STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1296, sig. 109-4/1050 Page 99 · 99 of 198
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1296, sig. 109-4/1050
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e.18.g historically valuable buildings, perhaps most likely the Clam-Glas-Palais, to accommodate.Success of this foundation,I would then Mia In the German Library still reigns lively life. The publicity activity in the public sphere has produced the result, that the German public sphere is beginning to take more care of this very beautifully housed library, so that branches in Rosenbühl and Lieben could already be opened. The total number of volumes borrowed in September was 533l, of which # 3002 volumes were required by German readers, 1514 by Czech and 815 gs by young people. Also the number of reader-new-and-eofdo messages is increasing. Thus, 110 Germans and 86 Czechs registered in September, 196 compared with 91 in July. -ied The daily access to new books was average l0. llThe Czech library was still busy to separate offensive writings according to the instructions of the Ministry of People's Enlightenment. Altogether, in the last two months 204l volumes were eliminated. In the last two months 139,500 volumes, including E065 about 2l.000 volumes of learned literature, have been issued in the main institution and in branches. In September, 5o0 volumes were borrowed from the Youth Library, increasing the total number of book loans to 144,500. If it is assumed that the Czech population counts about one million heads, I then account for 5000 inhabitants about 7700 volumes, whereas the figure for the approximately 45,000 Germans in Prague is about 4000. This fact can certainly be partly explained by the fact that the upper-class Prague Germanism itself is able to buy many desired books, while the broad masses of Czechs stick more to the loan libraries. In addition, the very high lending rate on the Czech side also expresses the desire to escalate into cultural work and to carry out national construction work from here. If then T finally states the statistics that of the volumes borrowed by the Czechs fo 69.89l the Czech script, 9.018 the German,. 7,023 to the Spanish, 3,965 to the Nordic, 1,469 to the Italian and l.45l to the Hungarian, then WOSMEOM lets this series of numbers give a deep insight into the Czech soul situation. It teaches above all strongly that it is the Czech people with the turn to the German script 53283