Introduction
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The Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library, established in 1904, provides the services of the public library network for the inhabitants in Budapest. The Central Library meets the requirements of a city public library, takes part in national and international research works and serves as a national resource library in sociology. It helps the organized - and self-study regardless of age and fields of interest. Information-technology is widely used in its services.
District branch libraries are the basic institutions of the metropolitan public library network. Their collections are developed by the rules of acquisition concerning their categories. There are some organizational units which are controlled together by the branch libraries of more than one district. They are the so called regions which fulfil their professional tasks; with partial centralization but they manage their budget semi-independently.
The name and division of the regions:
- 1st Region: branch libraries of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 9th, 11th, 12th and 22nd district
- 2nd Region: libraries of the 4th, 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th. 15th and 16th district
- 3rd Region: libraries of the 8th, 10th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 23rd district
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