Digital Library in the era of coronavirus II – the development and series of the national system of accessing publications

Summary: This article describes implementation, operation and development of emergency systems of digital libraries throughout the Czech Republic during the pandemic crisis of Covid-19 from 2020 till
present (2021/03) as alternative information source, mainly for the university students and the public R&D sector. It details changes, evaluation and evolution of these operations, which were brought
by the successive and unexpected development of pandemic of Covid-19 during the year 2020 and the early spring of 2021 – mainly the launch of National digital library portal, pressure on licencing policies and intern migration of data, also as introduction of continuous automatic web archiving campaign on this momentous event. An emergency of this magnitude created a pressure upon the necessity of re-evaluation of licencing policies in the short term, but also furthered the agenda of
adjusting the general strategy of libraries towards building and enriching online services, especially digital libraries and repositories. It is precisely the access from home-office which facilitates accessibility of otherwise inaccessible titles for all students and registered readers. Moreover, this type of access allows instant and sustainable long term culture exchange during the times of almost total suspension of the circulation of printed words. Principally, this kind of new type of information circulation provided by digital library services should be attainable, but only in the environment of fair licencing agreements for all participants in the book market and information transmission.

Keywords: system of electronic access, digital libraries, Covid-19, online access, students, universities, home-office, licences, rights, state of emergency, Covid spring 2020, Covid second and third wave, Czech Republic, NDK.cz, National digital library, Moravian Library, Kramerius, SW development, data migration, out of commerce works, emergency licence, continuous covid crawl