Simon Mária Anna: A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia kutatóintézeti könyvtári hálózata (A MTAK kiadványai 51. Budapest, 1966)
The library-network of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
51 proficiency in the institute's subject field, good knowledge of languages and organizational ability. Library designs. As has been laid down in a measure taken by the Academy in late 1963, every plan, design or proposal concerning the building, rebuilding or development of a research library should be given the expert opinion and concensus of the Central Library. Although this measure imposed an additional task on the Central Library, it was a step forward in the development. Nine libraries have got new premises or new installation over the past five years. The majority of the new premises have been designed after the tripartite pattern of classical big libraries, that is stack-room — reading room — working places of librarians. It was not until recently that the modern conception of bringing the stack-room, that is the book nearer to the reader, could get across. The open shelves system alsó gains ground in the institutes. Methodological work. In Hungary the commonly used term „methodological work" denotes a group of activities relating to the following fields: investigation of different methods adopted in the work of libraries, collecting and utilizing experiences, elaboration of new methods and processes in library work and so forth. Methodological work can be carried out in various forms and organizational framework and alsó with various objectives. Its most generál form in Hungary is the methodological work in the particular network. Since the development of Hungárián library networks is uneven, it is necessary to propagate the time-honoured methods in an organized form. Naturally the manpower potentialities have a strong impact on the compasses of methodological work: in the library network of the Hungárián Academy an independent adviser has been dealing with the research libraries since 1960. The methodological activity is organizational work for the most part. However, it may only be effective in a library network functioning in a unified organization. The methodological activity of the Central Library has been of organizational nature ever since its beginnings. First it helped the research libraries with the introduction of the centralized purchase of books and periodicals requiring hard currencies, and with the organization of the international exchange of publications. Then it set itself the task of organizing a unified network of research libraries. The realization
