Our new friends, ESTER, RIKS and URRAM, the library systems
in Estonia
Anneli Sepp
Manager of Estonian Libarary System ESTER
URRAM (2002)
product of one private company in collaboration with Ministry of Culture and foundation Vaata Maailma
completely based on Web All libraries got help form state for acquire computers
Oct. 2006 using the URRAM 11 county library 286 provincial library 42 special library
RIKS (2004)
Members: 238 Made by private enterprise without help form
state Based on MSDE 2000 & SQL Express 2005 The OPAC has EST – RUS – ENG display
10 years of the ELNET
The Estonian Libraries Network Consortium has reached its first jubilee – in this year, ten years passed from its foundation meeting.
In 1996, Estonian research libraries made a decision of principle to establish the ELNET Consortium and join an information system INNOPAC.
The main areas of work for the consortium are
Union catalogue ESTERDigital ArchiveAccess to electronic publication
Some more facts...
In Estonia we have 2 parallel systems - TALIN and TARTU
We have 4 working groups in ELNET (Cataloguing, Indexing, Digitalisation and Tehnical)
We have 30-70 % of our collections in the database
The OPAC is in Estonian and in English
All together there are about 80 branch libraries
TALLINN
National Library of EstoniaTallinn Technical University LibraryTallinn Central Public LibraryEstonian Academy of Arts LibraryEstonian Academy of Music and Theater LibraryAcademic Library of Tallin UniversityRepositiry Library of EstoniaMedical Library of Estonia
TARTU
Tartu University Library
Archives Library of the Estonian Literary Museum
University of Life Sciences Library
Tartu Central Public Library
August 2006 - the new desing of OPAC was open to public
At the moment there are items in 766 locations
Bibliographical records use 460 languages and 360 different countries codes
There are about 5,3 million item records and 1,93 million bibliographical records in our catalogues
Logo Complete OPAC is in Estonian Extended keyword search My Ester (My Millennium) More indexed fields More fields in display More locations in the list „Where Item is Located“ Item message and Item note are displayed Features lists Request several saved records at one time Courtesy notices SSL - Secure Socket Layer
Next steps... Online Patron
Registration External patron
verification Indexing ESTER to
Google Scholar To OPAC: Book covers Patron comments Kids' catalogue More link to online
resources
Other projects
One project automatically opens the door to others. Among the additional projects we have undertaken is the conversion project. This entails the manual conversion of the catalogue cards of the printed national bibliography of legal deposit materials and all other library material.
DEA - Digital Archive of Estonian newspapers(1821-1944) http://dea.nlib.ee
Next is the national digital archives project: in this connection, the Estonian Libraries Network Consortium has undertaken to create a microfilm digitalization center. We will scan the microfilmed materials of libraries and archives and make this material available on the Web. We have almost finish work with old newpapers and will start work with magasines.