Integration of services in the Knowledge Centre. The birth of a concept

Abstract

The Knowledge Centre and Library of the SouthTransdanubian Region was built in 2010 within the project European Capital of Culture. Thearticle looks back to the early phase of the project and takes account of the plans ofparticipating organisations. It presents how the participants elaborated a library model tointegrate earlier independent legal entities, the Csorba Győző County and City Library and theCentral Library of the Pécs University, plus the Benedek Ferenc Law and Economics Library,a branch of the university library system. Today these libraries provide joint services for thevisitors of the Knowledge Centre based on their integrated collection and using their jointinformation technological base. It became possible for the co-operating library units tooperate unified and cost-effective services in the Knowledge Centre’s building. Integrationallows them to develop a comfortable, service-oriented, user-friendly library with multiplefunctions.