Students launch petition over historic reading room

A group of students have launched a petition calling on the National Library to maintain an historic reading room at Prague's Clementinum, a short distance from Charles Bridge. Lidove noviny reported that the students were worried the reading room would be moved to a planned new National Library building on the city's Letna Plain. However, library director Vlastimil Jezek described the petition as nonsense. He told the daily that 70 percent of the Clementinum would be used by the library after the move to Letna, and that important collections would remain there.

Author: Ian Willoughby