AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1961-1962. Budapest (1963)

I. A könyvtár életéből - Farkas László-Havassy Pál-Tombor Tibor: A nemzeti könyvtár új épülete a Budavári Palotában - New accomodation for the National Library in Budavár Palace

•to the public is widened on the sixth floor level and besides the exhibition- hall (history of Hungarian scripture and printing), the representative and museum rooms (Corvinas, manuscripts, incunabula, etc.), it occupies the major part of the western and eastern flights of the building as well. The reading rooms of special collections are also situated on this floor. The modern reading rooms of the Library will be accommodated on the seventh floor. The central large catalogue room is accessible to the reading public from the main entrance '. hall through express- or paternoster lifts, or by stairs. A coherent set of general and special reading rooms as well as the reading room for periodicals, arranged according to the open-shelf system with about 100.000 volumes, further the large central bibliographical reading room equipped with about 25 to 30.000 reference works adjoin the catalogue room. The reading - rooms for specialized literature will be contained in a single coherent space, the subdivision of which will be solved by means of galleries with open shelves. The central parts of the northern and southern sections of the large reading space will be illuminated through the roof. A high degree of flexibility has been ensured by this type of arrangement of the reading rooms. The reading rooms on the seventh floor, including the galleries (general reading room, juniors' reading room, reading room for bibliographies, special reading rooms, research rooms, microfilm reading room) offer an aggregate floor space of over 3500 sq. m., which together with the research rooms in the roof space adjoining the eighth floor is sufficient for altogether 470 reading places. In the reading rooms of the special collections on the sixth and the fifth floors (the common reading room of the Music Department and the Department of Theatre History, the common reading room of the Collection of Old and Rare Books and Manuscripts, the reading room of the Map Collection on the sixth floor, and the reading room of the Department of Pamphlets on the fifth floor) there is opportunity for accommodating additional 70 reading places. A total of 540 reading places will thus be created. The central part of the eighth floor will be occupied by a large audience hall. The eastern side facing Lions Court will be reserved for the book and journal club, while on the western side »looking on the hills of Buda, a parlour, snack bar and smoking room will be at the disposal of the reading public. The nineth floor, created by the horizontal division of the eighth floor with the help of galleries on the eastern and western sides, will offer space for "relaxing" reading rooms. The rooms of the third major functional unit, i.e., book processing, administration and •workshops, have been grouped in the northern and southern parts of the building as well as parts attached thereto, where special service staircases, personnel and cargo lifts have been made available. The lowest, first floor level of the building, running under the western front only, has been reserved entirely for storage magazines. Besides the magazines under the western and central parts of the building, the second floor houses also the workshops, of which the Bookbinding and Printing shop occupy the southern part, the Photographic and Microfilm-laboratory the northern one. Transformer banks and material storage are located on the eastern front. The northern and western fronts of the third floor are occupied by the rooms and offices of the Department of interlibrary Services. The service entrance for postal -and cargo traffic opens on the northern front of this floor. The southern part houses the Restoration workshop, the eastern front being occupied by magazines and the telephone centre. The fourth floor has been devoted to the acquisition, processing and bibliographical activities. These rooms are situated on the northern, western and southern fronts, the eastern one being occupied by the processing and magazine rooms of the Department of Pamphlets. The rooms of the management, social and political activities, as well as those of the International Exchange Department have been arranged on the fifth floor, the level of the main entrance from Lions Court. The southern and northern parts of the sixth floor will be occupied by the processing rooms and offices of the special collections, i. e., the Manuscriptcollection, the Collection of Old and Rare Books, the Map Collection, the Music Department, and the Department of Theatre History, the administrative offices of the Magazine Department, as well as the rest-rooms of the magazine personnel. The seventh floor is devoted entirely to the Reading Service, and only a few service-rooms of functions closely related to the reading service have been located on the northern and southern parts. A first-aid room and club facilities for the employees of the Library have also been accomodated on this floor. Both are well separated from the rooms of the public reading service. The eighth floor occupying only the central part of the building, as well as the nineth floor formed by the horizontal division thereof, have been reserved exclusively for public functions. Mechanical installations of the building have been planned with due regard to latest -scientific achievements and experiences gained both at home and abroad. Illumination is 106