From “Difficult to Find” to “Picking from the Flood”: A Turning Point to the Turning of the Times

Abstract The article exposes the evolution of scholarly information availability and processing in Czechoslovak/Czech information centres and libraries over the past five decades, linked to developments in information and communication technologies, as seen by an active participant. It also reflects the author’s perspective on the peculiarities of the Czech higher education system and the role of key figures in librarianship history.