Current issues of the Hungarian National Bibliography system

41. évfolyam, 1995. 4. szám

BERKE Barnabásné

The key issues of the problem indicated in the title are related to the submission of legal deposit copies, to the collection interest, coverage, and the services based on the HNB. The submission of legal deposit copies has become irregular in spite of administrative control, therefore the current national bibliography lost the completeness of its coverage. Only a minor part of missing documents can be detected, and even less can be purchased retrospectively. In order to ensure national registration and make up for missing items higher-level, intervention is needed which covered the submission of new media as well. The collection interest of the HNB has not changed for the past 18 years, while there have been lots of changes in the field of the publication of newspapers and periodicals. Some of the more recently founded publishers issue typologically ambiguous publications, of which it is hard to decide which bibliography they fit into. So far as services based on the national bibliography are concerned, it is a step back that the printed version of HNB. Bibliography of books has been issued in a simplified form since 1992, the set-up of the National Széchényi Library's OPAC. The reason to this was that at that time the computerised system of the National Széchényi Library, DOBIS/LIBIS did not have a program supporting the display of the national bibliography that has since been developed. Today there is a program enhancing the compilation and display of entries. The CD-ROM version of the computerised national bibliography (1976-1991) was produced, and the Hungarian MARC format, HUNMARC, was also elaborated. The floppy disk edition of HNB; Bibliography of books will be issued first in 1996. (pp. 585-590)

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