Secţia „Cartea Tehnico -Ştiinţifică” la a 30-a aniversar
The Technical - Scientifical Department of Mureş County Library at Its 30th Anniversary

Summary/Abstract: The paper is structured on several chapters: Short History; Completing and Organizing the Collections; The Catalogues; The Evidence of the Readers and the Statistic of Borrowed Documents; The cultural - Scientific Activities Organized Between 1974 - 2004; The Librarians of the Department. The foundations of the new department of technical publications was at that moment a necessity, because of the industrial development and also because of the request of qualified specialists on different technical domains. It was the idea of a well-known librarian - Meszáros Jozsef - that was presented to a group of engineers, organized in an association, that finally was put into practice. Thus, on November the 20th 1974 the new department was officially opened to public and its evolution since then was quite ascendent. The department of technical publications permanently increased its collections; thus, in no more than three decades its fonds were enriched with different technical materials, today their number being over 32 thousand publications. Unfortunatelly, the acquisition policy had to change during the last years, because of the lack of financial resources and because of the prices of books. As it expected, for a better circulation of information, there were organized many catalogues, such as the alphabetical one, sistematical, thematical etc. The paper also contains a readers evidence, on criteria such as age, profession etc. and some statistics concerning daily frequency, monthly frequency etc. It is also worth mentioning the fact that between 1974 - 2004 this department was involved in 119 cultural activities, such as picture and photographic exhibitions, scientific meetings etc. In the last part of the paper there is a presentation of each of the librarians that have worked during time at this department.

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