Visit to Brno, Czech Republic, February 24-28, 2002

The New Faculty of Arts Library at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

 

 

Ivana Hurytova, Jan Hus Educational Foundation (who sponsored Terry's
trip to Brno), Terry, and Pavla Kanska, Director of the Faculty of Arts Library
and the Library Science program

 

Terry, Pavla Kanska, and Miroslav Bartosek, faculty of computer
Science at Masaryk University in Brno in the new library

 

Some of the Masaryk University Students in Library Science
(Sarka, Vera, Petr, Pavel, Veronika, Barbora, Irena, Zdenka, Michal, Vesna, Silvie)

 

Marie Zejdova, at the University Law Library in Brno shows Terry around

The exterior of the new Moravian Regional Library in Brno

 

Petr Zabicka shows Terry around the interior of the Moravian Regional Library

 

The Jiri Mahen Library (the largest public library in Moravia)
housed in the baroque Schrattenbach Palace from the 18th century.

 

Plaque at entrance states that W.A.Mozart stayed here during
December 1767 - January 1768 before it became a library.

The interior of the Jiri Mahen Public Library looking down from the 3d floor

Music librarian, Marta Bauerova, Bc, PhDr. Alena Sabatova, Head of the Information Centre
for EU, and Head of Services Mgr. Zdenka Dohnalkova, show me around

People line up in the Jiri Mahen Library to borrow CD recordings

Another view of the Central Elevator in the Jiri Mahen Library

For Photos of Brno Architecture, see: Brno2
For Photos of the Slavkov (Battle of Austerlitz) click on Slavkov
For the Faculty of Arts Central Library page, see: http://www.phil.muni.cz/knihovna/akuvod.htm

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