Library as an Educational Institution 1918-1968: Construction
of the „New Human“ as a Discontinuity in Continuity

J 2024

Library as an Educational Institution 1918-1968: Construction of the „New Human“ as a Discontinuity in Continuity

ČERNÝ, Michal

Basic information

Original name

Library as an Educational Institution 1918-1968: Construction of the „New Human“ as a Discontinuity in Continuity

Authors

ČERNÝ, Michal (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Czech-Polish Historical And Pedagogical Journal, Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2024, 2336-1654

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50804 Library science

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.100 in 2022

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cphpj-2023-002

UT WoS

001230008600002

Keywords in English

library; Masaryk; anthropology of institutions; sociology of institutions; totalitarianism; Czechoslovakia; censorship; memory institutions; education

Abstract

V originále

The historiographical study analyses libraries as institutions that work with the collective memory of the nations in which they are located while educating all inhabitants. Libraries represent one of the crucial institutions of modern Czechoslovak society. This study focuses on their research from the perspective of the anthropology of institutions. Within the framework of Czechoslovakia, it analyses three stages of historical development: 1918–1938, 1938–1948 and 1948–1968. The study seeks to uncover anthropological patterns that implicitly shape the structure, meaning and methods of functioning of libraries and their social order. It also explains why libraries were essential institutions for Masaryk's Czechoslovakia and the totalitarian communist state. The study shows libraries as an institution with a high degree of historical continuity and, at the same time, discontinuously changing from a place of education for democracy into a means of propaganda and indoctrination.

Links

MUNI/A/1509/2023, interní kód MU

Name: Design Thinking Action Lab: společnost a technologie

Investor: Masaryk University

Citovat

ČERNÝ, Michal. Library as an Educational Institution 1918-1968: Construction of the „New Human“ as a Discontinuity in Continuity. Czech-Polish Historical And Pedagogical Journal. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2024, vol. 15, 1-2, p. 16-35. ISSN 2336-1654. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cphpj-2023-002.

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ČERNÝ, Michal. Library as an Educational Institution 1918-1968: Construction of the „New Human“ as a Discontinuity in Continuity. \textit{Czech-Polish Historical And Pedagogical Journal}. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2024, vol.~15, 1-2, p.~16-35. ISSN~2336-1654. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cphpj-2023-002.

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