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Digital Collections Standards Department

Creates and develops standards for the long-term preservation of digital data (in particular for metadata formats, image and audio data, etc.). Creates and maintains the NDL Standard, which sets binding rules for digitising institutions in the Czech Republic.

Modern Digital Collections

Provides long-term preservation, management, and access to digitised materials and digital content. Creates standards of digitisation for the Czech library system.

Preventive Conservation

Repairs and performs conservation and restoration interventions and cleaning of modern library collections.

Restoration

Surveys the condition of historical collections; carries out analysis, repair, conservation, and restoration of damaged objects.

Development and Research Laboratories

Dedicated to materials analysis, multispectral research, monitoring of climatic conditions, contamination control and disinfection, and drying of water-damaged collections.

Collections Preservation

Cares for library collections, including appropriate storage, preventive conservation, and restoration.

Central Depository Library

Manages the reserve funds of the NLCR and dispatches them to the study rooms or supplements the library collections with them.