Domsa Károlyné, Fekete Gézáné, Kovács Mária (szerk.): Gondolatok a könyvtárban / Thoughts in the Library (A MTAK közleményei 30. Budapest, 1992)

KÖNYVTÁR ÉS HAGYOMÁNY – LIBRARY AND TRADITION

T. Kabdebo 76 of the like minded is the vital aspect which should be expressed by the architecture, the internal divisions and the multiple ancillary activities of the rejuvenated library. It is a sorry state of affairs that different forms of communication media find different locations today. The branch library should include the loan of videos. The large library should display the proximity of text and picture at least in the catalogue. Let the younger reader see "War and Peace" with Henry Fonda (or the Bondarchuk version) to whet his appetite for reading Tolstoy's text, both media being available at the same place, at the same time. The other principle of the Library of Libraries will grow out of this: all information, any time, at the same place, and as quickly as possible: in an interactive milieu. The possible "waterfall" of information — enhanced by all kind of magic words, from the lightpen to the scanner-translator, (which will be able to scan a text in one language and then provide a translation in another) will result in needing frequent diversions and rest periods of all types. Hence the leisure activities. The Library of Libraries should be a complete library, providing information, society, wellbeing and: yes, books; books, whose leaves rustle, books which do not flicker, books that are handsome, aesthetically pleasing, books that smell of decades or centuries. 76 Thoughts in the library "