SCHOOL LIBRARY – TÁNCSICS MIHÁLY GIMNÁZIUM ÉS SZAKKÖZÉPISKOLA

OROSHÁZA, HUNGARY

1120 (all students and teachers of the school are

Nº total members automatically members + some of our former
students now studying at university)

About 300 students get their student’s books from

the library (they don’t have to buy their books);
Nº borrower members some 200-300 more borrowers each year (students
and teachers alike).
Library use is free of charge.

Nº total documents 35,500

Free Internet on 12 individual computers for

Internet access students/teachers and 2 more for the librarians to
use.

- Universal Decimal Classification

- „Szikla 21” integrated database management

Library code/cataloging system
system for online catalogization (developed by
Hungarians mainly for school library use, but it is
adapted to international standards)

7.15-15.30 on school days, except Friday: 7.15-

Library hours 14.00
(1 Sept - 30 June)

20 seats for reading, 12 of which are at the same

Library space (number of reading points)
time Internet access points.

- Reading on the spot (handbooks, periodicals,

audiovisual and other electronic documents)
- Borrowing (a maximum of 5 books/student for 4
weeks) + borrowing dictionaries and other
handbooks for working in class
- Educational activities (lessons about the working
of the library and about IT used for library
Library basic services
purposes)
- Photocopying
- Use of the Internet (mainly for learning and
searching for home assignments)
- Temporary exhibitions
- Interlibrary loan in cooperation with other
libraries of the region

Performance standards
- Lectures, teacher training sessions, lessons on
library usage and internet usage
- Home cinema system, computer and digital light
processor in the conference room of the library
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OROSHÁZA, HUNGARY
- Web search of the catalogue is available for
anyone via the school website

- Reference books placed in the reading space of

Rules and conditions for provision of services
the library (dictionaries, encyclopaedias),
newspapers, magazines and periodicals are not
available for borrowing
- Deadline of returning the borrowed books is the
last day of the term, as the latest
- A maximum of five books per person can be
borrowed at a time
- Eating, drinking and using any material that might
damage the library furniture and/or the books and
computers is not allowed

- Support educational activities

- Help to maintain and to improve the high
standards of teaching
- Help to improve the general knowledge and
education of all library users
- Communicate modern knowledge and new
information by constant modernization of the
catalogue
Main aims of the library
- Help readers to find the right documents
according to their private and/or professional needs
and interests
- Inform and advise readers on new
materials/documents according to their private
and/or professional needs and interests
- Help to organize lessons and workshops on
library usage

The library budget is integrated in the school’s

annual budget. The librarian has access to at least
half of the library development budget broken
down into monthly figures, which she can spend on
the following:
New titles acquisition
- compulsory reading material determined by the
syllabus
- reference books (dictionaries, encyclopaedias)
- information carrier devices needed for library
purposes