THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 682, sig. 110-4/532

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64a DeL KowwieeaL AAe .POS db J pB9 norbeidberbet nenezzolrbaep éib vüt WOEOLLDJOIES sve,osvsI had already commissioned the business administration of the closed Czech universities, which manages these warehouses, to arrange the entire stacked material and to set up new inventory directories on the existing items. But above all, time-consuming work is lacking in the necessary and skilled staff, although I have arranged for the employment office to secure some of the workers of the economic administration.The economic administration has also re-established some inventory lists, but the BO2 dead works have stalled despite several reminders and it is hardly possible to use CletadA. to calculate that they can be carried out in the desired way in today's human resources situation.In order to be able to inventory the items, it is necessary to completely relocate the objects often stacked many metres high, to arrange them according to genera and then to number them individually and record them. From the very beginning, I have endeavoured to remedy the situation of the same ax in a way that,as far as they can be used in the German universities, I had assigned to the individual German institutes for use and care. Other things will be treated in the same way as with the institutes' wealth-based inventory.This guarantees that these Czech inventory items will also be dealt with in a careful manner. b.U Special care was also required in relation to the submission of the institute libraries of the Czech universities. 19t9 I have had all more or less self-contained library enga en,as far as it was possible to have the corresponding institutions of the German universities run for care and use.They are re-ordered there,invented seßmegd and set up separately from the German holdings.For the time being, some l0 Chechish young librarians have been engaged in arranging, cataloging and inventorying the holdings, and repairing damaged books.As far as remaining collections of libraries have been placed in the storage rooms mentioned above, provision has been made for them to be grouped in a common camp in order to prevent them from perishing on ./. 90052 04 T1: