György Rózsa: Information: from claims to needs (Joint edition published by the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Kultura Hungarian Foreign Trading Company. Budapest, 1988)
II. International relations in the field of scientific information
141 The use of space is the first adjoining problem. One must consider stores and particularly outside stores. One must remember that to the purchase value of a book one must add its processing and shelving costs. In a large number of cases the costs of the latter exceed the former. Consequently the national and international coordination of stockbuilding aims not so much at reducing costs but at optimising the supply of information. Stockbuilding is a part of this effort, other parts being, reduction of certain divisions of stock, optimal utilisation of space, rationalisation of bibliographical control. Each would have its own experts literature. In the work of establishing records one would increasingly rely on the inbuying, sharing or exchanging machine readable records, with obvious advantages. By now these are the norm. International standardisation (e.g. cataloguing) should also be part of this scene with computer cataloguing and classification. Traditional classification will still survive and systems, like UDC, will keep on being revised. Processing procedures are under review too. The building and use of thesauri is also relevant in this context, not to mention conspectus development whereby libraries match their own profiles to one another. 5. Synoptic table The illustration shows the possibilities of cooperation in co-related collection development. In parting, one must emphasize the first criterion of coordinated Stockbuilding which is the development of international relations in terms of economics, politics and culture. The European Culture Forum, Budapest, 1985, was a further step in this direction, the initial step being the Helsinki agreement. Synoptic table In: Publicationes No. 16. Library of the Hung. Acad, of Sciences. Budapest, 1987. 152-155.p.
