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

86 4. In a bibliological context the developing of a great library of learning is also an important chapter in longdistance cultural planning. Collecting as a basic function must have material priority since it is one of the main insurances of cultural continuity. In the great library the knowledge of the past is integrated with that of the present for the sake of the future. This continuity of knowledge in the great library of learning makes it necessary that cultural forward planning should have a certain "bibliological bias". In this respect there are such practical tasks which provide for the developing of a network of learned libraries with the help of such theoretical research which includes bibliology as well. It goes without saying that adequate financial help is indispensable. Thus bibliology and practice join hands. Practice, equipped with the fruits of bibliology as well, must know the precise role of the great library in the structure of culture and it ought to know how to prognosticate its efficacy. The expected effect cannot be divorced from the planning of the future when, according to Marx, free time will be the hallmark of economy. According to him the function of free time is whereby man can develop his faculties manifold. This "épanouissement" rejuvenates the renaissance ideal of man, (as opposed to narrow specialisation) in terms of the masses. Beside his activities in the production process, man can cultivate himself to an extent that it positively affects his own force of production. Bibliological researches can contribute to this expected historical position. In press. To be published in No. 27. Revue Internationale de Bibliologie. Paris