Domsa Károlyné, Fekete Gézáné, Kovács Mária (szerk.): Gondolatok a könyvtárban / Thoughts in the Library (A MTAK közleményei 30. Budapest, 1992)

Curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae György Rózsa, chartered librarian, Doctor of Economics (Informatics), Director General of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, was born in Nagyvárad on the 13th October 1922. He studied at Nagyvárad, Bukarest and Budapest, and worked, between 1946-1950, at the beginning of his career, in the foreign service. From 1951, obliged to adopt a different course for his career, he continued to work in the library field. He worked at the Academy from 1954 and in 1960 became head of the library. In 1963 he qualified for a candidate's degree on Economic Science, on information problems in social science research. Between 1969 and 1975, interrupting his work as librarian in chief in Budapest, he filled the post of director at the United Nations Library in Geneva. In 1977 he was appointed by the Academy as Director General of the Library. In 1988, by submitting his dissertation on „Information: from claims to needs: National aptitudes for international co-operation in scientific information economy", he obtained his academic doctor's degree in Economic Science (Informatics). He is honorary professor of the Eötvös Loránd University at Budapest. His professional career is characterized by intertwining library management and organization with scientific work. His leadership has greatly contributed to the Library of the Academy becoming one of the most important information bases in Hungary today. With the development of documentation, the modernization of library processing and cataloguing work, the setting up of a modem information service, the establishment of an apparatus in informatics and the widening of international relations, he laid the foundations of contemporary conditions for the operation of an information-centred institution. With the support of the Academy, he fought with unbroken optimism for the long overdue new accommodation of the Library. He directed and organized the conversion of the one-time lodging-house of the Academy into a library building. Final realization of the planned new independent library building was achieved after nearly 10 years of preparation and 4 years of constructing work. The new „ Gondolatok a könyvtárban " 11