Computerized processing and information system of the Library of the Hungarian Statistical Office

Abstract

The documents arriving at the HSO Library for registration have been processed since 1990 by a computer system, using the TEXTAR database management system developed in Hungary. Presently, the selection, registration and cataloguing modules of the projected integrated library system are operational, though independently ot each other concerning data transmission, because the TEXTAR system does not allow data input and data modification from multiple workstations simultaneously. The online catalogue however, produced during document processing can be accessed form several terminals simultaneously, to serve readers' demands. In addition to the public online catalogue, some other databases can also be accessed, like current informalion (press alerting), university textbooks, HSO publications. Since 1977, a bibliographic database is being built on the central HSO computer in batch mode, in subject fields corresponding to the library's area of interest, based on selected articles of Hungarian and international journals and on books.