Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1994

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research, are recorded. Place names are listed in alphabetical order rather than by postal directorate or administrative area, since researchers will use them in conjunction with maps and gazetteers. The register omits to mention each year the opening of seasonal post offices. Of the information about personnel, only state honours awarded to leading postal officials have been included.

Data cards for the regulations were prepared by Ernő Beszédes, Éva Grünwald, Júlia Kisfaludi, János Kiss, Mrs Miklós Lőrincz, László Nagy, Dr Kálmán Sebestyén, Ákos Somoskéry, Mrs Gyula Szalay, Mrs Sándor Tátrai and Dr Anna Farkas Tóth. The compilation is by Júlia Kisfaludi.

To help identify errors and shortcomings, we invite readers kindly to send us any observations, corrections and additions to the Chronology.

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Mrs Gergely Kovács

The Foundation of the Postal and Telecommunications Museum Plan of Action for 1995

Collection work

Recent years have seen major accessions to the collections in the Foundation’s museums, equivalent to almost 20% of the items in the Postal Museum and other collections. The storage situation at the museums requires fundamental alterations. The storage capacity at the Stamp Museum will have to expand into the area due to be vacated in about 1996 by the telephone exchange. Adequate capacity for the Postal Museum will have to come from establishing stores and collections at the directorates and perhaps from renting stores. In the meantime, the storage facilities will have to be improved by obtaining containers suitable also for transportation and equipment that makes better use of space.

The main emphasis in expanding the collections continues to be on organized collecting expeditions to provincial directorates. We must also find more effective publicity methods for encouraging donations from within the branch. Although buying archive materials from private persons and dealers entails more work, it is cheaper than buying at auction, which cannot replace it. The ideal division between the three might be 50%, 30% and 20%, with the private persons mainly being elderly staff members of the branch or their heirs.

Sample examinations need to be made of the condition and state of preservation of items scheduled to be of interest to postal, telecommunications or broadcasting history, to be found in offices and other premises. The 1994 Yearbook should include a full list of these.

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