library | Department of English and American Studies

February
process of the selection of the appropriate software system started by the University
June
TINLIB by the British company IME selected as SW for the libraries of the University
July
contract signed on the purchase and installation of TINLIB (module Catalogue -- MS-DOS network version for four users)
November
A group was formed for creating a project of library automation at the Faculty of Arts with the following members:
Bronislava Benešovská (Computer Centre)
Jiří Rambousek (Computer Centre)
Don Sparling (Department of English and American Strudies)
Zbyněk Sviták (Archive Studies Department)
Hana Nováková (Central Faculty Library)
Contact was established with the OCLC company that offers ready-made catalogue records; the project included their use for retrospective conversion of the English Department catalogue
December
the Catalogue module installed
The Project of library automation at the Faculty of Arts has been written

January
The Project was sent to the HESP fund (later to become the Open Society Fund)
The Project was sent to the Development Fund of the Czech School Board (Fond dynamického rozvoje VŠ); it was not accepted
Further negotiation with OCLC – a test sample of 100 catalogue cards was sent off (the hit-rate was 75 %)
February
Mgr. Petr Poledňa takes over as the head of the Central Faculty Library
The automation section formed within the Central Library (head -- PhDr. Hana Nováková)
March
A project was sent to the IREX foundation (American Library Association - Library Fellows Program 1994/1995) asking for the coverage of a 6 month stay of an experienced librarian from abroad who would help design the system and actually start the cataloguing process at the Department of English and American Studies as well as in the Central Library
July
The Project was sent to The Andrew Mellon Foundation (it was not accepted because the Foundation supported joint projects rather than those of isolated libraries)
October
The Project was sent to the Development Fund of the Czech School Board (Fond rozvoje VŠ) for 1994.

June
120.000 of the requested 322.000 Czech crowns (Kc) granted by the Development Fund
The IREX project was granted (American Library Association – Library Fellows Program 1994/1995)
PhDr. Hana Novakova leaves the Faculty for the University Computer Centre where she co-ordinates library automation at University level (in)
Hana Barvinkova (Metyšova) replaces her in the automation section in the Central Library
July
cataloguing personnel recruited and trained for the English Department (covered by the Development Fund grant)
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1 PC purchased for the English Department Library (covered by the Development Fund grant)
The MICROCON software and the first batch of records from OCLC purchased (covered by the Development Fund grant)
Registration of search keys in MICROCON started (ie. minimal information about a book necessary for its unambiguous identification, eg. ISBN or part of the author's name or title)
October
Beginning of the stay of Marie Bednar, M.A. (Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A; covered by the IREX American Library Association – Library Fellows Program 1994/1995)
November
$ 17.600 granted by the Open Society Fund

January
First records received from OCLC based on the MICROCON identification
The conversion module OCLC MARC-TINLIB adapted by the University Computer Centre
February
Mgr. Zdeňka Dohnálková comes to the English Department Library (to take over after M. Bednar)
1 PC purchased (11.000 $ granted by Hamer Foundation to Ms. Bednar)
March
First OCLC records entered to the Department of English Library database
End of the stay of Marie Bednar, M.A.
August
PhDr. Pavla Kánská becomes the new Head of the Central Faculty Library
November
The Central Library upgrades to the OS UNIX version of TINLIB

January
The Central Library starts computer cataloguing of new books (in TINLIB)
August
Mgr. Z. Dohnálková leaves the Faculty (and starts working as the Head of the Central Library of the Pedagogical faculty of our University)

January
Completion of the retro-conversion of the English Department Library book fund
May
The full computer catalogue of the English Department was included in the catalogue of the Central Library, forming a substantial part of the computer catalogued records.