AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1981. Budapest (1983)

I. Az OSZK 1981-ben - Somkuti Gabriella: Az Országos Széchényi Könyvtár működése 1981-ben - The Activity of the National Széchényi Library in 1981

in Publication) in Hungary. A crucial step forward in applying computation in the library was the installation of a terminal purchased in 1980 and its in-line connection with the computer of our co-partner, the Computation Co-ordination Institute (SZAMKI). Preparations are made for computerizing the union catalogue of current foreign periodicals. It was a remarkable event in 1981 that a departmental order declared our library an institution directly subordinated to the Minister of Culture and sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In accordance with this, an account was rendered and accepted of our research activities in the past five years together with the draft plan for the forthcoming five years (1981-1985). An outstanding achievement of this year was the publication of the history of the National Széchényi Library from its foundation in 1802 to 1867 by Jenő Berlász. International Relations. Participation in International Information Systems We have been in close contact with the national libraries of the socialist countries similarly to the previous years. We have taken part in the Moscow Conference of Acquisition Experts (Lidia Ferenczy, Zoltán Havasi), in the 6th conference of the national bibliographies' experts held also in Moscow (Jolán Fügedi, Péter Zöldi). Deputy director-general Péter Zircz represented our library at the Warsaw meeting of the directors of the national libraries. We have also participated in the scientific research program "The Tasks of the Socialist National Library" and we have joined the committee concerning holdings preservation. We have continued our active participation in the International Scientific and Technical Information system of the socialist countries, especially in the registration system of periodicals (ASPRI) and in standardizing activities (Judit Szilvássy, Jolán Fügedi, Erzsébet Szűcs, Péter Sonnevend). Péter Sonnevend represented our library at the Moscow conference of Interinformkultura, an organization of the socialist countries for exchanging information on culture and art. We have renewed and signed our inter-institutional agreements with the Lenin Library in Moscow and with the Saltykov-Shchedrin Library in Leningrad. We have carried on direct negotiations with dr. Joseph Zessner-Spitzberg, director of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna. M. Rosenbaum, director of the ISDS Centre of Paris, also came to Budapest for negotiations. Our library actively participated in the ISDS-system. Mrs. Judit Szilvássy was elected president of the Board of Directors of the ISDS in April 1980 for two years. In this quality she has attended or chaired several sessions and conferences. A number of our colleagues attended the 47th general assembly of the IFLA held in Leipzig. With the support of the IFLA Section of Serial Publication, the IFLA/UBC Office has invited Mrs Judit Szilvássy to the presidency of the ISBD/S Review Group. — Since the AIBM congress was held in Budapest on account of the Bartók memorial year, many of our colleagues could attend it. —We had connections, on information level, with other systems such as IADA, IASA and SIBMAS. In the frame of the Library of Congress Shared Cataloguing Program, we continued supplying information about Hungarian publications. An important event of the year was the 5th Joint Hungarian-Soviet Colloquium of Librarianship. In 1981, 65 of our colleagues visited institutions of foreign socialist countries for exchange of working methods or attended conferences there. We received 35 librarians from the socialist countries who spent altogether 226 days, i.e. an average of 6.4 days in our country. 25 of our colleagues visited capitalist countries of whom 11 attended conferences. An outstanding event of this kind was the Anglo-Hungarian Joint Colloquium of Library Science organized by the Great Britain East Europe Centre in London. The proof of a growing esteem towards our library is that our colleagues receive an increasing number of invitations to conferences abroad for participation as well as for lectures. 109