Mészáros József 75. születésnapjára
Mészáros József at his 75 Anniversary

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Summary/Abstract: Fellow worker, departmental manager, assistant director, bibliographer atBiblioteca Judeţeană Mureş, Mészáros József worked in this institutionbetween 13rd August 1958 – 1st June 1989. In spite of his beginings as ajournalist at a local magazine – Vőrös Zászló – he became an excelentlibrarian. Full of spirit and new ideas he always wanted to overstep his ownbounds and bring something new in library’ s activity. He initiated all thechanges that took part in our library in this period.As methodist, he gave a helping hand everytime he was asked to; hetaught the librarians from our county and he even organized special courses forthe librarians all over the country.As departmental manager on public relations he brought his importantcontribution in reorganizing the different sections and services of our library.Thus, we worked together in organizing the section for children and youngpeople, reading halls, the section for adults, the section of technical books, arts,also the subsidiaries; we have also organized some book stacks even in thebasement.Interested in sociology, Mészáros József made a lot of statisticsconcerning the increase of book collections, the rise of readers number,frequency, book spreading. Having this statistical support, he always knew howto take decisions and make future plans.He conceived and organized cultural activities and exhibitions for ourreaders and conferences all over the county.He was also interested in theoretical aspects of bibliotheconomy; hewrote numerous articles on this matter in different specialized publications,such as Biblioteca.Beside being librarian, he was also a writer; he wrote poems, aphorismes,critique and literary history; he initiated the Igaz Szó magazine’ s repertoire.He also wrote many articles about book and its role in human culture; hewas responsable for the poetry broadcasting at Radio Târgu-Mureş.

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