Domsa Károlyné, Fekete Gézáné, Kovács Mária (szerk.): Gondolatok a könyvtárban / Thoughts in the Library (A MTAK közleményei 30. Budapest, 1992)

KÖNYVTÁR ÉS HAGYOMÁNY – LIBRARY AND TRADITION

The history of the Main Library-Science Information Center of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its co-operation with the Library of the Hungárián Academy of Sciences Jirí Zahradil Main Library-Science Information Center of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague Stocks of the Main Library-Science Information Center have been created by concentration of libraries of three scientific institutions. The most ancient of these was the Royal Czech Science Society, which began its work in 1784 and thus taking into account first the Library of the Prague University and the Library of the Technics - became the third oldest Czech Library. The Czech Science Society, having been called the Royal Czech Science Society from 1790-1952, was founded as the first scientific institution within the whole Austrian Realm, in 1784, when it was recognized by the Emperor Joseph II. Its foundation was conditioned by the first wave of the Czech Enlightenment and Revival age education. There were negotiations on a library constitution already at one of the first sessions of the Society. Its secretary Tobias Gruber expressed a demand for periodicals, bulletins and ephemerides (i.e. astronomic calendars, astronomic yearbooks), which were needed by the Society for its work, in his memorandum at the Society meeting on December 13, 1784. Data for the choice of publications needed by Society members for their activities were compiled by Karel Raphael „ Gondolatok a könyvtárban " 103