AZ ORSZÁGOS SZÉCHÉNYI KÖNYVTÁR ÉVKÖNYVE 1981. Budapest (1983)

I. Az OSZK 1981-ben - Somkuti Gabriella: Az Országos Széchényi Könyvtár működése 1981-ben - The Activity of the National Széchényi Library in 1981

continuously published. Maps are included as an Appendix of the bibliography of books. The database of the Hungarian National Bibliography

: Bibliography of Books computerized since 1978 has been increased by 22,560 records in 1981, thus the total database is now over 90,000. The integrated processing of the books published in Hungary has been brought about this year. Both Hungarian National Bibliography and Uj könyvek ("New Books", an annotated current bibliography made for the use of public libraries) are being prepared by the help of these modified Hungarian National Bibliography records. This year we have narrowed the profile of the Hungarian National Bibliography

: Repertory of Periodicals. Therein only the "general" articles in th efield of social and natural sciences are being processed from 1981 on. We have excluded technical, medical and agricultural articles in order to terminate parallelisms with other special bibliographies. Moreover, the amount of the articles has been growing considerably in these branches as science differentiated. The 1977 and 1978 volumes of the current press bibliography were published this year. The annual cumulation of the Hungarian National Bibliography, Magyar Könyvészet has been completed up to 1979. This year the volume "Linguistics and Literature" of the 10 volume cumulative bibliography Hungarian Bibliography 1921 — 1944 was published. Volume 3 of the bibliography Early Hungarian Printings (for the period 1636 — 1660) is under way. In the course of the bibliographical processing of 18th century books, 15,000 new data have been registered. Thus, at present ca. 140,000 copies are known of this category in Hungary and abroad. The annual Bibliography of Hungarian Literature and Literary Science is under way (the forthcoming volume, i.e. the 1978 issue has not been published up to the end of this year). We continued taking part in those international bibliographical enterprises and information systems which we furnish regularly with Hungarian data (RISM, ISDS, ASPRI, IBHD). Readers' and Information Service This year the library has been forced to reduce radically its readers services. In accordance with this, its holdings can only be used by research workers. (Exceptions to this regulation are those cases when the document in question can be found only in our library.) Parallel to this, service hours have been diminished by the half. Taking this measure was necessary for reasons of holdings preservation on the one hand, and to concentrate the necessary labour force for the preparation of the moving to the new building, on the other. Regarding the fact that a considerable part of our collections are already stored in our future residence, we had to prevent further deterioration of the holdings by its transpotation from one place to another. The reduction in the accessibility to reference usage has increased information services and, consequently, the amount of the mimeographed copies requested. As a result of the above-mentioned reducing measures the present number of the registered readers —as compared to the previous years —is only the one-fifth. Public relations work was limited to occasional library guidance. Instead of organizing own expositions, we have lent our documents to exhibitions arranged inside and outside Hungary. The two historical libraries supervised by our library were called upon by 85,000 visitors (they are: the library of the former Cistercian Abbey at Zirc and that of the former Franciscan Monastry in Gyöngyös). Holdings Preservation We have concentrated considerable labour capacities, sometimes those of outside entrepreneurs as well, for binding. (Almost 17,000 volumes have been bound.) In the field of restoring there is a considerable advance in research work. We started to gain foreign experiences in codex restoration by way of systematic postal 107