Inter-library services for foreign libraries

 

 

Contact address:

  • Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences Inter-library Services Department
    Národní 3
    115 22 Prague 1
    Czech Republic
  • Sigla: ABA007
  • Tel.: 221 403 259, 221 403 212
  • E-mail: ill@knav.cz, mvs@knav.cz
  • http://www.knav.cz

a) A profile of the collection:

  • The Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences is one of the largest specialist libraries in the Czech Republic. The Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences collects and administers a collection of domestic and foreign literature and other sources of information providing a cross-section of all branches of science. At the present time, the collection of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences amounts to around a million volumes of specialist and scientific literature produced in both the Czech Republic and abroad, including around 24,000 volumes of historical book collections. The Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences provides loans and copies of documents in the collection of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences and mediates loans and copies from the collections of the libraries of institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences to foreign libraries.

b) Books:

Loan Period:

  • generally 1 month + 5 days for postal shipping
  • extensions are possible in exceptional circumstances only in accordance with the statutes of the library from which the publication has been loaned

Price for 1 loan:

Slovakia 1 IFLA Voucher / 8 EUR
Europe 1 IFLA Voucher / 10 EUR
overseas 2 IFLA Voucher / 16 EUR

c) Articles:

Price per copy:

Slovakia 1 × A4 one-side copy 2 CZK
Slovakia two-side copy 3 CZK
Europe 1-10 pages 1 IFLA Voucher / 8 EUR
overseas 1-10 pages 2 IFLA Voucher / 16 EUR
Europe / overseas + each additional commenced 10 pages 0,5 IFLA Voucher / 4 EUR

d) Conditions

Postage:

  • charged according to the valid price list of the Czech Post Office converted into IFLA Vouchers or EU

Method of ordering:

Method of payment:

  • IFLA Vouchers
  • invoice

Method of delivery:

  • by post
  • in electronic form