1. Digital Library Initiatives in Hungary The Brief History of the Hungarian Electronic Library István Moldován National Széchényi Library moldovan@oszk.hu

2. The history and current situation of the networking in Hungary I. 1987. launched the National Information Infrastructure Development Program 1989. The first services have begun on the basis of the X.25 protocol 1990. a large IIF project started, called HBONE (Hungarian Backbone)

3. The history and current situation of the networking in Hungary II. 1993. the first national and the international Internet connection 1995-96. appeared the first commercial Internet provider services (IPS) 1997. the SULINET - a governmental project to connect all the Hungarian secondary schools to the Internet.

4. John von Neumann Digital Library Digital Academy of Literature Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Electronic Library Pázmány Péter Electronic Library Corvinus Library - Hungarian history Some Hungarian digital library initiatives

5. John von Neumann Digital Library

6. Digital Academy of Literature

7. Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Electronic Library

8. Pázmány Péter Electronic Library

9. Corvinus Library - Hungarian history

10. The Hungarian Electronic Library "Electronic publishing" becomes more popular in Hungary 1994. The beginning the Hungarian Electronic Library (abbr. MEK) It's goal is to make these electronic documents available by collecting, organizing and transforming them to a uniform format using "human labor".

11. The Hungarian Electronic Library

12. The sources of the acquisition Web homepages from authors publishers volunteers

13. The formats The difficulties in the Internet publishing Different formats and accentes Reading and preservation ”Supported" and "permitted" document formats in the MEK ”Supported": ASCII, HTML, TeX ”Permitted”: DOC, RTF, PDF PKZIP for compressing

14. Description, navigation A simple bibliographic description in a little ASCII file, so called "MEK header file” Searching on the basis "MEK header file" by title, authors and keywords A simple hierarchical system of menus "electronic bookshelves” "New acquisitions"

15. Virtual library We are collecting the URLs: of the other Hungarian e-text archives of the Hungarian related mailing lists of the Internet services of the Hungarian libraries, e.g. online catalogues, of the Hungarian electronic journals and newspapers;

16. Online reference – Ask a Librarian Documents to Assistance MIT-HOL (Hungarian Online Librarian) Since September 1999. 20-30 librarians from different libraries and with different expertise archive of all questions and answers

17. MIT-HOL (Hungarian Online Librarian)

18. Internet usage 3.300 electronic documents monthly –users from 24.000 different IP addresses –download more than 1 million files –in size 26-28 gigabytes students from from Hungarian universities and highschools

19. MEK Statistics I.

20. MEK Statistics II.

21. Copyright problems Complicated situation New copyright law since September 1999. Library or Publisher Publishing or broadcasting

22. Plans for the future to gain and draw into this job more libraries, university departments, other institutions make closer relations to publishers and universities improve the bibliographic description of our documents to compile lists about the most important books in different subjects and sciences to begin archiving Hungarian electronic journals with the help of the National Library

23. Thank you for your attention! Please visit our Electronic Library URL: HTTP://WWW.MEK.IIF.HU