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

Storing, Preservation of Books and Reprography Storing difficulties are not caused primarily by the shortage of storing place but by the fact that the holdings are placed in several distant deposits. As compared to the previous years this year we had to transport an even greater number of books, i.e. 88,000 volumes, thus exposing them to damage. We have made considerable efforts for the preservation of the holdings: we succeeded in increasing the number of the bound volumes higher than ever. Repare and instauration have continued in the given framework because the capacity of the workshops cannot be developed mainly because of lacking space. Unfortunately, the present pace of work is not enough for the amount of the material which needs reparing and restoring. In the frame of the protective microfilm program, about 1.5 million periodical pages have been photographed. Thanks to this program, 23 per cent of the periodicals can be used by the readers on microfilm. Approximately 250,000 frames have been made of the documents preserved in special collections. We have made almost 700,000 frames as a charged service on the request of Hungarian libraries for filling gaps in their collections. On account of the narrow cross section of our reprographic services, fulfilment of requests takes a certain time, and the continuous appearence of the library's publications sometimes requires outer reprographic capacities. Interlibrary (Central) Services Out of the legal deposit copies amounting to almost 1.2 million we have distributed more than 1 million to libraries with different profiles. We wish to alter the control of legal deposit copies in the future. Control of the printing shops in Budapest would be the task of the National Library, whereas those in the country would be controlled by the municipal libraries of the given areas. In the year 1980 the ISBN and ISSN Office issued 7,491 ISBN and 518 ISSN numbers. 94.2 per cent of the books published by professional publishing houses have appeared with an imprinted ISBN number. 185,000 new data reported from 135 Hungarian libraries have been registered in the Union Catalogue of Foreign Books. The number of the given information was 19,500. There continuously appears the location index Külföldi Társadalomtudományi Kézikönyvek (Social Science Handbooks from Abroad) which registers new acquisitions in Hungarian libraries. The Union Catalogue of Foreign Periodicals has registered 76,000 new data and gave information in 13,000 cases. The editing of the retrospective location index of foreign periodicals available in Hungarian libraries was continued by publishing preprints for circulation. The Central Registration of Hungarian Libraries has continuously received back the questionaires they had sent to the respective libraries. Their processing has largely been finished and concerning fundamental data they can already provide information. Of the 20,000 requests that arrived at our Interlibrary Loan Service from other Hungarian libraries 11,000 had to be forwarded abroad after verification. 81.4 per cent of the 1,400 requests received from abroad have been positively fulfilled. We have interlibrary lending connections with 519 libraries of 40 countries. As a result of the meetings of the Consultative Committee for Interlibrary Lending and owing to our library's directing and instructing activities, the role of the regional and network centres increases. ... Our International Exhange Service has sent approximately 31,000 books and 4,300 periodicals abroad. In the frame of exchange relations we received 18,200 books and 2,200 periodicals a part of which has been distributed to other Hungarian libraries according tó their fields of acquisition. For the sake of clarifying the exchange profiles we held several discussions with other Hungarian libraries. One of the first results was that those partners with whom our exhange relation is restricted to supplying official publications only were transferred to the Parliament Library. The Centre for Duplicates and Surplus Copies has distributed 27,000 volumes 73