National Medical Library, Medical library in Prague 2, Czech Republic
The National Medical Library occupies the Medical House at Sokolská 31 in Prague 2, with further space at Sokolská 54. Founded in 1931, it holds over 400,000 books and is funded by the Ministry of Health. It also keeps the museum collections of the Medical Museum and runs the Medvik library system.
The library emerged as a response to the growing need for medical professionals to access centralized specialized information. It later became one of the country's primary centers for medical documentation and research under Health Ministry oversight.
The library grew from the Central Library and Reading Room of Czechoslovak Physicians and Medics, opened in the Medical House on 14 March 1931. Its founding collection merged the libraries of the Association of Doctors, the Young Generation of Doctors, the Society for the Suppression of Venereal Diseases and the Ministry of Education's medical reading room. It has borne the name National Medical Library since 1992.
You can work on site with the collections or access digital materials from home through licensed databases. The staff will help you find specialized literature and guide you through the available resources.
The library runs the Digital Library using the Kramerius system, which holds digitised old prints, journals and monographs. Through its eBook on Demand service it makes digital copies of works published between 1500 and 1919 whose authors died more than 70 years ago.
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