Fejezetek a 150 éves Akadémiai Könyvtár történetéből (A MTAK közleményei 2. Budapest, 1976)

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Béla Köpeczi: THE LIBRARY - AS A SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP The function of the great academic and scientific libraries has undergone a number of changes recently, they now have to disseminate information and assemble documentation without which scholars and scientists would nowadays be unable to work. The widening scope of the libraries has helped to delineate the field of research of scholars and scientists working in a library. First of all the character of the library as an institution is förmed by the research work which must be carried out within the framework of a national system and the individual researcher has to work, as far as that is possible, within the structure of that system. The Library of the Hungárián Academy of Sciences conducts research in the following fields: it has published the 16th volume of TUDOMÁNYSZERVEZÉSI TÁJÉKOZTATÓ ('Bulletin of Science Organization"), which gives information on the orientation of scientific and academic policy planning and the organization of scientific and academic research. This volume is con'cerned specifically with the theory of scientific and academic information. In this field considerable progress can be expected. Important and still unresearched field is the history of science. This is potentially a very fertile field of study for scholars interested in library research. Equally rewarding can be a study of reference-works, bibliographies and catalogues. There is moreover the opportunity to take part in more ambitious research work. Dóra F. Csanak: THE „ENDOWMENT OF THE COUNTS TELEKI" The Library of the Academy was established in 1 826 by the first president of the Academy, Count József Teleki, who donated his family library of 30,000 volumes to the Academy. This library dates back originally to the second half of the seventeenth century; the bulk of the library's acquisitions, however, were made by the following three generations of the family. This paper gives a brief account of the activities of these three generations. The libraries of Count József Teleki (1738 1796), keeper of the crown, were scattered in several towns, but altogether they consisted of approximately ten thousand volumes. He had a particularly rich collection of editions published in the second half of the eighteenth century, which testify to the wide. but specific interests of their owner. His son. László Teleki (1 764-1821), a septemvir, added 30.000 volumes to that half of his father's library he had inherited. In his desire to give the library an encyclopaedic comprehensiveness he added a large number of books related to Hungary to his collection, and alsó the publications of academies and learned societies. It was, accidentally, one of László Teleki's principal ambitions to found a learned society in Hungary. He alsó wanted to publicize his library and had plans to produce a catalogue of his books. His son, Count József Teleki (1790-1855), the first president of the Hungárián Academy of Sciences donated his library to „the Learned Society and to all citizens of the country" and — in addition - he continued to give generous financial assistance to the 54