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Library networking

Alex Klugkist

Groningen University Library

(a.c.klugkist@ub.rug.nl)

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Scholarly information supply and libraries under reconstruction

• The library finds itself in an environment of change:– access to enormous quantities of information– ICT developments– financial constraints– changing higher education and research

• What will be the added value of libraries

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The traditional and the digital library

• Traditional collection development still important

• Increasing importance of access to digital information

• Don’t oppose the concepts of access and ownership

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The library as a local network

• Rallying-point of printed and digital information

• Centre of expertise

• Gateway to digital information

• Advanced, modern study facilities

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Library networking on a national level

• Necessity of national library networks

• PICA

• Shared cataloguing and classing

• PICA infrastructure the basis of the national information infrastructure in the Netherlands

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Dutch Open Library Network

• SURFnet, the technical Dutch research network

• PICA Online Contents database

• Dutch Union Catalogue

• PICARTA

• Dutch Academic Library

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Organizational aspects of OBN

• Special circuits

• Registered and non-registered users

• ILL-account

• Document delivery

• Charges

• Clearinghouse system

• Monographs

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International Library Networking

• Internet as a common global infrastructure

• Establishing alliances with other library organizations

• OCLC in Europe and worldwide

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Linking

• Linking of information will have an increasing importance

• Linking to full-text

• Public domain and licensed information

• Development of scholarly networks

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Cooperation with Indonesian partner university libraries

• Distance between Indonesia and the Netherlands smaller because of ICT

• So: let’s network and share experience and information