Moravek Endre: Index acronymorum selectorum. Pars 7. Instituta communicationis (A MTAK kiadványai 47. Budapest, 1966)

XI PREFACE The latest fascicle of the work "Vocabularium abbreviaturarum bibliothecarii" as a part of the volume "Index acronymorum selectorum" contains the abbreviations of the names of institutions of communication and telecommunication /of governamental organs, railways, air lines, news and press agencies, etc./. The acronymes of superior state organs supervising this field having been published in the volume "Instituta rerum publicarum" could not be reprinted here for technical reasons,and the users of this fascicle are directed to the preceding volume to find sigla not given here. It deemed useful to publish the abbreviations of toponyms and of adjectives derived from names of peoples as an appendix though are fully aware of the fact that in this respect the present publication is by far not complete. The method of treatment of the material of this fascicle is nearly identical with that of the preceding one. Abbreviations are followed by full names and, wherever it was practicable, the residence or country of the institution and the letter symbol of the language the abbreviation comes from. Frequently occurring names of towns of residence are abbreviated, too. In agreement with the practice of international dictionaries of abbreviations, in writing out sigla of Roman characters, with the exception of particles the initials of every word were printed in capital letters. For several different abbreviations of the same institution the full title has been given only once, and at the variants a sign of equality points to the place where the full name is found. For abbreviations composed of the same letters but used in various forms /say, fully capitalized or partly with lower-case letters/ we had to give up the insertion of all variants. tation, we had to look for material also from the past - though this part of our compilation could not be as systematical as that of living material. We are sorry to say that, for lack of space, we were compelled to adopt some selection also in the latter case.