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In the summer of 2012 a new Hungarian book exchange website, Rukkola.hu was launched to help users renew their home libraries for almost free. They can upload the data of books they do not need, share them with others who make their choice and express their interest. In exchange for the books sent, users get and collect points that can be used for claiming books of interest from others. This web- site allows you to renew your home library by paying only the postage of the books sent. This new, emerging service means a new challenge for libraries. In September 2012, a questionnaire was elaborated and made available on Facebook. 659 question-naires were filled in and returned. The findings show that such sites are real competitors of libraries. The answers to these questions have been compared with data about the users of the biggest Hungarian community website for booklovers named Moly.hu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the series "Scrutiny of Hungarian databases" independent experts evaluate various Hungarian online content services from the point of vies of their use by libraries [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a word that begins to be more and more important for the society and the companies, and this word is community. We can talk about social networks, people seek the social demand they already had as a part of their lives for a long time, and this means that it appears in the electronic society as an essential need too. The community is not enough, activities are also needed and this is the point where the companies link in, who promote their goods and facilities to the outside world and with this they use the next stage of customer relationship management, the fulfilment of social needs. We live in the age of social shopping, communities are everywhere and everyone shares information, and up to the present classic CRM systems ran from static databases. On the contrary social CRM systems perform a two-way communication, start a conversation with customers and encourage them to tell their opinions, which always changes on social media, so they build a dynamic database and communicate with customers through response-reactions. Does this new strategy bring a whole new world to companies or is it only another step in the development and another channel of CRM? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The various types of public collections apply a variety of approathes to digitisation. As regards museums, the period 1996-1997 may be considered as the initial phase of efforts: no real strategies were drawn up, just the minimum conditions were created and a very important learning process started in the profession. The MAMA (Database of Hungarian Museums) project was aimed at establishing a meta-database consisting of the collections of major Hungarian museums, at creating a basic data structure to make the information held in the database available and easily searchable for all those interested. The MAMA project has been implemented, but its real operation did not start. The formulation of the first unified and real strategic plan of digitisation for the museum field started in 2003, based on the findings of a survey of digitisation tasks, covering most fields of culture. In 2008 among the main duties of the Hungarian National Museum the following priority appeared: nationwide methodological and co-ordination activity, related to digitising cultural goods presented in museum". In 2009, with support from the Ministry of Education and Culture, a Museum Digitisation Committee was established. The joint committee, consisting of nine members, accepted a short activity plan with clear goals and works on its implementation. The plan includes e.g. the listing of themes for digitisation to be elaborated for various cultural grant schemes, which also serves as recommendation for those bodes inviting proposals, in harmony with a unified priority system for museums. It is an important goal of the committee to organise and establish various professional forums (webpage, professional advocacy groups, training, courses), and also to collect existing content for further use, under the leadership of a national aggregator organisation. The Museum Digitisalion Committee provides an adequate organisational framework to harmonise digitisation works camed out at pubbc collections. At the same time, it promotes professional consensus as a key to the solution of the most significant problems arising. In the series 'Sctutiny of Hungarian databases' independent experts evaluate various Hungarian online content services from the point of vies of their use by libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay summarises the traditions, accomplishments and development tasks of the bibliographical activity in the field of sociology at the Metropolitan Szabó Ervin Library (FSZEK). After a brief historical overview the author takes account of the special bibliographical and subject bibliographical ventures having started in 1968 when FSZEK had assumed the role of a special library with national responsibilities in the field of sociology. The computerised bibliographical processing of sociological literature started with the analytical processing of international sociological literature (books and journals). A work carried out in parallel was the bibliographical processing of the history of sociology in Hungary. Later digitisation started as well with the project to create a Digital Archive of the History of Sociology. Current Hungarian publications in the field of sociology were included in the publication entitled "Szociológiai információ", followed by a CD-ROM-edition, and later by the database named SzocioWeb. The materials from the period 1970-2006 can be searched in the SzocioWeb database, from 2007 in FSZEK's Corvina integrated library system (option: Szociológiai bibliográfia). The responsible department's plans include integrating processing work within FSZEK's library system and the SzocioWeb database, complementing records with links to full text, and supplementing missing items retrospectively for the periods 1930- 1945 and 1948-1969 etc. Homepage of FSZEK's Collection of Sociology: http://www.fszek. hu/konyvtarink/kozponti_konyvtar/ szociologiai_gyujtemeny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A 2.0 kifejezés a technikai változások mai tempóját tekintve egyáltalán nem új. Már több mint négy éve forog a sajtóban és a web világában. Ez napjainkban nagyon hosszú idő. Már arra is elég, hogy egyesekben a Ierágott csont — elavult, idejétmúlt, nem cool — benyomását keltse. Ugyanakkor sok embernek még mindig ismeretlen, idegenül hat. Kezdetekben csak a webre vonatkoztatták, azonban nagyon rővid időn belül a legtöbb szakterület elkezdte a saját 2.0-ás verzióját, vagy mondhatjuk úgy is, hogy a „jövőképét" megalkotni. Ez mind a web 2.0-ra, mind a könyvtár 2.0-ra igaz. Mit jelentenek ezek a kifejezések? Miért kell ezzel mindenkinek megismerkedni, aki az információ feldolgozásával napi kapcsolatban van? A cikkben mindkét kérdésre igyekszünk rövid és érthető választ adni. The basic tools of online communication have been widely used since the World Wide Web was launched. However, in recent years, a number of new, simple and efficient tools have appeared, causing a breakthrough in content production. The web 2.0 tools ensure the truly democratic participation of users in the creation of online content, thus foster further progress and expansion in this area. Networked services are increasingly used by young people perfectly familiar with cutting-edge web technology. For these young users, the Internet is a natural environment where they live and move around at ease. They use collaborative sites such as rss, blog, wiki, social networking, video and photosharing extensively. The philosophy of the web 2.0 — inviting users to become content producers at the same time — has been adopted in the library environment as well, urging libraries and librarians to take on new tasks and attitudes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LIS journals worldwide are discussing Web 2.0 and the resulting Library 2.0 either in a realistic and descriptive, or in an enthusiastic style. The study analyses Web 2.0 applications on the basis of their four elements (technological, economic, user-centred and philosophical aspects), adding how its use should be taught in LIS courses (parallel with teaching the advancement of information literacy). Easier access to information does not involve being better informed. Uncertain information must be judged by asking for the opinion of experts in the future as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study analyses, how digital library issues are represented in the courses of LIS education in Hungary, particularly at the Szent István University's Applied Philological Faculty (in Jászberény) and at the Berzsenyi Dániel College (in Szombathely). The authors have followed the method of Bawden, Vilar and Zabukovec, comparing education and training for digital librarians in Slovenia and the UK. As first, the Hungarian authors have defined the differences between electronic, virtual, digital and hybrid libraries. Based on the definition of the digital library they conclude that this theme should be discussed together with electronic library issues. The analysis of training programmes has shown that digital library issues are also included in other courses (e.g. in those for information brokers, school librarians, or on Internet resources and collection development, etc.). In Jászberény the course Electronic libraries can be chosen as an optional one, and three courses of the Information broker module include also digital library aspects. In Szombathely archiving techniques were studied already in the early nineties, since 1996 within the courses The Internet and Internet resources (later Web editing); now the digital library-related themes are part of the Electronic library course. Within the frame programme Information broker a special course was started under the title Digital content provision. Digital library issues are present in both institutions' programmes. As this theme is continuously developing and changing, it is very important to regularly adjust the content of courses and training to actual needs and international trends, and to take into account the practice of digital and electronic libraries in Hungary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the ever-broadening acceptance of XML and XSL on the web, the multinational companies, publishers and content providers - libraries too! - intend to render contents designed for the web in (`global') formats of data structuring and archiving, such as XML. The highly flexible markup language XML is widely considered to be ideal for creating a variety of formats ((X)HTML, PDF, WML etc.) in a cost-effective manner, and the institutions can themselves decide which to choose for a particular aim. The application named Cocoon of the Apache Project is a probe into producing a system with such capabilities. Cocoon is actually a framework system that is capable of displaying on the world wide web the contents marked in XML by virtue of XML and XSL transformations. The forte of such web pages is that the style and the content are fully separated, which means that the layout of the information contents, the documents can be modified even on a daily basis and made to appear in ever new frames. At the same time, the job of the content creators is drastically reduced, since the `primitive and simplistic features and limitations' of web-based content describing languages are removed far from them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WebKat hu is the online catalogue of Internet resources related to the Hungarian cultural heritage. The service is operated by the John von Neumann Digital Library. Since 2000, the catalogue was completed with a thesaurus, the development of which was marked by an important milestone in 2003. In order to meet new users' needs, to make the range of services even more comprehensive, and to attract new users, an appropriate topic map was implemented. First of all, we looked at the relevant products of various companies: Empolis, infoloom, Totaizoom etc. and carefully considered the timeframe and resources at our disposal. Finally we decided to develop our own system. With a combination of PHP and HTML technologies and based on a MySQL database, we created a web interface that visually displays semantic relations. The topic map is an enhanced searching tool for online sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]