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