Geological Library

The Geological Library of the Czech Geological Survey was established in 1924 as a National Geosciences Information Service. During the past ten years the Library has been transformed into a modern Internet library providing public information services to the general public as well as to the worldwide geologic community, including a free on-line access to the library databases. Published documents from the Library's deposit funds are made available for study. The Library has gathered and preserved a repository of all publications released by the CGS since 1919. It likewise preserves archive copies of Czech literary publications. The archive is complemented by a the backlog of publications up to 1900. It gathers publications of Czech authors, and geological literature related to the Czech Republic. Acquisitions: International geoscientific literature in the most widely-used languages is acquired by purchase and by a large-scale international exchange. Containing over 170,000 books and 75,000 journals, the funds of the Library represent the largest collection of geoscience-related books in the CR.

The deposit fund has provided data for the Geological Bibliography of the Czech Republic, which the Library has produced since 1928. On-line computer catalogues (since 1990) enable an expanded and combined search of all bibliographic data.

The CGS Geological Library provides free services to both CGS employees and geological public and  students. Other services as literature search, publications from other libraries etc. can ordered here.

The registered users have at disposal an on-line access to Internet and licenced reference databases in the Study Room free.