Abstracts

Ten years of the Hungarian press after the political change
NAGY Anikó

The publication of periodicals is regulated by an act of 1986 which declares that the foundation of a new Hungarian periodical must be reported to the press administration of the Cultural Ministry, and legal deposit copies must be submitted of the publication. According to the order 60/1988 llll.27.) the number of legal deposit copies is six, of which two belong to the national library and serves national bibliographic control.
In the press changes altering ownership and administrative control took place between 1990 and 1994. The author made her analysis on the bases of National Széchényi Library Bibliography of Periodicals and the Hungarian Periodical Database for the period 1988-1997.
Between 1987-1997 over 3500 periodicals appeared annually, with considerable decrease only after 1994. Since the most recent periodicals were started in 1991, this year served as the basis of the analysis of title alterations. Titles are changed if the content of the periodical, the publisher or the editor changes, or if the change of the geographical name leads to title alteration. The survey of the content and typology of the Hungarian press was based on data from 1987, 1992, 1997. In 1987 there were 48 political periodicals, all issued by the Hungarian Socialist Party. In 1992 political parties had started periodicals of their own, thus their number increased to 175, then it was reduced to 71 by 1997. The number of periodicals published by county authorities and economic societies also increased. So did the number of advertising papers and periodicals issued by churches. More and more publication are available on CD ROM or Internet (altogether 150 Hungarian papers). The national bibliography does not include publications available on the net only, however, those having ISSN are registered in the ISSN database.

Hungarian prints in Rumania between 1919-1940 in two volumes. The history of István Monoki’s bibliography
KÉGLI Ferenc

It was József Fitz, once the director general of the National Széchényi Library (NSZL), who suggested in 1941 that the Kolozsvár University Library compile the bibliography of Hungarian books issued in the Rumanian era until 1940. After the proposal had been accepted, István Monoki assumed the task of compiling the bibliography of Hungarian periodicals issued in Transylvania between 1919 and 1938, while the National Széchényi Library assumed the task of publication. The volume appeared already in 1941. 1260 newspapers and journals were issued in 63 Rumanian settlements. From among the 101 periodicals appearing before 1991 43 were still published in 1940. Monoki completed material collection for the bibliography of books as well, and sent the manuscript of the alphabetical part to the National Széchényi Library, Budapest in 1942 in order to have it printed. However, printing was ceased in mid- 1994 though the systematic part had already been compiled by that time. A bilateral contract signed in 1962 ensured the conditions of carrying on with the publication. The manuscript of the bibliography was used much by researchers in the National Széchényi Library, therefore it was copied in order to preserve the original. In 1997 the National Széchényi Library and the Transylvanian Museum Society agreed to have the alphabetical part of the bibliography with serial numbers, name and geographical indexes issued by the NSzL in 500 copies without the systematic part. The bibliography appeared, and the facsimile edition of volume 2., the bibliography of newspapers and journals is also considered.

Bibliographic handbook of minorities in South-eastern and Central Europe
DIPPOLD Péter

The bibliography, entitled Bibliographisches Handbuch der Etnischen Gruppen Sudosteuropas, was issued in 1988 after five years of efforts. It contains 1200 bibliographic entries of literature dealing with the ethnic minorities of south- eastern Europe covering 19 countries or regions. The bibliography was compiled by the librarian of the Munich Südost Institut and that of the Budapest Central European Institue. Literature on 35 ethnic groups living in the region were included in the volume regarding the period after 1918. Literature from the period between the two world wars consist mainly of monographs, while most of the publications from after World War 2. are periodical articles. The bibliography is in German, contains the German translation of the original titles. The study summarises the planning and the stages of the realisation of the venture.

Librarian in the “hybrid” library
KOLTAY Tibor

The concepts of the digital, virtual and electronic library are often used as synonyms. The digital (electronic) library is the systematic collection of identifiers pointing to documents stored elsewhere, available via networks. The library of the future will not consist of digital documents only. Paper and digital documents will form the “hybrid” library together, a concept introduced first in England in the ELIB library project. Questions rising in hybrid libraries (such as copyright issues, longer readability, document protection) are discussed by the article.

Part time students on the training of librarian information specialists
MIKULÁS Gábor

The study contains the results of two surveys and their analysis. Several groups have graduated from the five-term, part-time further training course in librarianship and information science held by the Department of Librarianship and Computer Graphics, Mathematical Institute, Faculty of Sciences, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen. Students were interviewed first during their first year, then at the end of their studies. Students were satisfied with the course altogether, however, they felt there were possibilities still unused. The main motivation of students to participate in the course, was the development of their professional knowledge, and the achievement of a higher status on the payroll. So far as subjects are concerned, those related to information science and technology (lnternet, information systems, database management, system organisation and development, programming, mathematics) were found more interesting that traditional ones (librarianship, bibliographic description, communication theory). Students would expect more practical training and less of a historical approach. Students did not mind paying high tuition fees, but poor organisation did bother them (e.g.: poor administration, slow flow of information, uneven level of lecturers). Since the analysis aimed at examining the teaching process as a marketed service, opinions help organisers to rethink the training from the point of view of efficacy.

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