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The Forum Minority Research Institute 301

Library and documentation in the Institute

The library of the Institute consists of three libraries:

1. Bibliotheca Hungarica

The library and archives of the Forum Minority Research Institute provides the institutional background for collecting and scientific digesting of materials related to ethnic Hungarians living in Slovakia. Its primary aim is to develop a research centre that, with its information and documentation, can facilitate all kinds of ethnic Hungarian related research.

Bibliotheca Hungarica continuously collects and processes Hungarian print media and other documents released in Slovakia or elsewhere. The new acquisition in 2002 was 1500 volumes, the half of which were published in Slovakia. The library acquired 39 items in its CD-ROM collection too.

Librarians of Bibliotheca Hungarica continuously work on the computerised processing of the collection’s bibliographical data. There is detailed inventory, listing the items of the archive that helps the research workers. By the end of 2002 the librarians bibliographically processed 6,483 Hungarian publications released in Slovakia. The entire Bibliotheca Hungarica collection amounts to more than 12,000 volumes.

The library has compiled the repertory comprising 1,809 bibliographical data on the first ten years (1992-2001) of Kalligram, a Hungarian review on literature and arts, published in Slovakia. It also produced a bibliography of the Bibliotheca Hungarica’s periodicals published in former Czechoslovakia or in Slovakia; this bibliography gives data on 250 publications.

The archives section Bibliotheca Hungarica has managed to systematise the documents from the record office of the ethnic Hungarian political movement Együttélés (1989-98). This detailed inventory covers the whole collection of documents (10 meters long pack of document, filling 22 archive boxes). Besides, the collection of documents found at the chaplaincy of reformed church in Šamorfn was digested. The