Bela Hatvany

About

Béla Hatvany is a pioneer in the automation of libraries and the information industry. Companies founded by him have been responsible for the first Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), the first CD-ROMs, the first networked CD-ROM, the first client-server library databases, and some of the earliest internet library database retrieval engines. In addition he was a key investor in the first streaming music databases for libraries (Classical.com), Credo Reference and JustGiving. He is recognized as a visionary in library information. He was born in 1938. His father was a Hungarian Jew, his mother Spanish. They emigrated to England where Béla spent his childhood. He received a scholarship to attend University of St Andrews from BP. In 1956 he began his career as a customer service engineer, a computer programmer and a salesman. In 1965, he moved to the United States to get an MBA at Harvard University. He founded his first company, COMSISA in Mexico City in 1968. It served sugar mills an

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Toulon, France