Öffentliches wissen public libraries in the times of the internet christine-dorothea sauer zentral-...
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Öffentliches WissenPublic Libraries in the times of the
Internet
Christine-Dorothea SauerZentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin
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Some figures Public Libraries in Berlin• Berlin districts
Public Libraries - 173• Inhabitants Berlin 3.4 million
Year 2000• Visitors 7.0 million • Circulations 17.6 million• Holdings 5.8 million • Book/media funds 5.6 million
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Zentral- und Landesbibliothek BerlinYear 2000
• Visitors 1.6 million
• Circulations 3.1 million
• Holdings 2.3 million
• Book/media funds 3.7 million
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Budget Shortcuts
• Ansatz im Haushaltsplan einiger Berliner Bezirke für den Medienerwerb der bezirklichen Bibliotheken 2002: Null Euro
• ZLB Ansatz Haushaltsplan 2001 gegenüber 2000: Reduzierung um 3.9 Millionen DM (Ausgleich: 1.5 Millionen)
• 2002 ?
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The times they are a-changin´...
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Public Libraries
• „Open library“
• Committed to the constitutional priniple of the freedom of information
• Access to information for everybody
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Library – basic business
• Collecting different materials• indexing• sorting• Useroriented presentation
• Libraries administer objects – do not own, do not have control over the content
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Library
• Real place
• Virtual place
• Public space
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Library – real place
• Constrained by physicalelements – building, staff, holdings
• Ownership
• Private consultancy
• Meeting point
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Library – virtual place
• Less ownership
• Access to information instead of ownwership
• Information service provider
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Library – public space
• Social participation• No obligation to buy• Meeting point• Internet: counterbalance to privatization of the
information market • „Virtual“ public space -
balance/compensation between "information poor" and "information rich"?
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„Hybrid Library“
Forms
• Traditional Library
• Intranet-based Library
• Internet-based Library
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„Hybrid Library“
• Ownership: all formats print – digital
• Access:offline - online
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„Hybrid Library“ in practice
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Internet-based Library
• Being present on the internet
• Offering holdings virtually
• Offering virtual holdings
• Serving a virtual patron in a virtual world
• Offering and using virtual services
• Using a virtual staff
• In time - On demand - Online
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Internet-based Library –Going Where the Users Are
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Internet-based Library
• Library without walls
• „Virtual“ public space - balance / compensation between "information poor" and "information rich"?
• Customers ?
• Costs – funding body
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Intranet-based Library
• Online - access to private hosts from the library
• Offline-access to local databases in the library intranet (CD-ROM collection ...)
• Catalogues
• Reference service
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Real, „traditional“ library
• Place, from where customers can use Internet and Intranet
• Acccess to real services: reference, lending ...
• Meeting point
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„Hybrid Library“ - Marketing• Libraries administer objects
• While we may posses the physical objects, we do not own, do not have control over the content
• We are unable to create capital directly from them
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„Hybrid Library“ - Marketing• Supply and demand
• Costumers
• Competitors
• Gap in the information market?
• Fee or free ?
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„Hybrid Library“ - MarketingStrengths• Professionalism• Media- and Informationcompetence• Private consultancy
online, on demand, in time
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The times they are a-changin´...
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Management of change
Cooperation
• Among librariesresource sharing (virtual reference teams)
• External partners
• Consortia
• Preserve the public space in the information market?
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Union Catalogues
• VOEBB http://www.voebb.de
• KOBV http://www.kobv.de/
• GBV http://www.brzn.de/
• OCLC http://www.oclc.org/
• PICARTA http://www.pica.nl/du/
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Compensating: information poor – information rich• Improve information- and
mediacompetence
• Private consultancy and assistance
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Information- and Mediacompetence
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Information- and Mediacompetence
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Public Libraries at the start ...
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Management of change
• Old strengths – new environment
• New services
• The most important element in the emerging library is the human interface
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Voraussetzung/ Requirements
• Sufficient funding• Ausreichende materielle Austattung• Nicht die Attraktivität, Medienvielfalt und
Leistungsfähigkeit der Bibliotheken durch einen finanziellen Kahlschlag gefährden
• Voraussetzungen für den Übergang in die online Welt schaffen und erhalten
• Funktionierende online Verbindungen in alle Welt, aber keine Medien in den Bibliotheken?
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Thank you very much for your attention
Vielen Dank für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit
Christine-D. Sauer
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