep, Don Quixote and larks and owls (Prof. H. Illnerová) (in Czech Only)
- 21.30 – performance by the band Jazz Corporation (students from J. Hanuš Art School)
- 23.00 – screening of The Story of the Sick Soul (in Czech only)
No need to register – simply turn up.
More information can be found at www.knav.cz/library-of-dreams
Guided tours in the reading room of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
The Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences offers guided tours in its historical court – reading room – to both individuals and groups.
Prior booking is required:
PhDr. Jana Matoušová, tel. 221 403 208, matousova@knav.cz
When robots scan
In addition to library staff, a robot scans in the Digitization Center of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Use the opportunity to see a modern robotic scanner, Treventus SR301, which is able to scan up to 2,500 pages per hour without human assistance. There is only a handful of these scanners working on the air suction principle currently in operation in the Czech Republic. During the tour, visitors will be able to see other parts of the digitization center: every year, it scans approximately 616,000 pages, adds metadata and makes them accessible.
Digitization Center of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Jenštejn 26, Prague-East
Prior booking is required
Michal Pšenička, tel. 286 851 955, digitalizace@knav.cz
All lectures are only in Czech.
Information Sources for Hight School and University Students
- Thursday, November 1, 2012, 3 p.m., computer room of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Lecturer: Mgr. Iva Burešová (Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
- The Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences provides its users with access both to printed books and journals and a great array of electronic information sources which cover all disciplines in terms of content. We will take a closer look to see where to look for information, how to find it, and how to quote the information found.
Participants will receive a free membership card for six months!
Registration is required.
Saving books after floods
- Friday, November 2, 2012, 3 p.m., Oval reading room of the Academy Sciences Library
- Lecturer: Bc. Martina Nezbedová (Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Ten years have elapsed since the major floods that hit not only Prague, but also most of the Czech Republic’s territory in 2002, and damaged dozens of thousands of books, archival records and other documents. The Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences actively assisted in the rescue of damaged items: they were first frozen and then gradually cleaned up and disinfected using the library’s own facilities. Books were then digitized – first scanned, and the scans then treated by means of special software capable of dealing with curled pages. Digitized books were then placed in special storage facilities.Digitization is one of the methods for protecting books from destruction; at the same time, it gives readers and researchers broad access to books.
Participants will receive a free membership card for six months!
Registration is required.
E-reading in the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences (introduction to the world of electronic books of important foreign publishers of textbooks and scholarly literature)
- Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 3 p.m., computer room of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Lecturers T. Jandera a K. Kalinová (Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Get an overview of electronic books on offer at the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences, try to borrow an electronic book for a reader and learn about other options of working with e-books. A lecture expected to take 45 minutes will be followed by acquisition of practical skills. Readers will be available but you can naturally test everything on your own reader – simply bring it with you!
Participants will receive a free membership card for six months!
Registration is required.
Exhibition “Books during the Reign of Rudolf II”
Between November 5, 2012 and January 31, 2013, reading room of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. Free entry.
Using reproduced examples of surviving prints produced by period printing houses, the exhibition provides an insight into the life of the Czech Lands at a time in the history of Czech book printing that was characterized by a continuing boom, not only in terms of the number of books printed, the range of topics and variety of literary genres, but also the development of the book market and the building of libraries at various social levels. All these phenomena were influenced by surrounding events and the cosmopolitan milieu of the imperial seat.
Accompanying lectures in books science (in Czech only)
Development of Book Printing in the Rudolfinian Period against the Background of the Czech Book Culture of the 1st half of the 16th Century.
- pondělí 5. 11. 2012, 15 hod., Oválná studovna KNAV
- Lecturer: doc. PhDr. Petr Voit, CSc. (Strahov Library of the Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians, Prague)
- The lecture will focus on the three development stages of Czech book printing. In the long first phase (1501–1547) when there was no tangible basis for the activities of Czech printers of first editions, editorial and typographic prerequisites for the existence of the book printing trade had to be created, and a community of readers formed among the lower middle class. The second phase (1549–1580) was greatly marked by the activities of Jiří Melantrich who drew on the theretofore literary and printing prints and added care for general well-being in particular in the area of educational literature. During the third stage (1580–1620) which was characterized by a mass proliferation of literature in foreign languages dealing with Czech topics and improvements in the quality of typography, Czech book printing first gained a cosmopolitan dimension that lent domestic wares an equal standing on German book markets.
- Registration for lecture is required.
Rudolf II – the only popular Habsburg?
- Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 3 p.m., Oval reading room of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Lecturer: Prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Pánek, DrSc. (Historical Institute of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
- The lecture will elucidate not only the main motifs of Rudolf’s arrival in Prague and the manner in which he ruled in Bohemia, but will further suggest to what extent he was (un)popular at his time and in his “other life”.
- Registration for lecture is required.
Pavel of Jizbice – poet and fighter of the Rudolfinian times
- Thursday, November 8, 2012, 3 p.m., Oval reading room of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Lecturer: Mgr. Marta Vaculínová, Ph.D. (Library of the National Museum, Prague)
- Pavel of Jizbice, a gifted poet, lived in Prague in the late 16th, early 17th century. He composed occasional poetry, harsh satirical pieces and original love poetry. He was awarded the status of poet laureate by Emperor Rudolfa II as a young man, and remained faithful to poetry even during his study sojourns abroad where two collections of his poetry were published. Both were warmly received, partly because they contained quality works of poetry, partly because Jizbický criticized Prague university masters without restraint. His quarrels with them, his drunk and disorderly adventures, but also his trips to Germany and the Netherlands, contacts with leading poets, his search for a place in society and finally his untimely death will be the topic of this lecture.
- Registration for lecture is required.
Spanish Book World and Rudolfinian Prague
- Monday, November 12, 2012, 3 p.m., Oval reading room of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Lecturer: PhDr. Jaroslava Kašparová (Library of the National Museum, Prague)
- The lecture will transport the visitors to the international milieu of Rudolfinian Prague as the imperial seat, in which relations with Spain as the country where the future emperor spent his early childhood constituted an important part of social life. Dr. Kašparová will talk about the dissemination of Spanish literature in the intellectual circles of Czech society of the late 16th century and the first two decades of the 17th century, including the influence it had on the formation of a cultured domestic reading audience then and later on, and its role in the Czech cultural and literary context. The individual aspects concern the reception of Spanish language, lifestyle, Spanish publications on Czech topics, readers’ interest in imported Spanish books in the original and in translations, etc.
- Registration for lecture is required.
Activities of Slovak Humanists in Bohemia before the Battle of White Mountain
- Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 3 p.m., Oval reading room of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Lecturer: PhDr. Eva Frimmová, CSc. (Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
- During the reign of the Jagellon dynasty, a suitable environment for the cultivation of Czech-Slovak relations gradually emerged, and fully manifested itself before the Battle of the White Mountain. The relations were based mainly on the linguistic, or Slavic, affinity stretching deep into the past although the Great Moravian tradition did not find a fertile ground in the Hungarian Kingdom. Moreover, and this is not negligible, students from what is Slovakia today applied to the Ultraquist Charles University, as it was interesting for them from a religious point of view. Many distinguished themselves and their activities and work are viewed as a common legacy of both nations. The activities of these humanists can be observed at multiple levels. In her brief survey, Dr. Frimmová will introduce some of their life peripetia and their most important works; she will assess them in terms of content, genre or language approach as well. She will further present an original picture of Prague as seen in the poetic depictions by E. Berger, D. Basilius and P. Fradelius.
- Registration for lecture is required.
Selected Astronomic Prints of the Rudolfinian Era
- Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 3 p.m., Oval reading room of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Lecturer: PhDr. Alena Hadravová, CSc. (Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, History of Sciences Department, Prague)
- The lecture will introduce the book culture of the Rudolfinian era using works of several important astronomers of the time as an example: Tycho de Brahe (Instruments of Renewed Astronomy), Johann Kepler (Dream or Moon Astronomy, Conversation with a Star Messenger) and Galileo Galilei (Star Messenger).
- Registration for lecture is required.
Advent of Calvinist Opposition during the Reign of Rudolf II
- Thursday, November 15, 2012, 3 p.m., Oval reading room of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Lecturer: PhDr. Antonín Kostlán, CSc. (Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, History of Sciences Department, Prague)
- The lecture will focus on three phases in the development of Czech Calvinism: its growing influence within the Unity of the Brethren, its partial legalization (after Rudolf issued his Imperial Charter on Religious Freedom in 1609) and its installation as official religion at the court (during the reign of Fridrich Falz in 1619-1620). The influence of its followers on the world of science, arts and Czech book printing will also be pointed out.
- Registration for lecture is required.
Knihovna AV ČR, v. v. i. – Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Národní 3, 115 22 Prague 1
Open: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Contact person for the Science and Technology Week at the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences: Marina Krahulcová, krahulcova@knav.cz