47. évfolyam, 2001. 2. szám

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Könyvtári Figyelő (Library Review) New Series 11. (Vol. 47.) No. 2. pp. 244-251. 

The national library must play a leading role in the compilation of the retrospective national bibliography. The National Széchényi Library (NSzL), having the largest collection of this type, must lay the foundations of this venture by processing its own collection retrospectively with up-to-date methods. Retrospective work was started with the processing of current or restarted periodicals in the NSzL in 1976. What has been processed so far reflects considerable research into the history of press. Formal descriptions are supplemented by detailed holdings data. The 40,000 detailed records prepared so far are accessible only in the service catalogue of the library until the installation of the periodical module of the cataloguing software. The periodical librarians of the NSzL plan to establish a union finding database of periodicals that could serve as the basis of the compilation of a would-be national retrospective bibliography of periodicals. This venture required national cooperation and the provision of financial resources. According to their plans, first the collection of the national library would be processed and recorded, than this would be supplemented by the material of Győr-Moson-Sopron county until the year 2000. Experiences will suggest further steps. The database represents the periodicals by records of a standard structure that can be searched through one search interface the results leading to location data and collection characteristics. This finding database must fit into the central cataloguing module of the AMICUS integrated system of the NSzL. The aim of the plan is to make the cultural heritage, represented by the 300-year-old Hungarian press, visible and accessible within a reasonable time. 

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