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)

I. The socio-professional aspects of the development of the scientific information with special regard to social sciences

15 pretation of special literature and information contained therein requires from the research worker a more active participation in the information process, than in science and technology. The implementation of the tertiary information function in social science research could be considered as an important factor. The indication of relevant literature, data and facts preceded by the critical evaluation of the "information officer" puts the latter on an equivalent level with the researcher. In this case, there is an equal partnership between the researcher and the "information officer", who in fact himself is a researcher with special tasks. But the research work constantly acts as an absorbing force attracting the specialists into traditionally recognized research work. Financial advantages, prestige and greater possibility of creative work create a dilemma for highly qualified specialists. A minor article in a scientific journal — and such articles appear by the thousands — qualifies as more than a very important subject-synthesis or a critical evaluation of the stage of research in different topics. The first one is considered "creative" work, the second one as "documentary" activity. The higher intellectual and material recognition of certain information activities, the re-evaluation of frontiers between research and information in social sciences, the "equivalency" between research and certain type of information work, the real integration of the tertiary information function as an organic part of research — all these could stimulate and satisfy information needs in the social sciences much more than establishing new information centres and services. In conclusion I would like to stress that the above points contain only a few basic ideas in the complex of the information needs in social science. They were formulated without a definite project in mind. They are arguable but the author thinks that the formulation itself of certain points of discussion could be helpful. In: Internationa] Conference on Training for Information Work, Rome, 15-19 November, 1971. Rome, Italian National Information Institute, 1971. 315-320.p.