Domsa Károlyné, Fekete Gézáné, Kovács Mária (szerk.): Gondolatok a könyvtárban / Thoughts in the Library (A MTAK közleményei 30. Budapest, 1992)
KÖNYVTÁR ÉS KORSZERŰSÉG – LIBRARY AND MODERNITY
A.F. Marks (in particular in its information and documentation activity) during a considerable number of years. The Vienna Centre was founded in 1963 as an autonomous body of the International Social Science Council, ISSC. As such it is a non-governmental organisation. Its aims are to promote the cooperation between social scientists from European countries with different political, economic and social systems and to stimulate crossnational studies. The Centre's activities comprise the coordination of intemational comparative research projects, the organisation of conferences, the stimulation of information and documentation exchange as well as the training of social scientists in problems of intemational comparative research. 2 The cooperative and comparative research projects which are coordinated by the Centre, focus on a great variety of research topics of European concem, such as democratic reform and economic reconstruction in Central and Eastem Europe, natural and technological risks, technology and society, environment pollution, demographic change, family and kinship structures, gender relations, youth, ethnicity and culture, úrban development, semantics in intemational communication, methodology of research and the like. To promote social science documentation and information the Vienna Centre coordinates the ECSSID programme (European Cooperation in Social Science Information and Documentation). This programme evolved from the first Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in the seventies; in particular it evolved from those passages in the Helsinki Final Act speaking up for better mutual understanding and free exchange of information. ECSSID aims are: — to establish mutually beneficial contacts among national SSID services and to promote a European régiónál network of information and documentation services; — to maintain regular contacts with intemational bodies relevant to social science information and documentation activities; — to explore information needs required for the effective development of social sciences; — to prepare publications pertinent to its aims and to provide information relevant to European SSID activities; — to carry out studies to facilitate access to and exchange of information between computerised information systems; — to promote the exchange of know-how through seminars, workshops, exchange of experts, etc.; — to support the Vienna Centre in its statutory function to 'elaborate an adequate documentation on the selected subjects' of research projects in social sciences. 178 „ Thoughts in the library"
