history -- projects VISK -- collection
Czech Ministry of Culture - Public Library Information Services ("VISK")
VISK 5 - RETROKON - National Program for Retrospective Catalogue Conversion in the Czech Republic
The retroconversion of card catalogues has been taking place at PNP since 2004. As a first stage (2004), the card catalogues were scanned in and posted on the internet. In 2005, the National Awakening Catalogue (with 10 000 cards) was retroconverted, retroconversion of the Catalogue by Names (300 000 cards) has been going on since 2006 and continues. The results - electronic catalogue entries - are annually incorporated in the electronic catalogue of the PNP Library.
VISK 6 - National Program for the Digital Presentation of Rare Documents, MEMORIAE MUNDI SERIES BOHEMICA
Under a grant program, the largest and finest manuscript in the care of the PNP Library - the ®lutice Hymnal, which dates from 1558 - 1565 - was digitized and extensively annotated in 2005. This hymnal was made in Prague in the workshop of Jan Táborský from Klokotská Hora. The electronic version can be found on the Manuscriptoria web pages and may be accessed at the terminals in the study hall of the PNP Library. In 2007, four first prints from the library of Jiří Karásek of Lvovice will be digitized. Once their digitization is complete, these prints, too, will be made commonly available.
VISK 7 - National Program for the Microfilm Conversion and Digital Presentation of Documents Endangered by Paper Acidity KRAMERIUS
The year 2007 has seen a further stage of the project for digitization of the magazines of the PNP which are endangered by paper degradation.
VISK 9 - Expansion of the CASLIN Index Catalogue and the National Authority File Directory
The year 2007 has seen a further stage of the harmonization of name authority files created under the @RL system of the PNP Library.
