About
our library
Our
library can be found in a very nice surrounding in the Centre of Buda, between
the Castle Hill and Vérmező park, at number 93 Attila út.
The
National Agricultural Library and Documentation Centre (NAL) is a specialised,
scientific, public institution carrying national tasks, furthermore, it is the
co-ordination centre for specialised libraries of educational and other
establishments of the agricultural sector.
The
library has joined several organisations like the FID (International Federation
for Information and Documentation), IAALD (International Association of
Agricultural Information Specialists) and LIBER (Ligue des Bibliotheques
Européennes de Recherché). It is member-library of AGLINET (Agricultural
Libraries Network).
The
library functions as deposit library of the Food and Agriculture Organisation
of the United Nations, namely collects, processes, and stores its publications.
Interlibrary lending phone:
489-4951, e-mail: alephkk@omgk.hu
| Traditional library services: |
in-house reading, reference service, lending, |
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| Opening hours: | Monday, Wednesday, Friday |
9.00 to 16.30 |
| Tuesday, Thursday |
9.00 to 19.00 |
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Store-rooms and reprographic services: |
Monday, Wednesday, Friday |
9.00 to 16.00 |
| Tuesday, Thursday | 9.00 to 18.30 | |
In comfortable books’ and periodicals’
reading rooms of the library there is a
reference-book collection at our
readers disposal.
Four terminals assure access to
electronic information.
The European Union collection was opened
on 1st October 1996. There are about 1000 books, over 50
periodicals, CD-ROM databases and SDIs (Selective Dissemination of Information)
in this collection. The collection is completed with reference-books
(dictionaries, lexicons, maps). This special collection is only for in-house
reading.
The opening hours of the EU-collection
are the same as those of the other reading-rooms.
Readers are asked to pay registration
fee for the use of the library.
Requests for interlibrary
lending are to be sent by post or by e-mail (address: alephkk@omgk.hu.)
There
is possibility to copy the
library’s documents and
also the reader’s own documents.
Registered
readers can use CD-ROM databases free of charge. Users may get information from
databases on floppy or in printed format.
Registered
readers can use Internet free of charge on every tuesday.
Only
registered readers may access to our electronic services (CD-ROMs, Internet).
(Because
of virus danger only formatted discs given by the library are allowed to use.)
The
entire collection of the library contains about 500.000
volumes, which is completed with cca. 1000 Hungarian and foreign journals.
Half
of the collection consists of monographs, about one third of periodicals, and
the rest is the so called “grey literature”.
The
collection interest of the library spans the entire spectrum of Hungarian and
selected items of international publications, books, periodicals and other
important documents in the fields of agriculture, food industry, forestry, wood
processing and related disciplines.
Beside
printed documents we have also electronic databases:
■ mgk (books),
■ fir
(periodicals),
■ mab (Hungarian Agricultural
Bibliography),
■ tmf (database of
EU technical literature),
■ tmh (technical literature about Hungary, published in the EU, is built since 1999)
The
databases tmf and tmh contain articles from journals, books, parts of books and
conference materials – mostly related to the EU – which material was collected
earlier as SDI.
There
are many special CD-ROMs in our library stock.
Since
1994 we use the integrated online library system Aleph, the catalogue of which
is continuously completed with new documents and retrospectively with earlier
documents.
Regulation of the use of our library
The National Agricultural Library and
Documentation Centre is a
specialised, scientific, public library carrying national tasks. It harbours
the most important collection of the agricultural literature in the country.
Who
can be a member of the library:
■ Hungarian
citizens who have completed their 14th year and have an identity
card;
■ foreign
citizens who have passport or proof of residence;
■ corporate
bodies (public institutions, enterprises etc.);
■ libraries.
To
be a library member one have to register, to buy a reader’s ticket and to
accept the Regulations of the use of the library in a declaration.
Personally, upon identity
card, and in case of some data upon reader’s information.
The
registration is valid for one year from the day of registration. The validity
may be extended yearly.
The
use of the library is permitted upon reader’s card given at registration or upon registration
as a daily visitor.
The use of CD-ROM databases
and the Internet is allowed only for our registered readers.
Furthermore,
the reader’s card gives you opportunity to borrow books from certain holdings
of our library.
To have a reader’s card you
need an identity card.
Entrepreneurs must have a tax identification number.
Foreign citizens should have valid proof of residence and a document
about employment (which proves that they have an income). Who does not have any
permanent working place those must have a tax identification number given by
APEH, in all other cases one should have a guarantor. Every Hungarian citizen
of full age could be a guarantor, if he/she has a working place or permanent
income and who takes financial responsibility for the borrowed library
documents.
To
have a reader’s card pupils and students ‑ who does not have any working place ‑ should have a guarantor beside identity card
and valid student’s identity card.
(Guarantor has to give us a warrant declaration. The text can be downloaded from here.)
To have a reader’s card
pensioners should have a pension ticket or a pensioner’s identity card beside
identity card.
Under
16 and over 70 the registration is free of charge.
Public
institutions may register through their representative. To have a reader’s card
the representative must have a letter of commission with signature and stamp of
the head of the institution, in which the institution takes financial
responsibility.
Who
does not want to register as a reader can use the reading-rooms as daily
visitor, free of charge. If he/she would like to have documents from
store-rooms or photocopies, he has to buy a daily ticket.
The
use of the cloakroom is obligatory. It is forbidden to take coats, bags, turned-on
mobile phones, books, journals, which are not the property of the library,
reprographic devices into the library area. It is also forbidden to take out
library documents without permission.
The
document collection of the library is social property. To keep it in repair, to
take care of it during use is the obligation of all readers. Persons who have
intentionally or by inadvertence damaged library materials borrowed or used
in-house are obliged to compensate for damages.
According to the rules of
social community one have to take care of silence in the library and not
disturbing other readers.
Changes in data of a registered reader
or guarantor has to be stated within 8 days.
One have to give notice of
the loss of reader’s card in his own interest, since the owner of the reader’s
card is liable for any damages of abuse.
One have to pay for the
replacement of the reader’s card.
Non-observance of the rules
implicate exclusion temporarily or for ever, depending on contravention.
How to use the library
The entire collection of
the library is to put at reader’s disposal in reading rooms. It is possible to
photocopy documents, or they can be borrowed (from the collection which is to
borrow).
Opening hours and services
of the library please find on the last page.
The reference service helps readers in the use of the library, the
Aleph databases and the system of catalogues during the opening hours. The
service informs about the library collection, important Hungarian and foreign
information services and their accessibility. Gives orientation in special
literature of subject-matters sought for. Besides traditional reference forms up-to-date
electronic systems and databases are also available.
Our colleagues help you in the individual use of
CD-ROM databases, upon request. The databases may be used only by registered readers. The use is
free of charge but printing
or downloading of hits is chargeable.
The databases on the Internet may be used only by registered readers. The use is free of
charge but printing or downloading of hits is chargeable.
Registered readers are
allowed to use laptops.
Charges of services please
find in a separate price-list.
Having a valid reader’s,
visitor’s or daily card readers may
use the entire collection of our library via in-house-reading in the reading-rooms.
In the reading-rooms there
is a reference library on open shelves at our readers disposal. Leaving the
library readers are asked to leave the reference library material or documents
from the store-rooms on the table.
If anybody would like to
use the copies from the store-rooms several times they could be reserved for him.
Circulation. The
documents of the library collection may be borrowed excepting the following:
■ journals
(interlibrary lending is allowed in case of volumes published earlier than 5 years, 10 volumes at
the same time);
■ rare
and not any longer available printed or manuscript documents of which only one
copy is present in the collection of the library;
■ dissertations;
■ archive
materials published before 1920;
■ video
tapes;
■ CD-ROM
databases.
Material from reference
library placed in the reading rooms ‑ except books fully withdrawn from
the circulation ‑ may be borrowed until 10 o’clock on the next working
day. Namely, these books may be borrowed for a night or a week-end.
At the same time each
borrower may borrow
5 books, if he/she is an individual
or institutional borrower,
10 books, via interlibrary lending.
The loan period is 30 days.
To borrow a book one must have
a valid reader’s card. Books may be returned also by post, but the costs of
postage (as registered parcel) has to meet the borrower.
The call slips for the
requested books has to be filled out properly. Borrowing and returning of books
will be registered (upon barcodes, on the reader’s card and in the book) by the
electronic library system of our library with data with probative force for
both the library and the reader. In addition, the reader gets a list of
borrowed and returned books.
Renewing is
possible within 10 days after expiry
of the loan period, personally, by e-mail or phone. If the reader can enter our
homepage he/she can renew for himself in the Aleph system but only within the
expiry date of the loan period and only if the book has not been requested by
others. The loan period could be renewed – without presentation of the books –
no more than three times.
If the book has been
requested by other readers the renewal is not possible.
The reader can book in advance personally, electronically
or in written form. On receipt of the requested book the library informs the
reader in letter and reserves it for him/her 10 days. If the reader has given up his intention to borrow the
book he is asked to inform the library about this, so that the request of other
readers could be meet as soon as possible.
Responsibility of the borrower and protection of the
borrowed books.
The borrower bears whole financial responsibility for the
borrowed books, he/she has to protect their substance from any damages. He/she
has to return them before the expiry date of the loan period and without
further notice. The borrower has to reimburse the repairing costs of damaged
books.
In case of delayed return
of books the borrower has to pay overdue
charges. Further lending is not possible until the overdue
charges have not been paid.
The borrower has to give
notice of the loss of the book immediately. How to replace a lost (destroyed or
damaged) book:
a)
if the book may be bought the borrower has to
compensate the loss of the library with a faultless copy within one month;
b)
if the book is out of print the library has to make a
copy of it at the borrower’s cost, in order to preserve the value of it’s
collection;
c)
in particular cases the library settles the amount of
damages after consultation with the borrower.
If the borrower does not
return the book or does not pay the settled amount in spite of warnings, the
library institutes legal proceedings against him/her.
The readers subjected to legal
proceedings instituted by the library will be excluded from registered members.
Photocopying
There is possibility to
make photocopies from printed materials of the library collection (books,
journals) on cash terms and considering the copyright. This service is available
in the period specified on the last page.
Internet:
Our Internet address is: www.omgk.hu
The homepage of our library
is optimised to the use of Internet
Explorer 4 or further versions. The newest version may be downloaded from
the following address:
Institutions having
Internet connections could access the system by a TCP/IP protocol software.
The links from the homepage
of the library and the e-book and e-journal pages open in a new window.
To view an e-journal issue
the program Adobe Acrobat Reader is required.
It may be downloaded from
the following address:
- http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Charges
Registration
The registration fee is HUF
1500/year
Students’, pensioners’ registration fee is HUF
500/year
under
16 and over 70 free
of charge
Institutional registration fee is HUF
5000/year
Daily card costs HUF
300/day
only
reading-rooms-use free
of charge
Replacement of lost reader’s card HUF
300
Photocopying
From
library documents
A4
sheet HUF
25
A3
sheet HUF
40
From
reader’s own documents
A4
sheet HUF
20
A3
sheet HUF
38
By fax HUF
100
Use of
scanner price
of the floppy (HUF 150) + price of the photocopying (HUF 25/A4 sheet)
Electronic services
(Only for registered
readers!)
Downloading of
hits from CD-ROM databases HUF
1000
+
price of the floppy HUF
150
printing
of hits HUF
25/page
Access
to the Internet HUF
500 occasionally
(price
of downloading and photocopies as above)
Word processing HUF
500 occasionally
Own
floppy must not be used!
Overdue
charges HUF
50/title/day
Bookbinding
cloth
binding HUF
1700
half-cloth
binding HUF
1300
soft binding HUF
800
spiral
binding HUF
400
(VAT is included)
Organisational
structure of the library
|
Name |
Department |
Phone
number |
|
Mrs. Erika
Gulácsi-Pápay |
Director |
489-4920 |
|
Mrs.
Beatrix Benczekovits |
Reader’s
and Reference Service, Head of
Department |
489-4960 |
|
Mrs. Dr.
Márta Kerényi |
Economic
Department, Head of
Department |
489-4972 |
|
Mr. Ferenc
Lőrincz |
Store-rooms
and Reprographic Department, Head of
Department |
489-4950 |
|
Mrs.
Zsuzsanna Miltényi |
Acquisition
and Cataloguing Department, Head of
Department |
489-4940 |
|
Mrs. |
Economic
Department, Head of
Department |
489-4973 |
|
Ms. Enikő
Tamás |
Editor-in-chief
of the publication EU-Agriculture |
|
|
Mrs. Éva
Gombos-Csízi |
Interlibrary
lending |
489-4951 |