National Technical Library

This seminar will interest colleagues who are working on library projects of all kinds: new buildings, extensions, refurbishments or simply making existing space work better!

Dear NTL customers,
We regret to inform you that due to economy measures and reduction of staff effective from 1 January 2012 the National Technical Library will reduce its opening hours. We have selected the least harmful option that will affect only minor number of NTL customers. On weekdays, we will begin an hour later but on Saturdays we will remain closed. It will not be possible to use individual study rooms on Saturdays, except of training of CTU in PC04 study room. Of course the rule that whenever the NTL is closed, the 24*7 night study room remains open. The opening hours of Central Library CTU will be adjusted accordingly (i.e. on Fridays it will open an hour later at 09.00).
Opening hours will be adjusted as follows:
NTL: (open access and Periodicals Study Room) open on weekdays from 09.00 to 20.00, closed on Saturdays, Sundays and during holidays.
Parterre: open on weekdays from 9.00 to 24.00, on Saturdays from 09.30 to 17.30, closed on Sundays and during holidays.
24*7 night study room: open on weekdays from 20.00 to 9.00 in the morning, on weekends and during holidays open continuously. Thank you for your understanding

The National Technical Library has prepared A Night at the Library for the visitors of The Prague Museum Night. Library will resonate with sounds of music of many genres, host exhibits from scientific, technical and educational institutions of the Dejvice campus, exhibit numerous library-inspired artworks, screen movies and bring many many more attractions to entertain and educate. We will be most delighted to welcome you on June 11th, 2011

Program comittee of the grey literature conference GL13 has published Call for Papers. Main topic of the conference will be connection between grey literature and social networking. Call for Papers deadline is the 10th April 2011. Conference GL13 will be held on 5-6 December 2011 in Washington.

The Twelfth International Conference on Grey Literature provided a global forum for stakeholders in government, academics, business and industry to come together on issues formulated in the GL12 program. This year’s proposed themes accentuate the transparency in grey literature and the almost seamless processes of research, authorship, publication, indexing, as well as, the uses and applications to which it is exposed in knowledge based communities. Many of these processes are the same faced by commercial publishing, where only the differences lie in grey tech approaches to high tech issues. GL12 to be held at the National Technical Library, Prague, Czech Republic, on December 6 – 7, 2010. Conference program is available here.

The NAtional Technical Library launched television information system Audiovision NTL. Television sets all over the NTL building will keep library visitors updated on ongoing events, news at the NTL as well as bring manulas how to use library services. Audiovision NTL also plans to run the Newsroom at the 5th floor and regular sreenings at the Theatre at the 3rd floor very soon. Audiovision NTL is also going to present regular art projects created as site specific directly at, for or with NTL. The pilot project which opens this series is site-specific performance video series titled 74°C by Martin Hrubý and Petr Krátký curated by Viktor Čech. Videos will be on show in all monitors at the National Technical Library building as well as online at the av_NTK YouTube channel.