AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1980. Budapest (1982)

I. Az OSZK 1980-ban - Somkuti Gabriella: Az Országos Széchényi Könyvtár működése 1980-ban - The Activity of the National Széchényi Library in 1980

automation where Ms. Mária Sipos has lectured on the hard-ware aspect of the Hungarian National Bibliography system. We have continued participation in the Shared Cataloguing Program of the Library of Congress. There is a welcome change in the Austro-Hungarian scientific relations. Our colleagues have delivered lectures in Austria in the scientific session held to commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of the death of Queen and Empress Maria Theresia (Mr. Zoltán Fallenbüchl, Mr. István Fried, Mrs. Klára Patay), have taken part in the Austro-Hungarian Joint Committee of Literary Science (Mr. András Vízkelety), and delivered lectures in the annual meeting of the Austrian Library Association (Mr. Gedeon Borsa). Our growing restoring tasks made it necessary for our experts on restoration to gain experiences abroad. Our afore-mentioned participation in the Leipzig seminar on book and paper conservation and in the Cambridge conference of the Institute of Paper Conservation (IPC) (Miss Beatrix Kastaly), moreover two study tours in Spain (Miss Beatrix Kastaly, Mrs. Ildikó Kozocsa) granted useful results. It was an outstanding event of the year 1980 that the World Federation of Hungarians and the Hungarian Library Association organized a meeting in Budapest for a group of Hungarian librarians living abroad on August 11-15. 38 librarians of Hungarian origin from 11 countries (USA 16, Great Britain 4, Austria 3, Denmark 3, Germany 3) were informed about the present state of the library network in Hungary and about Hungarian collections abroad, about possibilities for cooperation with special regard to the Hungarica program of the National Library. We have attended 24 lectures by our colleagues living abroad. Our further relations with socialist countries have been going on according to our interstate and interinstitutional agreements. There occured, for the first time, a direct exchange of scientific personell between our library and the State Library of the Ukrainian SSR. We have signed a treaty of cooperation with the State Scientific Library of Kosice, CSSR, and we received the representatives of that Slovak library. In 1980 54 of our colleagues have visited socialist countries, whereas 26 librarians have arrived for 229 days from there, thus spending 8.8 days per capita as guests of our library. 29 of our colleagues went to capitalist countries, 9 of the have attended scientific meetings. 13 colleagues received foreign scholarship to capitalist countries of which a 6 month scholarship to the USA for studying computation in libraries was of partiular importance. This year official contact has been established on direction level with the Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris for the first time. 75