All CU FA libraries will be closed from Monday 23 December 2024
to Friday 3 January 2025. During this period, we will also not be processing requests for Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) documents from the “ProQuest Ebook Central: Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles” collection.
On Tuesday 22 October, all CU FA libraries will be CLOSED due to the Dean’s Sports Day. In addition, office hours of the Centre of Scientific Information (SVI) will be cancelled.
On Monday 28 October, the Independent Czechoslovak State Day, all CU FA libraries will also be CLOSED.
From 29 July to 10 August the Historical Cabinet operations will be limited and only the study room will be open. Please see this post for details.
During July and August, the buildings on Jan Palach Square 1/2 and in Hybernská 3 are closing at 7:30 pm.
From 3 to 11 August 2024, all Moodle UK systems will be upgraded as usual. Click on this post for more information. Thank you for your understanding.
During summer the opening hours of the CU FA libraries will vary, so please always check the opening hours before visiting.
This year we’re going to be changing the loan period over the summer. This year it will not be possible to have books at home for the whole summer, as in previous years, but the same loan period will apply as during normal operations. You will still be able to return books to the book drop box in the respective building.
All libraries at CU FA will be CLOSED during the Rector’s Sports Day, i.e. on May 14. The libraries will restore operations again from the following day.
Now, you can renew your registration to the services of CU libraries yourself. Open this post if you want to know more about how to renew your registration.
All libraries at CU FA will be closed on dean’s day on Thursday 28 March and during public holidays on Friday 29 March and Monday 1 April. Libraries will reopen on Tuesday 2 April.
From 12 February, books and other documents from all libraries at the CU FA main building are visible in the UKAŽ discovery service. You can request books starting today and pick them up next week.
The tragedy that took place at CU FA last December changed the university and the whole of society to the core, causing unfathomable pain and suffering for those who lost loved ones. But it also provoked a wave of solidarity and kindness. Director Markéta Oddfish Nešlehová, a graduate of CU, made a documentary about the healing process to air on 21 December 2024.
Due to a procedural problem, the Electoral Commission suspended and cancelled the ongoing elections to the Academic Curia of the Academic Senate of CU FA on Thursday morning, 5 December 2024. The new election will take place from Wednesday, 11 December (10:00 am), to Friday, 13 December 2024 (5:00 pm). The elections to the Student Curia remain unchanged.
Doc. Jana Semerádová received the Order of Arts and Letters in the rank of Knight from the hands of the French Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Stéphane Crouzat, on 4 December 2024. The graduate of Musicology at CU FA received the Order for the popularization of French Baroque music and cultural heritage.
At the conference Microcertificates in the Czech Higher Education Environment, organised by Charles University, experts and education specialists from discussed what this year has brought in the field of microcertificates and how their concept is being implemented in the higher education environment. The microcertificates are newly available also at CU FA.
The contest announced in memory of the 56th anniversary of Jan Palach’s self-immolation is intended for university and high-school students. The works can be submitted in Czech, Slovak, or English by 30 December 2024.
Electronic ballot boxes for the 2025–2027 election period will open on 4 December at 10:00 am and close on 6 December 2024 at 5:00 pm. All members of the academic community of CU FA can cast their vote via the web application at volby.ff.cuni.cz.
The Rector of Charles University Prof Milena Králíčková awarded for the first time the Cori Award for contributing to equal opportunities to Prof Alena Macurová. The Arnošt of Pardubice Award for outstanding pedagogical activity was awarded to Prof Petr Čermák and an honorary mention of the Grant Agency of CU was awarded to a PhD student Kristina Doležalová.
The day of dual remembrance: the brutal police crackdown on students that ignited the Velvet Revolution in 1989, and the tragic events of autumn 1939, when the Nazis shut down universities and deported students to a concentration camp. Representatives of Czech universities commemorated the memory of those who fought for freedom and democracy.
