Ředitel knihovny Dr. Bohuš Vybíral
Dr. Bohuš Vybíral, The Director of Library

Higher Civil Servant in the Interaction with the Public Authority (1945‒1948) II

Summary/Abstract: The second part of the study focuses on Bohuš Vybíral’s term of office between 1938 and 1948 and the following three years until 1951, when he, after retiring, lectured at the Faculties of Arts of Masaryk and Palacký universities. Czechoslovakia underwent several political transformations between 1938 and 1948, which affected the middle and senior officials in the sphere of culture. The study deals with the policy, tools, and methods Vybíral employed while performing his professional and public duties. The turbulent times saw Vybíral managing the Study/University Library, where his primary goal was to protect the collections from Nazi censorship. After the War, his focus shifted to the following two aspects: collecting, protecting, and sorting post-war confiscated books and on preparing the library for its transformation into a university library. Vybíral spent his last years, after the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d’état, teaching at Brno and Olomouc universities.

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