Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2008
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• The Hungarian Postal Service plans to present the Stamp Museum with the sketches for all stamps it issued between 1995 and 2007, as well as all original finalized designs up to 2000. The Government Mint and the State Printing Office will present the museum with the graphic plates and printing materials for all stamps issued between 2000 and 2007. Receipt, inventorying and processing of this huge amount of material will be a major task for this year. • It will be necessary to hire new staff to replace the people who plan to retire in 2008, and we will have to prepare work contracts for them, specifying their duties. • The various computer operators will have to prepare accounts of the inventory results of the collections re-inventoried in 2007, and computerize the records. • After finishing the re-inventorying of our collection of classic Hungarian stamps, we will begin to identify variations. • It has become necessary to move and re-organize the collection of sample-stamps as the Philatelic Society is giving increasing priority to this task. • Since the museum has shifted its registration of foreign stamps from 2000 or later using the Michel Catalogue, we are re-identifying stamps issued before that time with the Yvert Catalogue, for those countries that will be included in the Michel Catalogue in 2008. Scientific activity, publications • We are providing the museum researchers and curators whom we asked to write studies for the 2007 yearbook with opportunities to publish that the foundation and staff members must take advantage of, even if it requires financial sacrifice. • Writing studies for the yearbook is the responsibility of both museums and every staff researcher. Therefore, this is more than just an opportunity that one may volunteer for, and the completed word can be of scientific value. • Uncovering the precise history of the Nagymánya misprint by the Stamp Museum is of itself a major scientific effort that has sparked a great deal of interest. We are conducting an ongoing effort to identify the variations of classic Hungarian stamps and have also begun an investigation to learn of the most valuable and unusual stamps in the world. • We will be making an effort to have our studies published in other journals in addition to our own including Magyar Múzeumok (Hungarian Museums), Múzeumi Hírlevél (Museum Gazette), Magyar Iparművészet (Hungarian Applied Arts), and Múzeumcafé (Museum Café) and other national professional journals. This is one route to achieving recognition for our young researchers by supporting their professional advance. Our goal is for staff members to expand their professional knowledge to national level. • At the Postal Museum we will continue seek out and process the legacies of outstanding personalities in telecommunications history and to publish studies written on the basis of the material on them we collect. • On request, museum staff will conduct professional research and collect materials for other publications. Examples of this are two albums soon to be published, one called Men of Old, and the other called Trianon. • Another task is to publish a guide to exhibits at Miskolc-Hollókő and Ópusztaszer- Kiskunhalas. We will begin writing and otherwise preparing it this year, although publication itself will have to wait until we have available funding. 225
