General Information

a name and address

1 Type of library

university [University library]

2 Name of library / Name of mother institution

Akademická knihovna Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích (Academic Library of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice) / University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice

3 Address

Branišovská 31b 370 05 České Budějovice

4 Phone / Fax / Email

(+420 389 036 666

library@lib.jcu.cz)

5 Name of the director of the library

PhDr. Helena Landová

6 Contact person for enquiries

(Helena Landová, landovah@lib.jcu.cz)

b population served

7 Current readership, number of registered readers

16 150

8 Number of full time students

13 300

9 Number of part time students

N/A

10 Number of staff in institution

1 150

c the old/original building(s)

11 Total floor area

N/A (there were several small libraries in different University buildings)

12 Number of reader seats

170 (in all libraries together)

13 Total capacity of shelving

250 000 volumes (in all libraries together)

14 …in open access storage

20 000 volumes (in all libraries together)

15 …in closed access stacks

230 000 volumes

16 Number of library staff

25 (in all libraries together)

17 Opening hours to the public

50 hrs/week (it was different in each library, at max it was 50 hrs/week)