Among major improvements in 1990, the Ministry of Education and Sciences increased funding of the IISG's acquisition budget by 65%. Coming at a time
when fundamental change in Central and Eastern Europe opens up great opportunities in some of the Institute's main areas of concentration, this is an
enormous relief to the staff who hardly knew any longer how to cope with the explosion of documents.
The budget had not been adapted to rising prices since 1980. Purchase of relevant secondary sources had of necessity been cut down to unacceptable levels. This year the Institute could expand appropriately its collections and was able to add some important national and international material.
