C. Csapodi, E. Moravek et al.(szerk.): The Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1826–1961.

II. The Use of the Library

II THE USE OF THE LIBRARY f) V Y he Library of the Academy is a research library of a public character for research workers. Its use is free. The visitor to the Library first passes through the ornate vestibule of the Palace of the Academy. Between the columns a range of show-cases display the Library's occasional exhibitions, reminding the viewer on various anniversaries of the most outstanding scholars and artists of mankind by presenting data, pictures, manuscripts, books and periodicals. Since 1950 exhibitions have been devoted to the memory of Darwin, Edison, Mme Curie, Maimonides, Ooetlie, Milton, Scott, Turgenev, Gogol, Hugo, Wagner, Haydn and among the Hungarians of János Arany, Endre Ady, Attila József, Kálmán Mikszáth, Aurél Stein, Sándor Körösi Csorna, Ottó Herman and the founder of the Academy, István Széchenyi. There have been two exhibitions as part of the UNESCO Program for „Mutual Appreciation of Eastern and Western Cultural Values", one on „India and her Hungarian Explorers" the other on „Asia and Hungarian Oriental Studies". On entering the small entrance hall of the Library the reader is welcomed by two white marble statues representing József Teleki, the Library's founder, and Ferenc Toldy who was the first to do library work in the collection. In the show-cases of the entrance hall the dust covers of books recently received draw the visitor's attention to the Library's new acquisitions. From here we enter the imposing Main Stack, a large oblong room similar to the old one-room libraries (Fig. 11), from which a forged iron door separates the Catalogue-Room where the Library's several card catalogues are filed. (They 16