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POGÁNYNÉ RÓZSA Gabriella

The study aims at presenting how the successive stages of processing are reflected in the first Hungarian handbooks of librarianship. The works analysed were written between 1893 and 1943 (the authors are Károly Kudora, Zoltán Ferenczi, Pál Gulyás, Géza Káplány). It is clear from these manuals of librarianship how the art of cataloguing has occurred in Hungarian practice, and when and how the prevailing cataloguing approaches (Prussian Instruction or the Anglo-Saxon cataloguing rules) have appeared in the works. The regulations of the National Book Trade and Bibliographic Centre assumed the Prussian Instruction, but disregarded the grammatical rules of filing, and was more flexible in other respects as well. In the handbooks the approach to cataloguing followed the changes, and international trends of librarianship, as it is illustrated by the author. We can look back on our predecessors with pride, since they had good handbooks, and the knowledge of these useful manuals help us understand how the present situation has been formed.

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