Music Department Reading Room

The Music Department Reading Room is situated in the Old Mathematics Hall of the Klementinum. It is open to all registered users of the NLCR or persons with a one-day ticket. Registered users can study documents from the Music Department collections and the reference library and access online resources. A one-day ticket entitles users to study literature from the stacks only or to use the study space independently of the subject area.

The reading room provides professional information services and subject consultations. The hall is also available to those interested in the history of the Klementinum and the artistic decoration of the hall. There are ten study desks, a CD player with headphones, a Yamaha Clavinova digital piano with headphones, computers with Internet access and access to copyrighted digitised works (NDL), and two microfilm readers. Users are obliged to follow the NLCR's visiting rules. Given the specific conditions, some selected services in the Reading Room of the Music Department are provided in a modified mode.  The user is obliged to follow the *Visiting Rules of the NLCR Music Department*.

Services provided (*the specifics of each service are listed below and are applicable only for the services of the Music Department; other rules can be found under the links to individual services):

• on-site loans of documents from the MD collections
  Users place orders for loans from the Music Department Collection via the electronic catalogue of the NLCR (NKC database)—remotely and in the MD reading room. The document is usually dispatched within an hour of receipt of the order. Manuscript documents from the RISM database must be ordered in advance at oh@nkp.cz. For capacity reasons, the maximum number of orders allowed is six.
• reprographic services from MD collections
  Copies can be made only from non-copyrighted documents. 
  Users can make digital copies of the MD collections with their own equipment by agreement. To use reproductions of historical documents from the MD collections [in a publication], users should contact an authorised staff member, fill in the Declaration specifying the purpose, pay the reproduction fee according to the valid Price List of the NLCR. Moreover, a proof copy of the publication containing the reproduction must be submitted, and will be included in the department's reference library. 
  Reprographic services are also provided in the reading room on request.
• consulting and information services in music librarianship, processing and cataloguing music documents, musicology, and musicological databases.