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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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50804 Library science
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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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
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: RNDr. Michal Černý, Ph.D., učo 268947. Changed: 5/7/2024 21:38.
Abstract
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.
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MUNI/A/1509/2023, interní kód MUName: Design Thinking Action Lab: společnost a technologie
Investor: Masaryk University
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