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

International relations. Contacts with international information organizations Continuity and increasing international interest in the new home of the Library were characteristic of ourinternational relations. In the frame of the cooperation of the national libraries of socialist countries we regularly attended the meetings of experts (conferences on national bibliography, acquisition, union catalogues, intcrlibrary loan). At the leaders' conference in 1985 in Prague Hungary was represented by the Head of Library Department of the Ministry of Culture Jenő Juhász and Director-General in charge Dr. Zoltán Havasi. The sixth Hungarian-Soviet library seminar was held in 1984 in Moscow. Representatives of our Library delivered lectures on readers' services. In the frame of the common scientific and technical information system of the CMEA countries our representatives were present at three conferences on standardization and at the 9lh system council meeting of ASPRl. Representatives were sent to the meeting of the Committee of Deputy Representatives of the International Scientific and Technical Information System of CMEA countries (Moscow, May 16-17, 1985). We continued our participation in the cultural and artistic information system of socialist countries (INTERINFORMKULTURA) and attended the meeting of this organization in Prague in 1984. We attended the meetings of the Working Group N° 1 of CMEA cooperation (Material and technical base of the culture, its scientific information supply) and of the Working Group N°9 (Technique and technology of libraries) in 1985. A working agreement was concluded between the National Széchényi Library and the Centre of International Serials Data System (ISDS, Paris) in 1984. We attended the sessions of this organization regularly. In 1984-85, no representatives of the Széchényi Library were present at the General Assemblies of the 1FLA but we maintained an uninterrupted correspondence with the particular sections of IFLA. Our financial contribution to IFLA programs was the printing of an IFLA publication in 500 copies. The Section on Library Building and Equipment of the IFLA held its seminar in Hungary on 3-7 June, 1985. The first day's program was organized in the new home of the Széchényi Library. Our representatives attended the AIBM congress in Berlin in 1985 and the Hungarian-AustrianCzechoslovakian RISM meeting in Vienna in December 1984. The solemn session on the 90th anniversary of the foundation of FID took place in our Library on September 19,1985 together with the subsequent conference of the FID Program Committee. Among other Hungarian institutions, our Library participated in the organization of the international conference on the Hungarian diaspora held in Budapest in August 1984. The Second Scientific Meeting of Hungarian Librarians was held in our Library in a joint organization with the World Federation of Hungarians and the Association of Hungarian Librarians on August 26-27, 1985. 40 foreign and 11 Hungarian official participants and 85 Hungarian guests were present. 30 lectures were delivered in the plenar session and in the panels of three sections. In the NPAC program of the Library of Congress informations on Hungarian publications and bibliographic description were supplied. We attended the conference of the Restoration Committee of ICOM in Copenhagen in 1984. Our relations with developing countries were deepened by the participation of one of our colleagues as UNESCO expert in the organization of the Centre of Information in Laos. We received several directors and librarians of European national libraries at the opening festivities and on the exhibition "Codices in medieval Hungary". A visit in the Library and reception was organized for librarians and museum workers participating in the European Cultural Forum. Our colleagues went abroad to study tours, conferences or exchange of experiences 80 times in 1984, 85 times in 1985. 120 visits were made to socialist countries, 45 to other countries. With socialist countries, the visits look place on the basis of the well-proved exchange of personnel fixed in mutual agreements or intergovernmental cultural plans. As to capitalist countries, intergovernmental cultural agreements provide direct relations with partner libraries in Italy and Spain. 1(H)