This is a collection of papers from a 1997 conference that attempted to assess the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's efforts to modernize Eastern European libraries after the fall of communism. Looking primarily at Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, the international panel of contributors cover library automation, library policy, and management strategy.
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The twenty-nine essays included in this work......offer a plethora of details on the evolution of libraries in parts of the world less addressed by studies of comparative librarianship * L&C Book Reviews *
Contributors xi Introduction 3(20) Andrew Lass Richard E. Quandt PART I. Library Policy and the State Library Automation: Fortunes and Miseries in Poland 23(5) Adam Manikowski Developing National Information Infrastructures in Central and Eastern Europe: The Content-versus-Conduit Debate 28(17) Christine L. Borgman Nadia Caidi A Coordinators View of the Impact of Policy on the Financing and the Managing of Library Automation 45(14) Jurand B. Czerminski Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe: Basic Dilemmas 59(15) Jela Steinerova The Changes in the Functions of University Libraries and of Educational Policy in Poland After 1989 74(9) Krzysztof Zamorski In Search of an Optimum Model of Development 83(10) Miroslaw Gorny Bogdan Maruszewski Jan Andrzej Nikisch PART II. Case Histories Automation and Academic Libraries in Hungary: Theory and Practice in a Period of New Challenges 93(11) Bela Mader Automation in the National Library in Warsaw: From an In-House System to INNOPAC 104(9) Jadwiga Sadowska The Retrospective Conversion of the Catalog in the Library of the American Studies Center, Warsaw University 113(7) Ewa Paluszkiewicz CASLIN, Priorities of the Czech National Library, and Government Policy on Information and Libraries 120(14) Vojtech Balik Cooperation, Consortia, Compatibility, Connectivity: The Case of CASLIN 134(7) Martin Svoboda Some Problems with Library Automation in the KOLIN Library Consortium 141(12) Darina Kozuchova Lubomira Soltesova Realization of the CASLIN Project in the Slovak National Library and Its Impact on the Automation of Libraries in Slovakia 153(15) Igor Prokop Milan Rakus Daniela Slizova The Aleph Implementation at the National Library of the Czech Republic 168(15) Iva Pribramska PART III. Cataloging, Authority Control, Retroconversion, Subject Headings, Search, and Union Catalogues A Retrospective Conversion: The Case of Debrecen 183(13) Olga Gomba The Retrospective Conversion in Czech Libraries 196(8) Bohdana Stoklasova The Implementation of an Automated System at the University Library in Bratislava, Slovakia 204(15) Zuzana Repisova Cataloging Standards in Czech Libraries 219(5) Bohdana Stoklasova Evolution of Authority File Work in Poland 224(11) Anna Paluszkiewicz The Union Catalog: Different Library Systems, Different solutions 235(16) Blazej Feret New Possibilities for Information Retrieval 251(16) Geza Bakonyi Why, and How to, Translate a Subject Heading System: Authority Control Provides a Solution 267(17) Klara Koltay Integrating Internet Resources into the Library Catalog 284(9) Peter Gyure Knowledge and Information Processing 293(20) Tibor Csik Katalin Varga The Dissemination and Archival Storage of Old Materials as Electronic Documents 313(14) Adolf Knoll The Automation of Special Collections: General Issues 327(8) Joanna Pasztaleniec-Jarzynska PART IV. Management Issues The Sequencing of Automation in Central and East European Research Libraries 335(10) Henryk Hollender Managing Delays: The Micropolitics of Time in the Czech and Slovak Automation Projects 345(15) Andrew Lass The Krakow Project: Problems of Management 360(14) Ewa Dobrzynska-Lankosz Staffing Patterns for Academic Libraries of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and the CIS Countries 374(25) Robert M. Hayes Staff Preparation for Automation 399(8) Maria Sliwinska Interactions Between Library Automation and Staff and Patron Training 407(13) Ewa Krysiak The Special Role of the Hungarian National Library in the Formation and Management of Consortia 420(7) Miklos Fogarassy The Human Aspects of Library Automation 427(16) Marta Viragos The Contribution of Integrated Library Services to the Ensuring of Quality Services 443 Judit Skaliczki Eva Zalai-Kovacs
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