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

46 institution) and also a national special library in some fields, such as linguistics and literature, classical studies, oriental studies and "science of science", with very important periodicals collections in mathematics, physics and natural science. The composition of the users of the library reflect its interdisciplinarity. Which are the features that can be generalized, or rather, that are general, taken from the interdisciplinary establishment or information service detailed above? a. The trend toward specialization which began in the 19th, and intensified during the first half of the 20th century, points, as a consequence of scientific development, in the direction of integration and interdisciplinarity. This course is being followed by the information service, or rather, by way of its publications and secondary services the process is being encouraged, and in turn greatly advanced by the possibilities of computerized information. b. The interdisciplinary information services observe world science in general (what new advances in research?) they induce new researches, while the specialized services satisfy current researches and concrete user requirements. c. While reference services of libraries (particularly those that acquired a greater role in the 19th century) followed the requirements of researcher-users, the information services in the latter decades of the 20th century have become initiators. Their work has become more and more incorporated into the research itself, thus assuming a more creative role. * * * * There is a connection between interdisciplinarity and creativity and not all of its aspects have been analysed so far. I have attempted to show what can be done in terms of certain information services. In: The use of information in a changing world. Ed. by A. Van Der Laan and A. A. Winters. The Hague, 1984. 171-174.p.