Special study room

Search facilities

• processing lists of articles , publications, patents etc. on a given topic, using both printed and electronic sources of information.
  • computer search – time of processing – while you wait
  • combined search (processed on the basis of paper catalogues, published bibliographies, direct extracts from periodicals, journals and other sources of information) – time of processing – by agreement. A combined search may be arranged in person or by post or fax, using the form below. It is necessary to complete all the required information on the form and add your personal signature. This is a paid service – see price list for details.

Regional information

• processing of bibliographical and factual queries concerning events in West Bohemia, both past and present
• search by the special study room
• onsite loan of regional items from library stock
• onsite loans from the reference library
• onsite loans of regional periodicals for the last two years from the reference library regional bibliography
• consultations

Regional Patent Centre

• Onsite loans of patent literature
  • complete stock of Czech and Czechoslovak patent records and authors’ testimonies, plus supplementary literature (bulletins, classifications, professional monographs …)
• Processing information searches from the stock of SVK PK patent records and online database. This search is not a substitute for the work of experts in the field of industrial design rights
• Copying of patent records
  • in person
  • sending copies at user’s request
• Presentation of and access to the database of the Industrial Property Office in Prague
• Information and consultations
  • industrial property protection, methodology of search processing
  • guided tours and lectures for students (booking required)

Other services

• public Internet – bibliographical and factual information via the WWW. The public internet is governed by rules for using the internet and electronic sources of information in the SVK PK (viz art. 13 of the Library Regulations: Rules for use of computers with internet access and electronic sources of information)
• reference facilities link or mediating services and sources of other information agencies
• expert consultation service for analysing particular topics (search for sources of information)
• access to:
  • digitized documents of the regional fund (Kramerius system – full access only from computers in the library network)
  • regional databases of articles and personalities in online catalog SVK PK
  • selected manuscripts from the SVK PK fund and digitized historical funds not only of Czech libraries
  • full texts of digitized free works and out of commerce works
  • selected, freely accessible regional digitized periodicals from the funds of other libraries
• onsite loans from the reference library
• onsite loans from library stock
• self-service copy facilities for up to 10 pages; larger orders are dealt with in the reprographics section, including A3 format
• onsite listening to LPs, CDs and DVDs containing both classical and popular music as well as the spoken word

• reference library containing approximately 2 000 selected bibliographies, encyclopaedias, dictionaries and regional titles
• electronic catalogue
• ANL – access to the database of regional articles in the online catalog of SVK PK
• REOS – access to the database of regional personalities in the online catalog of SVK PK
• Museum systematic catalogue – lists stock according to content in a system containing 21 categories and 205 groups
• Czech database
• foreign database
• digitized documents of the regional book collection in the Kramerius system – full access can only be used from computers in the library network
• Manuscriptorium – selected manuscripts from the SVK PK fund and access to digitized historical funds not only of Czech libraries
• DNNT (Out of Commerce Works) – access to full texts of digitized free works and Out of Commerce Works
• free access to selected regional digitized periodicals from the holdings of other libraries:
  • Böhmische Westbahn (Plzeň, 1862–1867)
  • Český lev (Plzeň, 1870–1872)
  • Der Pilsner Bote (Plzeň, 1854, 1865–1868)
  • ECHO aus Pilsen und Westböhmen (Plzeň,1899–1902)
  • Pilsener Zeitung (Plzeň, 1868–1876)
  • Pilsner Abendpost (Plzeň, 1877–1879)
  • Pilsner allgemeines Amts- und Anzeigeblatt (Plzeň, 1835–1836)
  • Pilsner Böse Zungen (Plzeň, 1876)
  • Pilsner Fremdenblatt (Plzeň,1874–1876)
  • Pilsner Reform (Plzeň, 1870–1872)
  • Pilsner Tagblatt (Plzeň, 1900–1918, 1923–1938)
  • Plzeňské noviny (Plzeň, 1864–1870), (Plzeň, 1872–1876)
  • Unterhaltungs-Blatt zum Alzeyer Anzeigeblatt (Plzeň, 1874)
  • Westböhmische Tageszeitung (Plzeň, 1900–1918, 1923–1938)
• Electronic periodicals – to access the full text of articles highlighted in yellow, it is necessary to use the list on a computer within the library network
• scanned catalogue SVK PK

• Request for search processing – form for completion online and print (docx, 90 kB)
• Request for search processing – form for completing manually (pdf, 117 kB)
• List of searches 2006–2023 (pdf, 925 kB)
• Regional periodicals 2024 (pdf, 50 kB)