AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1960. Budapest (1962)

IV. Könyvtár- és művelődéstörténeti tanulmányok - Summaries

Remarks to division 93/99 oj the UDC: History. E. WIÍTDISCH The author examines division 93/99 of the Universal Decimal Classification from the standpoint of the discipline of history It is known that the basic principle of the UDC is classification by subjects, and the period to which the subject is relevant is only a secondary aspect. The history of any subject is to be classified to the respective subject with form subdivision (091), and division 93/99 contains only works of general and political history. This dispersal of historical works causes difficulties to the historian looking for material in the classified catalogue. The author cites examples from the 1956—1958 volumes of Magyar NemzpM Bibliográfia—Bibliographia Hungarica to show how historical works correctly classified according to the UDC are intermingled with works of quite an other character in their respective classes, and at the same time several works coherent from the historian's standpoint are assigned to separate classes. The difficulties result from the subject being exclusively the basis for classification in the case of historical works. Many historical works deal with political, social, economic and ideological questions combinedly, having as their main task the demonstrating of the interdependence of the different fields. Such works cannot be defined satisfactorily by one, or even more class numbers indicating the respective subjects, as it is shown by examples. The author sees a solution to this problem in making it a practice that works of any historical reference besides their subject proper be also placed in division 93/99: History. The author makes a proposal of how to limit the field coming under the heading of history. As the history of philosophy, language, the arts, and literature became independent branches of learning, works in these fields should not appear in division 93/99. But works from main divisions 3, 5, 6, with historical character should also be represented in 93/99 without exception. Arrangement of older material of the library stock in the classified catalogue too requires consideration, referring now partly to such books which merely by their antiquity acquired a historical character, and partly to the books which became irrevocably obsolete after a certain lapse of time. These categories could have their separate places parallelly with their respective classes. The question of these is related to the reclassifying and redistributing of the classified catalogue due to the passing of time (,,the march of history") itself. Finally, the problem of division 92 Biography is touched upon, and siding with Ambartsumian, it is proposed that in this division there should be only cross-references to the various persons, the entries themselves should figure in those classes, to the field of which the persons involved belong. The paper ends with some concrete suggestions for handling the abovementioned problems in Hungarian catalogues and bibliographies. Some questions relating to the training oj librarians in the Soviet Union E. BESENYEI Since the promulgation of the 1959 Resolution of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union entitled „Resolution about the status of the country's librarianship and appropriate measures for its improvement", still greater emphasis has been laid on the training of librarians. Increased attention is being given to the subject in all the relative periodicals on librarianship. Facilities for the training of librarians are provided by colleges and high-schools for librarianship, by the faculties of librarianship and bibliography in several universities and pedagogical institutes, and also by training courses in some of the country's largest libraries. After the publication of the Party Resolution the tendency to broaden professional training and a desire to bring it closer to real life strengthened in every form of instruction. For this purpose a new library school was set up in Ulan-Ude (Soviet Mongolia) and additional faculties for librarianship and bibliography were established in still further universities 349