New strategies for information supply at university libraries

Abstract

Strategic planning and the possibilities of Hungarian university libraries are defined by the professional and institutional legislative environment of the country. By professional environment we mean library legislation and in the case of institutional legislative environment we refer to megatrends in higher education as well as the new Higher Education Act. With the ratification of the new library law, the role of libraries has changed in a positive way and the new legislation has provided new opportunities for library development. The new higher education strategy of the European Union led to the comprehensive modification of the Higher Education Act in Hungary in 2005. University libraries will have new tasks in the new system for the provision of information in Hungary.