Collections

 

The holding of Ferenc Rákóczi II. County Library now goes up to nearly 585 thousand library materials. It provides patrons with literary works for adults, teenagers and children and with secondary literature, mostly in Hungarian language. Besides materials in Hungarian, it also provides materials in different foreign languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Slovak, Bulgarian, Croatian, Polish, Armanian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Ukranian and Ruthenian. 

80% of the holding consists of books, 5% of periodicals, 5% of CDs and DVDs and other sound media. The rest of the holding, which takes 10%, containes musical scores, maps, microfilms and manuscipts. 

The larger portion of the holding is made up of text books. It consists of more than 420 thousand materials most of which deals with applied sciences, social sciences and arts. Literature adds 23% to the collection and children's literature adds 5%.

The four-third of the materials are purchesed and the rest has been received as copyright deposit, as a present or through exchange.

The County Library has built its electronic catalogue since 1998 thus, materials gained from that time are retrivable in the presently used Corvina OPAC which can be found in public PCs in the reading rooms in the first and second floor, and in the Information Area, furthermore, you can also find them in the website http://opac.rfmlib.hu/WebPac/CorvinaWeb.  The retrospective processing has still been in prorgress, so part of materials published before 1998 are only retrivable in the card-index. 

Our holding can be found on open shelves in the floors of the building. Materials with a limited loan period can be found in the warehouse. These are directly demandable through the input surfaces of the electronic catalogues in the reading rooms. 

Literature can be found on the open shelves in the first floor, organized alphabetically by the authors' names or the titles.  Text books can be found in both the first and the second floors, organized by their call numbers. Our collections of video cassetts, DVDs, CDs and talking books can be browesd on the shelves right and left along the walls at the first part of the first-floor reading room.

County Library owns more than one special collection.

The Foreign Language Department, which also contains German nationality literature and grammar books and the Gateway UK Collection, has been at the service of language learners with its dictionaries, course books, text books and literary works  since 1984. The conditions of circulation vary according to the different parts of collection. 

The Children's Department, separated from the Foreign Language Department that is planned for studying, is very popular with the youth and their parents, too, and is available for children's activities and library classes as well.  This age group, most responsive to the novelties of technology, can be the first to use  RFID, a new barcode system with which children are able to use self-service circulation. Books will be returned at the circulation desk as well as before.

The Local and Regional History Department, which keeps valuable materials from the past, is open to any patron. Its collection, however, is for in-site use only. The books, periodicals, postcards and small prints as well as the records of the periodical database can be used in place, photocopied or scanned in accordance with the Rules for Use.

The Reference Colletion can be found in the second-floor reading room. It includes books and periodicals and is for in-site use only, too.

In the Europe Collection we have collected and furnished popular textbooks on the European Union since 2004. 

The Music Department, equipped with modern technology, has been availabel for the patrons since 1974.  This department today furnishes many thousands of sound media, musical scores and text books. It has a large collection of LPs and singles which are retrivable by the card-index.  

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