The Archbishopric of Prague has begun moving more than ten thousand historical books from its private collection to the library in the Strahov Monastery. It is hoped that this will make the publications more accessible to the public, especially researchers and students.
The library of the Archbishopric of Prague holds thousands of publications, which stretch back hundreds of years. Around 10,500 of them are now being transferred to the Strahov Library, an architecturally beautiful, publicly accessible repository of knowledge in one of the oldest monasteries in Bohemia.
The spokesman of the archbishopric, Jiří Prinz, says that the collection encompasses a wide array of subjects ranging far beyond theology.