The acquisition of German language books in three Budapest research libraries. Cultural setting and library division of labour. Part 2. 1945- 1990.

NIESSEN, James P.

Könyvtári Figyelő (Library Review) vol. 16. (52.) 2006. no. 1. pp. 109-128.

The second part of this study of the acquisition of German language books at the libraries of the Eötvös Loránd University, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the National Széchényi Library since 1990 traces fluctuations in the prestige of German language and culture, and the Communist authorities' efforts to coordinate collection development among the country's libraries. German as a language of scholarship declined more slowly in Hungary than in Western countries, due to the special relationship of Germany and Hungary.