AZ EGYETEMI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVEI 7-8. (Budapest, 1997)

Szögi László: Előszó

demands: we must adapt ourselves to the informatics revolution that we mention all the time but at the same time we must protect our traditional valuables. This will basically change the work of librarians because it demands new kinds of knowledge from all of us. So, our library staff members are working among a multiple pressure; in addition to their professional work they must undertake the acquirement of informatics knowledge, we are insisting on it. But we also support them with all possible means to enable them to use their remaining energies to the individual scientific research in linguistics, literature, history of civilisation or any scientific ground they want. Really, it is a hard task for a librarian to produce new scientific results because of the readers' increasing claims and the truly modest circumstances of salary categories, in our days we haven't got a lot of famous erudites working at the University Library, but there are a number of young or even younger talented collaborators and we would like to give them the chance to publish their works renewing the publication of the Annual of the University Library. In the past 25 years, besides the University Library the University Archives was founded where the written documents of the past of the first Hungarian University are safeguarded, old of 362 years. There has been a close co-operation between the Archives and the Library for decades. The Archives has brought out an individual collection of publications but our Annual gives them, too, a chance to publish. Nowadays the Museum of the Library is beginning to take shape, in the past two years they organized two expositions in the Library's edifice. It is our will to show to the curious people every public collection of the University. We count on the cooperation of all the University professors having close links with the Library. Our volume exceeds in its size our previous annuals' common shape.The long time that has past since our last publication gives an explanation that we now publish a double volume. In the future we intend to publish our annual in every two years. I solicit the reader to warmly welcome the new series of the Annuals of the University Library starting now once again. Budapest, May 1997. The Editor 20