August newsletter

Summer Opening Hours

Monday 12 PM - 6 PM
Tuesday 8 AM - 3 PM
Wednesday - closed
Thursday 12 PM - 6 PM
Friday 8 AM - 3 PM

eLibraryUSA Database

Access a digital collection of trusted information resources from the United States with quality newspapers, magazines, journals, books, dissertations and award-winning films and videos.

The Database eLibraryUSA is available free of charge at a user computer in American Corner Ostrava.

Press Reader
Read popular newspapers from around the world and U.S. magazines in an easy-to-read and browse format.

Flipster
Access the latest issue of popular magazines in the U.S. including National Geographic, Entrepreneur, Wired, Fast Company and Popular Science.

BookFlix
BookFlix is a beginners reading website that combines animated fictional stories with related nonfiction books.

Kanopy
Stream from a selection of over 100 documentaries exploring the most inspirational and interesting contemporary topics in the United States.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Contains 1.5 million dissertations and theses written by graduate students from over 700 universities.

JSTOR
A searchable database with journal articles focusing on the social sciences, economics, and history.

Gale Academic OneFile
A great resource for students and teachers for research and study. Search your topic in 8,000 academic journals.

Gale In Context: Middle School
Read and research any topic in over 1000 journals, newspapers and magazines. Geared to 11-13 year old students.

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Learn the view of experts on controversial and debated topics, and read articles on these topics in thousands of newspapers and magazines.

Language Courses

You can still sign up for
Summer Talk For Teens - English conversation
August 10th & 24th
3 PM - 4 PM
with a Czech tutor
Conversation classes are free of charge, participants must sign up by e-mail in advance. The capacity of each class is limited..

Summer Contest

Extended until September 15!!!

Summer photo contest: America in Czechia
Take a picture of a place, event, or anything that reminds you of the USA or has a connection with the United States in your surroundings or when traveling around the Czech Republic. Send us your photos by August 15.

Find out more

American Corner Online

Help with English online continues in the summer! Join us over ZOOM or e-mail us your questions and we'll help you with the English language problems that you're struggling with. Find out more on our website.

The Czech-language escape game Jak se neztratit v informační džungli? is a virtual school of media literacy. It will help you navigate the information jungle of media and the Internet.

The Czech-language escape game Zachraň Planetu! will teach you about the climate change and offer suggestions on how each of us can protect the envoronment.

You can still visit the online exhibition Na světě nejsem sám (I Am Not Alone in the World) presenting student works submitted into an art competition of the same name.

For Readers

Join discussions on Facebook • Meet online and in person • Read what you enjoy • Use your English • Join any time

Join the club

Book Tip

Andy Weir's third novel Project Hail Mary is definitely one of the best sci-fi books of this year. As in The Martian, the central character is a lone astronaut with a sarcastic sense of humor, who must save himself from certain death using his own wit and scientific knowledge. But this time there is much more at stake: the fate of all mankind. We won't reveal anything more. The best way to enjoy the book is to uncover its secrets together with the main character, who wakes up with amnesia on the first page.

Project Hail Mary is even on Barack Obama's Summer Reading List. A film adaptation staring Ryan Gosling is already in the making with a release date set for 2022.

New Books

Come and browse the books or magazines on our shelves (following the current hygienic rules). If you want to save time, pre-order books in the online catalog (a fee of 5,- CZK per item applies to pre-orders).

View new books in the online catalog

E-books in the City Library of Ostrava

The City Library of Ostrava together with the portal www.palmknihy.cz offers more than 10.000 e-books to its users. For more information, go to the library website.

American Corner is a part of the City Library of Ostrava.
It is located on the 3rd floor in the central library building,
ul. 28. října 2, 702 00 Ostrava

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