Talk given at the BOBCATSSS 2015 conference - http://www.bobcatsss2015.com/. One of the most important cultural reproduction system of society is the education, which is in central position since knowledge has to be passed for the new generations, because the knowledge should be passed on from generation to generation. Where are the libriries place in the new higher education system (in the teaching, researching, and the third mission)?

1. BOBCATSSS Conference, Brno 2015.01.29

2. Functions of the education
 reproduction of the culture
 shaping the identity of individuals
 reproduction, shaping and conserving the structure of society
 promoting operations and growth of economy
 legitimating the current political system

3. Funcions of higher education and the
knowledge
 Every university has a place in the modell of Clark (triangle of: 1. the
private sector, 2. the oligarchy of the university, and 3. bureaucracy of the
state)
 Every university makes new knowledge from the older knowledge and the
informations (=research)

4. Third mission
For example: services for students, teachers and people living in the
neighbourhood, as well as supporting culture management, economy and
social development.

5. Non-educational servicies of the universities
1. Services directly related to education like libraries
2. Administrative services, registrars departments, doctorate offices
3. Mobility services helping the universities’ own students and the foreign
students as well
4. Social services, for example, student hostels
5. Services related to preserving physical and mental health like sports
facilities
6. Practice-oriented courses, for example concentrating on career planning,
job interviews.
7. Services that help universities to have good financial background. E.g.
monitoring application opportunities.
8. Other, additional services: communication, competitor monitoring,
information gathering and analysis

6. Changes in the higher education system
 1. new relationship between lifelong learning and higher education,
 2. internationalisation of education and research,
 3. cooperation between the higher education and industry,
 4 the knowledge is produced inside the academic world,
 5. new expectations,
 6. the reorganisation of knowledge

7. Functions of libraries
1. Servicing education and research in the right proportion. Being up to
date regarding the university’s syllabus.
2. Broad-spectrum contact.
3. Purchasing and creating databases, and creating services, actual
usage of the latter's knowledge of the institution's assets,
4. Management of bachelor, master thesis and PhD dissertations.
5. Creating databases of publications.
6. Creating new information access tools.
7. Giving certifications in order to obtain degrees.
8. Digitalizing the stock of the libraries.
9. Managing the ‘knowledge’ of the universities.

8. Supporting of education, research and third
mission
1. Active support from the management of the universities.
2. Adequate material and human infrastructure (i.e. suitable building,
suitable experts and the most opportune programs)
3. Continuously developed relations in order to make these organizations
linked to the institution
4. Exploring the wealth of academic knowledge, which is consisted of two
levels:
a. Mobilizing the former wealth of knowledge (digitization)
b. Managing the wealth of knowledge generated by the university.

9. New challanges
 Economoy crisis The positions of the
universities in the Clark
modell are changed
New enterprises are founded,
They make a new knowledge
using and collecting modell
in the innovation
Have to change services of the
universities and their libraries

10. László Nemes
PhD student of Eötvös Loránd University
nemes.laszlo84@gmail.com