AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1971-1972. Budapest (1973)

III. Az OSZK gyűjteményeiből és történetéből - Illyés Katalin: Adatok a hírlaptári állomány kialakulásának történetéhez 1884-től 1914-ig - History of Development of the Periodicals-Section in the Hungarian National Library (1884-1914)

As a rule the means for development has been the same as that of the National Library, i. e. copyright copies, purchase, presentation copies, removal from other collections and transferring the journals kept among the books. Copyright copies have been the largest in number. The copyright act (1897) contained punishment for neglect of handing in. Both the increase of periodicals and requests were beyond the capabilities of those employed in the National Library of Periodicals. Increase, too, surpassed their working capacity and requests for copyright copies added to administration. Little attention was paid to development, the growth of holdings was registered according to different principles, views unfitted for recording periodicals. So it is not easy to get reliable data. Presentations have played an important part. Benefactors, both individuals and public institutions, surrendered several copies, volumes. These presentation copies, volumes have served for the replacement of gaps, in case of periodicals published abroad, for separate units. Special attention has been paid to the periodicals and newspapers of Hungarians living abroad. In U. S. A. many volumes have been collected and transfered to our Library by Károly FBLEKY. Purchase is of minor importance until World War I. Due to insufficient subsidies foreign periodicals were preferred to Hungarian ones, the former of which representing political history, history of literature and library science. Foreign Hungarica works should be mentioned too. Compared with the three above mentioned ways of development transferring and increase of periodicals by exchange reveal hardly any significance. The more so because for exchanging contemporary documents do not contain more than a mere proposal. 269