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.
Organizational structure
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.
Library Collection Selection for Reformatting
Selects and prepares modern library documents for digitisation.
Coordination of Library Collections Administration and Reformatting Procedures
Plans and coordinates the selection of modern documents for digitisation.
Central Depository Library
Manages the reserve funds of the NLCR and dispatches them to the study rooms or supplements the library collections with them.
Universal Collections Management
Manages library collections, dispatches and delivers reader's orders.
National Archival Collections Management
Manages the National Archival Collection (NAC) and arranges dispatching from the NAC for researchers.
Collections Revision
Revises the library collections of the NLCR.