Experiences with the first stage of the Hungarian National Shared Cataloguing project

Abstract

After five years of difficutt birth, the Hungarian shared cataloguing project reached in 2003 the state so that libraries and their users could begin to use its services. The main database include records of the OPACs of the fifteen largest Hungarian libraries. This means over 1,8 million records, after checking the duplicate records in the database. Also, the database uses authority control on the names. Naturally, the records contain the location codes of the member libraries. Through the links related to these codes the local databases can be accessed (e.g. for holdings information). The central database is updated regularly as the matériái is exported and filled by the member libraries.