Today's Study and Science Library in Hradec Králové was founded in 1949, but its origins can be linked to the establishment of the Municipal Industrial Museum in Hradec Králové in 1896.
The name State Scientific Library in Hradec Králové was acquired by the library in 1954, and essentially since then it began to fulfill its main task, which continues to this day: to build a universal fund of scientific literature and to provide all appropriate professional services within the entire East Bohemian region.
All citizens over the age of 15 can become readers and users of the library.
There are 130, 000 volumes of books and more than 2, 000 titles of magazines and newspapers in the free selection. There are 323 study places, some equipped with computers, and study boxes for focused individual and small group study. Users have the opportunity to use a self-service machine for borrowing books, self-service multifunction devices for copying and printing.
SVK HK provides absentee and on-site borrowing services mainly of classical types of documents, information and research services from classical and electronic sources in classical and electronic form.