Inland acquisition totalled 45,775 units. It is the highest increase in last years and compared with the year 2000 it means the increase of 12.3%. No standards were registered.

The legal deposit is acquired in accordance with the Law No. 37/1995 Coll. on non-periodical publications. The Library is entitled to receive two free copies of each edition of a publication according to this Law.

In 2001 the total of 37,525 units (=20,030 titles) of non-periodical legal deposit copies were acquired, i.e. 81.97% of the total number of acquired publications. From this number 30,080 units were books (=15,130 titles), 630 cartographic documents (=320 titles), 645 graphics (=580 titles), 1,920 posters (=1,215 titles), 1,301 postcards (=1,301 titles), 478 printed music (=240 titles), and 2,471 non-book documents (=1,244 titles).

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 – about one third of not delivered titles had to be claimed in this or that way). But we tolerated the practice of the majority 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. Specific problems present acquisition of the legal deposit of electronic publications.

Following the provisions of the Law No. 37/1995 Coll., §5, par. 3 trials on imposing fine for failing to deliver legal deposit copies continued (a publisher of graphic documents, specialized publisher of electronic publications).

In accordance with UNESCO recommendations, the annual statistics of non-periodical publications published in the Czech Republic in 2001 included 14,321 titles, as derived from the total of obtained legal deposit copies.

Through purchase, 3,102 units were acquired. The proportion of purchase to total acquisition was 6.77%. The average cost of one purchased unit was CZK 393 (while in 2000 only CZK 311). Included were publications of various prices – from titles of current market production to exceptional antiquarian book offers.

As for the current offer, the majority of publications were purchased for the Study Collection (1,686 units), for the Universal Library Collection (1,292 units in total of which 528 items for reference libraries of study rooms and for the Reference Centre). In addition to the current book production we succeeded to purchase Bohemical desiderata from second-hand book shops (53 units) for the National Archival Collection. With regard to financial means the Bohemical part of the Universal Library Collection was enriched with further copies. For internal use of the library departments, 71 units were purchased.

Compared with 2000, the purchase of inland documents fell slightly. It was mainly due to economic measures in acquisition of current literature for the Study Collection.

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 other requested copies. Among important donators are, e.g., the Central Catholic Library in Prague, Parliament Library, Central Statistic Library, Museum of Czech Literature, National Library of Austria, Franz Kafka Centre, East-West Institute and many others. Very valuable desiderata were obtained also from private persons, mainly from Mr. Ivan Wernisch (books and bibliophilic editions) and Ms. Lenka Procházková (samizdat). We acquired 3,855 units in total. The proportion of gifts to the total number of acquired titles was 8.42%.

A greater part of received volumes were included into the Universal Library Collection (2,379 units) and into the National Archival Collection (2,161 units). A considerably lower number of volumes were included into the Study Collection (169 units), into the collection of non-printed documents (27 units), and into reference libraries (19 units).

From the so-called internal sources (ISBN collection, reserve collection, or photocopies) 667 units were included into the library holdings. Their selection was mainly aimed at Bohemical desiderata. Into the National Archival Collection, 274 units were included, into the Universal Library Collection 371 units, into the Study Collection 19 units, into reference libraries 1 unit, and into the collection of non-printed documents 2 units. The proportion of internal sources to the total number of acquired titles was 1.47%.

As replacements of lost volumes, 626 units were included into collections (into the Universal Library Collection 540 units and into the Study Collection 86 units). The proportion of replacements to the total number of acquired titles was 1.37%.