Rózsa György (szerk.): The Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1826–1976.
II. The work and use of the Library - Information services
publications of high value, periodicals, old books, manuscripts are not to be lent out. In such cases it is reasonable to turn to the : Department of Reprography. If books are concerned, it is the Department of Readers' Service which enters orders, in case of materials belonging to special collections, the respective collection is competent. International and Hungarian interlibrary loan can be claimed by the readers. It is carried out directly by the Department of Readers' Service. Information Services The Department of Readers' Service gives answers to verbal or written requests concerning the holdings of the Library or a relatively more simple reference. If it is necessary, the above department shows the readers the ways of using catalogues and the Library as a whole, looks after the reading rooms, circulation, shelvings, and directs the readers' attention to recent acquisitions. The latter is being done in two ways: 1. in the show-cases of the entrance hall it displays the dust covers of the most important books received recently; 2. in cooperation with the Processing Department it compiles The List of Recent Foreign Acquisitions of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which gives the readers information about the total acquisitions of the Library and is issued in subject order, six times a year. In cooperation with the Department of Readers' Service, the Information and Bibliographical Department is responsible for meeting demands on bibliographical information and literature research. The Department usually gives written answers to requests (in the form of bibliographies, literature researches, syntheses etc.) from time to time in the form of consultation. Similarly continuous editing and administration of a special bibliography, recording scientific works of the members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (this bibliography is at the disposal of readers in the building itself), and collecting various data on the Academy are also among the tasks of the Information and Bibliographical Department. A group of the Department has been editing the Bulletin of Science Organization a bi-monthly journal since 1961. This periodical gives information, based on international special literature on science policy, organization, management, and planning of scientific research in the form of informational syntheses, reviews, surveys, critiques and special bibliography. It is published in 60 author's sheets. Its articles are either taken over or reviewed in scientific journals, home and abroad. At the same time the Group fulfils other informational tasks related to its field of interest, and is capable of giving prompt and adequate information to leading bodies of science policy in the country, to heads of these bodies and to researchers in these fields according to their respective interest. In connection with the information activities it should be mentioned that each special collection is performing informational activities in its particular field of research.
