The special library for Regional Studies in Hungary

51. évfolyam, 2005. 1. szám

SZIRÁKI, Zsuzsa

Könyvtári Figyelő (Library Review) vol. 15. (51.) 2005. no. 1. pp. 51 – 58.

The Transdanubian Research Centre in Pécs was founded in 1943 and has been integrated in the network of research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1955. Its original mission was to carry out research related to geography, economy, ethnography and history. The library of the institute inherited the collection of the related department of Pécs university.

In the 1970s, multidisciplinary research started which resulted in an enhanced role of the library. Its collection interest was enlarged and started to include literature in economy, public administration, law, sociology etc. In 1983, the Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was founded as a network of institutes of complex social science researches. Its main strategic objectives are the interdisciplinary research of long term national and international processes of regional and urban development and their systems of institutions, as well as support to decision making concerning regional development in Hungary. The core library of the Centre for Regional Studies is the library of the Transdanubian Research Centre. In our days, the library’s collection interest focuses on economic and societal development and social sciences works related to research methodologies. The collection contains 43,000 items, including monographies, periodicals, maps, grey literature. 75% of the library’s budget is spent on journal subscriptions (currently 42 foreign periodicals can be consulted). Since 2001, cataloguing has been carried out in the TinLib integrated library system.

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