It is very difficult to talk about the loss of Gyula Mándli, retired director of the library in Vác, without being moved, as he was the tireless personality who we never thought would ever leave us. Unfortunately, this has happened! Gyula left our world a few days before his seventieth birthday, vaconline.hu reported.
His work once made the Katona Lajos Library one of the centers of Vác’s intellectual life.
With his incredible diligence, he expanded the existing collection with regional local history materials. We know from one of his own publications that they have started archiving radio and television programs. The collection includes two thousand book-type documents, almost one hundred theses, nearly thirty microfilms (several years of periodicals on one film), nearly one thousand local knowledge videotapes, 250 tapes of radio program recordings, 1,200 slide and photo recordings, as well as over six thousand small prints.
As a passionate photographer, he captured all important events. In addition to his rich oeuvre, his photo archive is an important source of the local history of the past decades.
We are convinced that for Gyula Mándli, the Vác library he runs is not just a library of books that can be borrowed in the classical sense, but an intellectual workshop that means a lot to readers and researchers alike in the historically beautiful building. An iconic place in Vácott that everyone from Vácott can be proud of, from children to the elderly. That this is so, Gyula Mándli did a lot. Thank you and rest in peace!
