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

25 The first effect relates to primary literature. Pooh visits Rabbit and gorges himself with milk and honey. When he wants to leave he cannot get through the door. He complains that while the entry is wide the exit is narrow. He has to lose weight to get out. One cannot hope for a radical change in the information-flood unless primary information loses weight. The second effect relates to secondary literature. Pooh and Piglet go hunting. They believe they follow the tracks of a stoat whereas they only trace their own footsteps while going round and round. Christopher Robin tells them that in fact they have twice walked around the thicket. NOTES 1. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles. 1973 ed. 2. J. Bemal: Provisional scheme for central distribution of scientific information. The Royal Society Scientific Information Conference Proceedings. London, 1948. pp. 253-258. 3. N. M. Dubinyin: Vazhnih voprosi obmena nauchnoi informatsie. Vestnik A.N. SSSR, 1962, No. 4, p. 40-43. In: TMT, 1976.6. 239-242.

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