AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1980. Budapest (1982)

I. Az OSZK 1980-ban - Somkuti Gabriella: Az Országos Széchényi Könyvtár működése 1980-ban - The Activity of the National Széchényi Library in 1980

published. (New periodicals are continuously reported in Hungarian National Bibliography, Bibliography of Books.) The missing issues of Magyar Könyvészet (Hungarian Bibliography) for the years 1974 and 1976 were published in 1980. The number of the entries processed in the quarterly issues of the two current bibliographies of patriotica literature (Hungarica Literary Review, Foreign Hungarian Language Publications) has been increased by almost 30 per cent. The first volume of the great retrospective bibliography entitled Magyar Könyvészet 1921-1944 (Hungarian Bibliography 1921-1944) covering the entire domestic book publishing between the World Wars was published in the course of 1980. It is volume 7 of the planned 10 volume series and comprises Hungarian literature (literary science and belletristic works). The bibliography gives information about 25,000 publications on 647 pages. The works on another cyclic bibliography Magyar Könyvészet 1961-1975 have been accelerated and the first volume will be ready for the press in 1981. Volume 2 of Régi Magyarországi Nyomtatványok 1601-1635 (Early Hungarian Printings 1601-1635) is now under press, and editing of the subsequent periods will be continuous. Further research in 18th century Hungarian printings has been undertaken in foreign collections. So far we have registered approximately 125,000 copies at home and abroad. Further data have been added to the bibliographical registration of Hungarian authors and their works written and published before 1801. As a result of our special bibliographical activity the first two volumes of A Magyar Irodalom és Irodalomtudomány Bibliográfiája (Bibliography of Hungarian Literature and Literary Science), viz. the 1976 and the 1977 issues have appeared. The processing activities concerning the manuscripts held in Hungarian ecclesiastical collections have also reached an important phase: this year the first volume of the series has appeared containing the descriptions of the manuscripts originating before 1850 held in the General Diocesan Library of the Reformed Church in Debrecen. We have also taken part in the international bibliographical enterprises and information systems (RISM, ISDS, ASRPI, IBHB) which we regularly furnish with Hungarian data. Readers' and Information Service The library has been attended by approximately 10,000 registered readers in 58,000 cases and about half a million units have been used for reference. (The comparatively large number of the units derives from the peculiarities of the collections of the Poster and Small Print Section and the Manuscript Section where each small print or letter is taken as a library unit.) The number of our readers diminishes year after year. The access to the material deposited in distant places is difficult and takes a long time, thus discouraging some of our readers. On the other hand, the library itself strives not to expose its holdings to damage by transportation and wishes to reduce the circle of the readers to research workers. Almost 60 per cent of our library's holdings can be delivered only on order in advance for the second or the third day. These unfavourable circumstances can only be remedied in the new building of the library, after its moving to Buda Castle. On account of the limited possibilities of reading proper, an increased emphasis is put on the reference services. We provide oral as well as written information to readers at home and abroad. Our considerably bad situation cannot make it possible to organize representative exhibitions but in a number of cases we have lent exhibits to expositions arranged by other institutions. Some valuable items of our collections have been exhibited abroad several times. Besides the readers, our library was visited by 900 tourists of whom almost 50 per cent came from foreign countries. The two monument libraries sponsored by our library were called upon by 75,000 visitors (one is in Zirc, the library of the former Cistercian Abbey, the other is in Gyöngyös, that of the former Franciscan Monastery). 72