Central Statistical Office Library

From the Hungarian Wikipedia page

The Central Statistical Office Library, Budapest, Hungary is a national library, one of Europe's oldest and largest statistical collections.

The book and map library was created simultaneously with the Hungarian statistical service in 1867 with the aim of promoting the scientific quality of the statistics. Although Károly Károly had already suggested in 1869 that the institution should have access to state and statistical works, the gain was primarily made possible by foreign exchange. Findura Imrein the first half of the three and a half decades of libraries, between 1871 and 1884 the stock increased from 2054 libraries to 17239. In 1885, the statistical office was the second largest government library in the country behind the House of Representatives. The first printed catalog was published in 1885, the second was in 1898, the third was written in 1915 and 1919, and the copies of these were published in 1920 and 1934 was done.

While in the first decades the library collected only literature, official statistical publications, the XXXV. according to the law, has become a holder and manager of specimens. From that point on, this source meant 50-60% of the growth. However, due to the scarce resources of the institution, processing was slow, and the preservation of documents was also difficult. On March 22, 1929, the right of the library was strengthened to protect cultural values ​​as "second national libraries". The Minister of Religion and Public Education, dated 19 January 1935, required the processing and preservation of the entire material received.

The volume of the library's WWII lost to ten thousand volumes. On July 9, 1945, the institution reopened, which was actually made public in the 1949 reorganization of the statistical office. At this time, the fifty-room reading room was created. In 1952, the library's right to copy was confirmed for the second time. Under the leadership of József Kovacsics, on January 1, 1956, he became a self-financed, organically independent institution under the authority. Dezső Dányi's Board of Directors was established by the historical statistical research team, and the launch of several series of computerization and library was started.

The Library of the Central Statistical Office was published in the CXL. Law has declared it a national professional directory.

On September 27, 2010, a 15,000-square-meter reading room named after Bibó István, a former staff member of the library, was opened , which, regardless of age, has been available to all European Union citizens since September 2013.