Rózsa György: Tudományok és művészségek szeretete... Írások az MTA Könyvtáráról (A MTAK közleményei 16. Budapest, 1986

A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára a 2000. év felé. Gondolatokegy rekonstrukció kapcsán

125 SUMMARY THE LIBRARY OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AROUND THE YEAR 2000 This publication summarizes the main features of the 25 year evolution of the Library since the January 1961 resolution of the Presidium of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and served also as background material to the debate and resolution of the Presidium's April 1,1986 session on the position of the Library. The appendix describes the Library's publishing activity between 1976 and 1985, providing data about all series and periodicals, numbers of printed folios of publications and periodicals, and figures concerning publications by staff members of the Library between 1980 and 1984. Its chapters are: 1. Basic approach: from requirements to needs 2. Reconstruction, expansion 3. Architectural description 4. What is the future based on? Within this chapter — history of culture and specialized information — collection — utilization — information services — creative workshop 5. New technology — a computerized programme? The initial idea of the paper is that a large scientific organization, like a big library - fundamentally has to be managed like a pro fit-oriented enterprise. While in the case of the latter the profit is measurable and direct, in the case of a library the „profit" appears indirectly, in the form of increased efficiency of research. The study sketches the future image of the Library in connection with the Conversion to a library of the block of flats built together with the palace of the Academy, and the reconstruction of the library. This future image is formed by linking tradition and modernity. After a 10 to 12 years' stagnation the reconstruction has brought the final housing of the Library to its stage of realization. After unsuccessful attempts over several decades, the reconstruction is in view and it is apt to ensure the development of the Library even if this solution involves several kinds of compromises. The compromise is necessitated by the fact that the area obtained through the reconstruction is insufficient for housing all parts of the Library; the 24 shelve-kilometres supplementary store will remain near Budapest, as will the detached technical plants (book-bindery, printing office and the most valuable special collections, the Department of Manuscripts and Old Books, as well as the Oriental Collection in the palace of the Academy). It is, on the other hand, a great advantage of the reconstruction that the historically evolved cohabitation of the Academy and the Library will continue, as there will be several passages between the two institutions in one and the same building compound. The study provides detailed