Rózsa, George: Some Considerations of the Role of Scientific Libraries in the Age of Scientific and Technical Revolution. An Essay and Approach to the Problem (A MTAK kiadványai 50. Budapest, 1970)

TABLE OF CONTENTS Summary б I. Owing to its scientific and economic importance, the scientific library forms 7 a particular field of research in itself II. Information spheres in the intellectual communication system of society. . . 9 III. A hypothetical multi-channel model of the flow of information carried by special literature 11 IV. The comparative backwardness of theoretical work is one of the main reasons for the virtual irreconcilability of contradictions between the individual tendencies in library policy and the different "oriented" approaches 13 Library science-oriented approach II Documentation-oriented approach 16 History-oriented approach 17 V. The conception of the unity of the library system and library science needs to be further developed. The scientific library has two features: it appears as part of the uniform library system, and as part of the entire body of science, and as such is a subject of science policy 18 VI. The theoretical formulation and foundation of the division of labour between scientific libraries (as general) and special libraries (as particular) is one of the key-issues of a further development of scientific librarianship as a whole

... 19 VH. Scientific libraries have particular tasks in reconciling the contradictions, divergent views and problems arising from the debate of the "two cultures" (natural scientific vs. humanistic erudition and culture) 21 VQI. Scientific libraries also have particular tasks in eliminating backwardness, in reaching the world standard in the economic, scientific, and technological fields and in increasing the "per capita kind feeling" in the human field 29