A Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár évkönyve 1997-1998
Tanulmányok - Tartalmi kivonatok angolul
Pobori Ágnes - Kiss Jánosné: The branch library at 52, Andrássy Street: history and the library’s history The programme of establishing modem public libraries in Hungary was elaborated by Ervin Szabó in the first decade of the 20th century. According to this programme, aiming at the reorganisation of the Metropolitan Library into a public library and at creating its system, the branch library no. 10 started to provide services at the Hunyadi Square in the 6th district in 1924. This branch library can be regarded as the predecessor of today’s Terézváros Library having celebrated in 1999 the 75th anniversary of its foundation. The history of the branch no. 10 is inseparable from the organisational changes related to general library-political principles and also from the changes in the system of the Metropolitan Szabó Ervin Library. This is proved by the history of its operation and services: the library had not corresponded to the needs of the civil Terézváros as early as at its opening, but could move to a new, deserved place (at 52, Andrássy Street) in 10 years only, in 1934. In 75 years the library has become a central institution of library services in the district, independent of whether it has served its users as branch no. 10, the main library of the 6th district or an independent unit no. VI/1. in the Downtown Region. On the threshold of the year 2000 its tasks are expected to change with orientation toward information services, but the modification will be in harmony with the range of modem services to be provided by the Central Library to be opened soon for the broader public - aiming at a unity of traditions and modernisation. Holló Szilvia Andrea: An unknown map of Pest-Buda from 1793 The Budapest Collection of the Metropolitan Szabó Ervin Library has purchased at an auction a till now unknown coloured manuscript map from 1793. The drawing represents the towns Pest and Buda with their developing suburbs. Its German-language legend includes the towns’ famous buildings of the period and the street names. The detailed street index includes several till now unknown or not identifiable street names in a well-circumscribed manner. The map represents the towns at the end of the 18th century, an era when conscious town planning has just started, laying the foundations for the development of Pest in the first place. The Pest and Buda councils started to employ their own engineers only from 1794, earlier the county land-surveyors had been commissioned with drawing city maps. It is not yet known why this drawing has been prepared by the Austrian engineer-lieutenant, Franz Neuhauser, who has spent just some days in Buda. The source of the map is unknown, it does not seem to be related to any representation of the given period, first of all because of its nature as a tourist map (showing buildings and street names). Its later fate is unknown too, but it resembles in many respects the Pest-Buda map of the outstanding cartographer, János Lipszky, and the legend attached to its draft. This is why it was tried to compare the two maps to inspire further research. Kiinda Mária: The cataloguing of pre-1601 prints in the Library The Metropolitan Szabó Ervin Library preserves 1022 copies of 985 pre-1601 printed books in its two special collections. Among them are early prints (58 copies of 54 works) and 16th- century-books (964 copies of 931 works). In the years 1998-1999 the joint catalogue of all 15th- and ló^-century works were computerised, with a detailed description of copies, for publication as a printed catalogue within the national project of issuing the catalogues of similar collections in a unified structure. The article describes the cataloguing work, the editorial principles and, in short, the outstanding acquisitions having a role in the formation of the collection until 1951. 194
