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

solved generally with the help of fluorescent tubes, by which a lightintensity of at least 350 lux can be ensiired in the reading rooms and offices. Heating is accomplished from a heating centre located outside the building. Certain rooms of the building, thus e. g. the windowless magazines will be provided with ventilating and air conditioning equipment. All vertical and horizontal transporting facilities, automatic electric signalling and calling equipment, as well as the installations serving the movement of book demand cards (teletypewriter and tubepost)

—all essential prerequisites for an up-to-date and efficient public service

—were included in mechanical planning. Atitomatic burglar and fire alarm signals will be installed for the protection of the valuable stock. The mechanical equipment of the Library is completed by extensive audio-visual and electronic devices. The basic external style elements and features of the Library building could not be chosen freely. The fronts and the plan layout display the signs of the eclectic baroc, characteristic for the architectural style around the end of the last century. This style had to be adhered to as far as the fronts of the building are concerned, but the interior design and installation of the Library were fully adapted to modern requirements. In the internal arrangement of the new building of the National Library the classic three-fold division, the separation of magazines, reading rooms and offices has been basically observed. The inflexibility of this conventional arrangement has, however, been resolved in a modern manner and care has been taken at the same time to provide up-to-date technical equipment and functional installations for the library. The flexible layout of the internal :s paces, thanks to which the essentially classic division can be maintained while the large T eading space can be transformed to meet momentary requirements, further the fact that 3 bout 100.000 volumes are on open shelves at the disposal of the reading public, as well as ^he concentrated arrangement of the magazines within the interior of the building, are all •evidences of the modern principles governing the planning work. 107