Hungárián library developments and TextLib

Abstract

The authors are the developers of the TextLib inte-grated library system to which a country-wide profes-síonal meeting was dedicated at the Mogyoróssy János Municipal Library in Gyula. The authors pre-sented the latest features of TextLib that significantly contributed to the successful implementation of sev-eral large-scale library development projects, such as MOKKA (the Hungárián Shared Catalogue project), ODR (the National Document Supply Service), Köz-taurusz (the thesaurus of Hungárián public libraries). It was a practical and effective solution to design the server programs in Linux environment, which ensures greater security in the data transfer via the multiple communication prolocols connecting TextLib with external systems. The most important feature of the MOKKA - TextLib cooperation is that the integrated tools make it possible for simple and controlled import and export of bibliographic records completed with location data. The most important outcome of the development is that beside MOKKA, TextLib is able to connect with any other Z39.50-based server and with any TextLib WWW server. The integration of Köztaurusz, the Hungárián public library thesaurus into TextLib allows the direct use of the thesaurus in the retrieval of the bibliographic records. In this proc-ess, the system uses the UDC identifiers linked as indexes to one part of the lexical elements of the thesaurus.