Collection building for special collections Between Cultural Management and Research: Special collections in the 21 st Century, Weimar Chantal Keijsper, Head Information & Collections Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands ( 23 November 2005

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Contents Organisation National tasks Collections The special collections collection plan collection building: printed and written materials collection building: virtual national collection

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Size Budget 36 M Euro Permanent staff263 fte Building75,000 sqm Collection items3,3 million = more than 67 km of library materials Digital collection items3 million

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Mission statement The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National library of the Netherlands, gives everyone access to the knowledge and culture of the past and the present by providing high-quality services for research, study and cultural experience.

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections National responsibilities National programmes and projects Research & development (Inter)national cooperation

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Services Performance indicators2004 Visits to the library Visits to the website (Interlibrary) loans Providing information Exhibitions with KB loans (domestic/foreign) 49 / 7 Customer satisfaction (scale of 1-10)7,9

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection International E-deposit National deposit of printed works Academic collection Special collections

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection: national position One of the four largest humanities libraries Distinguishs by: focus on Dutch material large source collections (newspapers, journals etc.) besides academic materials also popular culture ephemeral materials in National Deposit: ‘last resort’

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection: figures Performance indicators2004 Accretion of books Accretation in issues of periodicals Accretation in electronic publications Accretation of special collections347 manuscripts = 21 (items and collections) printed books = 269 papercollection = 36 Bookbindings = 21

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection plan Coherent vision for the KB-collection as a whole: the academic collection, the national deposit, the digital collection and the special collections are approached integrally. New criteria for collection building Handle for budgetting, determination required knowledge and specialists Tool to set up priorities for activities in the fields of expert services, restoration and conservation, digitization, presentation, cooperation

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections New collection division Dutch-collection National Deposit Academic collection, focus on Dutch history, language and culture Accent collections: journals, children books, novels etc. Special collections Manuscripts, printed books, special materials, history of the book Accent collections: incunabula, bookbindings, papercollection, pamphlets etc. Reference collection International E-deposit

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection building for special collections: printed and written material Budget: Euro Special collections: Euro Book and Library Science: Euro Journals and electronic materials: Euro New criteria Collection plan Agreements with other cultural heritage institutions

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections Collection building for special collections: virtual (national) collection National programmes coordinated by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek Metamorfoze Het Geheugen van Nederland / Memory of the Netherlands National projects Illuminated manuscripts Parchment to Portal Collection Willem Witsen Children books Project plans National infrastructure for the special collections Dutch newspapers

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections National programmes: Metamorfoze Preservation of cultural heritage ( ) on a large scale Library collections Financed by the government (70% per project) and participants (30%) Preservation by microfilming, de-acidification, small restoration, packing and storage books, 200 metres newspapers, volumes of magazines, 179 collections Developments: archives, digitisation, cooperation in research

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections National programmes: Geheugen van Nederland / Memory of the Netherlands Digitisation of cultural heritage on a large scale Participants: libraries, museums, archives, … Financed by the government (70% per project) and participants (30%) Free use for the general public, (secondary) education and research images, 250 hours video, 100 hours audio Developments: improvement of metadata, more text

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections National projects : 1 Illuminated manuscripts : finished unique images coming from 400 medieval illuminated manuscripts from the KB and the Museum Meermanno- Westreenianum in The Hague. For researchers and general public Parchment to portal : Financed by NWO Portal and catalogue of the medieval manuscripts in The Netherlands (7000) For researchers

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections National projects: 2 Willem Witsen project : Conservation, digitisation and presentation of the scattered lettres (2000), photographs (7000) and other material of Willem Witsen Co-operation between 7 institutions For researchers and general public Presentation: different websites Children books: Conservation, digitisation and preservation 4 institutions For researchers and general public Presentation: Memory of the Netherlands

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections New plans ‘Libratory’ for the humaniora A national infrastructure for the special collections Initiative by KB and university libraries of Amsterdam and Leiden Metadata, digital images and full text / full content Funding? Dutch newspapers National programme for digitization of the Dutch newspapers Application made

Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library of the Netherlands Collection building for special collections