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            * Arts Faculty receives generous donation: two containers of specialist publications
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            Faculty libraries tend to have problems with the provision of new specialist literature, p

            a lack of finance. Thanks to the cooperation of Emeritus Professor Ivan Hlaváček (Departme
            Historical Sciences and Archive Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University) with t
            Brill publishing house, the Faculty received a donation in the form of 800 scientific publ

            variety of fields.
            At the end of last year Frans Hakeves, a representative of Brill, asked Prof. Hlaváček if 
            a donation of the publishers’ books. This was due to the fact that the Professor had, on a

            occasions, devoted close attention to Brill publications in the specialist press in the Cz
            This offer was not, however, the first; several years ago, Prof. Hlaváček had already orga

            sized donation by the same publishers to not only the Faculty of Arts, but also some other
            scientific institutions and establishments, primarily the Jewish Museum in Prague.
            “Obviously I accepted this generally formulated offer, while expressing my gratitude. Bril

            replied, stating that, based on my response, a package of around eight hundred books would
            As I was reading this I literally gasped; the market value of Brill books meant that we we
            goods worth somewhere in the region of several hundred thousand Czech crowns,” said Prof. 

            Several days later, Prof. Hlaváček received a brief message stating that two containers of
            delivered to the faculty in the name of Prof. Hlaváček. The containers duly arrived and th
            the Scientific Information Centre of the Faculty of Arts were instructed on how to unpack 

            books inside, as the total volume of publications came to several tens of shelf-metres. Th
            titles delivered were of interest to the faculty departments of Sinological Studies, Japan
            Traditional Oriental Studies – chiefly Arabic and Judaic Studies, as well as Classical Phi

            History, including Archaeology. The books delivered consisted not only of monographs, but 
            of dictionaries, bibliographies, commemorative almanacs and manuals such as various ‘A Com
            editions, summarising current knowledge of precisely defined topics, be they material or b

            Needless to say, virtually all publications, with a few exceptions, were written in Englis
            In accordance with the information submitted to the Scientific Council of the Faculty of A
                January, the books are in the process of being allocated according to the interests an

            individual departments to specialist libraries or the central Jan Palach Library. Some vol
            being offered to non-faculty centres both within the university and in the Academy of Scie
            Czech Republic, as the package also contained individual volumes pertaining to the natural

            gratitude to Brill for this rare and unexpected gift, where the true value and use of it o
            be able to tell, was expressed not only by myself, but also in the name of the Faculty of 
            Dean, Associated Professor Michal Stehlík,” added Prof. Hlaváček, who also praised the ini

            aforementioned faculty Scientific Information Centre.
             
            About Brill:

            The Brill publishing house, based in Leiden in the Netherlands (and Boston, USA), which is
            celebrating the 330th anniversary of its founding in 1683, has long been one the most sign
            publishing houses in the world, primarily focusing on providing a broadly conceived publis

            the humanities, and (to a lesser extent) other areas of science. Its range of interests in
            humanities is not, however, limited by territory or time, nor even by genre, as the publis
            includes a large number of scientific journals, bibliographies and encyclopedias, as demon

            previous outline.
            “Needless to say, the works published by Brill are key in practically all the aforemention
            books are also, at the same time, expensive, meaning that they are significantly underrepr

            libraries,” stated Prof. Hlaváček.