library network services twin cities 13.5.2009 kristiina hormia-poutanen national library of finland
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Library Network Services
Twin cities 13.5.2009
Kristiina Hormia-PoutanenNational Library of Finland
National Library of Finland
Cultural heritage
Service Centre for libraries
University Library
CollectingDescribingPreserving
National collectionScience collection
- Social sciences, humanities
InfrastructureServices- national licensing- national portal- standards- library system services- evaluation of services
The Library Network
• The network consists of 4 library sectors– Universities, polytechnics, special libraries and public
libraries• Each sector has organised its own activities
– Council + working committee structure– Each sector has a chair person and a secretary
• 3 library consortia in the country– Linnea – library system– FinELib – national licensing and national portal– AMKIT – polytechnic libraries consortia
National Library – service centre for libraries since 2006
• University law and act ( 2006)– New name – National Library of Finland– Enlarged clientele (4 sectors)
• Defined services for the libraries network• Budgetary system • Central funding ca EUR 5.2 million
Service centre for libraries
• Access to high quality information– National licensing – FinELib – National databases (national bibliography, other databases)
• Development of the digital working environment– Library system development - Voyager– Portal Development – MetaLib, SFX– Digital Object management system development- DSpace; (DigiTool)– New system under development for
• discovery and delivery of digital content• digital preservation
• Impact assessment– Quantitative- library statistics– Qualitative - surveys
National Library – services for public libraries
• Cooperation– Helsinki City Library and NL – All library sectors & NL– National training events
• Surveys– National surveys (2008, 2010)
• Evaluation of services• Evaluation of impact of library services• Cooperation with researches in planning the formula
– Evaluation of national services provided by NL (2006, 2008, 2010)
National Library – services for public libraries
• Licensing– A proposal - Information package for the citizen– Emphasis on Finnish content
• Several new contracts in 2008
– Remote access to be included into the contracts– Usage +55% ( 2008-2009)
National Library – services for public libraries
• Access to national databases– Union catalogues, other databases, institutional
repositories– MARC21– ONIX– Ontologies
• National portal – Nelli– Remote access– User authentication– Virtual union catalogue
Work division
IT Centre for Science
LibrariesNational Library
• maintenance of hardware• acquisition of hardware
• development of services• coordination• statistics
• tailoring of the services • knowledge of the local needs
Indicators 2008
Indicator University Polytechnic Public library
Article downloads
(FinELib)
2007-2008
+ 31% + 46% + 55%
FinELib share of e-aqcuisitions
81% 58% Information not available
Rate of copy cataloguing 82,5% 64% Information not available
Development of the digital working environment – new national initiatives
• National Digital Library project coordinated by the Ministry of Education. Memory organisations 2008-2011– Access– Digital preservation
• Research infrastructure survey
• Structural development of the libraries network– University and polytechnic network – Public library network– A project to support HE libraries 3/2008-6/2009
Back end systems
restricted data unrestricted data
National Digital Library
Europeana + other
external systems
National Long term preservation
Library, archive and museum systems + other systems
metadata
Submission Information Package, SIP
(object + metadata)
metadata
Dissemination Information Package, DIP
metadata
Public interface
metadata
Search
search
Retrieval of objects
Retrieval of objects
End users
Research infrastructure survey
• 24 /181 were chosen to the list of existing infrastructures– The Finnish Electronic library (FinELib)– The collections of National Library
• 20/116 were listed to the roadmap– IT Architecture for Memory Institutions
– http://www.tsv.fi/tik/kansallisen_tason_tutkimusinfrastruktuurit_tiivistelma_englanti.pdf
Structural development of the libraries network- vision 2020
• Digitalization of the working environment is the driving force of change– Maintenance and development of the digital
infrastructure will be centralized– Work division between stakeholders becomes
essential• Changes in the network
– Bigger units – Merges of different types of libraries