On Sunday 16 June 2024, our colleagues Renáta Cebe and Kateřina Zajíčková accepted a research invitation to Buštěhrad, initiated by the curator of the Buštěhrad Ota Pavel Museum, Ivona Kasalická. She approached our department some time ago with an offer to participate in the author’s bibliography, which all three colleagues started to work on together at the end of 2023. read more
The CLB databases are not only expanding, but we are also constantly trying to improve them. For example, by linking to online resources. Already more than 285,000 records contain a link to the full text. read more
If you have already run out of fiction that you planned to read during the summer and you are one of our supporters, you can recall some of the processes and changes that affected the Czech Literary Bibliography in the past year. We would like to take a few of these events at random: read more
This year’s issue of the international journal Translation Studies, which provides a forum for discussion focusing on historical, social, institutional and cultural aspects of translation, has just been published. In the current issue, you will find an English-language study by our colleague Anna Gnot “Tamizdat translation agent as cultural mediator: an archival exploration of trajectories in the case of Ota Filip”. read more
Last year, Vojtěch Malínek from the CLB and his colleagues from the Bibliographic Data Working Group prepared a conference panel on bibliographic data research and the development of related infrastructure. Together they successfully presented it at the DH2023 annual conference in Graz in July 2023. read more
Last year, we were successful in our application for support from the Operational Programme Jan Amos Komenský, thanks to which we are now implementing the investment project Upgrade of the research infrastructure of the Czech Literary Bibliography. read more
On our YouTube channel, you can now watch a recording of the presentation of the book bibliography of the samizdat journal Acta incognitorum, published by the “learned society” Societas incognitorum eruditorum. read more
Last semester, we had the opportunity to pass on our experience to university students in two ways. read more
As we informed you in one of our June posts, our colleague Vojtěch Malínek travelled to Lisbon on 18–21 June to participate in the DARIAH-EU consortium’s annual event. His contribution (which could be viewed online) was also the culmination of his work on the Open Bibliodata Workflows project, focusing on bibliographic data management practices. read more
