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

Social science research and information needs ECSSID has organised training seminars for social science researchers and information specialists. And it has organised conferences with themes üke the role of social science information in knowledge création (1990) and social change and information systems in Europe: innovation, development and integration (1991).

3 A core activity of ECSSID is the serial documentation of current and completed European social science research in a number of transborder problem areas. At present the CRD (Current Research Documentation) Working Group covers serially the following topics: the impact of technology on society, the changing role of women in society, environment and society and migration and ethnicity. As much as possible national state-of-the-art and trend reports are added to the documentation volumes. The Taskgroup for International Exchange of Information Sources (TIES) compiles serial bibliographie overviews of grey literature as a corollary product to the. current research documentation. It has succeeded in compiling and documenting two volumes in succession about European grey literature on technology and society, thereby bringing many unknown research reports to the knowledge of researchers who may obtain these otherwise almost unobtainable reports through the ECSSID Reference Points network.

4 Finally, I draw the attention to a most interesting ECSSID bibliographie research project conceming bibliology of which Dr. G. Rózsa together with Dr. J. Meyriat from Francé are the initiators. The origins of both, the Vienna Centre and its ECSSID programme, are closely connected with the former geopolitical situation of two-blocs-Europe. Both overbridged the Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall as well as they could. Now the situation has changed and is changing thoroughly, but both are prepared and equipped to perform their pan-European tasks under new geopolitical conditions. ECSSID is restructuring its membership in order to recruit information and documentation expertise that had little or no access to intemational cooperation and information exchange before. In fact, it is developing intemational, pan-European working conditions in a spirit that corresponds with the professionalism and internationalism of which Dr. Rózsa has been a strong advocate over the many years during which he has made his invaluable contribution to the field. For more than one reason the Vienna Center and ECSSID deserve intemational support. References 1. Berting, J.: Information needs in intemational comparative and cooperative research. In: Information Needs, Problems and Possibilities. Proceedings of the Vienna Centre's VIth Intemational Training Seminar on Information Needs, Problems and Possibilities in ComparaGondolatok a könyvtárban " 179