Významný politik Československé strany národněsocialistické Prokop Drtina (1900–1980), syn filozofa a politika Františka Drtiny, patřil dosud k četným politickým osobnostem Československa, které čekaly na svůj životopis. Debutující historik Ondřej Koutek podle recenzenta napsal zdařilou, pozitivisticky laděnou standardní politickou biografii, v níž zachycuje Drtinovy osudy především jako veřejného činitele, přičemž největší pozornost věnuje jeho působení ve funkci ministra spravedlnosti v poválečné vládě Národní fronty. Jeho kniha je argumentačně vyvážená a opírá se o reprezentativní soubor pramenů a literatury., The important politician and member of the Czechoslovak National Social Party, Prokop Drtina (1900–1980), the son of a politician and philosopher, Professor František Drtina (1867–1925), had hitherto been one of the eminent figures of Czechoslovak politics who was still without a biography. Making his publishing début, the historian Ondřej Koutek has, according to the reviewer, achieved a successful, positivist, standard political biography in which he portrays Drtina’s life, chiefly as a public figure, while paying most of his attention to Drtina’s work as Minister of Justice in the post-war government of the National Front. The argumentation of Koutek’s book is well balanced, based on a representative selection of primary sources and secondary literature., and [autor recenze] Jakub Rákosník.
The National Technical Library in cooperation with the Czech Technical University and Instutute of Chemical Technology in Prague cosponsored the international conference Knowledge, Research and Education on September 8-9, 2011. Research metrics was the topic of this meeting. Organizers sought to draw attention to the often controversial mechanisms for evaluating the results of research and their subsequent impact on its continued financing and institutional support. The conference brought together university dignitaries, senior members of the faculties, library staff and representatives of the publishing industry for the purpose of facilitating discussion of research trends and policies that inform their respective fields of interest shared by all. One of the key lectures was given by the co-Director of CERGE-EI Štěpán Jurajda. He reviewed currend evidence of the productivity of Czech science (by field) based on bibliometric data, pointed to typical mistakes made in recent evaluation exercises and analyses, illustrated these by using examples typically drawn from social sciences, and offered a few tentative bibliometric facts. and Luděk Svoboda.