National Museum Library in the First Half of 20th Century by Eyes of Josef Volf

Josef Volf's diaries are for now unprocessed und unused source for research of life scientific and cultural elites in period of The First Czechoslowak Republic, for discovery the way of working of the National Museum Library and last but not least for familiarization with personality of her director. Author writes about ordinary events, everyday problems, relations with his colleagues and withal he attentively files his publishing activity. This thesis is occupied with last two parts of diary, which charts life of Josef Volf close before his death. From rows we get the knowledge about important personalities of public life and also about no longer known regional librarians, archivists or researchers. The goal is to detect as much of these names and events mentioned here as possible. The tendency is then the reconstruction of working of one cultural institution in the contemporary Czechoslowakia