National library of sweden

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National Library of Sweden

Agneta Holmenmark

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Moving out!

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Operations and tasks

The National Library of Sweden has three main duties

• collect and preserve the Swedish cultural heritage concerning text and audiovisual media, and make the material available to the public 

• serve as a research library, with a primary emphasis on the humanities and social sciences

• serve as the infrastructure for the Swedish research community & promote cooperation for the Swedish library sector

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Governance

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Collections

• The National Library collections are made up of

20 million items

• Legal deposit act since 1661 – 350th Anniversary 2011

• Large collection of foreign literature

• Hand-drawn maps, manuscripts, private archives

• 8 million hours of radio,TV and music

• Sweden's cultural heritage consisting of audio and motion picture media has been recorded and stored since 1979

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Organisation

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Legal deposit act for digital material

•Adopted in July 2012. Tests 2012:July – 2014:December on 10 newspapers, 10 journals/magazines, 15 government agencies, 17 television & broadcasting companies

•Technical infrastructure

•Archiving & long term preservation

•At present, the National Library signs agreements with publishers and other actors to deliver digital material on a voluntary basis

•Archiving the web - ongoing archiving of Swedish websites, a process that began back in 1997 and has to be improved

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Priorities & challenges (1)

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Digitizaition

•Newspapers

•Swedish governmental offical

reports

•Manuscripts

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Project Digidaily

• Digidaily – digitization of newspapers, project financed by the European Union, National Archive, National Library and the Mid Sweden University

• 2010:April – 2013:March

• 3 million pages

• 122 million pages

• 70 million pages on microfilm

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To coordinate library development

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Refurbishment of the Library Building

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You can reach us

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