György Rózsa: Information: from claims to needs (Joint edition published by the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Kultura Hungarian Foreign Trading Company. Budapest, 1988)
I. The socio-professional aspects of the development of the scientific information with special regard to social sciences
20 also should incite, stimulate , initiate and even formulate potential requests. In this sense, the scientific information services accomplish also an educational role in attracting the attention of users to the possibilities unknown to them. The feasibility study comprises also in the frame of the cost-benefit analysis, the repercussions of restructuring the institution and its methods in conformity with automation. The cost-benefit analysis should cover the general automated program even if this program is effected gradually. The culmination of such a program is the intellectual work and not the technology. The accent should be put on the documentary vocabulary and the descriptors, and on the thesauri which contain them, and on which the analysis of documents is made. This work is the most exigent. For this reason, special attention should be given to the possibilities of labor, even on international scale, as for instance the UNISIST projects. The co-operation and division of labour presuppose standardized methods. All preceding statements could be converted into the notion of institutional maturity which is the "condition sine qua non" for any automation. No automated system, no computer without consideration of its capacity to memorize or its speed, could put order into disorder. The computer is an achievement for institutions and services which have well defined policies , are well-organized and work according to established standards. The computer is not an aim in itself as there is no universal remedy for all illnesses. In many branches of social activities such as the research in social sciences, the information work is an integral part of the researcher, and the possibilities for automated documentation are more sophisticated. Institutional maturity means also that all these aspects are taken into consideration. The farewell of the brave soldier Chwejk to sapper Vodicka In the classical work of Jaroslav Hasek "The brave soldier Chwejk", there is among many others, one memorable episode in which Chwejk and his old friend the sapper Vodicka, after a quarrel with the soldiers of another battalion, were escorted to their respective units. Chwejk invites Vodicka to meet at 6 p.m. in the "U Kaliha" tavern after the war in Prague. Vodicka accepts the invitation after being assured by his pal that "there is always something going on" at this tavern and asks him to come at 6:30 because it is very possible that he might be late. Everything is arranged for the rendez-vous: the place, the time (with a small foreseen delay), except the year in which the war will be over and this simple "detail": whether the two friends will survive the war. Therefore, everything was foreseen for this rendez-vous except the two principal factors: the year and the survival. It is the same with information on the basis of automated documentation in the field of social information. One could have much information, useful details, even
