Thanks His Excellency Dr Samuel Jimba

11 June 2013 NIGERIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (NLA), Calabar

Libraries in Poland Two Decades of Modernization

Ewa Kobierska-MaciuszkoPolish Librarians’ Association

University of Warsaw Library

Poland in Europe:

• 49o- 55o N and 14o- 25o E • 312,679 sq km• 38.5 million people • Parliamentary Republic• Member of EU since 2004

source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/

Poland • Geographical diversity:

from Carpathian Mountains to Baltic seacoast

• Climate: moderate

• Etnic groups: Polish 93.72%, most of them declare themselves as Roman Catholics

• Official language: Polish • Biggest Cities:

– Warsaw (capital), 2.5 mln people

– Cracow (capital XI-XVI cent.)

• 16 provinces

• GDP (per capita): $13,540

Famous people

• Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe

• Frideric Chopin (1810-1849), composer and virtuoso pianist

• Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)

• Lech Wałęsa (1949- ), „SOLIDARITY” trade union leader

Very short book’s history

• 10-15 c. (Middle Ages) – manuscripts gathered by church libraries and Jagiellonian University (Cracow, 1364)

• 16 c. - 18 c. – prints deluge, Enlightment Age and first idea of National Library in Poland

• 19 c. – Poland participated between three power (Russia, Prussia and Austria), lost of governement, battle for keeping Polish language and culture

• 20 c. – very hard and long century:– I world war – independent Poland once again

– II world war – lost of 60% library collections

– 1945-1989 – communistic Poland (it was time for industry, not for libraries:-)

• after 1989 and 21 c. - new ICT and digital libraries

Why so great change in 1989 ?

• Policy transformation from communism to western style democracy

• The end of ‚Cold War’ in Europe

• Economic transformation from ‚soviet style’ economy to free market

• Openess for new technologies

• Access to European Union (EU) in 2004

Libraries in Poland

• 12,000 libraries of all types

• They store over 150 million volumes

• They serve about 8 million users a year

• They employ approximately 70,000 librarians and other staff

Library policy in Poland

The libraries in Poland are currently governed by three ministries:

• the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage – matters relating to the National Library and public library network;

• the Ministry of Science and Higher Education – matters relating to academic and research libraries;

• the Ministry of Education – matters relating to school and pedagogical libraries.

The National Library of Poland (est. 1928)

The National Library of Poland:

• 9 mln vol.

• Legal deposit (two copies of each publication issued in Poland)

• Two research institutes: – National Bibliography Institute – Institute of Books and Reading

• Digital full-text library: POLONA (since 2006) >> EUROPEANA (www.europeana.eu/portal/ )

• Supervising 16 provincial public libraries

Public Libraries [1]

• 16 provincial public libraries financed by regional governments

• Each regional library supervises a network of smaller provincial libraries in their region (district, urban and rural municipalities)

• 8,500 such local libraries in Poland • They record about 6.5 million visits a year, with

one reader borrowing 18.4 volumes a year on average.

Public Libraries [2]

• In 2011 degree of computerization reached 91 % for urban libraries and 79 % for rural libraries.

• This was possible thanks to, among other sources, EU structural funds and in the last five years – support from the Bill&Mel. Gates Foundation

School libraries

• 14,500 primary schools,

• 7,000 lower secondary schools

• 12,000 upper secondary schools

• By law all of these are obliged to keep a school library as an integral part of their facilities

Pedagogical libraries for teachers

• The network of school libraries actively cooperates with pedagogical libraries, which are designed to support the training and professional development of teachers at all levels.

• Pedagogical libraries are located in provincial capitals and additionally have branch libraries in small towns.

• In 2011 there were 350 pedagogical libraries in Poland.

Academic and research libraries

• ~ 370 academic institutions various type126 public18 universities (classic)

• ~ 1,9 mln students (360% increase through last 20 years)

• ~ 96,7 thousands academic staf 29,8 thousands university academic staff

• Library budget as a part of University budget: 4,14%

• Library staff as a part of University staff: 4.97%Certified librarians: 74,15%

European environment

• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities: http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html

• IFLA's three pillars & World Summit on the Information Society Declaration of Principles: http://www.ifla.org/III/ThreePillars-compact.pdf

• LIBER: http://www.libereurope.eu/

OPAC – library catalogues on-line in Polish acad.&research libraries

• Access to catalogues via internet:

100%

• Library collection in OPAC as a % of all holdings:

54,49%

• Circulation on-line (booking, reservation etc.):

90,71%

University of Warsaw Library (BUW)

- the ‘old’ and ‘new’ building

1895 1999

University of Warsaw Library and Information System – basic

information

• The main library (BUW) and 47 faculty libraries • 6 mln printed volumes (BUW + faculty libr.)

• 1.8 mln volumes circulated per year(BUW + faculty libr.)

• 1.2 mln visits per year (BUW)• Integrated library system VTLS/Virtua (BUW & 33

faculty libr.)• E-resources accessible via internet for students &

acad. staff

New Library Building

• The new edifice of the Warsaw University Library is located on the Vistula river bank within a ten minute walk from the old Campus; this part of the city is meant by the municipal authorities to become a new university district in future, as the direction to the river is the only possibility for the expansion of the University

All routes meet in the central point, i.e. the main entrance to the library under an open book with the Latin inscription

”HINC OMNIA”

Basic Information

•  Investor Warsaw University Foundation

• General design prof.. Marek Budzyński, Zbigniew Badowski

• General contractor PORR International GmbH• Total surface 61,000 square meters• Technical space 12,300 square meters• Library surface 41,510 square meters• Cubic content 260,300 cubic meters• Overground levels 4• Underground levels 2

Basic Information... continued

• Storage capacity 4,000,000 volume• Readers seats 1,000• Library staff 275 • Computer network Windows 2003/XP/NT, LINUX

• Library system VTLS/VIRTUA• Library system server cluster server DELL_INTEL x86

(4*CPU, 128 GB RAM, 2*FC)

• Annual budget [2012] ~5,000,000 EUR

Level Zero: • the entrance complex with

a restaurant, an exhibition hall and cloakrooms;

• closed compact storage (45.000 running metres of shelves, 1.5 million of volumes );

• staff entrance with the central dispatcher’s office supervising all technical installations;

• conservation and preservation labs;

Level Zero: close compact storage

Level 1: The main catalogue hall

with the main information stand;

Open stacks area for the following branches according to the Library of Congress Classification:

1) Philosophy, Psychology, Education, Religion

2) History 3) Linguistics, Literature 4)Geography, Mathematics,

Natural and applied Sciences Circulation desk

The main catalogue and information hall

Główny hol katalogowo-informacyjny

Level 2

• main reading room (A-Z classes – general reference collection)

• open stacks area for the following branches according Library of Congress Classification:1) Social Sciences.

Anthropology2) Law. Political Science3) Music. Architecture. Fine

Arts

• open stacks area for current periodicals

Main reading room (general reference collection)

Open access area

Additional readers seats in the ranges

of stocks

Current journals area

and our youngest

visitor

Level 3

• special collection area with a separate storeroom for each collection and small reading rooms

• stacks area for the 19th century collection

• single studies on the mezzanine over the main reading room

Computers in the Library

• Reader’s interface of VTLS/Virtua: on-line catalogue, login, circulation;

• Access to National Union Catalogue: www.nukat.edu.pl • Access to e-resources subscribed by the University;• Access to www (on selected computers) • Microsoft Office, e-mail (on selected computers)• Wi-fi at public area

History…last 20 years

• 90. – local OPACs development • After 2000:

– E-journals and database subscription– NUKAT: the Union Catalog of Polish Research

Libraries

• After 2005 r. – digital libraries (historical collection)

• Next step: fulltext academic repositoria with open access to current research and papers

After 2000 – NUKAT Union Catalog of Polish Research Libraries

• 80 academic and research libraries including all university ones

• More than 1 mln biliographic records with item records and their location in libraries

• NUKAT Center – a department in University of Warsaw Library for managment, coordnation and supervising the work about 800 librarians all over Poland

• Common funds: A. Mellon Foundation, Ministry of Science special donation, BUW budget

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University of Warsaw Libraries. E-resources and printed books (loading and borrowing)

2003-2012

Library and Information Science Education

• Staff training for librarians takes place on professional and academic levels and meets the standards and procedures of the Bologna Process: http://www.ehea.info/.

• LIS Institutes at 8 universities • Librarians’ mobility has increased with the opening of

European borders. Librarians participate in life-long training available under various EU programmes with the participation of libraries from other European countries.

Polish Librarians Association - PLA (Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich – SBP)

www.sbp.pl

• Est. 1917

• The biggest self-governed non-profit organization at the book, library & information brand

• Gates’ Foundation partner with Global Libraries Program

Mission

Acting for librarianship development, building professional identity, community integration and creating positive social image of our profession.

Strategy 2013-2021: strategic objectives

• Getting real impact for library policy-making and library practice in Poland

• Being partner for other gov. and non-gov. organizations and institutions with building the information society

• Increasing of librarian’s profession social prestige

• Increasing role of PLA for LIS community integration

• Increasing access to all forms of modern education for every librarian

References• Books in Poland : past and present / by Barbara Bieńkowska and Halina Chamerska ; ed. and

transl. by Wojciech Zalewski and Eleanor R. Payne. Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz, 1990

• Library automation in transitional societies: lessons from Eastern Europe/ ed. By Andrew Lass&Richard E. Quandt. New York; Oxford 2000

• Dżurak, E., Kasprzyk, A. Metamorphosis of academic libraries in post-communist Poland: focusing on access. “Journal of Academic Librarianship”, 2010, Vol. 36 Issue 4, s. 354-358

• All the figures in this presentation after: http://www.stat.gov.pl/gus/index_ENG_HTML.htm; http://ssk2.bu.amu.edu.pl/standaryzacja/; http://biurose.sejm.gov.pl/teksty_pdf_01/i-797.pdf

• The success story of Digital Libraries in Poland [e-document] : from a software to a national federated system : case study / Matylda Filas, Karolina Mnich, Zuzanna Wiorogórska. Warszawa : Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, 2010: http://ebuw.uw.edu.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=16094

•  Public Libraries in figures, 2010: http://www.bn.org.pl/download/document/1314087448.pdf

• Polish Libraries Today: http://www.bn.org.pl/wydawnictwa/czasopisma-bn/polish-libraries-today

• EBIB - Electronic Library – portal for librarians: http://www.nowyebib.info/en/bulletin-ebib-abstracts

• The Act of Sept. 7, 1991 on the System of Education: http://bip.men.gov.pl/men_bip/akty_pr_1997-2006/ustawa_o_systemie_%20oswiaty.pdf

Thank you for your attentione.maciuszko@uw.edu.pl

www.sbp.plwww.buw.uw.edu.pl