AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1984-1985. Budapest (1992)

I. Az OSZK 1984-1985-ben - Somkuti Gabriella: Az Országos Széchényi Könyvtár működése 1984-1985-ben - The Activity of the National Széchényi Library in the Years 1984-1985

number of periodicals sent and received did not change essentially (4,300 and 2,100 items, respectively). We make maximal efforts in selecting and supplying all patriotica publications from Hungary to our exchange partners interested in obtaining them. Unfortunately we do not always sec the same carefulnesson the side of our partners. Especially the» neighbouring socialist countries are inclined to a quantitative adjusting of our exchange balance instead of supplying the Hungarian publications collected by the Széchényi Library. - We have 705 exchange partners, 282 in socialist countries, 423 in other countries. In 1984, a Depository Library of the National Széchényi Library was established near Budapest. It stores reserve copies of duplicates discarded by Hungarian libraries. The starting holdings of the Depository Library were 120,000 volumes. This number was increased by 19,600 volumes. It supplies copies for intcrlibraryloan. The Centre for Duplicates and Surplus Copies collects and redistributes the duplicates of other libraries and partly disposes of them in book trade. In these two years, it supplied 59 thousand volumes lo Hungarian libraries and sold 20,900 volumes in home and foreign trade. Of this latter amount, 16,700 volumes were sold in the second-hand booksiiop kept jointly by the Széchényi Library and the Book Trade Company. Research and development The organizalory frames of the research work and development carried out in the Library are constituted by the Section for Research Management and the Section for Development. The Section for Research Management is supposed to organize individual and central research work in the Library, to determine the research program of the National Library and to coordinate it with the general research programs of the country. Accordingly, the research work carried out in the Széchényi Library is based on the holdings of the Library, aiming at processing, disclosing and publication of this material, and at organizing and carrying out Hungarica research work, on the one hand, and it corresponds to the central role of the Széchényi Library in the library network of the country, on the other (development of central library services, atomation of libraries and institutions of information). The task of the Section for Development is the preparation of the computerization program of the Library. At the same lime, il plays also an advisory role and exercizes organisatory activity on a couniry-widc level. Since 1981 the Széchényi Library is a scientific research centre under the leadership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In accordance with this, its relations with the institutional system of research work of the counlr)' considerably developed in the last years. The individual and institutional scientific achivementsof the Library's slaffare organically embedded in the national research program. Il could well be seen in the research account of the five years' period of 1981-85 and in the research planning for the next five years (1986-1990). The most outstanding results among the development tasks of 1984-85 were achieved through the establishing of the computerized National Periodical Data Base. The filling up of the Data Base goes on continuously. Partly, the data of the Hungarian periodicals and partly, those of foreign periodicals kept in Hungarian libraries are processed. Ca. 60% of the latter we take over directly from the magnetic tapes of the ISDS International Centre. A great advantage of the National Periodical Data Base is its compatibility with the ISDS system. At present, the Data Base functions as a system producing publications. It produces lists from computers or magnetic tapes. In the future, it will work in on-line system, too. Another achievement is ihat the dala of Hungarian periodicals are regularly conveyed lo the ISDS International Centre on magnetic tape. The information is given lo the ASPRI system of the CMEA countries on dala sheets. The Library has developed a classification system of its own named OSTAURUS for the classification of the periodicals registered in the Data Base. Il is a classification in natural language suitable for automated processing. Another important achievement was the TUDOR-C program system adapted lo COMMODORE-64 personal computer. It makes it possible to process, ask and diffuse informations of small library holdings with a built-in SD1 system. This type-software serves to promote instructions of computer technique in small libraries. A new service: lite Hungarica Information was introduced in 1985 in order to assist Hungarica research work. This service gives information in two ways by the analytical processing of foreign periodicals: il registers the publications dealing with the cultural and scientific activity of Hungarians living abroad and the foreign reception of ihe scientific, cultural and artistic achievements of the country. Computerized indexes make a multisided clicking up of the analytical descriptions possible. We try lo assure the possibility of publication lo ihe staff of ihe Library. Beside the Yearbook of ihe National Széchényi Library (Az Országos Széchényi Könyx'tár évkönyve), the publication of the scries Az Országos Széchényi Könyvtár kiadványai (Publications of the National Széchényi Library) was resumed and ihe first volume of the new scries has been published. A microcard publication is in work, loo. 99