Free access for everyone to Danish National Union Catalogue Librarian International session B305 Leif Andresen Danish National Library Authority

Free access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 2 The speaker Leif Andresen Danish National Library Authority Library Advisory Officer Fields of responsibilities:  Danish National Union Catalogue  Library Automation, e.g. Z39.50  Standardisation

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 3 Background information  A common National Union Catalogue called DanBib including holdings of the public and research libraries in Denmark  Each library has it own unique list of all other libraries sorted according to most- relevant-to-send-requests-to as an integrated part of DanBib

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 4 Background information  DanBib is run by Danish Bibliographic Centre based on an agreement with the Danish State and the Danish municipalities  DanBib includes - besides the library holdings - the Danish National Bibliography and MARC-records from British Library and Library of Congress

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 5 bibliotek.dk  As part of a new library act in 2000:  Free access for everyone to the Danish National Union Catalogue  This new service is named: bibliotek.dk  and the English user interface: library.dk  was opened 31 October 2000

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 6 bibliotek.dk Objectives of bibliotek.dk:  Public access via web-interface  Give the user the option to request  Open quickly  No new requirement to local libraries

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 7 User perspectives  User interface was developed starting from scratch  A test panel gave input:  ”subject” is high-rated  A simple user interface

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 8

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 9 Searching  Simple search  Advanced search  Subject, Author, Title, ISBN, free text and year  Menu with type and language  SCAN  Author, Title, Subject  CCL-screen

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 10 Requesting  The request process have 5 steps after selecting the bibliographic item:  1) Search for “my library”  2) Select “my library”  3) Identification of borrower  4) Approve request  5) Receipt

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 11 Requesting  Notice:  The borrower selects the pick-up library  The borrower doesn't need to know which library the books belong to  The Inter Library Loan process is for the libraries - not for the borrower  The libraries have to procure the book in the cheapest manner

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 12 Requesting - seen from the library  The requests are divided into two parts:  material located at user’s library  material to be requested from other libraries  The requests are received:  by  in a database

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 13 A chary start  Opened 31 October 2000  A press release  No campaign  requests in February 2001  users during the afternoon

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 14 Campaign this week  A postcard for every household in Denmark  A pamphlet to be distributed from the libraries - ½ million copies  Advertising banners on popular portals  Articles in journals and newspapers

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 15 Developments Last Saturday:  Adding links to Internet services developed by the libraries  Better match of different records of same edition of same title Future  Adding holdings information  Titles you can buy: link to booksellers

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 16 Consequences of bibliotek.dk  More loans  More requests for material located in research libraries  Requests for new books not purchased yet  New users - some nerds have discovered the libraries

Danish National Library AuthorityFree access for everyone to Danish NUCSlide 17 Consequences of bibliotek.dk  More effective use of the libraries  More library services to more people  Better return of the taxpayers money spend on the libraries