Gáncsné Nagy Erzsébet: Magyar Könyvtárosok Egyesülete Helyismereti Könyvtárosok Szervezetének története, 1994-2002 (2004)
3. The Local Studies Group of the Association of Hungarian Librarians (HKSZ). - 3.3. National Conferences organised by the HKSZ.
This Conference was a very significant occasion for Elizabeth Melrose, chairman of the UK Local Studies Group. She was honoured for her work in Hungarian-UK international co-operation with the MKE Emlékérem (the bronze medal and certificate of the Association of Hungarian Librarians). This was presented to her at the Conference opening ceremony by Erik Vajda, President of the National Association of Hungarian Librarians. 6 th Conference of the Local Studies Group: Gyula, 14-16 July 1999 The principal organiser of the 6 th Conference was Géza Krasznahorkai of Mogyoróssy Town Library, Gyula. The theme of this Conference, the national minorities in Hungary, their culture and history, was again appropriate to the conference venue of Gyula as this town is one of the centres for the national minorities in Hungary. The first speaker, Zoltán Tóth, from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage (NKÖM), gave an overview of the political and cultural rights and potential of the national minorities in Hungary. This lecture was followed by further papers on the Slovakian, German and Croatian national minorities, given by Carol Wlachovsky, Agnes Szauer and Márton Ispánovity. On the second day György Petrusán, Mária Mukics, Erzsébet Nemes and Kornél Novacsek Vojnics gave papers dealing with the cultural prospects of Romanian, Slovenian, Serbian and Armenian national minorities. The final lecturer was Győző Cholnoky who spoke about the scientific research being conducted within the ethnic minorities. The third day was assigned to Eduárdné Elekes and Zsuzsanna Lukács, who defined the services of the county libraries for the national minorities, the compilation of bibliographies and databases on their behalf. The study tour took the delegates to Békéscsaba and Gyomaendrőd. As in previous years there was a local exhibition, on this occasion of the work of Julianna Diósi, who is not only a librarian but also a well-known baker of honey-cakes. Ferenc Kégli, a member of Bibiliographic Section had compiled a very useful directory of the institutions and societies responsible for the national minorities and he gave one of these to each participant at the Conference 93 . 93 Nemzeti kisebbségi vademecum : ...válogatás a Helyismereti Könyvtárosok VI. Országos Tanácskozása {Gyula, 1999) résztvevőinek / Kégli Ferenc. - Budapest: MKE Bibliográfiai Szekció, 1999. 18 p. 60
