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Purpose – The article focuses on optical data discs in the collections of the two largest Czech libraries and examines how their role has changed in recent decades and what risks they face. It introduces the CDArcha project, which offers tools to protect the content of data optical discs and outlines the steps that need to be taken in the future to ensure that data stored on them remains accessible to library users in the long term. Design/Methodology/Approach – The first part based on the analysis of project documents and other materials explores the situation in the National Library of Czech Republic in the 1990s and at the turn of the 21st century. The second part discusses the situation in the Moravian Library itself and describes the CDArcha project. Results – An outline of measures taken in the past to protect optical discs in the collections of the two largest Czech libraries is presented. In the second section new software tools are introduced; they allow memory institutions to extract data from optical discs and safely store them on a central server to provide protection at the bit level are introduced. Originality/Value – The article provides a summary of the research of the National Library of Czech Republic in the field of optical discs; the topic was long neglected by the professional library community. The CDArcha project, which forms an integral part of the research and development in the Moravian Library, offers tools for libraries and other memory institutions to protect data stored on optical discs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article brings information about a recently published Standard „Handicap Friendly“ created by Association of Library and Information Professionals of the Czech Republic (SKIP CR). The standard proceeds from the demand on equal access to information and library services and describes necessary arrangements to improve the services for library users with special needs. The standard covers eight basic areas: general measures, requirements concerning staff, library collections and services, technical and material conditions, websites, organization of special events, cooperation and promotion and integrative activities. Presently the standard deals with four groups of users with special needs, namely, persons with visual, hearing, physical and mental impairment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discovery interfaces are a very current topics in the field of library services. The expectations of users in this regard are growing due to the progress of Web 2.0. An integration of information resources and advanced services into a unified environment build on top of a federated search engines or a central index becomes necessary. The Xerxes platform developed by David Walker at the California State University meets the high requirements of users and presents an attractive interface. It recently got its first instance in Czech Republic. The assets of Xerxes are especially its openness and extensibility via a portfolio of advanced services. This article provides a comprehensive description of the whole solution and summarizes the options Xerxes brings to the end user. It also proposes some possibilities of further development of not only the Xerxes platform but also of discovery interfaces in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses degree of professional databases exploitation by users at Czech University of Life Sciences according to implemented questionnaire enquiry. The questionnaire is enclosed. The beginning of the article is dedicated to the questionnaire enquiry goals, the formulation of research hypotheses and the research sample specification. Detailed commentaries of responses to all the eight questions in the questionnaire follow. At the end of the article, the general evaluation of the questionnaire enquiry is formulated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents Guerrilla marketing as marketing style suitable for libraries, advertising their services and popularization of reading in general. It informs about project Guerrilla Readers realized in KIKS FF MU in Brno which sets an aim to apply and analyse unconventional marketing methods in this sphere and to share acquired knowledge and experiences above all in virtual platform compound of free accessible implements and services of the Internet which work on principle of social media and networking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]