UPDATE: As of 29 April, the elevator between the study rooms at the Jan Palach Library is operational again.
UPDATE: As of 29 April, the elevator between the study rooms at the Jan Palach Library is operational again.
From Monday, 20 April, the study room of the English and Romance Studies Library will be unavailable. Due to renovations in other areas, books will be temporarily stored in the study room.
The loan desk will continue to operate without restrictions during regular opening hours. The study room is expected to reopen in October 2026.
Charles University now has access to more than 200 e-books across a wide range of disciplines. The full list, including links to the UKAŽ discovery service can be found in the full post.
The replacement of the air conditioning unit for the Jan Palach Library will begin on Monday, 20 April. The work is expected to take approximately two weeks. The library will remain open without restrictions; however, staff from the contractor will be present in the PC Lab.
All CU FA libraries will be closed during public holidays on Friday 3 April and Monday 6 April.
The Jan Palach Library will be CLOSED on Friday, 27 March, due to the event Night with Andersen.
All loans and reservations from this library that would be due on this day have been extended until Monday, 30 March. No overdue fees will be charged for this day.
On Thursday, 12 March, the Historical Cabinet will be open from 2 to 5.30 pm (2 – 3 pm, only the loan desk will be available) due to an international workshop taking place.
CU now has permanent access to Brill’s encyclopaedic databases. The titles mainly focus on Theology and Far Eastern studies.You can find a list of them with links to the UKAŽ central discovery service by clicking on the post.
On Sunday 14 December, from 4 am to approximately 6 am, maintenance will be carried out on the ProQuest Ebook Central platform. During this time, no content on the platform will be accessible.
For technical reasons, this downtime will not be reflected by hiding affected e-books in the UKAŽ discovery system. If you need access to a specific title during the early morning maintenance period, you can download the book or chapter in advance (if a download option is available).
Until 24 December Charles University has a trial to the Drama Texts Collection database. This database provides to over 6,000 texts of dramatic works in English, along with related ephemeral materials, theater flyers, theater diagrams, and photographs. The Drama Texts Collection includes all dramatic texts from the Alexander Street and Chadwyck Healey collections.
The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invites everyone interested to a discussion panel and a poetry reading with three acclaimed poets based in Scotland: Annie Brechin, Rob A. Mackenzie, and Medha Singh.
Even after its financial separation from Charles University, the Charles Games game studio will continue to collaborate on scientific, experimental, and applied projects with the two faculties of Charles University from which it originated six years ago, those being the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. The cooperation memorandum was signed […]
Prague, 27 April 2026 – The Department of Romance Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, in collaboration with Sorbonne Université, has been authorized to realize the SELFEE certification exam directly on the premises of CU FA. Those interested in taking the prestigious language exam can now do so in Prague, where the Faculty […]
We cordially invite you to a public lecture followed by a discussion with the exceptional author and researcher Françoise Vergès, who, through her exploration of the history and theory of Western feminism, explains what decolonial feminism is and outlines the possibilities it offers.
