Provides comprehensive public library and information services to library users and is the national centre for interlibrary services in the Czech Republic.
Provides registration of users, on-site and off-site loans, operates selected reading rooms, provides reference and interlibrary loan services, and an agenda related to the legal deposit copies of periodicals or the purchase of electronic information resources. It builds a system of general and specialised reading rooms with reference libraries and reference collections and manages domestic and foreign periodicals in accordance with the established acquisition profile (KONSPEKT). It supplements the library collections of the NLCR, especially the Universal Library Fund and the Study Fund. Provides methodological and information support and is dedicated to research and development.