The establishment of the Metropolitan Library was accepted by the City’s General Assembly in 1903. The institution was set up by the combination of two special libraries ensuring the material – financial – and staff conditions recorded in the Rules for Operation. The library started to operate in 1904. When it was founded, the stock material – comprised of 33000 volumes taken over from the City Statistical Office – basically included books of social science. There were demographic, statistical, administrative and sociological books. Ervin Szabó (the social scholar), who was the first director of the library, had a significant role in the formation of national sociology. He consistently developed the inherited material to a modern collection of sociology and social sciences. Under his management (control), from 1910, the Metropolitan Library started to be reorganized as an institution of ‘public library’. (source)
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