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Episode 156

National Library of the Czech Republic
Fri, 2017-Oct-06 20:37 UTC
Length - 2:16

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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a random Wikipedia page every day.

Our random article today is National Library of the Czech Republic.

The National Library of the Czech Republic (Czech: Národní knihovna České republiky) is the central library of the Czech Republic. It is directed by the Ministry of Culture. The library's main building is located in the historical Clementinum building in Prague, where approximately half of its books are kept. The other half of the collection is stored in the district of Hostivař. The National Library is the biggest library in the Czech Republic, in its funds there are around 6 million documents. The library has around 60,000 registered readers. As well as Czech texts, the library also stores older material from Turkey, Iran and India. The library also houses books for Charles University in Prague.

The library won international recognition in 2005 as it received the inaugural Jikji Prize from UNESCO via the Memory of the World Programme for its efforts in digitising old texts. The project, which commenced in 1992, involved the digitisation of 1,700 documents in its first 13 years.

This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 20:37 UTC on Friday, 06 October 2017.

For the full current version of the article, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_the_Czech_Republic.

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