Librarian, specialist cataloger
Veronika Havlíková studied Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Ancient History at the Faculty of Arts MUNI in Brno. As part of her PVH studies, she completed a professional internship at the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno. She graduated in 2016 with a bachelor's degree. In 2017-2018, she worked for the Municipal Library in Prague at the Opatov branch as a librarian, where she was responsible for providing library, bibliographic, reference and information services. She completed a mentoring educational program called the Social Innovation Incubator, which took place under the auspices of the Cabinet of Information Studies and Librarianship in Brno.
Between 2018-2022, she worked at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic as a cataloger, where she participated in the project Making the T. G. Masaryk Library Accessible, where she processed the original book collection - the T. G. Masaryk Library. It was an exceptional historical collection, numbering 160,000 volumes. Towards the end of the project, she participated in the cataloguing of the Rudolf Hirsch collection, which consists, among other things, of approximately 12,500 volumes of old prints.
She currently works at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where she works as a librarian and specialist cataloger, engaged in formal and content analysis of documents, on the basis of which she creates name and subject records and systematically designs and coordinates cataloguing practice. The aim of this activity is to make information about the content of the library collection available to the research public.
In 2024, she completed a library course focused on cataloguing at the Librarianship Institute of the National Library of the Czech Republic.
