Fejezetek a 150 éves Akadémiai Könyvtár történetéből (A MTAK közleményei 2. Budapest, 1976)

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library to purchase codices, publications of high value, and the bequests of scholars and to subscribe to modern periodicals; in liis will he alsó left the Library the major part of his priváté library. László Vekerdi: THE EXACT SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE HUNGÁRIÁN ACADEMY OE SCIENCES Why were the Academy's „section chiefs" unable to appreciate the value of the material received when the Academy acquired the Teleki-Library, and first and foremost the marvellous eighteenth century collection of Count József Teleki, keeper of the crown? Why did they make practically no efforts to purchase publications in the field of the natural sciences and mathematics till after the liberation in 1945, although they spent significant sums of money on the study and development of these sciences? How did they imagine that they could conduct research work without an adequate library? Why did they not pay closer attention to the rapid development of the natural sciences? The paper attempts to analyze these and other questions without necessarily supplying answers to all of them. Zsuzsanna Fráter: THE PERMANENT LIBRARY COMMITTEE OF THE HUNGÁRIÁN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1865-1949 After the war of independence in 1848, with the easing of the Austrian suppression the scientific committees of the Academy were gradually set up as new organizations of the developing sciences. The Library Committee, which was set up in 1865, contributed to the development of the library and performed useful services in the field of public education. This paper deals with the setting up of the Committee and with its activities. The Committee acted as a policy making body in the field of acquisitions, took authoritative decisions on professional questions of the Library and on the elaboration of the Library's Statutes, laid down policies to be followed during the first period of library acqusitions and ruled on other questions. It fulfilled its role in the field of public education when it had the publications of the Academy sent to secondary schools, colleges, libraries and reading circles in Hungary. The paper goes on to outline the reorganization of the Committee's sphere of activity, gives a list of the many prominent scientists and scholars who were members of the Committee and finally describes the activities of the Committee from the turn of the century down to 1949. 55