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Mljet & Dubrovnik, 26-30 May, 2003LIDA 2003

Martin Svoboda: Library Services in the Digital Environment 1

Library Services in

the Digital

EnvironmentMartin Svoboda

State Technical Library, Praha, Czechia

[email protected]



Overview• Information technology in libraries

• State-of-the-art systems

• New requirements

• Response

• Legal aspects

• Government support

• Case studies• Virtual Polytechnic Library

• STM Portal



Information Information

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LibrariesLibraries



Library

Current Integrated Library System

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Central database- catalogue

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liers

External resources

Internal resources

Users



Current Integrated Library Systems•Library aims at offering what it

owns or what it can find and “catalogue”

• Limiting factors are• money / staff

• knowledge of real user needs



Paradigm change• Classical environment

• focused on institution -> ownership• closed• static

• Cyberspace environment• focused on user needs -> service / access

• open • dynamic

© Saša Skenderija, Budapest 1998 !!!



Development of needs

e-book-store

freely available

documents

cut-out services,

SDI

licensed resources

pay-per-view resources

…?

Userp

ort

al

direct access

subject access

authentication…?

Library

OPAC,loans, ILL,

EDD, …



Tomorrow’s system •User seeks, what he/she needs

regardless where to find it• Library is just one of possible

resources• Limiting factors are

• ability to navigate among the possibilities

• willingness to spend effort / time• money (VERY individual)



To sum up• So what now?

Focus shift from description to mediation of resources

• Electronic accessibility• printed EDD• digitised collections: historical / current• publishers/aggregators: Web of Science,

Elsevier, Springer, IOPP / EBSCO, ProQuest, Dialog, …

• How to deliver to client in a simple and intuitive way?



Components available (1)

• Standards fordocument• description: AACR2, MARC21, FRBR,

…• reformatting: DOBM, MASTER, …• identification: ISSN, ISBN, SICI, …• linking: OpenURL, DOI & CrossRefinter-system communication: Z39.50

& Bath profile, ILL (ISO 10 160), …



Components available (2)

• Utilities

• Networking - Internet

• Functioning Union catalogues &

Shared cataloguing systems

The craftsmanship & tools are hereLegal framework not too suitable but I will refrain from

spending time with that, that would be another paper



Answer: portals, gateways• aggregation of all available resources under one

interface:• catalogues• A&I databases, full-text databases• „on demand“ digitisation • e-bookstore• search engines (Google, …)

• single login requirement• orientation in the flood???

• subject-specific selection of resources – e.g. METALIB• dynamic linking of referenced resources - SFX (ELAG ’01)



Czech Scene Czech Scene



Czech Government Support• RISK program - 1997-2000 (Min. of Culture)

Development of Library Information NetworkBudget: ~1 mil $/year

• State Information Policy - 2001-2003Public Library Information ServicesBudget: $4mil/2001, $2mil/2002, <$1mil/2003

• State Research Policy – 2000-2003Information Resources for R&DBudget: ~4 mil $/year



RISK impact

45411001134

88189

442

0 500 1000 1500

2000

1997

I T Penetration into Czech Libraries

Website I nternet Autom. lib. syst.

ALS * 3

Internet * 6

Website * 5



State Information Policy impactLibrary Public Information Services 9 program lines:

• Public Library Information Centres (continuation of RISK): ~180 projects

• Continuing Education: 14 working training centres, central website

• Digital Archive, Retrospective Conversion, Digitisation of Rare Books, Microfilming, E-resources, Union Catalogue: “National Programs” up and running

• Program co-ordination in National Library



State R&D Policy impactState Tech Lib as an example:

• ~8 full-text collections (Science Direct, Springer, ACS, J.Wiley, EBSCO, ProQuest, Academic Press, Meos, …)

> 10 thousand titles • ~1800 further titles on the Web (+ 1200

printed)

• ~6 index/abstract databases (INSPEC, Compendex, ICONDA, Metadex, PCI, WoS, …)

• Locally available (in Czech) ASPI, ČSNI, Anopres, Firemní monitor, SIGLE,…)

• Budget: ~ $3 mil., out of it >$1 mil. resources



Case Studies Case Studies



Case studies – STL projects• Virtual polytechnic library - VPL

• services based on union catlg of periodicals

• electronic document delivery• “side effects”

• STM portal • „cataloguing“ of electronic resources• streamlined access to licensed resources• statistics - evaluation



Virtual Virtual

Polytechnic Polytechnic

Library Library



VPL - impulses & goals• Impulses

• further development of previous Integrated VIrtual Library project

• Ministry of Culture incentive “Optimisation …”• Goals

• virtual union of collections & services of participating libraries

• dramatic increase in quality of information services to their clients

• “informed” acquisition enabled



VPL participants• founders - 9 institutions

6 universities + 3 research libraries

• service centre in STL• system is open and is growing

• today catalogues of > 25 libraries in VPL UC

• other libraries interested in• joining VPL or• installing VPL „engine“



VPL union catalogue• base for electronic document delivery

service• NOT a bibliographic tool

• maintained online by participating libraries

• information not only about collection, but also about services of participating libraries

• by-product – tool for informed acquisition



VPL software Principle - copy ordering through Union

Catalogue, supplier any participating library, mutual accounting, [payment by card?]

• based on former “user accounts”

• support of orders through other UC via OpenURL

• digitisation workplace service

• digital master routing

• accounting clearinghouse http://www.vpk.cz/



VPL - work cycle

download and print, destroy

e- version

Library* Service CentreUser

post requestfind document

http

s

scan, send to SC

SUP

choose supplier,

pass request

http

XML

http

XML

PWP

paste to user private web page

deduct/add fee

UC

http

OpenURL



Impact• Virtual “union” of printed journal collections

• electronic document delivery based on VPL UC

• supplier – any participating library

• Improved co-ordination of printed journals• knowledge of collections & orders of partner libraries

• balancing the partner library acquisition profiles

more efficient use of budgets



Statistics

7045

1857

7041

584

2474

6011

1547

3256

4527

2387

3905

5838

4221

4854

7650

6448

4365

0

5000

10000

15000

20000

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001

Growth of services 1996-2001executed orders

xerox digital IILS



Science, Science, Technology, Technology, Medicine Medicine PortalPortal



Uniform Information GatewayProject of National Library – for all library

types

• multi-cast search• subject based selection of

• licensed resources• useful free resources• catalogues, e-bookshops, etc.

• access control – single login

• resource linking

Metalib

- SFX



STM Portal - goals

• „cataloguing“ all licensed and useful free resources

• data about resource availability

• access control left to UIG

• collection of evaluation data• methodology – based on ICOLC guidelines

• feedback for decision makers



STM Portal - tools• tertiary database

• data on licensed resources and their accessibility

• statistical data - feedback

• resource linking • support of Z39.50 protocol, introduction of

National [Bath] profile• implementation of SFX – OpenURL – more

resources and targets made OpenURL aware



STM Portal and UIG

UIGKB-UIG

STMPortal

TB

SFXserver

KB-SFX

searcheddocument

odkaz

documents, resource info,statistics

OpenURL

OpenURL

OpenURL

Z39.50, URL

Z39.50searcheddocument

URL

Query

Query

Query

Z39.50

OpenURL

URL

SFX targets: documents catalogues e-bookshop

URL

URL

URL

Z39.50



Instead of a Conclusion• What’s more important: the „pipes“ or

the what flows through them?• Neither!• “The future belongs to neither the

conduit or content players, but to those who control filtering, searching, and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace” [Saffo, Wired, 1994]



Tim Berners-Tim Berners-

LeeLee

for Nobel for Nobel

prize !prize !

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