A Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár évkönyve 1994-1995-1996
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ABSTRACTS CHILDREN'S FATE IN 1996 The Metropolitan Szabó Ervin Library organized on October 16, 1996 a scientific session under the above title. The papers read at the session had been written by specialists working in research, higher education, state administration and in the protection of children. Based on their research findings they provided an image of the social, educational, cultural and family environments determining the fate of children. The session was meant to provide a background to the work of children’s librarians. Parallel with the session an exhibition was organized from the materials of the Budapest Collection (with the title “Children’s fate and children’s protection in Budapest at the time of the Austro- Hungarian monarchy”). After some weeks the exhibition moved over to the Office of the Members of the Parliament in order to provide there a historical backround to and to emphasize the importance of the coming discussion in the Parliament on the draft law concerning the protection of children. Papp István: The public libraries in the new library law This paper belongs to the long series of preparatory work of a new Hungarian library law. It reflects the attitude, way of thinking, and daily practice of the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library, Budapest. In the centre of the deliberations there is the citizen who is entitled to libary sevices in order to satisfy her/his informational, educational and recreational needs. So the emphasis is laid on the public library functioning in essentially changed social, economic and political circumstances. As parts of the national library system other library types/national, academic, special, schoool/are also taken in consideration from the point of view of a publicly accassible library provision. Since the date of writing this essay /may 19.-September 17, 1996/the Hungarian Parliament created a new library law by the end of 1997. Barczi Zsuzsa: Unfulfilled user requests in the branch libraries of the Metropolitan Szabó Ervin Library In 1995 in twelve branches of the Metropolitan Szabó Ervin Libary’s system a one-month investigation was carried out to survey the unfulfilled user requests for books and journals with known authors and titles respectively. The performance of library holdings, the strata-specific characteristics of unfulfilled requests, the contents-related composition of lacking works, the relationship between acquisitions and availability, the reasons for dissatisfaction of readers with the offer, the opportunities for improving the basic services of the Library were subjected to analyses relying on the documents registered during data collection and a questionnaire survey of library users Békés Ilona: The image of librarians in the 20th century Hungarian prose The essay aims at presenting the library image of the Hungarian society - partly as an expectation, partly as actual experience - emphasizing the differentiated image of librarians, through the impressions of authors as library using intellectuals. What is their image of librarians, what kind of mirror do they hold to them? Hungarian librarianship had been paying from the 1970s, parallel with developing the standard of services, an increased attention to the person of the librarian. Following a summary of sociological and psychological investigations - analysing the situation of libraries and librarians as part of their 156
