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By now the use of Web 2.0 applications has become a part of everyday library practice. In particular, it is important to write blogs and be present on social networking sites, such as Facebook, to strengthen communication and to keep contact with users, as well as to market library services. This paper looks at two, frequently and effectively used social media tools of OIK - its blog (under the title Coffee break) and its Facebook page -, describing the role of these two media in the Library's practice with illustrations and statistical data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Library supply to national minorities belongs to the responsibilities of libraries since the 1970s. The paper describes how related services began and developed, as well as the current system seeking to supply documents to national minorities coordinated by OIK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The spreading of digital libraries, the nature of and access to their services has changed the composition of library users and library usage patterns to a large extent. Traditional, first of all physical barriers have ceased. Nevertheless, new barriers appeared as a result of the presence or eventual lack of IT tools both hardware and software and IT literacy. The content and its manifestations transmitted to the reading public by digital libraries can be extremely diverse. It is absolutely necessary to provide tools for orientation, information and for evaluating search results, in order to use the services of digital libraries as efficiently as possible. It is the primary objective of the article to present the opportunities offered by selected foreign-language digital libraries for access to the content they are offering. The article also informs about the essential IT knowledge as well as the hardware and software tools that are needed by users to make an efficient use of content in various file formats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It would be important to place into libraries the client end of e-government and e-administration with access for citizens. This new function would make it possible, on the one hand, that library professionals prove their service-orientation in this new field bringing social esteem and benefit. On the other hand, concentrating the sources of e-administration in a well operating national network would work more efficiently than within other organizations. Libraries as cultural institutions would create a new community space which may serve the purposes of digital inclusion as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MTI Hungarian News Agency offers from December 2009 internet access to a significant part of its news archive of the 19th and 20th centuries. The MTI news can be retrieved as grouped into five time periods by browsing on MTI's webpage: . From the period 1887-1919 relatively few news have been retained, while the periods 1920-1945 and 1945-1949 include more complete news material; the archive contains news published in 1956 as well as those born digitally in the period 1988 to 2005. The databases also include the so-called restricted materials; these were compiled in the editorial offices of MTI and were accessible for a narrow audience only. The material makes up a total of about five million pieces of news; it is accessible for browsing; orientation is facilitated by up-to-date software. The ‟Open archives„ digitisation and conservation project was implemented in partnership with the National Széchényi Library and the Hungarian National Archives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 1999, the Central European University Library had been looking for a second generation integrated library system that would be more than a common database, that would be able to do more than just computerise manual or paper-based routines, and would enable library users to reach beyond the local information and knowledge base. After thorough searching and an invitation to tender, the Central European University Library purchased the Millennium integrated library system from Innovative Interfaces Inc. and started to use it in 2002. Millennium is a Web- and Java-based automated library system, and working with it is a unique experience in Hungary. The study is about Millennium and its adaptation to the needs of the Central European University Library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]