Establishing Cooperation

The Association brings together academic libraries in the Czech Republic with the aim of strengthening their competencies, sharing best practices, and promoting common interests. MU Libraries are directly involved in the operation of ALCU.

The CzechELib National Center procures key electronic resources for the entire research and education community in the Czech Republic, manages them, including usage statistics, and supports open access publishing. It cooperates with MU Libraries in e-resource procurement and APC fee monitoring.

SKIP (in Czech) is the largest professional organization of librarians, information workers, and libraries in the Czech Republic. MU Libraries have been members for many years.

EOSC CZ is the Czech section of a European initiative focused on developing infrastructure that supports open science practices in research data management. MU Libraries provide information and training, and selected librarians participate in the EOSC CZ working groups.

Masaryk University Libraries regularly contribute to the Czech Union Catalogue, to the database of articles in Czech newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and the Digitization Register, and have long been involved in the cooperative creation of the National Authority File.

The Book Covers National Service project combines various sources of information about books into one easy-to-use web service. MU Libraries scan book covers and contents and store them for easy sharing among libraries in the Czech Republic, including integration into the MU library catalog.

We cooperate with other libraries within the interlibrary loan service and in organizing cultural events.

In cooperation with the university publishing house, MU Libraries participate in the publishing activities of individual faculties, including monographs, scientific journals, and working papers.

Cooperation with this academic institution, which trains future librarians, takes place on several levels. MU Libraries serve as a teaching environment for student internships, while librarians are also involved in direct teaching at the workplace.

MU Libraries support CERPEK by providing relevant literature for their educational courses and offering seminars on information literacy as part of their portfolio.

MU Libraries have representative spaces where they organize exhibitions, specialized lectures, author readings, and book launches. We also offer these spaces for various conferences or social events within MU.

MU Libraries strive to deepen children's and teenagers' relationship to lifelong learning, promote critical thinking, and expand their knowledge of technology and reading literacy through its program for children and teenagers.

MU Libraries have long collaborated on organizing Open Days, Open House events, and similar events for prospective students.

U3V students can visit all MU libraries free of charge. The Faculty of Social Studies Library and the Faculty of Education Library include a fully equipped study room, which is available to students. An assistant is on hand to advise them on smart technologies, show them around the library, and provide facilities for further education.

SAPMU members can use our circulation services free of charge and are, of course, welcome here.

In cooperation with other experts from the university, MU Libraries are striving to appropriately incorporate artificial intelligence tools into their services.

Libraries have long supported the issue of sustainability, and as part of project 7.4. NPO “Green Skills” KA4 – Sustainability Strategy and Green Transformation, they are involved in evaluating the Sustainability Strategy.

The MU library staff includes Open Science methodologists who can be consulted by researchers and doctoral students on matters related to open publishing, FAIR data, and predatory journals.

MU Libraries participate in reporting publications to RIV, managing the university repository, and compiling bibliometric reports for internal evaluation of scientific performance.

Cooperation is in the works.

Cooperation is in the works.

Cooperation is in the works.