Collaborative solutions for low use research material – a model from Finland Fiesole Collection Development Retreat, Fiesole Pentti Vattulainen

National Collection Policy - 1 goal: national self-reliance elements: – National Library (Fennica) – subject responsibility libraries – National Repository Library (-1989) acquisition: 15 shelf kilometres

National Collection Policy - 2 Access to global information local level: profiled collections collaborative level: NRL / FinELib –bibliographic information –collection resources NRL for print material

Services to libraries deduplicated collections (49/82 km); 2,5 million items, growing monographs, serials, dissertations all languages 15 % of combined university library collections 1,6 % of university library budgets 6,8 % of acquisition budgets

Use 2003: requests lending: public libraries article copies: research libraries English, Finnish STM

Added value savings on local level national level advantages –total costs –functionality of library system resource sharing regional co-operation

More Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services 28: 1 (Spring 2004), pp ”National repository initiatives in Europe”