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). - 3.8. International co-operation: the Hungarian Local Studies Group and the UK Local Studies Group.
Hungarian Group committee added that copies of Könyvtári Levelező/Lap would be sent to Britain on publication. A website for the Hungarian Group was established and some assistance was given by Elizabeth Melrose in the translation of the English section of this site. King Stephen, the first Magyar King was crowned in 1000AD, so the year 2000 turned into a celebrated anniversary year. In July, Mick Scott was the invited representative at the 7 th annual HKSZ Conference in Székesfehérvár. The Conference theme was on the establishment of local studies collections in public libraries and their first librarians. Mick Scott provided an insight into the British dimension. 117 . During the Conference Elizabeth Melrose had a meeting with the members of the email-list - György Gerber, József Komlósi, Gyula Mándli, Béla Takáts and Erzsébet Gáncs - to discuss the options for further collaboration. To extend this email-list to others in the Hungarian Group, Béla Takáts offered to set up a list-serv for the Group. This has become a useful channel of communication for Hungarian local studies librarians and keeps Elizabeth Melrose in touch with the concerns of the whole Group. Elizabeth Melrose's term of office as Chairman of the UK Local Studies Group ended in 2001, and she sent an official letter to the Chairman and Committee of the HKSZ informing them of the committee changes in the UK. Congratulations were sent from Hungary to the new Chairman, Ian Maxted, and to the new secretary, Diana Dixon, both one-time Hungarian Conference nominees. Elizabeth Melrose is still connected with the UK Group - she was elected to the Council of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), formerly the Library Association, as the representative of the Local Studies Group. In the same year the UK Library Association published Local studies librarianship: a world bibliography compiled by Diana Dixon for the Local Studies Group. This contains eighteen entries dealing with Hungarian local studies librarianship, written as a result of the connection between the two Groups. The discussions, the reciprocal exchanges and the contacts made by individual librarians all came from this organised framework of collaboration, The Letter of Accord. Librarians in both countries were given the opportunity to get to know each other and speak together about their professional backgrounds. English speaking members of the Hungarian Group were able to take advantage of the British lack of language skill by practising their English. Some gave papers at the UK Conferences and had their essays published in the Local 117 Local Studies Conference in Hungary / Mick Scott. In: Local Studies Librarian, 19 (2), 2000. p. 14-15. 118 Local studies librarianship : a world bibliography / comp, by Diana Dixon for Local Studies Group of Library Association. - London : Libr. Association Publ., 2001. - XXI, 256 p. 77
