Acquisition is focused mainly on acquiring current inland production in full range of its kind and subject structure, on acquiring necessary multiple copies keeping line with the collection profile and on retrospective acquiring Bohemical desiderata. The acquired documents are included in the National Archival Collection, the Universal Library Collection and in the Study Collec-tion.

The total registered increase of the stock of inland literature was low compared with 1999. This moderate decrease was caused mainly by reduction of purchase resulting from provisional budget arrangement in the first four months of the year, further by purposeful thematic reduction of acquisition of study (lending) collection and also due to installation of the new library system Aleph 500 causing subsequent changes in organization of work procedures.

Inland acquisition totalled 40,608 units. In addition to that 7,289 standards were included in the National Archival Collection.

In 2000 the total of 33,405 units (= 18,095 titles) of non-periodical legal deposit copies were registered, i.e. 82,28% of the total number of acquired publications; from this number, 25,818 of units were books (= 12,959 titles), 464 cartographic documents (= 410 titles), 1,740 posters (= 985 titles), 2,068 postcards (= 2,068 titles), 479 printed music (= 240 titles), and 2,371 non-printed documents (= 1,193 titles).

Various considerations of both professionals and laymen on gradual decrease of the total volume of the book production in the Czech Republic were not confirmed. On the contrary, it seems that the production tends to increase (we consider the production volume in full range of document types). The periods of considerable publication booms are concentrated mainly during the Prague Book Fair (in May) and the pre-Christmas market.

The above mentioned Law was not yet fully respected; therefore, we had to claim the missing titles or copies (personally, by phone, letter, or e-mail), but we tolerated the practice of the majo-rity of big publishers sending legal deposit copies in cumulated batches in longer terms. Because of that, some titles were not received in thirty days after publication as fixed by the Law, but it was not possible to detect precisely the day of publication in current practice.

Following the provisions of the Law No. 37/1995 Coll., §5, par. 3, two administrative trials were newly initiated on imposing fine for failing to deliver legal deposit copies (a publisher of graphic documents and a specialized publisher of electronic publications). At the same time the legislative and law section of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic was asked for a legal standpoint to the subject of the Law from the view of claims of legal deposit copies of electronic publications produced on physical carriers. Some publishers considered them still as software products excluded from the subject of the Law and thus refused to deliver legal deposit copies.

In accordance with UNESCO recommendations, the annual statistics of non-periodical publications published in the Czech Republic in 2000 included 11,965 titles, as derived from the total of obtained legal deposit copies.

Purchase as whole was influenced by long provisional budget arrangement that deepened an uneven spending of the financial means and prevented to plan purchase during the year. The continuity of basic purchase in this critical period was ensured through reservation of ordered titles. So the most of purchased titles were obtained only from the autumn offer and in the pre-Christmas market.

Through purchase, 3,345 units were acquired. The proportion of purchase to total acquisition was 8,23%. The average cost of one purchased unit was CZK 311,- (while in 1999 only CZK 235,-). Included were publications of various prices – e.g. 1 vol. of university textbooks equals ca. to CZK 125,-, 1 vol. from a second-hand book shop ca. CZK 2,004,-.

As for the current offer, the majority of publications were purchased for the Study Collection (1,963 units), for the Universal Library Collection (1,203 units of which 879 items for reference libraries of study rooms). In addition to the current book production we succeeded to purchase Bohemical desiderata from second-hand book shops (49 items) for the National Archival Collection. With regard to financial means the Bohemical part of the Universal Library Collection was enriched by further copies. Only 1 CD-ROM was purchased, otherwise these were printed documents. For internal use of the library departments, 129 units were purchased.

Compared with 1999, the purchase of inland documents fell roughly to one fourth. It was mainly due to economic measures in acquisition of current literature for the Study Collection (considerable reduction of purchase of university textbooks).

Gifts of older literature were still the main source of retrospective acquisition, while gifts of current publications were not frequent. Their selection was aimed mainly at acquisition of Bohemical desiderata or another requested copies. Among regular donators are, e.g., the Central Catholic Library in Prague, Moravian Regional Library in Brno, Museum of Puppet Cultures in Chrudim, and National Technical Museum in Prague. Very valuable single gifts were offered, e.g., by the Institute for Environment of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Charles University in Prague, the Czech Trade in Prague, and a number of other institutions. The proportion of gifts to the total number of acquired titles was 7,19%.

A greater part of received volumes were included into the Universal Library Collection (1,449 unites) and into the National Archival Collection (1,132 unites). A considerably lower number of volumes were included into the Study Collection (308 unites), into the collection of non-printed documents (28 units), and into reference libraries (4 units).

From the so-called internal sources (ISBN collection, reserve collections, or photocopies) 539 units were included into the library holdings. Their selection was mainly aimed at Bohemical desiderata. Into the National Archival Collection, 378 units were included, into the Universal Library Collection 136 units, into the Study Collection 14 units, and into reference libraries 11 units. The proportion of internal sources to the total number of acquired titles was 1,32%.